Give Your Contest Goose Eggs To Someone Else
Give Your Contest Goose Eggs To Someone Else
Connie collects goose eggs from contest
Far honest than the geese lays the nest
The basket case now full
Lipped with geese's bull
It's time to be a contest orphan blessed
connie pachecho
11/30/17
Note-I admire Viv Wigley. 35 placements in his recent poetry contest.
That's commendable.
It's a *standard contest,* not the *Olympics.*
I'm sure he gave lower placements and deductions for *mistakes.*
This is mirth.
It gives a shine to all the contestants and a chance that their
poems be read, especially those on the bottom tier.
It follows the PS premise of promoting a poet's growth.
What's wrath are those contest sponsors that treat *standard
poetry contests* as the *Olympics* ... those few that come
riding up on their broom, black top hats and all, nose a twitching
and wiping those poet's entries from the face of the Earth for
some technicality (oh my!) or for not appealing to the sponsor's
muse (oh my!), which is the antithesis of promoting growth.
To the Viv Wigley's, I duly applaud.
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