Maple's Holiday Present- Winner's and Results <3

I want to thank everyone who participated and who voted! This was an excellent turnout with participation!! The voters were excited to cast their votes... We had several people who voted that did not participate but enjoyed reading and voting! I am sooooooooooo pleased at how this challenge turned out!

The poetry was beautiful and all of you took these wild and whacky gifts and turned them into beautiful poetry! I am truly impressed! All poems were voted on.... It just was a wonderful thing!

And NOW..... Our TOP THREE WINNERS ARE:

1st place- Michael D. Nalley , 2nd place- Larry Chamberlin The Godfather , and 3rd place - Dark Secrets : CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

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** First Place **

Poem 3- 80 pts.

Circular Senses
Gift:A Merry Go Round that whistles
By Michael D Nalley

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**Second Place **

Poem 8- 75 pts.

The Edgar Allan Poe Doll
Gift: An Edgar Allan Poe Doll
By Larry Chamberlin The Godfather

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** Third Place **

Poem 14- 70 pts

Fairy Circle (Pantoum)
Gift: A dancing mushroom
By Dark Secrets

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Poem 5- 60 pts.

We Called Her Sniffles
Gift:A Dragon who has the sniffles
By CuteThingsGoneWrong

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Poem 2- 50 pts.

The Chocolatier
Gift:Candy that makes you dance when you eat it
By Pineappleking

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Poem 15- 45 pts.

Vincent's Ear
Gift: Vincent Van Gogh's Ear (replica)
By Abed

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Poem 13- 40 pts.

The Happy Holiday
Gift: A magical Fairy Wand
By RaniaMoallem aka Ms SunShine

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Poem 10- 40 pts.

A bird named George
Gift: A bird named George
By Emptyspaces

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Poem 9- 30 pts.

Rage out of me.
Gift: a screaming disco ball
By Poet on the Piano

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Poem 12- 30 pts.

Memories this Christmas
My gift: A camel with three humps
By TaraKay

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Poem 11- 25 pts.

A Plastic Flower
Gift: A Plastic Flower
By Purvi Gadia

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Poem 17- 25 pts.

Untitled
Gift: A moon rock that glitters
By Senryu

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Poem 1 - 25 pts.

White Elephant Disaster
Gift:President Obama ear muffs
By Adreamer

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Poem 4 - 25 pts.

Pixie Dust
Gift:Pixie Dust that makes you whisper
By Sliently Screaming Inside

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Poem 16- 20 pts.

Gathering in a Forest
Gift: A tree that talks in Riddles
By Everlasting

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Poem 6- 15 pts.
Dancer
Gift: Squirrel that plays the violin.
By Britt

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Poem 7- 5 pts.

A diamond that glows in the dark
Gift: A diamond that glows in the dark
By Beautiful Soul

Congrats to everyone, even those who participated!This was fun and amazing. It turned out really well!

It has been forever since I've even got an HM in a contest with such a phenomenal turn out and I won't forget this ever.

Congrats to the second and third place winners and everyone who participated!

Special thanks to Maple Tree FOR A GREAT PROMPT . Her seeds of sweetness have wings

Larry! Stealing ny third place! Hmfp! Ill win next time xd congrats all

Congratulations, Michael, well deserved win!

Zahra, you don't deserve 3rd place!
I relinquish my second place to you! I am in awe of your Pantoum.

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Thanks, everyone.
I had no idea what the heck to do with an Edgar Allan Poe Doll until I Googled it & saw this:

http://www.richmond.com/entertainment/collection_b1a0ed36-df5c-11e2-b0a3-001a4bcf6878.html?mode=jqm

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Alex, your Dragon is sneezing for you (really, though, nice poem).

Thanks, Andrea, great contest!

ALL of the poems were outstanding! Well done MICHAEL, LARRY, ZAHRA, you brought LTFR to happy tears now XD

Thank you Andrea for holding this fun contest, you're absolutely adorable <3

Congrats everyone and beautiful entries! I absolutely loved reading these pieces!

Larry, I knew the Poe one was yours! Congrats everybody and thank you heaps, Andrea, for all the magical presents :)

Awwww thank you everyone! This was fun to do.... When I started "buying" the presents...lol my husband Jim said "Ohhhh hunny those gifts are just wild, that's gonna be difficult for them....when I started reading the poetry to him....his mouth dropped....he said wow, I'm impressed!

You all are so talented....brings tears to my eyes!!!

Thanks

Edit.. I was going to write congratulations, I don't know why did I write thanks.. :-P

Your just jealous i have a dragon and she's cuter then you

Congratulations everyone great challenge Andrea thank you for conducting this one!!!

Alex, you've never seen me in my dragon form

Smaug would hide under his gold
Puff would run back to Honnah Lee
Falcor would fly into the nothingness
Sephira would just flirt

I am - - - - - Mushu

*giggles*

Thanks Larry and Alex, I have giggled quite a bit tonight...

Larry, I read off the dragons you listed and I got a trivia quiz from Jim on which movies the dragons were in... nice.... ha ha

Aunty Andrea... This must have been hell of a contest, there are so many ties.

Willow, you should have put a haha in your poem then I would have known it was yours.

Lmao omg i love you larry. Well mines namecis sniffles and she can sneeze. Ever seen a dragon sneeze a snot rocket of fire yeah

Ps maple it always seems larry barely beats me unless im experiencing deja vu

Giggles @ snot rocket!

It did scramble my brain a bit sweet Purvi!

at one point... I had 5 poems neck and neck for 2nd place... Michaels was in the lead from start to finish... Larrys poem snuck up from behind this morning and blew it away... I thought he was going to pass up Michael... but then my last voter sealed the deal for Michael... and sat larry into second place...

Zahara and Alex were tied a bit off and on... oh it was crazy wild! Hence my reasons for making the vote video! giggles!

Congrats Micheal and Larry!!!

Awww Larry thanks! But you deserve 2nd place! You're truly a great writter<<< google has no emotion.

And thanks for those who voted for me... it was a great experience.

Thanks Maple for awakining our poetic senses. :)

Congratulations, guys! :D

Andrea, you're sooo lovely. And I'm sorry I didn't give a gift back. I suck. :(