This extra long edition of the WOOF contest had 2 sections and Poetry had its own dedicated top 5.  Prose had its own top 5 as well.

WOOF Contest – Top Picks:

Poetry

Khaye Cardenas  - “The Woman’s Silent Prayer” - Every woman’s silent prayer.

Dragon Blogger - “Two Sides To Every Tale” - Poem about a man being wrongly accused and sentenced.

Dragon Blogger - “Why Does Mommy Cry?” - Emotional poem about parents fighting from the mind of a child.

Daisy Bookworm - “Breath” - A poem detailing the evils of wearing real, steel boned corsets for a woman.

exquisite corpse – “Great Is The Morning” – Collaborative Poetry.

Prose

Fiction

Jenn - “Worlds Apart (Chapter One)” - The first chapter of a multi-part story about a relationship doomed by the time in which it occurred.

Jennifer M Scott - “Dear God” - a woman writes a letter to god asking for her death.

Opinion / Non-Fiction / Non Fiction Rant

Harneet Singh  - “Life with an Aim” - Today people are becoming more materialistic. They attach their aim of life with the materialistic things.

Amritbir Kaur - “The Yardsticks of Life - Success and Failure” - Is life measurable? Can we divide it into watertight compartments of success and failure? Find answers to these and much more…

About Writing

Khaye Cardenas – “Please Excuse Me I Am Writing Again” - The writer talks about the things that keep her from writing.

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-Dragon Blogger

This is a new contest I thought up this evening called the “Title My Poem” contest.  I implore everyone who reads this poem to leave me a comment with what they think the title of the poem should be.  I will pick the winner and title the poem on Monday December 22nd.  The winner will receive the following prizes:

To enter the contest you must do one of the following:

• Leave a comment with a title suggestion (make sure I can contact you to let you know if you won)
• Twitter message me @dragonblogger a title suggestion (reply me, but you must mention my contest in your tweet)
• Post about my contest and link to it
• Vote for me and leave a comment on BlogNetAwards
  

Just for playing the contest I will award you with 50 entrecredits per bullet performed and 500 EC’s for Voting on my blog on BlogNetAwards.  Make sure you send me your Entrecredit Blog name that you would like me to credit.  One rule: Only 1 title suggestion allowed per person.

@jmedvm is the The winner of the Title My Poem contest and will receive 3,000 Entrecredits as a reward.  The winning title is “The World at Nightmare’s End” and I liked the fit better, some other potential titles were “Cyberspace” and “Vortex”

The World at Nightmare’s End

What a little oddity
An object that is no commodity
An object in a place
With a person who has no face

Simple tests over endless time
Without reason and without rhyme
Ghosts in past there is our futures
Frozen rivers with frozen features

Formless mouths speak wordless words
Beasts swarm in uneven herds
Screams and shouts in empty caves
Beasts of burden treated like slaves

All this creation lies given birth
Scattered about upon this earth
Swallow dreams and spit out fortune
The Bitter aftertaste of ones misfortune

The trouble is that there is no end
Messages are written with nowhere to send
Boys chase girls and girls are strong
Nobody knows which is right or wrong

Upside down this life it seems
Will be answered in ones dreams
One finds his own great power
When he reaches his final hour

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

I took third place again this week with another random Twitter poem, this one called “The Savage Woman” which was a really good one I must admit.  Thank you to all my twitter friends who contribute to my random twitter poems almost daily.

I also want to congratulate Daisy Bookworm for the excellent poem Fire and Water this week, which I knew would be

WOOF Contest – Top 5 Picks:

Poetry

Daisy Bookworm - “Fire and Water” - A poem looking at the contradiction of human emotion.  Specifically a fiery temper and an icy heart.

~willow~ - “NaNo: Jackie’s Lament” - … my NaNo main character does a bit of introspection …

Dragon Blogger - “The Savage Woman” - Poem about a wild savage woman and trying to tame her heart.

Fiction

H Benjamin Petrie - “Father pt.1” - A father deals with bringing up his two daughters alone after the death of his wife.

Non-Fiction / Opinion

JHS, Esq. - “BlogBlast for Peace 2008: No Peace Without True Equality” - There can be no peace in the world until all persons are assured equality under the law, irrespective of their gender or sexual orientation. Sadly, the fight against discrimination must continue here in California in the wake of the November 4, 2008, election.

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I submit much of my poetry to the weekly WOOF contest because I like to see which of my writings people like and vote on.  I don’t win very often but am always thrilled when I do.  It is funny that this week my random twitter poem “Taste of A Hamburger” was voted in 3rd place.

WOOF Contest – Top 5 Picks:

Poetry

Penelope Anne Bartotto - “Never” - 100 words on being true to yourself.

Robert Bourne - “Shadowed Soul” - A poem of how I grew after years of hiding what was inside.

Dragon Blogger - “The Taste Of A Hamburger” - A poem based on a twitter contest where I write a poem based on random words.  This one turned out to be a poem about a hamburger.

About Writing

Writing Nag - “7 Ways to Keep the Passion for the Writing Life” - Like any relationship your writing life needs to be nurtured. Find new ways to fall in love with writing again.

Non-Fiction, Philiosophical, Opinion Piece

Mike Fried - “Proud To Be An American” - The Writer’s thoughts on the Presidential Election.

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Congratulations to the other winners and contestents who entered.

-Dragon Blogger

I was excited to learn that a poem I wrote last week made 2nd place this week on the Writers Offering Our Finest (WOOF) contest.  All of the submissions were good this week, “Shifting Sand” which took first place was particularly good as well.

WOOF Contest – Top 5 Picks:

Poetry

Robert Bourne - “shifting sand” - Poem of my life looking back.

Dragon Blogger - “Dance With Me” - Romantic Poem written to my wife last week.

Jennifer M Scott  - “And the Snow Falls” - Avant garde poem about snow.

Prose / Fiction

Chungyen Chang - “Why I Run” - When thinking isn’t enough, you have to run.

~willow~ - “Detective Plots and the case of the Missing Wife” - A possible origin of the “Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater” rhyme, perhaps?

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Presenting the finest of the writer’s blogs by the bloggers who write them. Highlighting the top 5 posts as chosen by the October 31, 2008 WOOF Contest participants. Want in to join the next WOOF? The next contest ends November 7. Submit a link to your best writing post of the last 2 weeks using the form at the bottom of this page. Participants, repost the winning link list within a week and you’re all set.

Other WOOF Contestants for 10/31/08

Poetry

Dragon Blogger - “A Mothers Son” - How a boy is shaped by his mother.

Dragon Blogger - “I Am Not Your Possession” - Self Explanatory.

Dragon Blogger - “No Worries” - Let Go of your problems,

Dragon Blogger - “The Lust Queen” - Came up with this poem by doing a Twitter contest and build this poem from random words submitted to me.

Jennifer M Scott - “Where are the Words” – A poem about a loss of words.

Prose / Fiction

Jennifer M Scott - “Dear Ana” - A story about a man who loses faith.

~willow~ - “Trick arrrr Treat!” - A young pirate hoards her Hallowe’en booty.

My Poetry Contest will be ending this weekend, if you want to have a chance to win 1,000 EC’s which will be transfered to you on Monday, submit a Poem and enter my contest.  So far I have 2 contestants and 2 judges, but I would like to have at least three more by the end of the weekend.

Hope to read a few more before Sunday.

Full Rules and Link to Contest

Prize: First Place is 1,000 Entrecard Credits

This contest will run from Today 10/6/2008 and a winner will be announced on Monday 10/13/2008.

Rules: I will give a subject or theme, and you write a poem about that subject/theme.  Poem can be any type (eg. Haiku) or size you want, long or short.  Be sure to write your post and put a link back to Wanderer Thoughts and message me, so I can review and put your poem in my list.

Subject for Week of October 6th: ICE

If you want to be a judge, or you want to enter the contest without creating a POST, please fill out the contact form here:

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-Dragon Blogger

PS.  Help me spread the word out for this contest, anyone who puts the logo at top of post on their website with a link back to this post “Wanderer Thoughts Poetry Contest“ and keeps it up for a week will get 250 Entrecredits.  Just remember to leave a comment and let me know the URL to confirm which site you have posted the logo to.