How do you get considered...

elected or selected...

To decide on the worth of another's work,

And how it should be respected?

 

Is it just an ego trip...

The way to poetry fame "to be",

A judge of poems whose taste will lurk

In the pages of posterity?

 

Are there certain forms expected...

And names of familiarity?

Is it likely to be rejected

If you're unknown and fancy free?

 

So, again I wonder who takes the task

of a competition judge?

Is there a qualified answer to my ask -

Or just a cosy in-house fudge?

 

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