The Ontario Poetry Society

Contest Closed October 30, 2013

First Prize:
Abacus Rosary - Lori Market, Windsor, Ontario

Second Prize:
eden - Bob MacKenzie, Kingston, Ontario

Third Prize:
sting to safety - Jessie Lee Jennings, Windsor, Ontario

Fourth Prize:
Innovation - Andrea Horgan, Bowmanville, Ontario

36 Honourable Mention Awards:
(in alphabetical order by author’s last name)

seventeen syllables and counting - Sylvia Adams, Ottawa, Ontario
Petals - Josie DiSciascio-Andrews, Oakville, Ontario
Weary - Audrey Austin, Elliot Lake, Ontario
When You Walk Away - Marsha Barber, Toronto, Ontario
anxiety - Marsha Barber, Toronto, Ontario
After Your Biopsy - Marsha Barber, Toronto, Ontario
Boogers - Dave Beckett, Simcoe, Ontario
Before a hanging - John Barta, St. Catharines, Ontario
Penelope, In Decline - Ronnie R. Brown, Ottawa, Ontario
Bakery Siren - Joseph Brush, Toronto, Ontario
A Braggart - Helen Perrin Clarke, Arborfield, Saskatchewan
Elizabethan Vernacular - Deborah Cox, St. Catharines, Ontario
Fitting and befitting - Gill Foss, Carp, Ontario
What we should have learned - Ellen Fowler, Waterloo, Ontario
Thinking of you on my fluffy cloud - Alison Fraser, Cobourg, Ontario
Aspect, Tense and Modal - Jennie Frost, Edmonton, Alberta
Iron - Jennie Frost, Edmonton, Alberta
futility - I.B. Iskov, Thornhill, Ontario
When No One is Watching Me - I.B. Iskov, Thornhill, Ontario
misty morning - Freda Jepson, Whitby, Ontario
A Slice - George Kusyj, Victoria, B.C.
Day and Night - Chen-ou Liu, Ajax, Ontario
A Drunken Poem - Chen-ou Liu, Ajax, Ontario
Parkinson’s - Sarah McComb, Sault Ste., Ontario
we should grow politicians - Sarah McComb, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Love Is - Kristal-Lee Morningstarr, Waterloo, Ontario
sun mimics full moon - Marianne Paul, Kitchener, Ontario
Open Wound - Laura Sbrizzi, Brampton, Ontario
Care-filled - Laura Sbrizzi, Brampton, Ontario Ontario
marriage - Marlan Siren, Grand Bend, Ontario
Old Age - Marlan Siren, Grand Bend, Ontario
under the lighthouse - K.V. Skene, Toronto, Ontario
Wanting to Know - Dorothy Stott, Gibsons, B.C.
Insomnia - Jocelyn Verret, Edmonton, A.B.
soft hearted - Ed Woods, Dundas, Ontario.
Of Love - Bänoo Zan, Toronto, Ontario

Special thanks to our judge, Lenny Everson.
He selected the above winning entries from 441 poems entered into the contest.