I'm not a contest person. Don't want to make my life a competition -- wanting suggestions to come from myself, wanting little as possible for my works to be the prompted themes of others -- not a feed the hungry person, preferring to fish with my brothers and sisters. I believe each God given life is a miracle divine, a bottomless spiritual well of personal creativity, to be drawn from and explored to the fullest unhindered by writing laziness --
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I can't stick to form, so I don't even enter contests. I write Free, Blank verse, no lipstick, they are all pigs admittedly.
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Never pay reading or contest fees. If asked why, say, “I don’t pay for love and I don’t pay for readers.”
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“Collaboration is a process where two or more souls work together to exchange skills & create something new. It is not a process whereby a Poet enlists the skills of another Poet, who is obviously more talented, to upgrade her-his poem in order to win a contest or be listed as best poem. This is dishonesty on part of personalities involved. It is much worse than enlisting the aid of AI. It is called artistic corruption which will not aid personal or human evolution.”
©GhairoDanielsQuotes
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Contests exist to assist us towards self-validation. When AI, as algorithm, is involved in contests they become highly suspect in such assistance. All involved in keeping a system of Contest placement in place using artificial intelligence are involved in fallacy & cannot call themselves poets. Poets, like other artists, are to advance authenticity & consciousness, not impede it. Competitive life as part of Dark Ages will therefore be maintained holding humanity back.
©GhairoDanielsQuotes
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Contests are contests against another version of yourself as what seems to be another, is merely another reflection of Self since all selves are separates constituting One Whole. The Whole becomes more and more harmonious as we dish shadowed portions out of the subconscious into the light to be integrated.
©GhairoDanielsQuotes
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“Contests around track, contests for followers,
for best tasting wine, most exquisite
architectural design ~ endless
quests to become best versions of Self,
sharpen mind, mould Soul to perfection,
through which Divine can chime, new times”
©GhairoDanielsQuotes
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Whether contest or combat, the innate instinct to win survives.
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In judging contests; Winners are thrilled, and wonder how that happened? Losers... they ask the same thing... funny?
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https://www.poetrysoup.com/member_area/my_member_contest_entries.aspx
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I would judge my sloppy contest entry~
With oink here, oink there, everywhere an oink~You see that pig with ink standing sentry~That's me going to market to get doink~Some have gifts to tie big words into bows ~I have an arrow that targets the slop~The grade to myself is that bacon blows~Though I sequel and squeal at every stop~
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Regarding-The I Hate Stinkin Contest Theme. I hate contests rabbit if you like it or not. So again take your bunnies and award them top spot. Let your bunny hops become a turkey trot. Where the friendliest gobbles are sought. I take your contest as food for thought. Where I rabbit digest no stinkin plastic in the pot.
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I take no pleasure in placing 2nd in a contest where 18 people place 1st.
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The beauty of rules in contests is to obey them. Outside of contests, they are there to be broken.
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Entering a poetry contest is like opening an umbrella on a sunny day and praying for rain.
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What I find is that the poetry contest here resemble zoo petting contest. Connie you didn't say that. Oh yes I did. Connie, think girl, think of the collateral damages. Ha. Who cares.
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