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Contest We Don'T Need No Stinking Contests

Contests! good for building egos up

great for knocking creativity down

as I pore over words and sounds

to make my poetry jump off the page

to come alive in others minds

in the most imaginative way.

Contests! we don't need them

they drive us crazy every day

putting our best foot forward

and doing something that is brave

putting your art out there for judging

nurtured and created with much loving

only to be brutally dimissed

or even worse maybe even savaged

Contests! Huh, well this I find an interesting challenge

maybe I will just have a go at this

rise to the challenge and try to win it

not because I don't think it still stinks

but because in my own way we become

ever so slightly addicted to it

looking for some kind of justification

for writing poetry and putting it out to the nations

or just because we have a competitive edge

contests! I've won a couple so see what's next

see if I can be the best, I mean i wish everyone all the best

I just enter for a bit of fun, not to be just number one!

but being unplaced leaves me undone

but hey, let's show a little grace keep a smile upon our faces

swallow this bitterest pill and compete until they lose the will

to misjudge my work again, I am the top contestant man!

enter contests or be dammed, stinking contests drive me mad

Argh!!!! is that even a word?



17/7/18

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Susan Gentry

Date: 8/22/2018 9:58:00 AM

Congratulations on your 4th place win. Well done.

Fauxcroft Wade
Date: 8/27/2018 6:01:00 AM

Thank you very much. Faux

Trish Fernandez

Date: 8/20/2018 4:38:00 PM

Nice. Congrats

Fauxcroft Wade
Date: 8/27/2018 6:02:00 AM

Thank you Trish, I appreciate that. Faux

Line Gauthier

Date: 8/20/2018 12:15:00 AM

Fun poem, Faux. Congrats on your top win.

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 8/19/2018 2:41:00 PM

Love this Fauxcraft! A fave for all your true thoughts! We don’t need them but they help us grow. We growl, we sing...forever write! Hugs...Kim CONGRATS!

Fauxcroft Wade
Date: 8/27/2018 6:03:00 AM

Thank you very much for reading and appreciating and for the wise words. Faux

Heidi Sands

Date: 8/19/2018 12:01:00 PM

Congratulations for your win Faux :)

Fauxcroft Wade
Date: 8/27/2018 6:02:00 AM

Thank you very much. Faux

John Lawless

Date: 8/19/2018 11:54:00 AM

Arrrrgh.....I think that's a pirate's exclamation mark.....I think I actually said "Arrrrgh, I like this one". Well done and thanks for entering the contest

Fauxcroft Wade
Date: 8/27/2018 6:04:00 AM

Thank you very much for reading and appreciating John. Faux

Lyric Man

Date: 7/18/2018 4:12:00 AM

Contest. I used to enter them all and placed in most. Then through some evil curcumstance I let them go for the most part, by I'm absolutely fine others do them or sponsor them. It's all about choice.

Fauxcroft Wade
Date: 7/18/2018 6:48:00 AM

Yes at the end of the day it's a just a bit of fun. At least that's what I tell myself lol. faux