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POETRY COMPETITION - END OF SUMMER - OCT 2025

This month's writing competition was Poetry. 

The theme: End of Summer. 

The group were invited to write a poem in any form on the theme and we received 16 entries which are now ready to be read and score below.


Scoring deadline is 7pm on Friday 31 October.

Please download a score sheet and Email your final 1st, 2nd and 3rd favourite to ianwelland@hotmail.co.uk

If you are unable to use the score sheets, by all means Email your scores accordingly to the same Email address.


Results will be announced at our meeting on 3 November.


GOOD LUCK TO ALL THOSE WHO HAVE ENTERED.

END OF SUMMER - Poetry Comp - Score Sheet (docx)

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END OF SUMMER - Poetry Comp - Score Sheet (doc)

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ENTRIES 1 - 8

ENTRY 1 - Spelling it out (pdf)Download
ENTRY 2 - A Safe Place (pdf)Download
ENTRY 3 - Thank Heavens! (pdf)Download
ENTRY 4 - Time to put the heating on (pdf)Download
ENTRY 5 - Summer and Autumn Entwined (pdf)Download
ENTRY 6 - Rejecting Summer Language (pdf)Download
ENTRY 7 - Summer's Ending (pdf)Download
ENTRY 8 - At the gate of the cob and thatch (pdf)Download

ENTRIES 9 - 16

ENTRY 9 - Happy New Year (pdf)Download
ENTRY 10 - The Turning of the Year (pdf)Download
ENTRY 11 - Spanish Eyes (pdf)Download
ENTRY 12 - Autumn Has Broken (pdf)Download
ENTRY 13 - October (pdf)Download
ENTRY 14 - Why Did Daddy Go (pdf)Download
ENTRY 15 - Tick as Appropriate (pdf)Download
ENTRY 16 - The Last Rose (pdf)Download
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