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Risk
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Pity the timid soul who hides in a hole. He will never see VICTORY. True, he may never taste defeat. If you don't compete you can't be beat. Still, isn't it better to strive for a worthy cause and fail, than to spend your life sorting your mail?

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Reviewed by Regis Schilken

Reviewed on February 17, 2011

If you don't compete
you can't be beat.

I'm afraid that most of my competition has left me behind, but I do my best to compete! I truly enjoy our poems.

rege

Reviewed by jude forese

Reviewed on May 28, 2010

especially is its all junk mail ...

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