P of I Voters' Commentaries...

I have been enjoying the commentaries from the voters. There have been some great critiques and some fun tributes re: the poems in the Contest. There has also been a wide variety of winning choices. On one topic, however there has been tremendous consensus: the degree of difficulty in choosing a winner!

Here are just some of the comments that have come in with the votes:

• "This was hard."
  
• "Well, this was pretty dang hard!"
  
• "I'm just going to do it. I've been debating for a while, and I'm just going to do it."
  
• "When it comes to the senses, you just have to follow your heart."
  
• "Well this was an almost impossible decision."
  
• "I'm still debating."
  
• "So many damn good ones."
  
• "It's really hard to pick just 3."
  
• "It's pretty tough to choose just 3 poems."
  
• " "
  

I knew at least one of the voters was having trouble deciding when I saw the title to the PM that voter sent to me..."This is so hard!"

One Anonymous Voter explained the reasoning behind the choices made:

"I like the shorties. I used the word shorties instead of Hikeu, 'cause I didn't want to look up how to spell Hiku. So if you want to put Hikiu in place of "shorties" that is really what I intended....Ha! Three chances and still I didn't get close, lol. Haiku, haiku, haiku."

Which then inspired this little free verse:



Reading over the PMs has been a treat for me. I appreciate everyone's efforts to select the top three poems! I know this is not an easy task!

BTW: Have I told you which three I would pick if I were voting?


Lady B