A Review of the Weekly Contest

Winning this weekly contest made me curious about the history of the site. (Plus I've hit a slow period in the practice.) So, looking at all still-existing winners since the site began I found that *220* authors penned *841* winning poems (not counting those removed by the authors). More than half of the authors had a single poem win (*121*). Pretty good diversity!

Here are the legends, the top ten winners of the weekly contest:

Rank - # wins - author
01 - 35 - Melpomene
02 - 26 - Melissa
03 - 25 - silvershoes
04 - 24 - Poet on the Piano
05 - 20 - Saerelune
6T - 19 - nourayasmine
6T - 19 - sibyllene
8T - 18 - Meena Krish
8T - 18 - RaniaMoallem aka Ms SunShine
10 - 16 - The Queen

And here is a breakdown of how many poems were from each category (remember it has not been possible to nominate Love Poems since Janis last fiddled with the site):

228 sad poems
215 miscellaneous poems
176 poems about life
096 love poems
074 nature poems
034 dark poems
012 friendship poems
003 funny poems
002 special events poems
001 slang poem

Larry, you're such an amazing person with a lot of dedication, I bet it took you a lot of time to get down to these, thank you!
And that's very interesting :P

This is awesome Larry!

Nice to see the nature poems high upon that list a bit!

Some other interesting facts:

Three collaboration poems won.

57 forms were used in winning poems, with tanka (5), sonnets (4) and quatrains (4) the most frequent winners.

Three winning poems had multiple forms.

The most votes for any one poem was 1457 for "To My Unborn Child..." by Matthew posted 2005-07-13

The longest title was "In reaction to the girl with a tale that's bigger than her hands" by Saerelune posted 2014-10-28

This makes my OCD so happy.... lol

Ohhhh this is so cool!!

We have the true poetry nerds freaking over here. Adorable

Also:

Meena Krish wins the Forms crown: 9 winning form poems, including 2 using multiple forms

she won with more than twice the runner up's number (4, myself) & three times the next three (3 each by Lu, Melpomene & Sylvia).

The following each had two form poems win: Jenni, Lonely Rider, Poet on the Piano, Rings of Poetry AKA Naughtymouse and Senyru.

This is really neat, Larry! And I'm with Britt, it's fun to see it all organized and it's amazing what good things our curiosity can lead us to. Thanks for posting this! Love this site and all the poets even more.... brings us together.

I agree with MaryAnne <3

Its so interesting for me to read the fun facts of this site...

I knew Meena was the queen of forms... She has such a breathtaking way of elegance with her formed Poetry... Im a huge fan of her formed pieces!!

Final tidbit before leaving the office:

sibyllene is the most versatile poet: she won in six separate categories!

15 poets won in 5 categories

Haha i love larry

Oh wow...

*uncle Larry, you must have been really curious to find all that...:p

Interesting stats Larry. May I add my own? How about the member who probably has the most forms EVER posted to his account and has only won with one form? Unjustly so in my opinion? This man was such in inspiration to me when I first joined P&Q back in 2006..

http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/author.html?id=145339

Mr Steven Beesley is a wonderful writer who is very knowledgeable with formed poetry... He taught me a great deal as well Hellon!

Yes, Hellon, Steven won twice, though only once for a formed poem:
Let The Wind Be My Friend (2008-08-05) and Garden of Eden (Kyrielle) (2005-08-26) by Steven Beesley

and another improbability:
If... (Italian sonnet) (2005-06-21) is the only win by Robert Gardiner

Wow. Just wow. Larry, you are a phenomenal human being. Thanks for taking the time and energy to put this together. I'm surprised and honored to be so high up on the list. I rarely write poetry anymore, but I better step to it if I want to hold my rank :)

Bunches, I totally agree. My OCD is tingling with satisfaction.

As for Robert Gardiner, he was one of my first favorites on PnQ. Shame he hasn't received more acknowledgment. I'm surprised to not see some other poets on the list as well. And shouldn't Sibs be higher?

I agree! Robert really deserves a highlight, reading his poems; form & style, he is a school!

Sooo, obviously, we need more slang poems.

Http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/author.html?id=306599

http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/author.html?id=42932

^^^
Inspiring members and great verses, wrote most of the poetry forms and sadly never won!
Giving a message that nominating good poetry must always be without bias.

Not enough people talking slang on this site hey.

This was great to read, thanks Larry!