Poets and The Poetry Contest
There they go again
Judging my poetry of pain
The words I express are not for monetary gains
Nor or they to be treated like a scrabble game
Don’t place a measly price on my craft
Reading hundreds and thousands of pieces, then neglecting and rejecting
Too much for you to read with understand, to read with appreciation
You don’t understand the craft or its foundation
Making money of the poets desperation
To be recognized in his nation
Taking money to read poems is pathetic
Then the poet goes into despair when her piece is rejected
Now she questions her skill and wonder why she is neglected
Then launch a symposium and charge an admittance fee
For the poets to come and listen their own piece
I see your emails intruding in my mail box
Telling me to submit and earn cash
But I place them in junk and leave them there
For a poetry contest, this poet has no care
I will write, I will publish even if I alone give them a read or two
But to enter a poetry contest, that I will never do.
© 2019 Clive Williams
Comments
- AUTHOR
Congrats Jodah. Poem to song is every poets dream...well used to be at least. Yes, please send me the link.
Clive, I feel for you, brother and can relate. I submitted my poetry to a few contests and publishers and mostly got rejected. I did have one poem win a contest to be recorded as a song, but I learnt my lesson and won't submit my work to any contest that has an entry fee. To me, that is just a money making scam and who wants to pay for a polite (or not so polite) rejection letter. I mainly write poetry for the love of it.
You got your point across well in this poem. p.s. I did come across a contest for humor poetry that has free entry. It is called the Wergle Flomp Humor poetry contest and entries close April 1st. If you are interested and want the link, let me know.
- AUTHOR
Blessings to you billy
Clive, you will always have this to hold onto.....you will always be a better poet than me. :) I love your ending....just write for the love of writing, buddy!
- AUTHOR
ruby, you are a gem
goodens deep to the roots
If I wrote poetry for money, I'd be broke and living on the streets. I write poetry for the love of rhyme or if something is not going well. It seems if I put it on paper I feel a sense of relief. To me, poetry is beautiful and displays the poets' heart. I like your heart and I like your poetry...Nuf said!
- AUTHOR
Eric...please share the spoils with this moneyless poet
- AUTHOR
lol...Flourish...that one cracked me up..I need to eat too...bye bye poet.
There’s not a lot of money in poetry but you should do it for the love of it. I was the poet of my high school graduation class. I had quite a passion for it but well, I needed to eat. Write on, Clive.
What? I make a ton of money for my sermons.
Well Clive, you sure made your intentions clear with that poem. It was interesting, and I understand your decision.
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