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Poetry Contest Winners

© Greg Wadden

Inside every Coronation Street fan there lives the soul of a poet. It can't be helped, the act of watching it inspires us. There's a lyricism that infuses almost everything in the show - even the language itself is poetry. And of course, Corrie's amazing continuity and longevity can't help but create a sense of nostalgia in its viewers.

A couple of months ago, we started up a Coronation Street Poetry Contest here at Suite101.com and its no surprise that it turned out to be a great success. There certainly are some talented people amongst you lot. The competition was very tight, but in the end, we had to come up with a winner, and we have.

Just to be completely fair, I read the entries out to a couple of impartial judges who didn't know who had written what, and we kind of formed a consensus about the finishing order. None of us are experts (but we know what we like), and believe me, the decision was very very difficult. Without further ado, here are the top 4 poems, starting with our grand prize winner's, Connie Rose of Nova Scotia, Canada, who will receive the beautiful coffee table book, "The Most Beautiful Villages of England" by James Bentley and Hugh Palmer.

Coronation Street
by conrose (Connie Rose)

I have walked the hallowed cobbles
Felt their magic in my bones
I have watched the fading sunlight
As it kissed the fabled stones.

I have met Tyrone and Toyah
Roy and Hayley, too
Les, and Ken and Spider
And have watched the filmimg crew.

But my passion for this program
Goes much, much further back...
To a tiny flickering telly
That needed quite a knack....

To keep the picture steady
The antenna we did hold
'Cos if we laid it any where
The picture always rolled.

But we always kept on watching
In those days of Val and Ken
Of Ena, Martha, Minnie
And Elsie and her men.

We followed all the antics
Of the old and of the young
Of Annie Walker's snobbery
And Ena's acid tongue.

We loved them all like family
The good ones and the bad
We rejoiced when they were happy
And wept when they were sad.

The villians then, like villains now
Played havoc with the lives
Of those who lived along the way
But still the Street survives.

Time, alas, does not stand still
People come and go
Many of our favourites
Are not now with the show.

There's Harry, Albert, Jack and Len
Lucille and Jerry Booth
Sheila, Dennis, Frank - all gone
I swear I tell the truth.

But as they go some more move in

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