Halls of the Dark Muse

I belong to Deviant Art, which is an online art gallery that is free to join, and allows members to post their work in any form of art you can imagine, both visual and written.

I was invited to join this group on DA called The Haiku Club, though they deal with all forms of eastern poetry, and I have always enjoyed the eastern poetry forms, and the reason they asked me to join was because they happened across from of my Sijo that I posted.

So within the group they host a lot of different contests and the judges are chosen just based on who voltmeters to act as judge, so it is usually always the same group of 4 or 5 people that sign up to judge every time.

And apparently this particular group of people just really don't get my poetry or don't like my work, because I have not even managed to get as much as an honorable mention, and I have been confident in the works I have entered and received positive feedback from others on it, but the panel of judges just don't seem to care one iota for anything I write.

The thing that is kind of interesting about it as well, is I have also noticed that on the occasions when I have acted as judge, my least favorite poems usually get the highest scores from the rest of the judges, and the works that are my personal favorites usually get lower scores from the others.

So my tastes just seem to run in a completely opposite direction from everyone else, which really shouldn't be all that surprising.