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My Greetings To You!

I want to apologize to all of you, friends! There are so many good poems, but I do not have the opportunity to choose all... I try to vote for those that I did not choose, but I feel that this is not enough! Sorry!

Hugs

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The theme for Steemit Poetry Contest #12 - Future

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About Prizes:

First Place - 8 SBD

Second Place - 7 SBD

Third Place - 6 SBD

Fourth Place - 5 SBD

Fifth Place - 4 SBD

Sixth Place - 3 SBD

Seventh Place - 2 SBD

Eighth Place - 1 SBD

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Entries will be accepted within five days from the date of publication of an announcement!

Deadline - January 23 9:00 AM UTC

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The winners of the Steemit Poetry Contest #11

1st Place - "Lonely Steemit Moon..." by @karenmckersie

Here I sit on the moon

As lonely as can be

Feeling very homesick

Waiting for Steemians to join me

I know I wont be lonely long

The rockets blast off soon

After Hard Fork 20

Come join me on the moon

Loneliness is fleeting

It passes very fast

The SMTs are coming

Rockets Blasting off At Last !

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2nd Place - "Lonely Guy" by @johnwjr7

While sitting here, thinking, I start to pine,

for the girl that I know will never be mine.

I cry at the window, leave tears on the pane,

but no one will notice because of the rain.

For as much as I love her, she has a plan,

that doesn't include me, but another man.

She’s the prettiest girl that I’ve ever known,

but soon she will be gone and I’ll be alone.

When the time comes I’ll look deep into her eyes,

tell her I’m happy for her then say my goodbyes.

But she’ll still be the girl that will never be mine.

So I'll go back to my window, sit there and pine.

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3rd Place - "Dull Sky [Loneliness]" by @hypexals-spiral

A feather sheds from a wing,

and cascades to the frozen ground.

It's not whether you hear me sing,

but what aides you in my chosen sound.

Never in history has a wing flown,

covered wholely in unhealed scars.

This blistery soul can't heal on pure loneliness alone,

whilst melancholy tightly sealed you with cold bars.

Most birds without a flock face a lonely might,

lost soaring admist a vapid, dull sky.

What words left unsaid fall through cracks, out of sight,

rain pouring atop you, rapid to apply.

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4th Place - "Anonymous Faces" by @wanderingdanish

In every crowd

Any places

With no doubt

Anonymous faces

The hollow glare

Bleak sky

No one cares

Live or die

Each to their own

Sealed heart

Forever alone

Forever apart

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5th Place - "One Man Show" by @rachelburger

Another heckler sloshes his slipshod swill

and Jester cracks a retort to fulfill

his forever tortured comedic routine

for a hit of applause-fueled dopamine

"Funny" fuels fantasy of life examined

a talent to delight others with sapid

insights into the way "things really are"

ever the comedian philosopher

But boorish quotidian inspires Jester's quick quips

as poor mental health and bad relationships

openly hide from audiences successfully amused

the lonely life joking about humor abused

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6th Place - "What Goes On Inside" by @rockchickjen

She's running up the biting wind

Painfully waiting for that special friend

Manic, she's talking to the ghosts

Because she's the one that hurts the most

The silence is deafening in her ears

Only her voices to exploit her fears

They tell her it'll be alright and hold on tight

Yet they never let her stand and fight

The loneliness eats relentlessly inside

All the while, she just wants to die

Will it ever recede and cease it's growth

Or is this darkness a lifetime oath

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7th Place - "Alone, Not Lonely" by @fishyculture

One dim light glows softly in the silent room

Until I sit at my piano and being play a tune.

Another sip of coffee to clear my throat to sing

When anyone is here I cannot do this kind of thing!

I go to the city to get supplies and visit friends,

Bright lights, loud music, all my senses it offends.

A thousand people pass me, without a wave or smile-

I am so glad I am only here for just a little while!

I flee the noisy people that are too busy to care

Back to my mountain hideaway and the sweet quiet there.

I realize my solitude is something that I treasure

Alone does not mean lonely, it is my guiltless pleasure!

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8th Place - "Alone Among the Pieces" by @introvertfl

How do you quantify the faces you won't see again?

A disappearing act gets difficult once it becomes a trend.

I meant every promise at the moment it was said,

but there's no one who is easier to lie to than a friend.

After all this absence, I cannot not fight the insistence

of tired eyes that constantly confuse safety and distance.

I created a false comfort by coveting the empty space.

I didn’t burn my bridges— they collapsed under their own weight.

and it eats at me on lonely nights, waking dreams that never end.

I pretend to make amends with shadows sleeping in my bed.

I'm still having trouble with the truth, and so I struggle

knowing that I dug my own grave- safe inside the rubble.

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Rules of The Contest!

• Only one entry is allowed.

• Your entry-post must be tagged both #poetry and #poetrycontest

• The Title must be "SteemitPoetryContest #(with the number of the actual episode)" + the name of your poem.

• You can use any types of rhyme - End rhyme, Cross rhyme, Internal etc.

• The size of the poem - three quatrains (one quatrain = four lines).

• Do not steal! The contest is only original works!

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I wish everyone good luck and creativity!

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Let's make STEEMIT more interesting and varied together!

Sincerely, Terry Craft.