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Dear Poeglers,

Happy Halloween.  So concludes our first week of poegling, and yet it is a truism that the journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step.  Congratulations to everyone on their excellent submissions this week, but congratulations especially to Liz in Pennsylvania, who is this week’s winner of a plastic segmented jump rope for her superb poegle, The Couples Therapist & The Economists: Extreme Volatility.  An honorable mention and general well wishes also go to Jamey H. in New York for his own fine poegle, Economic Crisis.  You can read both Liz and Jamey’s poegles at the current submissions page.

We’d also like to thank Polly in VA for an extremely nice expression of the Poegle form in her submission, Dolce Far’Neinte, and we were very pleased with Jon F’s creepy Halloween poegle, There Was No Guesswork.

The theme for this week’s poegle contest is ”The Election.”  Poeglers are invited to submit poegles based on search phrases associated with this theme.   Some examples of phrases that could produce interesting poegles are “before the polls closed,” “the volunteer told me,” and “team of mavericks.”

New to Poegles?  You might be wondering What is a Poegle?  You can also review this helpful guide on How to Make a Poegle.

Please send your finished poegles to editor@poegles.com.  Be sure to include your name, the search phrase you used to generate the poegle, and a word about yourself.  A winner will be named next Friday, when the next contest is announced. 

All winners receive a plastic segmented jump rope.  Read our terms.

Poeglers, as we take up the mantle of the weekly poegle contest anew, let us above all be sure that we put our country first and generate the kind of change that we can believe in.

And congratulations again to this week’s winners!

Yours,

The Editors

 

First Kiss in the Park

Kevin gets his first kiss in the park after a spectacular catch, after he asked me for a date! That was a total status symbol! Afterward, we are disturbed and brutally attacked by a psychotic homophobe. But baby I didn’t tell the truth, the day I told her I loved her. Got my first kiss in the park, and slapped my first face when he kissed me mid-sentence. 

By Andrew in DC (search phrase “first kiss in the park”)

The Friday Poegle Contest is open until this evening.  We’ve had some great submissions so far.  Please continue to send in your poegles to editor@poegles.com around the theme “economic crisis” for a chance to win a plastic segmented jump rope.

We’re accepting poegle submissions on all subjects, all the time.  The best poegles will be posted here for the poegling community to share.

Discarded Glove

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After dinner on my first evening, as I made my way back along the dimly lit route, I saw what appeared to be a discarded glove, lying on a rock.

2
A crumpled cigarette pack, a discarded glove, a still-damp paper cup. Place these in your golden box, take them home, and create an altar.

3
A photograph from 1944 shows a discarded glove lying on the wharf planks with the fingers twisted, as if pointing toward the sea.

4
In the 1960s, U.S. tracking systems monitored an American astronaut’s discarded glove, before it eventually returned to Earth.

5
Is the green fleck of paint on the garden fence of relevance to the crime? Is the discarded glove in the flowerbed?

6
While waiting to meet his sweetheart under the old oak tree, the singer comes across a note left for him next to her discarded glove.

7
When police inspected the discarded glove, they found the tip of his finger inside. After retrieving a fingerprint, they shortly had the robber in custody.

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To know that a departing soul does not need a physical body. In the hereafter, the soul will not need a body any more than a hand needs a discarded glove.

 

By Editor (search term “discarded glove”)

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