Shoot, just seen it's finished.. *Facepalm* Can you delete comments? :D

Well, they haven't post the judging yet so, you might still be counted. It's up to those who are running the thread and the judging though.

Hey Devoidless, have the mods decided on winners yet? I believe this might be the first time there's been a judging by committee, so to speak.

It might help to tell the next theme early, but not allow submissions until the old judging is posted. That'll give us something to do while we wait.

Any hint as to who the top picks for winners are? ;)

I want to join, but unfortunately I don't have any talent in
writings :(

By my count, there were 32 General Poetry entries, of which 21 seemed to fit the theme. And 38 Haiku entries, of which 31 seemed to fit the theme.

50-70 entries is a lot. But if you judged just 7 per day at about 10-15 minutes each* (an hour or two in total), you'd be done in 7-10 days.

*High estimate. Most shouldn't take more than 5.

:( It was tooo late for me to submit my entry :(  Hope there would be next time :(

This is ridiculous. By my count there were 12 poems that fit the theme, 2 of which were a joke, and 17 poems that didn't fit the theme, 1 of which was a joke. For haikus there were 24 that fit, and 7 of those were jokes, and there were 17 that didn't fit, and of those there were 3 jokes. Plus 5 haikus that weren't 5/7/5, and don't count.

Altogether thats 10 poems and 17 haikus. At a generous 10 minutes per poem/haiku, that's a total of 4 and a half hours. And lets add on 20 minutes to pick 6 of the finalists for 1st 2nd 3rd place in haiku/poem, that's 4 hours 50 minutes. And realistically, with taking only 1 minute per haiku and 2 minutes per poem plus 10 minutes to pick the winners, and 10 minutes to change pages, write names and places,etc. that's 57 minutes.

It's been 12 days. I'm 13 years old. I want to judge next time.