☝ Poetwisdom #1 : Poetry Contest ✍ [20+ SBD Prize Pool πŸ’°]

in #poetwisdom β€’ 7 years ago (edited)

As a growing minnow myself whom recently won the 2nd place in the Bounty4Love contest, I decided this was a good opportunity to use that reward and create my own contest.

Introducing

#poetwisdom


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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers"
~Alfred Tennyson


Theme : Mysteries of The Universe


An example (one of my recent poems) can be found HERE

*please note that the title of this poem wouldn't be valid for entry


The aim of this contest is to bring forth the philosophical and poetic minds out there. Depending on how well-received this post is, future poetry contests will be held containing various topics relating to philosophy.


πŸ’°Prize Pool


First Prize: 10 SBD

Second Prize: 6 SBD

Third Prize: 4 SBD

If the author payouts of this post were to exceed the initial reward money
(minus the promotion costs) ALL additional makings will go to the prize pool!


Deadline : Sunday 9th of July 12:00 PM CEST


Contest will be judgded by me and winners will be announced
shortly after the deadline has been made.


πŸ“› Rules to be Followed


  • Avoid Profanity in your poems

  • Your entry should be titled:
    Poetwisdom #1 : (name of your entry)

  • Poems should be above 8 lines and below 25 lines

  • ORIGINAL CONTENT : No Plagiarism & pre-writes!

  • One entry per person

  • Use #poetwisdom as your primary tag


    Please consider supporting this project by

  • Upvoting this post

  • Resteeming this post

  • Leaving a link to this post in your poem


Looking forward seeing all the creative minds out there and the different approaches used towards this subject, Good Luck!


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This post received a 4.4% upvote from @randowhale thanks to @droucil! For more information, click here!

Here is my entry. - Thank you for the opportunity!

Nice rhyming, I can see how the picture brought u inspiration ;)

thank you so very much!

Like it! Better put me ol' writing beads on and look up at the wall for an hr or two! Lol

haha, GL!

Great! Coming back to this after my creative juices have flown :D

GL, still plenty of time :)

Hey @droucil! Thanks, for doing this. Here's my entry.

Thank you for your entry, and welcome to Steemit :)

Seems like a dark poem, I can relate to it. Was actually thinking if the next contest were to take place, to take Society as topic. This one would have fit right in as well :)

Glad you liked it :)

Hmm sounds like a great opportunity, might just throw my hat in the ring >;3

:) Looking forward to it

This post has received a 7.44 % upvote from @booster thanks to: @droucil.

Oh yay, I'm glad I found this! I love things like this. Thank you for starting it. Now to write my entry...

can't wait ;)

Wow - Cool contest! Cheers and best wishes! Thanks for curating the poetry community too xo...

I curate poetry with the tag #onehumanbasket
Find out about it here where there is also a poetry dice challenge!

awesome idea! I would love to use a picture by an artist I saw as inspiration and cover for my poem. Is this allowed?

Of course, just leave a link as of the source of the picture

entered / upvoted /resteemed :) best of luck

I've entered two by mistake as I got over excited so I'll nominate Planet's Mind and kindly ask you to ignore the equally philosophical End of the Age of Innocence.. Think I might have blown it there...oops !
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haha, great to hear ur so excited, Planet's Mind it is ;)

thanks droucil, great project. apologies for the double entry, I could jam this topic all day long

Here is my entry for your contest: Left becomes the light...

"sometimes i look left
sometimes i look right
somtimes left looks at me and says wait..."

by @robyneggs

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I curate poetry with the tag #onehumanbasket
Find out about it here where there is also a poetry dice challenge!

Picture suits well with the topic :)

Oooooo Exciting!!! If I don't get this in tonight .. I will get it in tomorrow , I usually can think more clearly in the mornings :)
Love the theme too! I'm excited!

:D Still some days left so no rush ;)

I have been for years saying I should write more!!!.. Funny how this has suddenly happened out of the blue!
will get thinking on it , cheers!

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Steemit is what did it for me (giving me the motivation). U have a very cheerful attitude, that's for sure :)

That's good as I do feel I try to be very cheery, & I write the opposite way ;D

Thank you @poetwisdom for hosting this poetry contest. I truly enjoyed the subject as well as being in the company of such accomplished writers. I enjoyed as well reading their work. Looking forward to following you. Much Love and greetings to all Steemians. Here is my entry, https://steemit.com/poetwisdom/@rensoul17/poetwisdom-1-spirit-indigo-dreams

Thank you for joining, it's nice to see so many people enthusiast for this contest :)

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OK. That took me a while, :) πŸ›Œ πŸ›Œ πŸ›Œ !!!!!

I hope you like my Poem , it's called Unseen Totality!

& basically it's about the world around us.. that all is not what it seems.

We need to open our eyes to the reality that we think is reality is not.

We are just blindly following a system when we are capable of so much more bigger things. We know it inside of us, but we just are so controlled it's like there is a veil covering the truth!

So when I think of Mysteries of the Universe I think in terms of the matrix we live in.

https://steemit.com/poetwisdom/@aineyann/unseen-totality

It's a very cryptic one so the explanation helps ;)

oops!. My poetry always seems to come across that way!lol!

Hello fellow Steemians,

Here is my entry

Enjoy :)

https://steemit.com/poetwisdom/@trumotiv/poetwisdom-1-human-nature

Thank you for your entry :)

Thanks for doing this contest! Here's my entry!

TY, for showing interest ;)

I have only discovered this now. So close to closing! Great initiative. Following for future posts.

Still some time left

Hey @droucil I wasn't able to get an entry ready on time, but I think this contest is an awesome idea and I will definitely participate on the next one! Best of luck to all that entered :)

Got plenty of competition after all! - here is my link for convenience. Realized we were chatting in the comments on my post.