The Writers’ Block Poetry Contest (#twbpoetrycontest) is ready and thrilled to announce the WINNERS from the 2nd week’s contest. After that, we will also be presenting the prompt for week 3!

Once again, we had an amazing response in entries for week 2. Way to go Steem poets!

Our five judges, after some pretty tough decisions, have finally come up with the winners. But before we announce that, let’s take a moment to appreciate our fantastic judges, because without them, none of this would be possible:

@sunravelme
@damianjayclay
@jrswab
@jessandthesea
@dbooster

And now for the winners:

• First place and 15 SBD: @luthvarian’s poem Sitting Behind the Circulation Desk at the Johnson County Library in Overland Park, Kansas

• Second place and 10 SBD: @isteemithard’s poem Lying in a Hammock at the Beach

• Third place and 7 SBD: @mitchelljaworski’s poem Freedom
  
  

^Prizes

Congratulations! It was so cool to see how the poem from the prompt inspired each of you in different ways. Check out the winners’ poems and give them some love!

The Writers’ Block Poetry Contest: Week 3

 
WRITING PROMPT: Write a poem in the style of your favorite professional poet. Make sure to name the poet whose style you are imitating in your post somewhere. If you’re having trouble getting started with this prompt, check out this awesome example of a poem inspired by a famous poet, written by one of our contest judges, @sunravelme. Do you see how her poem resembles E.E. Cummings’ work? The resemblance between the original poet’s work of your choosing and your entry for this week should be fairly identifiable.

• 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 3].
• Tag your entry with #twbpoetrycontest
• Post a link to your poem in the replies to this post.
• This contest runs until 23:59 UTC / GMT Feb 10th.
• 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 @anomadsoul and @gmuxx 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

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