Merit Badge Envy

Do I have any Merit Badge envy grounds?
Among on-line writers that oft the keyboard pounds –
It’s only process for the prize,
To the computer Den Mother analog.
After contest defeat, it’s deaf to whimpering sounds.


When trophy rooms echo not with cheers, but wind –
To the glowing gray-mantled forum sage rescind.
“Where is my due?” fury flies – Send
It’s Response routinely is: “Update your Blog,”
Can all this ether-advice unleash a winner within?


It’s not the contest author’s fault I’m tinged green.
By all accounts, I could blame the computer screen.
The cat ate my optical mouse?
My Zip drive with the winning entry was seized?
Too bad there’s no Merit Badge for lies, or ranting obscene.


You see the activities, help groups built with zest.
Lead by the Merit Badge overladen, WDC’s Best.
Where The Story Ms’s well pleased,
N’knows a hale bit of envy spurs a contest.
All it takes is a friendly reader and Ten thousand GPts!