Attention all poets and creative writers! 50 STEEM is on the line!
Round 4 of Season 5 of my WILD & STRANGE Contest has officially started! It’s time to out your pens to page and print your prose! The grand prize for this round will be 50 STEEM. Who wants to give it a go?
Here is the progression that this contest follows.
ROUND 1 = PHOTO – Take a photo to enter – COMPLETED
ROUND 2 = ART – Use winning photo from Round 1 to make a piece of art – COMPLETED
ROUND 3 = MEME – Use winning art from Round 2 to make a meme – COMPLETED
ROUND 4 = POETRY – Use winning meme from Round 3 to make a poem - STARTING NOW
ROUND 5 = SONG – Use winning poem from Round 4 to make an original song.
Contest Progression Thus Far
In Round 1, @liberty-minded won the photo contest with this entry! It was his winning photo that provided the inspiration for the artwork in Round 2, which had many excellent entries. Eventually, I had to call this one the winner.
This winning artwork from @fubar-bdhr was the base for the MEME contest in Round 3. Round 3 also was an incredible round with many excellent entries submitted.
AND THE WINNER IS...
@skcamper
This winning meme from @skcamper will be the inspiration for you poetry in Round 4. Thanks very much to all who entered. I seriously appreciate your participation, even though I did not reply to all the entries that came in. A lot of originality and creativity was put into your entries, and it took a lot for me to choose one as the winner.
Here are the rules for Round 4:
- Create an original poem based on the winning meme from @skcamper.
- The poem must be at least 8 lines long.
- The poem must rhyme in some way.
- The poem will be used as lyrics for a song next round, so you may want to keep that in mind.
- Enter original work and provide your entry in a reply to this post.
- You can still make a post out of your entry, but your post does not count as an entry, only your reply.
- Keep everything kid-friendly and G rated.
- You must enter by midnight next Sunday (CST) in order for your entry to be considered valid.
- By entering, you are giving me full permission to use your entry however I wish.
Until next time…
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Thank you so much papa-pepper! First time I won anything in my life Lol !
Good win, that's over $100! Now let's see the poems you'll inspire!
This is my entry
Of Peanuts and Nuts
I brought peanuts for a potluck
Ya, I know it sucks
The host thought that I was a nut
But then I was stuck in a rut
For when I was down and out
And my life was heading nowhere but south
Peanuts and nuts were my sustenance
As I pray and say my penance
Oh how do I get out of this situation
Before it drives me to desperation
That's why I must win this contest
By putting my skills to the test
Papa-pepper has thrown me a lifeline
Now I enjoy my salted peanuts in the airline
Living life in the fast lane
Shuttling around the globe in airplane
Of peanuts and nuts
Never will I forget that they once fill my gut.
@papa-pepper
How do you judge the winner? It is based on the number of votes that each entry gets?
No, I just pick the one that I like the best. No real formula or criteria, sorting through it now.
Keeping my fingers crossed and hope to get the results soon. Do follow me if you like poems and positive posts.
Nuts by jaybird – June 13 2017
Nuts nuts nuts, sometimes you drive me nuts
You never want to talk to me, what’s happening to us?
Won’t talk about the elephant, sitting in the room
Sometimes it feels like I’m from Earth and you’re from the Blue Lagoon
We tried to take vacation and spend it on the beach
I went swimming with the fishes while you toured the coral reefs
I thought that I got through to you and that this time you’d open up
I’ve laid awake so many night thinking did we do enough?
Can’t get it passed my peanut brain, I just can’t give you up
I want to know you inside out but sometimes you drive me nuts
Nuts nuts nuts, sometimes you drive me nuts
You never want to talk to me what’s happening to us?
Is this song is about a man and his elephant…?
Haha great meme and Congrats to the winner @skcamper ! For some reason I couldn't get the photo onto meme maker ! But I will do my best to enter the poem contest ! 👍👍👍
I just hit 1000 followers @papa-pepper ! Its so exciting for me ! Thanks for being one of them and helping out along the way , over these 11 months ,What a ride it has been ! Heres the link if you get a chance later to check it out !! Steem on my friend ! https://steemit.com/steemit/@karenmckersie/wowzza-1000-followers-celebration-time-promotional-steemit-post#@tj4real/re-karenmckersie-wowzza-1000-followers-celebration-time-promotional-steemit-post-2017613t123811217z
Thanks Karen! Congrats on 1000!!
thanks ! And your welcome !👍👍👍
Very cool, and congrats!
awe thanks for checking it out its much appreciated !
Peanuts, we nuts
Gladly talk about trees and crust
Ball games cracker jack
You already know we wack
Elephant beside me in the ocean
Underwater with the fishes coastin'
In the waves this is a race
Wet and wild in this place
Elephant looking far and wide,
Up, down and side to side,
Looking for peanuts he could not find,
In the physical realm, or deep recesses of his mind,
Searching and finding nothing but bland,
On the surface of the earth a barren wasteland,
In a last-ditch effort took deep to the sea,
At last he found a nut, but of a different variety,
Inflicted with crazy!, no wait insanity,
The very last one of all humanity.
You are in @kepo777! (and my Goji Berry plant is looking great!)
Yup! I use to do a lot of poetry from 7th-12th grade and thought this shouldn't be to hard and looked at the parameters, at first I thought how am I going to make a poem that makes sense and relates to the meme. It's only when I started writing it out on paper did it start to come together nicely. I did have to play around a little with certain lines but for the most part it flowed out on it's own. (That's great to hear about your Goji Berry plant! I have to do an update soon on mine. They just started putting out berries and are taller than my fence.) I'm happy for all your success you have achieved on Steemit and wish you much more in the future! You deserve it!
here is my entry. I guess I went a little nuts there. But is was so much fun!
An elephant under the sea?
That´s about as nuts as can be
I just think
you had too much to drink
what did you smoke?
did you have a stroke?
sorry if I offended you
but did you think this through?
Oh there was a picture taken?
Well now I am shakin´
Cannot belief my eyes
this must be lies
if this is true
I have no clue
about nothing
the elephant might grow a wing
or two and even fly
into the sky
and to the moon
oh my, I will be mad soon
This elephant under the sea
really got the best of me!
meep
fish tank, my weed stank
trumpeting, on my steem
kid looks soft, not to mean
back and forth I lean, while typing
@papa-pepper got those leads, that I quickly be upvoting
crypto moving, banks construding,
IRS to be discluded, Coinbase elusive
steem power flexin, no time to get to heaven
Interesting, you are entered!
I was at the aquarium lookin' at fish,
Then I got carried away and I made a wish.
I was walking past the ocean and guess what ran right by?
It was an elephant, elephant? Jumpin' through the sky.
I was like "Bro, hold on a sec, take a pic of this."
My bro said "Sure, that looks dope" and then, "No problem Chris."
So he took the picture right quick, here's the proof,
@skycamper with the meme, and it ain't no goof.
An elephant swam near and far
Looking for a little bar
In which to drown all of his sorrows
And dream about all his tomorrows
A beer and bar nuts is all he wanted
He didn't want to feel disenchanted
He held his breath and lower he sunk
And found a bar door and opened it with his trunk
He walked into the tiki bar but
All that he found there was a nut
LOL, nice entry!
Thank you haha :)
ooops....I really poor in creating peom......that's challenge me.... :(
That's okay!
really....thanks....
keep up the good posts here...nice pictures. Am enjoying all
@papa-pepper, enjoying all your contests. Wanted to participate in the meme contest, but couldn't work on it on time.
Looking forward to all the beautiful poems.
Thanks, will you be trying one?
Would like to. Let's see if I can work on this poetry contest. I'm a writer myself . Hopefully I can come up with something worth reading.
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin
I will be trying one poem. How do i enter, haven't entered for the other contests. @papa-pepper
Enter by replying to this post. That will be your entry. If you want, you can also make a post, but you do not have to.
I wonder how))) @papa-pepper. and I don't write poetry(
That doesn't mean that you can't try... if you want to.
I just purchased Steam Power 3-bit and got a full bot.
50 steps elephant it will surely win papa @zuljalalil
If I haven't entered the previous 3 rounds can I still enter round 4? I didn't realize this was going on and as you probably know, I love a good contest!
I believe you can enter in any or all of the rounds. Poetry is my forte so I'm entering this round. Had a go at the meme too, but not the other ones.
I figured as much. I ended up entering anyway. Time will tell i guess. Good luck yo!
Yeah, this one can be entered at any time for any round.
The next one (which I am about to post) is turning whichever poem wins into a song!
Sweet. Well, truthfully I submitted my poem anyways a few days ago lol. Figured I had nothing to lose even if it was too late. Thanks for the response ~