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Kindness 2017 Contest

2017 Kindness Contest
(December 15, 2016 - March 5, 2017)
Many poems are linked below - Cover art by Lauri Burke
 
Kindness Newsletter Header Little Mysteries of Being
2nd Annual OPP Kindness Contest Results
1st Place:  I hear her voice calling by Daun Daemon

2nd Place:  Hands by Frank Dullaghan
3rd Place:  A Kindness Bestowed by Lynne Burnett

Honorable Mentions:
Hospital Sounds by Joyce Schmid
Heroics by Maryanne Hannan

Editor's Appreciation:
Don’t be sad, Chrysostom by Dmitry Blizniuk
(translated from Russian by Sergey Gerasimov)

New this year:
Pixie/Wendy Selection for poem of Creaturely Appreciation
Morning Traffic by William Masters
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 The Finalists:
 

Kisses Not Snow by Judith Ellen Sanders * Indian Blanket Toss by Marilyn Sequoia *Grace by Karen Haskell

Grocery Boy by Lynne BurnettMissing You by Eva Schlesinger
Tenderly by Christina Sng  - Kindness by Design by Brandon Marlon * Forgiveness - Eileen Mattmann

bird banding - Bill Sullivan * Invitation to a Kindness Conspiracy by Wilda Morris

Journey by J V Birch * Daydreaming by Soo Young Yun
Her Telephone Call by Carl "Papa" Palmer * Comfort Dog by Deidra Greenleaf Allan

The Nurse on the Bus by Wilda Morris  * Kindness: A Haiku Cycle by SuzAnne Cole
Flash-Flood by Martin Willits, Jr.

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Also in this collection:
 

A Random Act, A Most Welcome Gift - Nina Sudhakar * A World I Would Love - Ashley Phimphanh

Be Kind to One Another - Patricia McAlpine * Ron Yazinski - Chua Bo An * Claws and Wings - Clint King

Dancer - Mary Wehner* Dealing with the World - Lawrence J. Krips* Emily's Message - Laurie Kolp                      

Grateful - Mark Danowsky * Harriet - James Penha * If Kindness were a Shoe - Nancy Jasper

If Life is a Country Road - Austin Davis * Jerome Gagnon - Meeting in the Field         

Julia Meylor Simpson - A blessed long life in a small town *  Kindness - David Miller         

Kindness - Do Not Devalue Anyone- Lilly White * Kindness, did you say? - Juliana Anderson

Lenore at Last - Julie Wenglinski * more light than dark - Linda M. Crate *Number 2 Bus - David Olsen                

Other - Wayne-Daniel Berard * Pillows - Mary K. O'Melveny * Raw Absolutes - Matthew James Friday

Running Log Entry - Dennis Trujillo * Second String Roses - Barbara Boothe Loyd

Self-Acceptance - m.nicole. r.wildhood * Somewhere on Earth - Wasan Qasim

The Everyday Stuff - Sam Barbee * The Farmer’s Steady Hands - Peg Quinn

The Jehovah’s Lady - Janis Haag * The Karma of Kindness - Helen BurkeTo Spice:­­ - Mary Wlodarski                

The Kindness of Strangers - Bill Carpenter * The Nice Man - Mary S. Taylor * Tuyo - Kate O’Kula

Universal Order, Alicia Cole * Visits with Florence - Carol DeCanio

Why he’d keep the fish alive - Armin Tolentino

Thanks to all who submitted - We received over 300 entries
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Winning poets received a copy of the Anthology (62 poems)
* All anthology poets were sent a special link for 'editor's courtesy' purchases *
 

 

 
Thank you to everyone who submitted their poetry. 
All submissions came with Kindness and we are better for them.

The Editors