That was a wonderful contest to host. Thank you to all who entered and supported it. I loved the challenge of writing TEN collaboration poems with our amazing poets. So many great entries, and it was hard to choose from (I will never do a premier contest again).
Now, regarding my judgement, it was purely SUBJECTIVE, no hard feelings. The reasons your poems did not place was either one of the following:
1) Your poem did not appeal to me.
2) The syllable count / rhyming was off.
3) It had nothing to do with the contest theme.
4) It was complete in itself, I could not think of anything to add to it.
5) It was awesome, but I could choose only TEN winners, so maybe next time...
Thank you all once again.
I plan to do another collaboration contest, but this time a STANDARD one, so there will be multiple winners:) hope many will join in:)