2007 Pinoy Poet Award (Result)

The 2007 Pinoy Poet Award held at the Online Judging done at yahoo messenger forum. All Judges compose of Filipino Free Lance Writer or Poet; Founder of Poetry Group and Diffrent Respective Poet in the Philippines. The Scores of the Winners are based of Different percentage probably creativity,skills and knowledge. Its been quite difficult to our judges to choose among different poet to win, but they are all good in term of participation. but as they alsway said, to be nominate atleast one is considered as winner, better luck next time. But as we promise to you people of the Philippines we will help our brighter and talented poet to improve and to be competetive in field of poetry.

see the winners at the 2007 Pinoy Poet Award

Judges 1 2 3 4 5 =final

Best Skills by a Male Poet-Dr. Anthony 94 95 98 98 100= 97%

Best Skills by a Female Poet-Chi 89 84 90 89 94= 89.2%

Best Ode-Quils Poetic Craft by Nora Caldero 92 95 96 94 95 =94.4%

Best Classical-Crossing the River by Dr. Anthony Tan 98 98 98 99 99 =98.4%

Best Epic-Gutom na Makata by William Rodriquez 92 94 90 94 95= 93%

Best Rhyme-Back from what we've started by Jaemie Falcon 85 86 82 84 89 =85.2%

Best Line-Death is not an Option by Nora Caldero 95 95 95 95 95 =95%

Best Lyric-Crossing the river by Dr. Anthony 99 98 99 98 99 =98.6%

Best Poem-A cynic's New Millenium by Dr. Anthony Tan 90 89 90 85 90 =88.8%
Nation of Survivors by Nora Caldero 88 92 89 88 87 =88.8%

Best Haiku-Haiku Marshland by Vinci Bueza 85 88 89 92 89= 88.6%

Best Sonnet-Pinakahalaba ngunian an Banggi by Vinci 92 94 95 96 94= 94.2%

Best New Female Poet-Nora Caldero 95 96 95 96 93 =95%

Best New Male Poet-Vinci Bueza 92 93 96 95 94 =94%

Poet of the Year-Dr. Anthony Tan 98 97 99 98 99 =98.2%

Poem of the Year-Crossing the river by Dr. Anthony Tan 98 99 99 99 99= 98.8%


Entry Total Votes

People's Choice Favorite New Male Poet-Argel Sanga 473 votes
People's Choice Favorite New Female Poet-Chi 345 votes
People's Choice Favorite Poem-Love is Soul by Argel Sanga 859 votes


All Right Reserved 2007

Best Performance by a Female/Male Poet

Here are the Nominees;

Male

Vinci Bueza
Argel Sanga
William Rodriguez
Dr. Anthony Tan
Jonas San Pedro
Windel Zamora Canbando
Berny Hermosa

Female

Irene Chiqui
Chi
Nora Caldero
Baby Rach
Princess Luna
Jamie Falcon
Ana Angeles

Best Ode/Best Epic/Best Classical

Here are the Nominees;

Bilnd Child/Love is Soul/Equinox/-Argel Sanga

9-11/I Love you/Silence/Quills Poetic Craft/-Nora Caldero

Crossing the River/A Cynic's New Millenium/-Dr. Anthony Tan

Oyayi ni Itay/Sino ang tunay na Pilipino?/Gutom na makata/-William Rodriquez

Writing new lines fron old sorrows/
When only half-inch glass separate/-Vinci Bueza

Best Rhyme/Best Line/Best Lyric

Here are the Nominess;

Best Rhyme/Best Line/Best Lyric

Vinci Bueza/When only half-inch glass separates
"the Couple inside feigned dumb"
"or is it their hearts that're numb?"

Argel Sanga/Compassion of Broken Herted
"Whenever I look every scene as I recall"
"The memories that fade I can't follow"

Jaemie Falcon/Back from what we've started
"My feeling concealed with so much stealth"
"It took 3 months to finally feel the guilt"

Nora Caldero/Death is not an Option
"there is no option when it comes to death"
"No matter how healthy or how wealthy"

Dr Anthony Tan/Crossing the river
"Come upon a river shrouded in mist"
"Too early bird call, or wing beat"

Princess Luna/You and Your Love
"I'm Bound and chained by my anger and fears"
"The plaque thats slowly killing my heart that's in tears"

Windel Zamora/Veritas
"And why this sole man in the empty street so gay?"
"Who can hardly eat his meals a day"

Irene Chiqui/Light and Shade
"Of a White rose left to wither"
"Of an old flame smothered"

William Rodriguez/Why do we have to love
"why do we have to appreciate and admire?"
"these little things will soon turn into desire"

Jonas San Pedro/Ang Hiwaga sa Gabing Payapa
"Pusikit ang kadiliman,di sukat malirip"
"Nang bilang sa may kwarto, ang papag ay lumangitngit."

Best Poem/Best Haiku/Best Sonnet

Here are the Nominees;

Best Poem

Love is Soul By Argel Sanga..........
Writing new lines from old Sorrow by Vinci Bueza............
Veritas by Windel Zamora............
Death and Rebirth by Chi...........
Hollow by Baby Rach...........
Crossing the River/A Cynic's New Millenium by Dr. Anthony Tan.............
Nation of Survivors by Nora Caldero..........

Best Haiku

Haiku Marshland by Vinci Bueza...........
Silence by Nora Caldero............

Best Sonnet

Pinakahalaba ngunian an Banggi by Vinci Bueza.........
What is Love by Argel Sanga

Poet of the Year/Poem of the Year

Here are the Nominees;

Nora Caldero
"Death is Not An Option"
A TRIBUTE FOR THE: 9/11 TRAGEDY

As I sit here and I wonder why
Somewhere, some way we all must die
Do we believe we can miss the boat
Somehow redirect its path without cutting our throat
Can we fly south or take a sabbatical to France
Can we miss life's most infamous dance
No matter how far you travel or where you go
Death will be there to answer the door
There is no option when it comes to death
No matter how healthy or how much wealth
There is no road that will lead you astray
No miraculous prayer that will save the day
Death has been promised to all kind
Nothing lives forever that is the design
Now life after death that's the true story
The only way there is in Gods' Glory!
Now you must pay attention if you have the need to live on
There are some basic instructions that will not steer you wrong
Try picking this up when you see the next paper or hardback
Some wonderful instructions to help keep your life

Dr. Anthony Tan
"Crossing the River"

Came upon a river shrouded in mist.
Too early for bird call, or wing beat,
Too early even for wind.
A giant conch shell on a beaded string
Hung on the branch of a leafless tree.
it belonged to the boatman of the river.
With little energy I blew it long and thin,
Remembering what I had been taught,
Cupping it between my delicate hands.
On the edge of that feeble call
An apparition darkened the thick mist.
Slowly the bow emerged in the hush of dawn.
Beckoned me to his boat. Didn't tell him
Where to and he didn't ask, as if
My destination were already foreknown
He didn't paddle. He hesitated.
He waited as if he had forgotten something.
Looked me straight in the eye.
When I didnt't respond immediately,
he opened a bony hand,
The bwhite palm trembling with greed.
The other hand gripped the head of a long pole.
then I remembered what I had been taught:
I dropped a silver coin into his open palm.
He gripped it, dropped it into a bulging purse
That was tightly sewn to his leather belt.
the drop of silver on silver
Was the only sound in the soundless mist.
Only then did a fugitive grin light up his face.
Only then did he strike
The murky water in the pole.
There was no one to say goodbye to.
No friends. No kinsmen. No lovers.
the gurgle int he wake took the place of words.
The boat moved toward the other bank,
whereHe had unloaded his boat of so many strangers.

Dr. Anthony Tan
"A Cynic's New Millenium"

During a lull between typhoon rains
Nine white-breasted birds sat on a wire
Under the canopy of low, gray clouds.
On sodden ground the trees and shrubs
Wore the vestigial gloom of late December.
I thought of Hardy and his frail, gaunt thrush
And wished the birds would repeat to me
The thrush's song of hope, celestial solace
They would design to pour on world-weary souls.
I waited for their song. None of them sang,
Engrossed they were with pimping their feathers.
If nine presaged good luck, thought I,
It would be a prosperous year, or decade.
"Happy New Year!" I hailed them cheerily.
Six scampered away, startled, as I was myself,
By the zing and suddenness of my salutation.
Twithced their tails in unison,
Dropped something white and watery
On my bare head and whisked into the dark.

Chi
"Death and Rebirth"

it was not the sun that died that morning
but us finding darkness more comfortable.
we dropped our tools, dropped to our knees
and crawled back to the womb of memory
and there we dreamt of better mornings,
warmer sunshine.But how could we know
while we floated in the belly of silence and cold?
limbo is the worst place.in another world,
we were ready to die again suffocated in
this sac of stagnancy--but a push and a heave,
a breathe of protest against the bred silence,
and we pass through another birthing.
this one slower and more painful until we see
the light again and burst out laughing.

Vinci Bueza
"When only a half-inch glass separates"

cool, sanitized airin an other worldly box
reeking with belches and half-digested fries.
in an unseen magic-gadgetbritney spears spews:
polluted poetryoutside:a homeless childbegs for bones,
an hour earlier had beenthe happy meal of a lucky child.
he knocks at the glass.the couple inside feigned dumb.
or is it their hearts that're numb?
couple's melting ice cream.
if only the child was a fly.or better;
if only there is no glass that separates,worlds,and hearts.

Argel Sanga
"Love is Soul"

Do you believe that loves never last?
A resurrection as unusual happening to us.
The spiritual part of a person that does not die.
For eternal spirit as love that ever last.
Love is soul a part of our life.
A mercy for rules that never lies.
To love is to be honor as respect to god.
Though you remember love before you say goodbye.

Best New Female Poet

Here are the Nominees;

Ana Angeles
"Of Memories, Stains and Kisses"

Memories on the sand are washed a way by the tide.
The stains left as one kisses the glass are wiped off
As someone else's lips touched it.
But how can tears wash away memories left in the heart?
And how can someone else's lips wipe away
The essence of a great love's kiss?

Irene Chicqui
"Light and Shade"

Your warmth,Send pulses humming;
Hastens the flight of decaying memories,
Of a white rose left to wither;Of an old flame smothered,
mingle with the passing wind

Gathering dust at the corners of a locked away corridor,
Meant to be forgotten;Now forgotten.
How can I not?You’re always there,
With bright lips and quiet eyes

That send red flags To unconsenting cheeks;
Removing knives,Cleaning stitches,Already healed.
Your hand next to mine,I can not breathe without;
Waiting to touch,But not touching,Cradles my soul,Crushes my heart.

But why such hesitation?mine of exhaustion,
Yours I know not, We are free.
let definitions be for dictionaries.
Together we dance solo,Separate steps to the same tune,

Content with the silenceOf hushed pounding pulses,
Beating each other’s namesNailed burning within guarded chests
To an indulgent stillness.Such sweet torment
We hum the same melodyBut sing a different song,We stand togetherYet apart.

Chi
"Death and Rebirth"

it was not the sun that died that morning
but us finding darkness more comfortable.
we dropped our tools, dropped to our knees
and crawled back to the womb of memory
and there we dreamt of better mornings, warmer sunshine.

But how could we know while we floated in the belly of silence and cold?
limbo is the worst place.in another world,
we were ready to die again suffocated in this sac of stagnancy--
but a push and a heave,a breathe of protest against the bred silence,
and we pass through another birthing.
this one slower and more painfuluntil we see the light again and burst out laughing.


Princess Luna
"Y0u aNd y0uR LovE"

broken promises and shattered dreamsare all that's left...
they're all i seei'm bound and chained by my anger and fears
the plague that's slowly killing my heart that' s in tears
i can say: no one loves me...not now...

not even beforei keep knocking time and again
but they've all shut their doors
time itself has proven that forever was a lie
what we had was the eclipse that darkened my once bright sky

YOU BROKE MY HEART...
YOU CORRUPTED MY MIND...
YOU SHATTERED MY DREAMS...
AND YOUR LOVE WAS A LIE...

BAby rAych
"Hollow"

I am empty, I am hollow
That when you yell at me
You might hear an echo
As the waves of your voice

Bounce in this hollow body of mine
I have no soulLong have I sold it to the devil
And for whatFor someone like you
To love me backI have no heart

And you should not even wonder why you ripped it out
When you took my breathe away you crushed it
Right in front of my very eyes
And I listened to you as you laughed mercilessly

As you see blood dripEmptying each chamber of my heart
For I am nothing to youNot even close
To someone you can call worthy Hollow
I have nothing left in meI could not call myself human
My soul,My heartthey are all with you nowAnd they don’t even mean anything.

Jaemie Falcon
"Back from where we've Started"

Little do I know about you, mysterious friend...
I know its you.Days swept so fast, days become years,
until I found myself counting my tears.
Pain and misery of my heart will soon mend,

but going back for me is hard to understand.
A different love that never lasted,
and now we're back from where we've started.
Yesterday, I saw you standing there,

Gloomy.. in the sky you stared.
Instead of talking, you walked astray,
deeply wounded, I hate that day!
Slowly, you and our memories fade,

shadow covering the happy thoughts I've made.
My feelings concealed with so much stealth,
It took me 3 months to finally feel the guilt.

Nora Caldelero
"Quills Poetic Craft"

Kaleidoscope of emotions emerged
Like William Shakespeare's"Romeo and Juliet"
An endless sleep in the vast oblivion,
In the abyss of Psyche's arrows

Like a tremendous,towering barriers
Castles built by nobles and knights. Love so purified...
kept all desires It's venom...undying ember...
very potent Succulent smiles of freedom eutopic.

Springs of the youth exuberance
Blinded by the surge emotions
Plunged into the water of styx
With liberating pains and agonies.

Floated unendingly into their psyche's
Of heavenly grace and stature
He's on the West...She's on the East Yet,
Love consumed them intimately.

Emotions corrupted their souls
With complexity of illussions -
He...She Fated to be
" Romeo and Juliet " for real.

Best New Male Poet

Here are the Nominees;

Jonas B. San Pedro
"Ang Hiwaga, sa Gabing payapa"

Nakatutulig,nakatutulig, sa aking pandinig,
sa sobrang tahimik, ay walang marinig,
pusikit ang kadiliman, di sukat malirip,
nang biglang sa may kuarto,ang papag ay lumangitngit.
Kumalabog ang pinto't,nag sara ang bintana,
celedura'y napihit, mula kanan pakaliwa,
para bang lumilindol, doon sa may dambana,
ako nga'y nag usisa't, inalam ang hiwaga.
Tumunog ang agunyas, at ako'y nangilabot,
kaba sa dibdib ko'y, labas masok labas masok,
ako'y napasigaw.., ng maipit ang buhok,
nawala ang diwa't, ang ulo'y kinamot.
Nang ako'y lumapit, sa kuarto'ng madilim,
may isang aninong, lumapit sa akin,
pawis ko ay namuo, ang mata ko'y naduling,
nang aking tanglawan, ay puno ng saging.
Dagli ako'ng lumabas, at ako'y nakakita,
ng isang kabayo'ng, may pakpak na pula,
maitim ang binti, ma asul ang mata.

William Rodriguez
"Why Do We Have To Love?"

Why do we have to appreciate and admire?
These little things will soon turn into desire
Which we cannot extinguish like a blazing fire
Until we are lost and drowned into the mire.

Why we are so bold and beyond compare?
Despite the imminent danger we never care
With the person we love our lives we want to share
But with the naked dream is only a nightmare.

Why do we have to love and cry?
As we ask the heavens without knowing why
From the very start we cannot say goodbye
It is our fault because we cannot break the tie.

From the underground we hear the voice of Edgar Allan Poe
The Nightangle died but the Raven came too
Illusion and frustration become our mortal foe
Because our fantasies will never come true.

In the midst of the night we are like zombies
We buried ourselves and created our own cemeteries
We are willing victims of human infirmities
Our hearts are shattered klike scattered pennies.

We are like ghost and the chilly wind
Visiting and blowing in the darkest end
We deceive ourselves even when we cannot pretend
In a world of make believe, we cannot pretend.

Shamefulness and self pity is in our side
In our eyes the painful truth can never hide
At the edge of despondency we will marry our bride
We are totally destructed and tortured deep inside.

It is better to be numb and calloused
When we will only be wounded and double-crossedI
n this experiment we are just an apparatus
Which kill ourselves like a lifeless fetus.


Windel Zamora Canbando
"Veritas"

Life is but a fancy poetry;
Truths are hidden in genuine irony.
Behold it's true,so hard to famthom,
As a child with wondered eyes over the fallen leaves of Autumn.

So many faces along the way,
Yet what's inside is kindling enmity.
And there are few who used to smile,
In midst of their wounded knees to vanish the pain a while.

And why this sole man in the empty street so gay?
Who can hardly eat his meals a day.
But here is a man who owns gold and silver,
Yet still finds himself nil and meager!

Quid veritas est?
So hard to answer.
But please remember.
"Magna est veritas et praevalebit!"

Argel Sanga
"Blind Child"

Brilliance is danger as blind as a child
The Wave of the wood as harp as chimed
Every fog that fall as rain as a moiled
The rainbows whirling as gray as I wailed

Snooping rhyme on nature is all time wonder
Listening to verse as song as I wander
I invent life as scenery as I pander
But why God I’m blinded as ant as I blander

Berny Hermosa
"Sweet Goodbye"

i never thought i would fall
someone greater than you before
its the thin line of my desire
that no one dare to cross that line
all day past never thought that it has a better part
this sweet sensation i felt
just assure me that i have a safety belt
but tears fell one night
and it grasp my life with fright
and all i want to have is might
how can i make it through this pain
when all i hear are drops of rain
how could i heal this part again
when all i know is i've nothing to gain
you said u need tobut u said you'll never go
how can i stand without you
now that i dont know what can i do
now the stars are fadingall of the sudden
i am only looking in this note saying Goodbye...

Vinci Bueza
"Writing new lines from old sorrows"

I believe that old wounds never heal completely.
they may be covered by new skins but they fester inside that body
which seems incapable of forgetting sorrows, and they leave scars in that part of the soul between consciousness and recollectionsthere -you are most vivid.

I see you in thatcolorless haze,right off Boticelli's.
I can see clearly the light of the moonmirrored by your eyes on multi-colored ice;
hazelnut and mocha,espresso with a bit of cocoa,
a little tinge of cappucino with a dash of macchiato.

yellow curryspicy turmeric.
ah, your eyes are as addictiveas caffeineas dangerous as inviting as cigar.
sometimes,you are there,betweenasleep and awake;
i can smell you faintly underneath my pillows -or is it dried tears?

old sorrows never heal completely.
they are between here and there,being and non-being.
they are ghosts that haunt the silent,
empty spaces of our hearts.

The 2007 Pinoy POet Award

Check-out the nominees for the the 2007 Pinoy Poet Award by Catergory;

Individual Category

Best New Male Poet 40% Originality 40% Skills 20% Overall Impact
Best New Female Poet 40% Originality 40% Skills 20% Overall Impact
Poet of the Year 40% Originality 40% Skills 20% Overall Impact
Poem of the Year 40% Originality 40% Skills 20% Overall Impact

Poetry Awards
Best Poem 50% Originality 40% Technical Skills 10% votes
Best Haiku 50% Originality 50% Technical Skills
Best Rhyme 50% Originality 50% Technical Skills
Best Sonnet 50% Originality 50% Technical Skills
Best Lyric 50% Originality 50% Technical Skills
Best Ode 50% Originality 50% Technical Skills
Best Epic 50% Originality 50% Technical Skills
Best Classical 50% Originality 50% Technical Skills

Performance Category : 50% Originality/Skills 50% Total Techincal Perfomance

BestBest Line
Best Performance by a Female Poet Artist
Best Performance by Male Poet Artist

People’s Choice Award (Voting System using POLL)
Favorite New Male Poet
Favorite New Female Poet
Favorite PoemFavorite Sonnet
People’s Choice Poet of the Year
People’s Choice Poem of the Year