Official Inaugural POG POET LAUREATE - AARONK!!!!
 

I am pleased to announce the first ever POG Poet Laureate as chosen by the citizens of POG.

AaronK has beaten out Bojtun for the Crown!

Congratulations to Aaron and thank you to everyone who participated and voted.

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grats Aaron

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Congrats. You got skillz.

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Congrats Aaron!

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The winning poem in the finals against boj:

Notice not the surrounding swirls of hate.
Joining their rage only hardens ones heart.
The search for joy must be your fate.
Attainment will let you rise apart
From the mob who toil and curse
Their lot and wish upon you worse.

Honest labor brings its own reward
Not in mere treasure or stamped gold
But like a song with a perfect chord
Rising to a crescendo bold.
The ache of mind or muscle brings
A delight not found in other things.

Find for yourself a burning passion
Ignoring those who follow only fashion.
A dream deferred is a dream that died.
A man lives not if he has not tried.
If you know you played it right and hard
You won’t bemoan the turn of a wrong card.

Strive as Sisyphus with rock against your shoulder.
Know, that happiness begins not at the top;
Rather at the bottom where the boulder
Must again be pushed up the unachievable outcrop.
Son I know you do not think I’m sage
But please take heed of what is on this page.

Re: Official Inaugural POG POET LAUREATE - AARONK!!!!
 

Thanks all for voting me. Actually thanks everyone for taking the time to participate or vote. I suppose I should right a poem to celebrate, so I'll start working on something.

Congrats especially to Botjun, I truly believe his final poem was better. Also, thanks to Nich for running the contest and not making the scoring cumulative so I could squeak by in the early rounds.

All in all I think a number of poems were superior to any of the ones I wrote, especially StephenH's palindrome.

It was a lot more fun trying to write a half-way decent poem then writing business letters, emails and memos.

If anyone is up for another writing contest, maybe a Bad Hemingway or a Bulwer-Lytton contest, I'd run it.

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Congratulations aaron!

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wtg aaron!!

Re: Official Inaugural POG POET LAUREATE - AARONK!!!!
 

Awesome
Always
Really
Outstanding
Nice

Re: Official Inaugural POG POET LAUREATE - AARONK!!!!
 

Awesome job, Aaron - back-to-back keepers for the family K for sure .... well-deserved!

Thanks for running Nich ... was a lot more fun than I thought it would be (super-duper controversy coming up) ... see? Nich's games CAN finish!

Back to the SCANDAL!!! OMG!!!

I am glad I didn't win because as I said last round, most of my stuff was about average ... I liked a couple of my peoms, but none really all that much ... Anyway, I am a cheater and a fraud. How, you might ask. Well, it goes a little something like this: (and if anyone complains about this they need help, lots of it) ...

Round 1: Antidan is eliminated. He was obviously more into this than I and seemed like he would have a ton more fun as it went on. Plus, it seemed like a POG-dominated theme was going to be the course ... and Dan has been here a while and has more connections with other posters. I'm just some guy who has played a few WW games and argued with a couple of people. .... So I came up with a brilliant idea for Round 2. I sent Dan a PM something to the effect of, hey, you'll have more fun in this thing than I would, so why don't I be your ghostwriter? You write up a Round 2 poem and I'll submit it as mine. He agreed and I thought it would be hilarious if he could go on to win the whole thing and then I could say SURPRISE! hahaha ... some complaining and arguing and general hilarity ensues blah blah blah.

Well, Dan's poem won Round 2 outright. Yep, first place, so congrats to him! For Round 3 he said he was struggling to come up with something and I spit out a Brandi poem that I thought was pretty good .. it was tabbed as "off-topic" by quite a few voters, so, meh, maybe I missed the mark ... but I advanced and then kind of got into the process and Dan was retired with a perfect 1-0 record as the bojtun fake.

I hope Dan doesn't mind me spilling the beans ...it's just that I found it highly entertaining that he was "trying too hard" .. then was eliminated Round 1, then won Round 2 with me as a ghostwriter...

Thanks again for running Nich.

Re: Official Inaugural POG POET LAUREATE - AARONK!!!!
 

I don't mind, but given I really only did anything that one week I think I deserve like 0.000001% of the credit here.

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Also, the poem you spit out that final round was WAY beyond anything I could do.

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