Judgement Call

To submit or to quit, that is the question! Let’s call a spade a spade, not to be rude, Some contests’ stipulations are quite crude, It’s time to learn from errors of the past And slam the needy judges’ tricks at last. Don’t get me wrong, to challenges I stand With my poetic musing on demand, Yet reading contest rules, thorough and deep, Oft my quivering quill begins to weep. While my head spins and ink’s eager to spill I begin to doubt if I ever will - Weave thoughts to words together on the theme Upon the requisitions of extreme. I do eulogize the creative sense Of judges’ hopes from our mighty pens, Just don’t impede too hard on muse in use, Let the great meandering minds run loose. Last not least, what truly boils my bile - When it’s a must to add a YouTube file, First open the link, then share to embed, By then my literary mind’s brain-dead.