I'm sorry I haven't posted in FOREVER AND A DAY!

I've been at my cousin's house for the week for a singing/dancing camp. It was AWESOME.

I only had one vote for the poem contest! The deadline was a loooong time ago.

I'd like to announce our winner!! (drum role please)

QUEENFLORA!!

here is the winning poem!

By: QueenFlora

The Song of Hadeline

I stood beneath the fresh blue sky,
I stood by with my true love.
I held her hands as she did cry,
And weep because the new love;
A love to leave this home behind,
And travel to a new shore-line.
With a breaking heart when ‘err I think to leave my Hadeline.

Side by side upon the wharf,
Amidst the crowd around us.
Of fathers, sons, brothers, henceforth,
Leave wives and daughters forever.
She bide farewell through tears so fine,
And prayed I shouldn’t meet malign.
With a breaking heart when ‘err I think to leave my Hadeline.

Calls did ring I had no choice,
My hands still clasped my true loves.
I told her with a an acing voice,
Our paths would yet entwine.
And as I left upon the ship,
One love, one jewel was left behind.
With a breaking heart that now I know I left my Hadeline.

And after weeks upon the sea,
I came upon the new land.
A fertile place a place to be,
Fresh was this meadowland.
I built a house whereto resign,
Was built with my love in mind.
With a breaking heart when ‘err I think of my sweet Hadeline.

A year and so I waited hence,
For Hadeline to follow,
But news soon came that brought suspense,
And nothing worse could I swallow.
I held the letter, read the line,
As tears fell and made me blind.
With a breaking heart that now I know I have no Hadeline.

Upon the sea she had sailed,
A storm wind soon had followed.
To save their life attempts had failed
The ship soon was swallowed.
A watery grave now she must die,
Without a proper place to lie.
With a breaking heart that now I know I have no Hadeline.

Upon a high meadow so fine,
I stood looking down to the sea.
Grey waves so cruel as to incline,
The end of my dearest plea.
But yet was more to my line,
I would not give to my resign.
With a breaking heart when ‘err I think of my sweet Hadeline.

So here we be kinsmen and me,
We wait the day to leave.
To move away from the sea,
To inland on the eve.
New homes refine was our design,
And a full new life I started mine.
With a breaking heart when ‘err I think of my sweet Hadeline.

The land we called by name it was,
Hanaskea was she.
For a land far away it was,
Away from the sea.
So now I live here through years time,
And all I need is Hadeline!
With a breaking heart when ‘err think of my sweet Hadeline.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

I will tell you about contest #2 at another time...