New Contest! 2 SBDs, Author Rewards and More - If you can write 17 syllables!
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I love Steemit for the fun contests. There are TONS! Follow @moneyinfant to hear about all of them, including this one!
If I had more time, I'd enter many, many contests. Instead, I started my own! If you have 30 seconds to spare and you can write 17 syllables, you can win 2 SBD, author rewards, and some free publicity.
Read below for more about the contest instructions, how to participate, awards, and how I'll select a winner.
Contest Instructions
Write a haiku about weeds. References to marijuana will be allowed. (This theme was chosen out of several suggestions.)
For this contest, your haiku must be a one-stanza, traditional 5-7-5 haiku like the ones described here: http://www.kidzone.ws/poetry/haiku.htm. Here’s an example:
You may submit multiple haikus, but you need to make each haiku its own reply. Each one will be considered a separate entry.
How to Participate
- Reply below with your haiku. Deadine: 11:59 pm UTC, April 7, 2018.
- Upvote this post. Deadline: 11:59 pm UTC, April 7, 2018.
That's it! But...
You should also resteem this post to increase the winner's prize and give yourself some free exposure! You can participate without resteeming -- I don't give preference -- but if you do resteem, it only helps you.
Also, post your entry on your own blog! Mention @vdux and I'll give you an upvote and resteem your post.
Awards
Winner gets:
- 2 SBD
- Half of this post's author awards
- One free "shout-out" for winning
- One free resteem from me for any of the winner's posts. (You choose the post. There's no time limit but I reserve the right to refuse resteem any post I consider offensive or indecent -- I'll simply ask you for a different, non-offensive post.)
One runner-up gets:
- One free "shout-out" for winning
- One free resteem from me for any of the winner's posts. (You choose the post. There's no time limit but I reserve the right to refuse to resteem any post I consider offensive or indecent -- I'll simply ask you for a different, non-offensive post.)
(For examples of shout-outs, read the shout-outs for my most recent contest: Congratulations to @felicitas, Big Ups to @rlt47, and Spreading Love to @Pocketmouse.)
How I Will Select the Winner
Within 2 days after the deadline, I will read all entries and choose a winner and runner-up. While I'll take upvotes into consideration, my selection will reflect my personal preference based on the entries you submit. So far, it's been very, very close call with lots of great entries to choose from. Feel free to reuse a haiku from the past and write as many as you want.
I run this haiku contest regularly so if yours doesn't win, try again next time.
Awesome job everybody who entered my previous contests:
Also, follow @firepower for Steemit commentary and occasional contests.
Reply below and Feel the Haiku!!!
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Legendary Sculptor Weed
Moonlight Fantasy Royal Road
Seoyoon Weeds Starlight
To be technical this is fair game long live Weed and Grass porridge!
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/the-legendary-moonlight-sculptor/
On a side topic if anyone wants to pick up a light novel highly recommended
http://royalroadweed.blogspot.ca/
Thanks for your haiku! I posted the winners announcement. https://steemit.com/contest/@vdux/5nvr3g-vdux-haiku-contest-winners
Also, nice novel.
Moonlit path glistening
A weed glistens in a solace
Rain silently patters
Cool. Does this follow the theme of weeds?
Also, all entries must be a one-stanza, traditional 5-7-5 haiku like the ones described here: http://www.kidzone.ws/poetry/haiku.htm. I have this rule so all entries are judged on the same basis with the same rules. Can you revise?
My apologies I did not see the theme just the Haiku part I will revise it
Revised this one I'll make a new one though.
Thanks, I look forward to seeing it!
Don't kill the bees' food
Dandelions are yummy
Spring pollenators
Thanks for your haiku! I posted the winners announcement. https://steemit.com/contest/@vdux/5nvr3g-vdux-haiku-contest-winners
I never thought about that. Wow. Respect! Thank you for entering the contest!
Thanks for hosting it! :)
We thought those are weeds
They needed just patience
To become beauty
Thanks for your haiku! I posted the winners announcement. https://steemit.com/contest/@vdux/5nvr3g-vdux-haiku-contest-winners
Wonderful. Really nice. Thank you for entering!
Weeds Need Ripping
Image Credit
Humanity kills
Like weeds we suffocate life
Earth needs a cleanup
Oh. Feeling guilty now.
Guilt really never helped anyone ...adjusting one's behaviour however.... :P
Harvest the weed not the crop,
Weed got more value!?
Great, can you make this a traditional 5-7-5 haiku like the ones described here: http://www.kidzone.ws/poetry/haiku.htm? I ask everybody to use the same format so everybody follows the same rules.
Oh yeah, my bad. Thanks, got that rectified! :)
Nice! Thank you.
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Forget prescription
I puff smoke not addiction
And huff for my health
Alright! Great haiku, thank you!
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WEEDS
Garden invader,
Strangler of my prized choices!
Please Go! Roam beyond.
https://goo.gl/images/WNYUPu
An Original Haiku - All Rights Reserved
Bonus for the picture. Is that last sentence 5 syllables?
@vdux - No. Clumsy mistake; fixed. Thank-you. :))
Noted. Validated. Boom!
A life with meaning
Turns to a chemical death
We pull the trigger
hopefully that's not too depressing :/ just what I came up with, and I don't hate it :)
I like it! Poetic. Tragic. Poor weeds.
Thanks for your haiku! I posted the winners announcement. https://steemit.com/contest/@vdux/5nvr3g-vdux-haiku-contest-winners
Weeds; gardener's bane
The humble dandelion
Merely nature's gift
:)
Ooooh nice. Touching, too. Thank you for entering!
You won! https://steemit.com/contest/@vdux/5nvr3g-vdux-haiku-contest-winners