Poetry competition CLOSED 17th July 2013 11:37am
WINNER
DystopianMelody
DystopianMelody
seventh
Anonymous
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DO I DESERVE TO WIN? A MATHEMATICIAN'S VIEW...
Statistically speaking
There is no chance of winning
Take approximately 20 competitions
For perhaps 10, 000 members
Say only one thousand
Compete at any one time
This means algebra
20/1000 = 2/100
A 2 % chance of winning
Now add on ability
The quality
Of the poem
You get this chance
Even lower
As only the best is offered
Now you have perhaps
A 1 % chance of winning
Finally there is the big issue
Of ***subjectivity***
A moderator
Even Justice
Blind and holding her scales
Cannot be totally impartial
To the kind of poems
She may like to read
Thus the mathematician in me
Says honestly
The chance of winning
Is so small
I wonder why I enter at all!
http://www.betsybyars.com/guy/soaring_symposia/72-dj.html
DO I DESERVE TO WIN? A MATHEMATICIAN'S VIEW...
Statistically speaking
There is no chance of winning
Take approximately 20 competitions
For perhaps 10, 000 members
Say only one thousand
Compete at any one time
This means algebra
20/1000 = 2/100
A 2 % chance of winning
Now add on ability
The quality
Of the poem
You get this chance
Even lower
As only the best is offered
Now you have perhaps
A 1 % chance of winning
Finally there is the big issue
Of ***subjectivity***
A moderator
Even Justice
Blind and holding her scales
Cannot be totally impartial
To the kind of poems
She may like to read
Thus the mathematician in me
Says honestly
The chance of winning
Is so small
I wonder why I enter at all!
http://www.betsybyars.com/guy/soaring_symposia/72-dj.html
Anonymous
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I don't want to win. I just want some fun
And to stir up things a little (or more).
I plead with setters not to consider
My feeble efforts when I fear I have
Miscalculated and may end up with
The ultimate humiliation of
WINNING.
I specialise in off the cuff and
Obscene limericks. As an example:
A scabrous man from Tennessee
Offered his cock as his only I.D.
The customs lady whipped out her chopper
And sliced it into her hopper
Declaring: "We must keep this state tidy".
If you dare consider this I will send
One for each of the other forty-nine
States. And that's a threat.
And to stir up things a little (or more).
I plead with setters not to consider
My feeble efforts when I fear I have
Miscalculated and may end up with
The ultimate humiliation of
WINNING.
I specialise in off the cuff and
Obscene limericks. As an example:
A scabrous man from Tennessee
Offered his cock as his only I.D.
The customs lady whipped out her chopper
And sliced it into her hopper
Declaring: "We must keep this state tidy".
If you dare consider this I will send
One for each of the other forty-nine
States. And that's a threat.
Anonymous
<< post removed >>
Anonymous
...
Anonymous
Wasted Accolades
Somebody here will win so graciously
get that trophy and walk, proud of it
Somebody here will take that ego stroke
and become more because of it
but, I wont
I'll be miserable either way
another trophy won't make
nor break my day
or ease the pain
my blues are here to stay
some deserving, new writer
wondering if they have what it takes
will get that assurance from winning first place
giving it to me would be a waste
Somebody here will win so graciously
get that trophy and walk, proud of it
Somebody here will take that ego stroke
and become more because of it
but, I wont
I'll be miserable either way
another trophy won't make
nor break my day
or ease the pain
my blues are here to stay
some deserving, new writer
wondering if they have what it takes
will get that assurance from winning first place
giving it to me would be a waste
Sophism
I'll tell you why I don't deserve to win
because I really don't deserve to win
I am the alpha and omega of failure
seriously
because if I've won, it means that someone, who was actually supposed to win,
didn't
If you think that I am the king of losers then you are wrong
I lose even there
it's true, losers have champions
I'm not one of them
I am the key to my downfall
when clouds in summer pass by over head, it only rains on me
even if I'm right next to someone
this is the essence of my core,
to deposit checks only to watch them bounce
Do not grow sympathetic towards my words, the fallacies of sophists are all the fad these days
my poetry is quite literally a fluke, meant to soothe the unfashioned eyes and ears
of those who don't know better
simply, a child's rant to whoever is listening
A tantrum unchecked
Cattle fodder for mass cattle,
you will not buy
my victory here would mean my destruction
most certainly, the heartbreak of someone who has hoped for the opposite
I, the tragic son of fate and loss, am destined to court grief
I implore you to see truth,
not reason
for if I deserve to lose and I don't, then let me win so I don't.
I'll tell you why I don't deserve to win
because I really don't deserve to win
I am the alpha and omega of failure
seriously
because if I've won, it means that someone, who was actually supposed to win,
didn't
If you think that I am the king of losers then you are wrong
I lose even there
it's true, losers have champions
I'm not one of them
I am the key to my downfall
when clouds in summer pass by over head, it only rains on me
even if I'm right next to someone
this is the essence of my core,
to deposit checks only to watch them bounce
Do not grow sympathetic towards my words, the fallacies of sophists are all the fad these days
my poetry is quite literally a fluke, meant to soothe the unfashioned eyes and ears
of those who don't know better
simply, a child's rant to whoever is listening
A tantrum unchecked
Cattle fodder for mass cattle,
you will not buy
my victory here would mean my destruction
most certainly, the heartbreak of someone who has hoped for the opposite
I, the tragic son of fate and loss, am destined to court grief
I implore you to see truth,
not reason
for if I deserve to lose and I don't, then let me win so I don't.
somelikeithot said:
DO I DESERVE TO WIN? A MATHEMATICIAN'S VIEW...
Statistically speaking
There is no chance of winning
Take approximately 20 competitions
For perhaps 10, 000 members
Say only one thousand
Compete at any one time
This means algebra
20/1000 = 2/100
A 2 % chance of winning
Now add on ability
The quality
Of the poem
You get this chance
Even lower
As only the best is offered
Now you have perhaps
A 1 % chance of winning
Finally there is the big issue
Of ***subjectivity***
A moderator
Even Justice
Blind and holding her scales
Cannot be totally impartial
To the kind of poems
She may like to read
Thus the mathematician in me
Says honestly
The chance of winning
Is so small
I wonder why I enter at all!
http://www.betsybyars.com/guy/soaring_symposia/72-dj.html
beautiful poem kitty :)
DO I DESERVE TO WIN? A MATHEMATICIAN'S VIEW...
Statistically speaking
There is no chance of winning
Take approximately 20 competitions
For perhaps 10, 000 members
Say only one thousand
Compete at any one time
This means algebra
20/1000 = 2/100
A 2 % chance of winning
Now add on ability
The quality
Of the poem
You get this chance
Even lower
As only the best is offered
Now you have perhaps
A 1 % chance of winning
Finally there is the big issue
Of ***subjectivity***
A moderator
Even Justice
Blind and holding her scales
Cannot be totally impartial
To the kind of poems
She may like to read
Thus the mathematician in me
Says honestly
The chance of winning
Is so small
I wonder why I enter at all!
http://www.betsybyars.com/guy/soaring_symposia/72-dj.html
beautiful poem kitty :)
