Robert Lindley Poet Rhyme

Seek Fairness and Love

Seek Fairness and Love

Seek ever toward the fair
 fairness in all you do
 let life birth joy in you
 gift you seek to ever share

Stand firm in opposition true
 let honor be your great shield
 moral principles never yield
 wisdom that should stick like glue

Honor the rights of others
wisdom from fathers and mothers

Robert Lindley, 08-03-2014

Note:
The above poem was my poetic reply to my
 friend Peter Duggan on his recent write
-This poem is here to stay--
My reply to that fine write by him is
too long to reply in comment section there.

My long reply:
This is a fine write of a honorable poet
 bearing his soul for all to see!
I mark you very high my much admired 
friend for adhering to that which you
 feel is right. We all should do that. 
As to how internet forums operate , 
popularity sells, it is just a fact. 
However,  I fully agree that contest 
sponsors should desperately seek to be
 fair .
 Only one way can that come to 
be. That is for admin here to set the 
regulation that all member contests be 
judged --BLIND--TRULY BLIND. They could 
set up a system in which every new poem
 written for a contest goes directly 
into the contest and not out on the open 
board. Sponsor could then have no way to
 intentionally or accidentally come
 across poems on the open board and 
discover the author.
 I have now poems in contests that are 
ongoing but from this day forth will only 
participate in contests where the 
sponsor sets a regulation that no names
 be attached to the entry. And any poem
 violating this will be instantly 
dismissed and not judged--with no 
exceptions to this rule allowed. That 
would remove majority of favoritism 
and only poets contacting sponsor 
directly telling what entry is theirs 
would overcome it. I think to remove 
even the  possibility of favoritism 
something addressing it in a meaningful 
way should be incorporated here. When we
 have honorable people speaking out like
 this I know it is not just sour grapes..
Are we more than just poets!? 
Are we people that seek fairness above 
our own ego's?
 I hope and and pray that we are..
If this gets me shunned --so be it...
I must speak to honor first IMHO...

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Vera Duggan August 3, 2014 at 8:03 PM Wow Robert very well said, maybe you should take over the running of Soup, I agree wholeheartedly of everything you have said, lets see what response you get from this.Take care my friend and love to the family.............Vera............

Tim Smith August 3, 2014 at 3:08 PM That is a great response. I think they can go a little further and have levels of completion. Perhaps a novice/fun category, intermediate, and advanced with a possibility of having to have to do well in the lower levels to move up to the higher ones and vice versa when if you do poorly you would move down. Just throwing ideas out there. Any way to get this site better..I already love it....cheers Tim Robert Lindley August 3, 2014 at 3:51 PM Great ideas my friend. I love this site and know of none better. I too want this site to get better. I had a dear friend mention leaving and that saddened me greatly. I asked why and this write sprung from that. We need our great poets to stay not go seek other sites . Thanks for being thoughtful enough to comment my friend. Your Poet's heart sits so very well in my opinion!!!