2008 Contest Winners:

1st Place: Ancient Soil by Lawrence Ridley.... Lawrence wins our contest and $1000, haunting us with the last thoughts of a dying soldier in an unknown war in an unknown land.
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Merit Award Winners (in no particular order)

Merit Award # 1 - The Illumination of Being by Dianalee Velie
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Merit Award # 2 - THROAT OF THE POND by Eileen Malone
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Merit Award # 3 - Masterpiece by Brian Seay
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Merit Award # 4 - BEAUTY by Michael Shorb
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Merit Award # 5 - Broken Country by T.M. Göttl
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Merit Award # 6 - carbon copy by L.J. Moore
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Merit Award # 7 - Subsequent Us by Elizabeth Kuzara
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Merit Award # 8 - BARN by Leland James
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Merit Award # 9 - Minutes are Fireworks by Jen McClanaghan
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Merit Award # 10 - Collateral Damage by N. Colwell Snell
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2007 Contest Winners:

1st Place: Heaven by Anna Scotti .... Anna wins our contest and $1000 with beautiful imagery and thought provoking wondering of what could be heaven in an ordinary life. View Poem Here

Merit Award Winners (in no particular order)

Merit Award # 1 - A Day in St. Louis by Yvonne Garcia....
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Merit Award # 2 - No Price by Ash M. Clark....
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Merit Award # 3 - Laika in Orbit by Pat Thompkins
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Merit Award # 4 - Days End in Hyde Park by Brenton Realph....
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Merit Award # 5 - The Calling by J.D. Roland....
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Dark Betrayal ....by S. Christoph