The Friday Poegle Contest: “My Mother”

Dear Poeglers,

We received a number of fine poegles from poeglers around the country this week. The winner of the prized plastic segmented jump rope is writer and artist Ron Diorio, who not only scoured more than 300 pages of search results to create his creepy, sparse poegle, Night Light, but also created the first-ever video poegle, combining his poegle with his visual art in a voice over. You can view this extraordinary video contribution here.

We also received a fantastic submission from Amy Keresztes, Four Nights of a Dreamer. A literature class in Virginia sent in a batch of fine poegles on the subject “Everything Happens for a Reason”. The entire class did poegles based on that as a search phrase. All of these submissions are now posted in our archives . In your humble Editor’s opinion, among the best was Six Little Marks on the Ground, Six Lanterns Hanging on Six Ropes by Emily. All of this week’s fine submissions are below.

It has been a busy week in the world of poegling. We launched our first philanthropic effort to bring poetry to the nation’s youth through DonorsChoose.org. We also launched a Poegles Facebook page- become a fan here.

This week’s theme for the Friday Poegle Contest is “My Mother”. We invite poegles crafted with any phrase related to the subject- such as “while in the womb” or “my mother used to tell me”.

As always, happy poegling!

Best regards,

The Editors