Dream Travel Contest Winners!

Congratulations

The trip was marvelous; we traveled from the Pacific to the Middle East and North Africa, from the North American Northwest to the Moon. The poems evoked the aura of Being There and were scored as promised on both form and content. Congratulations to Milly for the top poem - tied for highest form and tied for highest votes!

First place, Milly Hayward: Philippines (Dumaguete and Bohol)
Second Place, tie, Craig: Facing East
Second Place, tie, Mr. Darcy: Mare Tranquillitatis
Fourth Place, Rania Moallem: Istanbul
Fifth place, Poet on the Piano: Untitled
Sixth place, Milly Hayward: Atlas Mountains

Breakdown of scoring:

First place, Milly Hayward: Philippines (Dumaguete and Bohol)
75 overall points
0 points for a formed poem
15 points for 3 stanzas
5 points for describing favorite feature
5 points for basic rhyming
10 points for double rhyming
Total form 35 points
Votes 15+15+10= 40 points

Second Place, tie, Craig: Facing East
65 overall points
0 points for a formed poem
15 points for 3 stanzas
5 points for describing favorite feature
5 points for basic rhyming
0 points for double rhyming
Total form 25 total points
Votes 15+10+5+10= 40

Second Place, tie, Mr. Darcy: Mare Tranquillitatis
65 overall points
0 points for a formed poem
15 points for 3 stanzas
5 points for describing favorite feature
5 points for basic rhyming
10 points for double rhyming
Total form 35 points
Votes 15+10+5= 30 points

Fourth Place, Rania Moallem: Istanbul
55 overall points
0 points for a formed poem
15 points for 3 stanzas
5 points for describing favorite feature
5 points for basic rhyming
10 points for double rhyming
Total form 35 Total points
Votes 10+5+5=20 points

Fifth place, Poet on the Piano: Untitled
55 overall points
0 points for a formed poem
15 points for 3 stanzas
5 points for describing favorite feature
5 points for basic rhyming
10 points for double rhyming
Total form 35 points
Votes 15+5= 20 points

35 overall points Milly Hayward: Atlas Mountains
0 points for a formed poem
15 points for 3 stanzas
5 points for describing favorite feature
5 points for basic rhyming
10 points for double rhyming
Total form 35 total points
Votes 0

Congratulations, Milly and Craig. Also a big thank you to Larry for hosting this inventive contest. I enjoyed reading the other entries and found it difficult to choose my top 3. Well done, everyone.

Well done Mills loved your poem.

Mr D I thought yours amazing too and should have been above mine.

Truth be told I though all better than mine so I'm kinda in awe. Respect to one and all.

Larry thanks so much for doing this. I don't get on as often anymore and I only entered on the closing date. The inspiration you gave got something flowing so thank you.

Craig

A huge thanks to you Larry that was a really challenging and enjoyable competition and very inspiring. You put so much time into being a voluntary Moderator and gave up your time to organise this competition and work out all the complex points structure. I think everyone deserves a pat on the back for entering too. It was so nice to see that even within the confines of rules every poem was so creatively different. Milly x

This was a really fun read!!
Congratulations everyone ^_^