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The Winners of the Free Verse Category Are:
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- 1st Place: "Fertility Doll" by William H. Roetzheim
- 2nd Place: "Queen of Cups"by Robert Merritt
- 3rd Place: "Banishing" by Archer (Craft name)
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The Winners of the Traditional Form Verse and Received or Dreamed Verse Are:
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- 1st Place: the dream-received poem "Last Ferry" by Cris Staubach
- 2nd Place: the sonnet “Prana”by Joy St.JohnJohnson
- 3rd Place: the sonnet "Harvest Prayer" by Heather Harley
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Paperback and E-book
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- The Oestara Anthology of Pagan Poetry is slated for publication Mabon, 2005.
- It will be available as both a paperback and a PDF e-book.
- Take part in this historic event, the first anthology of poetry to grow out of the modern Pagan Ways.
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The Free Verse Which Won Inclusion in The Oestara Anthology of Pagan Poetry
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- Archer's (Craft name) “Invocation” “Treehood” “The Charge of the God”
“Fire Walk With Me“
- Bryan David Ciers's “You Are Woman”
- Lauren Curtis's “Cone of Power“ “Mouse Dream” “Samhain Breathes“ “The Word“
“Tree of the Body & Soul”
- Keshavani's (Craft name: a Pagan Buddhist devotee of Lord Krishna and a Priestess in the Hands of Change Tradition) “The trouble With You, God” “All Morning We Were Sacred” “Gaia Garden”
- Shawnee Kircher's “Phoenix Rising” “Spirit’s Journey” “Ripple”
- Jodi Kusley's “One-eyed Jack”
- Stephen Mead's “In The Sea Cave” “Bog Oak”
- Robert Merritt's “Two of Cups” “Ace of Wands” “Ten of Pentacles” “Justice”
- Ted MacGillivray's “To an Ancient Goddess” “Samhain Song” “Prologue” "Warning to Mariners" "Astra"
- Nikhil Parekh's “Just 4 Alphabets” “Dance”
- Dame Rusla's (Craft name) “Fog” “Goddess of the Mist” “Samhain”
- Sea Eagle's (Craft name) “The Gathering” “Beltane” “Invokation” “Spinning Circle”
“Our Mother, Our Slave”
- Silvermane Peridot Amethyst Gael-song (Craft name), Donna Kai Wilson's “Petals”
- Silvermane Peridot Amethyst Gael-song (Craft name), Donna Kai Wilson “Daybreak” “Within Me”
- Cris Staubach's “Labyrinth” “Complications”
- Adam Byrn Tritt's “Recognizing Kali in a Young Girl” “Stone Circle” “Hogtown Creek”
“Skeleton Dance” “Dance”
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The Traditional Poetic Forms and the Received Verse Which Won Inclusion in the Antholoyg:
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- Greg Beatty's sonnet "The Hierophant" "Fear Not the Fairies"
- Joy St.John Johnson's sonnet “Water-logged w/Soul” her villanelle “The Great Lady Grows“
and her setina “The Reason: The Drink”
- Stephen E. Mead's dream received poem “Into The Mystic” and the received poerms "White Stones"
"Sleeping With Stone"
- Dame Rusla's (Craft name) linked Haiku “The Triple Goddess”
- Cris Staubach's rondeau ”Intemperance” and villanelle "Enervated"
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Pagan Poetry is something special. The Oestara Anthology of Pagan Poetry is the best of this wonderful poetry.
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- Thank you for taking part in this celebration of Pagan spirituality.
- Congratulations to all the poets to be included in The Oestara Anthology of Pagan Poetry.

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