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WHERE
DO BALLOONS GO?
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Jeanine Marie Weaver
Where do balloons go when their strings are cut?
Riding currents, unknown, into the vast beyond
of worlds far surpassing this world -
this awareness of all we know?!
Splashes of color, they catch the beams of the sun
and sail ever upward!
Bumping the ceiling of a blue celestial canopy,
they are carried aloft into the arms of the angels -
there, they are blended into breathtaking rainbows
of God's eternal covenant with us!
Mental Athletes will have 15 minutes to memorize a previously unpublished poem.
Once the memorization period is over, the Mental Athletes will have 20 minutes for recall. Competitors MUST recall the poem
from the beginning by writing it down exactly as it was written (the title and author also score). Mental Athletes must also make it clear where one line ends and other line starts as well as indicate where lines were omitted from their recall.
A maximum of 2 consecutive omitted lines is allowed.
Points are awarded for correctly recalling:
* every correctly spelled word
* every incidence of a capital letter
* each punctuation mark (to include italics, underlining)
Each line has a different number of points available. Zero mistakes in the
line scores all of the points. One or more mistakes in the line scores 0
points. The last line is scored a bit differently from the rest. A partially completed final line of the answer scores the marks for the
portion remembered if the line is correct as far as it goes.
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