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...
Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2014
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