The Love of Language Award

I have decided that on some rare occasions, five stars just isn't enough to show my admiration for a beautifully crafted piece of writing.

To those amazing pieces, I humbly present my "Love of Language" award in acknowledgment and celebration of your talent!

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My first "Love of Language Award" goes to a poem that swept me away with dazzling imagery and evocative language.

ID: 388212   (Rated: GC) Rape of the Swan Pond  Field and Stream once ran a series titled Witness to Outrage. Here, I bear witness. by Harlow Flick

2/7/03 - presented to a hilarious supremely-written monologue, unfortunately no longer valid as an item.


2-27-03: My first award given to a journal - an awesome, delicious, hilarious, in-the-pocket kind of amazing writing that's one-of-a-kind and guaranteed to be a page-clicker!

ID: 543467   (Rated: 18+) Who the Heck is Harlow Flick?  I am the cosmos. I am a gnat. I am the wind... I must be nuts. by Harlow Flick

3/24/03 - a whole-folder award for some of the best no-words-wasted poetry I've seen on writing.com, or anywhere for that matter. I'm shocked it's not covered in awards already.

ID: 621689   (Rated: 18+) Return of Son of Slam  return of sos by Raindog

6/15/03 - Blew me away... I felt compelled to read it again and again!

ID: 704696   (Rated: GC) Charles Bukowski and Me  Harlow Flick dreams he’s “Beat”, hard, and testifying. by Harlow Flick

3/13/04 - Okay, so I'm a Harlow Flick groupie. What can I say? The guy is GOOD.

ID: 825443   (Rated: 18+) Ted and Me  Burning rage, Hell to pay. by Harlow Flick

1/17/05 - As part of the Season Tickets raffle, I promised to review five items from the winner's port and award my favorite. Well, I found my favorite (so far!)...

ID: 904276   (Rated: 13+) Ghosts  If life is a dream, what is death? by Robert Waltz

5/4/05 - This is a continually-updated treasure chest of information on all the different poetry forms. Wow!

ID: 945530   (Rated: 13+) Poetry Forms  Poetry Forms Easily Explained - a work of Bianca with additions by kansaspoet by Shaara Dragon Breath

4/6/11 - This man's work is always from his heart, and I think this piece especially so....very well-written, almost self-deprecatingly so, with tongue in cheek at times, playful at others, and sometimes there's that glimpse of pain and love and raw emotion.

ID: 1760971   (Rated: 13+) Euterpe, The Queen of Spades  My muse has abandoned me - what shall I do? by Jakrebs