The final results of our shortened haiku romp... anticlimactic!

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Dear ladies and gents: The polling has just been closed, and it was quite close.

Our two "finalists" were our friends quietspaces and roina_arwen.

Winning by one vote, roina-- our past runner-up-- took the lead this time.

Seems quite cut and dried-- until I remind you all of Week Oh's results. / At the time, I said the winner of that week's poll would get Powers

Comments

[roina_arwen]

Too short a season -
Tis only fitting to have
Declared a tie. Woot!

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Glad you're a good sport. Way too short a "season," yeah... real sad about that.

Now I'm wondering if "Poetry Idol" might interest some folks more. I love my haiku, but sonnets are cooler still... and harder to write.

[roina_arwen]

I've been working on writing various styles of poems this month for NaPoWriMo - it would be cool to have a "Poetry Idol" where we could try and tackle a different poetic form from week to week - one week a sonnet, the next maybe a tanka, or a villanelle, etc.

Also, if we can get enough folks to join up, it may be better to have "traditional" polls rather than the blind ones - with longer poems it is harder to do this kind of poll, you know? Plus, with the blind polls you can't post in your journal "Hey, vote for me, I'm contestant #3" because that would defeat the purpose of it being a blind vote, but it also makes it hard to get new members if no one is posting about the community, yanno?

I also think also maybe some of the contestants didn't set a "watch" (or whatever it is called) for this community, to get email notifications for updates. Deadlines are more easily missed if you don't see the update on your Flist. Just my .02 cents.

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[lossfound]

Congrats on your win and thanks for hanging out with us for your too-brief stay.

I guess it's just... that darned economy!

But I really would like to try this again in some form-- the first "season" of LJHI all those years ago was a total blast, and I see no reason why we couldn't have the same again even with a pretty small starting pool... just as long as everyone's, y'know, actually *doin' it*.