Rules for qualification to be selected:

Accepted Language: English

1. You can write a poem on anything.
2. Preferable not more than 200 words and not less than 30 words.
3. Steemits accounts of 25% or above account reputation are the only ones qualified to submit an entry.
4. Entries submitted starts Every Mondays 6:00am (UTC+01:00 West Africa Time/Central European Time) and entries are close every Thursdays 6:00am (UTC+01:00 West Africa Time/Central European Time) (which is a period of 72 hours).
5. The contest is opened in 72 hours from Mondays 6:00am (UTC+01:00 West Africa Time/Central European Time)
6. Uses of figures of speeches are allowed; that is the beauty of it all.
7. Your poem must not be copied or a previous entry. Each week entry must be a different poem from the previous ones.
8. Submit your entry as a comment on each of the contest post every week.
9. At the end of your poem, include the tag "poem2018" without the quote. I will comment on entries submitted ASAP.
10. To be selected resteeming and upvoting of contest post will be an edge for selection.
11. Be creative. Include pictures if it will help express your poem. Do not copy others poems on the Internet. I will always find out.

Method of announcing the winners

• There shall be two winners every week. The winner with the best entry wins 45 percent of the total authors reward on the post for the contest and the first runner up takes 25 percent of the total of the authors reward on the post (The prices might be change to steem or steem dolars and number of winners will be increase with time).
• Winners will be announced every Saturday 4:00pm (UTC+01:00 West Africa Time/Central European Time).
• New contest post will be published by @focygray by Monday 6:00am. It is a weekly competition.
• At the end of each month, all winning poems will be review on the last Wednesday 4:00pm (UTC+01:00 West Africa Time/Central European Time) of each month. The method of selecting the monthly winner will be left for all contestants to vote for the poem of the month from the list of the reviewed poems.
• The winner goes home with 50 percent of the total authors rewards +3 SBD (The price will be increase with time and numbers of winners will also be increased)

Please help resteem this for more people to participate.

Thank you.