The Writers’ Block Poetry Contest (#twbpoetrycontest) is excited to announce the WINNERS from the first week’s contest and to also present the prompt for week 2!
Thank you all so much for the incredible response in entries for week 1. It was great to see so many Steem poets submit in just the first week. We had no less than 35 entries! Let’s spread the word and keep growing!
Our five judges have been working tirelessly since last night to decide on the winners. Thank you
@sunravelme
@damianjayclay
@jrswab
@jessandthesea
@dbooster
And now for the winners:
“Of the Village”
First place and 15 SBD: @dflo for the poem
“Harmony from Discord”Second place and 10 SBD: @lahvista for the poem
"Restraint"Third place and 7 SBD: @clayboyn with
Congratulations all three on your awesome work; it was a close call in the end. Now let’s all go check out their poems and give them some love!
The Writers’ Block Poetry Contest: Week 2
WRITING PROMPT: Write a poem inspired by James Wright’s poem “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota”.
To be inspired by a poem can mean many things. Here are a couple ideas if you are having trouble getting started:
- Write a poem based on the same theme.
- Use a phrase from the poem to inspire your own (perhaps even using that phrase in your poem).
- Use the setting for the poem in your own.
Those are just ideas. You can be inspired in any way you like, definitely not limited to that list.
- Original work only. All plagiarized entries will be disqualified.
- Unless designated by the prompt, the structure of the poem can be anything you like. Free verse, rhymed, and prose poetry are all 100% welcome.
- One entry per person, per week.
- Post your poem to your own blog to enter. The title of your post should be [the title of your poem - Writers Block Poetry Contest Week 2].
- Tag your entry with #twbpoetrycontest
- Post a link to your poem in the replies to this post.
- This contest runs until midnight UTC / GMT January 31st.
- The winner will receive 15 SBD. Second place will win 10 SBD and third will receive 7 SBD.
Good luck!
Once again, a super warm thank you to our wonderful sponsors @gmuxx and @anomadsoul for their generous support for this poetry contest, making it possible that the winners receive an SBD prize. If you feel so inclined, an easy way to show your gratitude to @gmuxx would be to vote for him as a witness! It’s such a simple and kind gesture for someone to show your support for someone who is so committed to the Steemit community.
@jessandthesea
Congratulations to all the winners! Let's hope we continue to see more awesome entries next week, thanks to @thewritersblock for making this kind of contests!
Thank you for your awesome support.
Love the winners and also the new prompt.
I might toss this one around in my noodle to see what I come up with for Week 2. I have been meaning to participate and now I think I may have the words in me.
do it :)))))
Thanks for the encouragement! I'm working on it! ^_^
It was fun and there was a lot of fierce competition. Thanks and congrats to the other two winners!
Very excited to participate this week (and every week!). Thanks for hosting this!
I audibly laughed when reading the original poem. It's very interesting and definitely something I'll have fun working off of.
Thank you!!!! My heart is racing! Lol, thank you so much for the honor of winning this contest. It means so much to me to have found this creative community! <3
I applaud all the poets who took part for the great number of fantastic entries we had. Congratulations to winners. I can't wait to see what everyone produces for the next competition.
Congratulations to the winners!
Intriguing prompt this time, will have to sleep on it and see if I manage to produce anything worthy of an entry.
Woohoo. Lovely work, winners.
Here is the link to my week 2 poem: https://steemit.com/poetry/@luthvarian/sitting-behind-the-circulation-desk-at-the-johnson-county-library-in-overland-park-kansas-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2
Thank you for the inspiration!
Here is my entry for week 2.
Napping in my Hammock - Writers Block Poetry Contest Week 2
joshua0621 (30) in poetry • 40 seconds ago
Here is my link to the entry for Poetyr Contest Week #2-https://steemit.com/poetry/@joshua0621/napping-in-my-hammock-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2
Thank you to TWB for encouraging poetry! I was inspired thanks to you guys! #twbpoetrycontest
I read all the entries that won, loved all the poems! Congratulations guys!
Here's my entry for Writing Block Poetry Contest Week 2:
https://steemit.com/bescouted/@sabas/on-finding-homes-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2-3
Hope everyone likes it!
Love,
Saba <3
This is the link to my #twbpoetrycontest entry https://steemit.com/poetry/@ikechi/i-have-wasted-my-life-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2 Thanks for the oppurtunity @thewritersblock
I am so glad that the Writers Block hosts a poetry contest! Here is my entry for Week 2
https://steemit.com/twbpoetrycontest/@japhofin8or/relaxed-in-a-hammock-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2
Congratulations, to all the winners. Here's link to my entry for Week 2:
"I have wasted my life" https://steemit.com/poetry/@yahialababidi/i-have-wasted-my-life-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2
A very deserving winner, @dflo, that poem blew me away...
Congrats to all winners!
Thank you all for curating, very much enjoyed reading the winners' poems, all delightful work.
My entry for week 2: https://steemit.com/poetry/@carmalain7/anno-mundi-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2
https://steemit.com/twbpoetryconest/@ahmmartinz/dark-night-soul-writers-block-contest-week-2
Hi! This is my entry to this contest. I hope you’ll like it. Thank you @thewritersblock for having a contest like this and inspiring poets. Godspeed! 💕 https://steemit.com/twbpoetrycontest/@akhris611/the-brighter-side-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2
Here's my entry:
Hi, thanks @thewritersblock for sponsoring this poetry contest! https://steemit.com/twbpoetrycontest/@steemotion/golden-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2
https://steemit.com/twbpoetrycontest/@gilmored/a-life-worth-living-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2
Here's the link, hope you enjoy! Good luck all.
A life worth living.
I lay by the creek that flows through my yard.
a bird is singing, like my very own bard.
As I watch the clouds form shapes and float by,
I contemplate how it'd feel to fly.
My mind jumps around, I can't hold a thought.
Some think I'm wasting my time, but I think not
A life filled with peace and tranquility,
Is a life worth living, at least to me.
This is a smart way of exercising our creative writing juices! All the prompts look fun to do. I’m looking forward the join the succeeding ones. So excited 😊✨
Here's my entry. Thank you so much for hosting this great contest. I love these types of challenges.
"Sitting in a Dirty Living Room"
https://steemit.com/twbpoetrycontest/@michaelluchies/sitting-in-a-dirty-living-room-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2-entry
Here is my entry, hope some of you will like it.
Thank you @thewritersblock for creating this contest. https://steemit.com/ita/@silviu93/i-have-wasted-my-life-ho-sprecato-la-mia-vita-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2
I just stumbled onto this contest in my favorite writing community. Thank you to @jonknight for showing me this great group of people!
Yes! Week #2 I'm in: https://steemit.com/poetry/@mitchelljaworski/freedom-writer-s-block-poetry-contest-week-2
This is my entry for the poetry contest week 2
Hope you like it ... Thanks :)
https://steemit.com/twbpoetrycontest/@taqdirul94/lying-in-a-hammock-under-the-tree-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2-bilingual
this entri for your contest https://steemit.com/poetry/@wahyunibukhari/lying-in-a-hammock-at-the-beach-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2
First of all, congrats to the winners.
This is my entry for week 2: https://steemit.com/twbpoetrycontest/@poetrybyjeremy/a-butterfly-s-sleep-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2
I must say it was a very interesting prompt. We had a variety of things to go off on. In fact, I was inspired by one of the first lines, where the bronze butterfly was sleeping. Good luck to everyone else.
Here is my entry. https://steemit.com/twbpoetrycontest/@firststeps/between-two-pines-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2. Thanks for this contest. I really got inspired.
Thanks for the opportunity to participate! I wrote this about 3 days ago now, but (ironically?) I left my notebook in the hammock!!!
Headed back to the farm to pick it up. There's still a day and a half, but it felt like I was cutting it close!
Here's my entry!
Blessings to All the Writer's Block and Participants!
Not my usual type of poetry, so thanks for getting me outside the box.
It's a true story, poeticised.
Read it HERE!
https://steemit.com/twbpoetrycontest/@hypexals-spiral/poem-migration-of-the-monarch-butterfly-an-encounter-true-story-poetry
Cheers!
Here's my entry for this week's contest:
https://steemit.com/writing/@cbrayst/ego-candy-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2
Here's my entry y'all
https://steemit.com/twbpoetrycontest/@moneyinfant/memory-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2
Sending in my application soon.
Here is my entry for week 2. It took a few days and more than a few tears. The original poem touched me deeply.
https://steemit.com/twbpoetrycontest/@lahvista/wasted-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2
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This is so amazing! Just joined Steemit yesterday and so thrilled to find so many keen and avid writers here... thank you so much for organising this! I will continue to participate for sure :)
Here is my entry!
https://steemit.com/twbpoetrycontest/@hartfloe/everything-shines-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2
With Love
Hart Floe
<3
https://steemit.com/twbpoetrycontest/@charitybot/sitting-on-a-workbench-at-fauxcon-s-factory-in-new-taipei-city-taiwan-written-for-the-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2
Hope I'm not late... good luck everybody!!!
Hi, it's my first time submitting for a contest, excited!
https://steemit.com/twbpoetrycontest/@intuitivejakob/writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2-suspension-hammock-style
This is my entry, forgot to give the link
https://steemit.com/poetry/@diebitch/lost-and-found-writers-block-poetry-contest-week-2