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Here are the results of the
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> BEST POEM OF ALL TIME
> INTERNATIIONAL POETRY CONTEST
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The runner-up is
BILL SHAKESPEARE
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Bill's submission is entiitled:
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> ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE
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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And ****ning morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age ****fts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
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William "Willie" Shakespeare
Stratford-Upon-Avon, England
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BUT THE WINNER IS:
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Ed Conrad
Shenandoah, Pa. 17976
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His submission, with photo, is entitled:
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> ED CONRAD VS. THE SCIENTIFIC ESTABLISHMENT
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Ed's dead, you said!
I hope it's true!
It's time for celebration.
He's squeezed our balls ,
'Til black and blue ,
And I've run out of medication.
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Scrotum_by_David_S...
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http://www.edconrad.com
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POETS WHO FAILED TO MAKE THE FINALS
du Bellay, Joachim
Belleau, Remy
Beowulf (by anonymous)
Blake, William
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Robert
Burns, Robert
Carroll, Lewis
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Dante Alighieri
Dickinson, Emily
Eliot, T. S.
Frost, Robert
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Hugo, Victor
Jonson, Ben
Keats, John
Kilmer, Joyce
Kipling, Rudyard
Lang, Andrew
Lear, Edward
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Lowell, Amy
Murger, Henri
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Milton, John
de Musset, Alfred
de Nerval, Gerard
Omar Khayyam
d'Orleans, Charles
Owen, Wilfred
Passerat, Jean
Poe, Edgar Allen
Ronsard, Pierre
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Stevens, Wallace
Tahureau, Jacques
Teasdale, Sara
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Villon, Francois
Whitman, Walt
Wilde, Oscar
Wordsworth, William
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The list of judges:
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New York Times Daily News Post Newsday Newsweek
USA Today Wall Street Journal Time The Nation President
George Bush War in Iraq talk.origins David Iain Greig ABC
CBS NBC MSNBC Larry King CNN Keith Olbermann Fox
News Gallop Poll Rupert Murdoch Bill O'Reilly PBS BBC Lou
Dobbs Chris Matthews Brian Williams Charles Gibson White
House Billy Meier Bill Moyers Stephen Colbert Jon Stewart
Braindead Evolutionists Stephen Hawking Evolution Charles
Darwin Rush Limbaugh Intelligent Design Bill Moyers UFO
Penn State London News of the World New England Journal
of Medicine Bill Gates Smithsonian Yomiuri ****mbun Asahi
Osama bin Laden ****mbun Bild Germany The Sun London
The View 60 Minutes Oprah Winfrey Rosie O'Donnell Meet
the Press Nightline Anderson Cooper Christianity Hinduism
Islam Judaism Buddhism Sikhism American Association
for the Dis Advancement of Science L'Osservatore Romano
Vatican Pope John XXIII Republican Democrat American
Association of Physical Anthropology Hillary Who? Barack
Obama Reading Eagle Harrisburg Patriot-News Allentown
Call Hazleton Standard-Speaker Disney History Channel
Philadelphia Inquirer Harry Potter Roseanna Roseannadanna
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