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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!
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The theme for Steemit Poetry Contest #12 - Future
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
Entries will be accepted within five days from the date of publication of an announcement!
Deadline - January 23 9:00 AM UTC
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 !
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.
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.
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
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
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
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!
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.
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!
I wish everyone good luck and creativity!
Let's make STEEMIT more interesting and varied together!
Sincerely, Terry Craft.