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<description><![CDATA[WGTE viewers used their imagination and literary skills to write haiku poems (17  syllables in three lines, following a 5, 7, 5 pattern) about Downton Abbey.  Downton Abbey fans created  fun, serious, silly and romantic poems to celebrate the series.  One  Grand Prize winner was selected to receive the book, "The World of Downton  Abbey" by Jessica Fellowes.  And many of the most creative and  interesting poems will be included in the Downton Abbey  Weekend Marathon on May 19 and 20.   Watch the entire first two seasons  starting Saturday, May 19 at 11:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. and continuing  Sunday, May 20 starting at 11:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m.
Here are many of the entries, starting with our winner. Sisters see husbands.
Family requires son.
War transforms England.
-Carol Yeager
 
Waistcoats abundant.
Anglophiles surrender to
High class pop culture.
-Dennis Blubaugh
 
La Belle Epoch gone.
Beautiful people displaced.
Who will serve tea?
-C.G. Stewart
 
Pretty maids in rows
Waiting upon their master.
What will he want now?
-Unknown
 
Lord Grantham owns all.
He believes he has control.
Cora controls all.
-Unknown
 
It is my pleasure
to accept your fine invite.
Haiku judging rules!
-Brad Cresswell
 
The Dowager sneers.
Does she deserve the prize?
Mister Moseley beams.
-Kathy Smith
 
Granny meet Granny
Cora and girls elated
Pity Lord Grantham
-Bev. St. Clair
 
I've seen you before
As totleigh, then misselthwait,
but really Highclear
-Mary J. Thomas
 
Small hat, higher skirts
What a shame but fashions change
Who will bob their hair?
-Barbara Zagrodnik
 
Mary and Matthew
All season star-crossed and cursed
Together at last.
-Colleen Lehmann
 
Mary loves Matthew
Miss Swire and Matt to wed
Happy end - Miss dead
-Colleen Lehmann
 
Cool Mary composed
Has embarrasing secret
Pamook decomposed
-Colleen Lehmann
 
O'Brien feels shame
Soap made a slippery floor
"It's not who you are"
-Colleen Lehmann
 
Who killed Mrs. Bates
Who could blame her sweet husband
Was it suicide
-Colleen Lehmann
 
 
Suffragist Sybil
Married the Irish chauffer
Not home for Christmas
-Colleen Lehmann
 
All through season one
Edity was ugly and mean
War made her kinder
-Colleen Lehmann
 
Matthew and Mary
Will they ever get married?
must watch season three
-Bev. St. Clair
 
April doth pillaged you're wealth
Last "Will"  join me Daisy, my love
kneel! commands the "virgin" Mary
-Brooke Lynn Dell
 
 Mysteries abound;
Answers to the future blow
In on winds of war.
-Lucia K. Leggette 
 
 
Love is elusive,
Hidden in the twisted maze
Born of convention.
-Lucia K. Leggette
 
One dance, one embrace
Fleetingly let the guard down
Opening flood gates
-Lucia K. Leggette
 
Footsteps in the night
Dragging scandal down the hall
Won't put it to rest
-Lucia K. Leggette 
 
Irish politics
Illicit love with chauffeur
Recipe for doom?
-Lucia K. Leggette 
 
Servants' quarters too
Housing all the elements
Of lust and intrigue
-Lucia K. Leggette 
 
 
Canine is victim
Of a footman's heinous scheme
To win the master
-Lucia K. Leggette 
 
Blackmailing one's bride
Scheming to gain entree to
Aristocracy
-Lucia K. Leggette 
 
One star crossed valet
Loved by maid, hostage to wife
Prisoner of fate
-Lucia K. Leggette 
 
Second sister proud!
Learned to drive cars, farm machines;
Men are driving her
-Lucia K. Leggette
 
To the manor born--
Could the lady inherit?
What would that entail?
-Lucia K. Leggette
 
 
Fighting war from home
Wounded soldiers convalesce
On the earl's estate
-Lucia K. Leggette
 
How did this happen?
Poetry about TV?
Downton-mania.
-Steve Nowak
 
Who keeps Cora’s cash?
That is how it all started.
We can’t get enough.
-Steve Nowak
 
Oh Downton Abbey Is Matthew your savior? Something may go wrong.
-Steve Nowak
 
Quickly changing world.
What does it take to survive?
The Dowager knows.
-Steve Nowak
 
 
 
 
Edith, who are you?
Not the spoiled girl we thought.
Season three will tell.
-Steve Nowak
 
Grantham mourns the past.
But the women come on strong.
Is the future theirs?
-Steve Nowak
 
Progressive? Shocking?
Sibyl marries the chauffeur.
Will it really work?
-Steve Nowak
 
Servants work downstairs,
Aristocracy above.
Not much difference.
-Steve Nowak
 
Downton has us hooked.
More real than reality.
Good TV’s not dead.
-Steve Nowak
 
 Oh how long a year
When Downton we await.
Come soon season three.
-Steve Nowak
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