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Dear Friend,
On behalf of Family Pride and our supporters, thank you for your participation in the Family Poetry Contest. We received so many heartwarming and touching poems from our families from all across the country. Narrowing the contest down to ten finalists was no small feat. After careful consideration, Family Pride friends and supporters voted for these five winners!
Now that the winners have been selected, we're putting together a book with all the poetry that was submitted to us in the contest. Stay tuned in the coming weeks, as you won't want to miss it!
Thank you to everyone who participated in this contest, and a special thank you to our sponsors for making this contest possible. And a big congratulations to the winning poets!
Best,
Jennifer Chrisler
Executive Director
A very special thanks to the
Family Pride Poetry Contest Sponsors:
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And the winners are...
First Place
Kim, Karrie, Parker & Savy
Love is invisible, yet impossible to hide
I see its reflection in my lover's eyes.
It is the laughter, the thoughts behind my smile
It's the sound of my kid's footsteps which make it all worthwhile
Since love is invisible, it may be hard to find.
But once you do you realize this...
Love is divine.
prize: $200 in gift certificates! $150 to Family-Gear.com and $50 to Amazon.com from CT Fertility Associates
Second Place
Alix, Jenny, Kai, Natalie & Priscilla
Toward Love
To understand what love is
Draw closer to our home
We speak it and we live it
We tell it as our own.
This family is open, this domicile is free
This address is filled with what was meant to be
If you would like to know what love is,
We hold the skeleton key.
prize: $100 gift certificate to Two Lives Publishing
Third Place
Kris and Mickey
Holding my hand
Each month, you brush my
tears away
Faith, hope, dreams
Wishing our love was enough
to make our family grow
Faith, hope, dreams
We will try again
prize: $50 gift certificate to Borders from PageOneQ.com
Fourth Place
Tracy, Clarence, Atrayue, Arch
Mom's the boss, alone but strong
Clarence works hard to fit in, belong
Atrayue's a jock, tries to be still
Archie is sweet, and has a strong will
Savana, smart, loud and takes the lead
Wyatt, without words, says what he needs
We are adopted, birthed, white, brown and differently abled
a happy family is what love has enabled
prize: $25 gift certificate to Borders from Mombian.com
Fifth Place
Lisa, Corina and Cori
I looked at her,
She looked at me,
Together we're a family
We love to dance,
We love to play,
We see each other everyday.
prize: t-shirts from Family Evolutions
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