15 SBD Total Prizes! Celebrate March With Our Poem Contest! 5 SBD Prize to the top 3 winners!
As we enter March 2018 we are excited to offer our first contest of the month! We will pay out 3 winners each 5 SBD each for a total of 15 SBD in prizes!
How to enter
- Simply find your favorite poem written by you or anyone
- Take up to 5 lines from your favorite poem (a verse) quote it below in your comment
- Include in your reply a description for why you love that poem and the particular verse you enter
Rules
- The winner will be decided on Sunday March 11, 2018 at midnight (12:00 AM) eastern time!
- You may only enter one poem
- Credit MUST be given. If you do not credit the author of the poem you will be disqualified! If you are the author please indicate this
- You must follow ALL 3 steps in How To Enter as well as all the rules!
- You must be a ShadowBot member. New members are welcome to join, but you must become a ShadowBot member before entering this contest!
How to win
We will have 3 winners total decided as follows:
- Most voted entry
- Highest earning entry
- Our favorite decided by the team!
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"Do not go gentle into that good night" - Dylan Thomas
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night
First heard in the movie Interstellar, it's putting a nice explanation for their motivation. (Btw great movie, definitely worth seeing.)
In those words lies the rage against an upcoming death but it's bound to the metrum. It's fighting to break free from it, no matter what.
And that makes it perfect for the film and it shows that you should never give up trying and doing to reach your most wanted desire.
You may write me down in history,
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt,
But still, like dust,
I'll rise.
Tittle- STILL I RISE
Author- Maya Angelou.
The first time i heard this poem was from Serena Williams... she quoted the poem in an acceptance speech for her 21st grandslam award, Eversince it has resonated something in me, No matter how hard i fall on my face, the quotes from this poem reminds me that there's always gonna be a light at the end of the tunnel.
Is the website dead or is it just my internet stubborn to load the cloudflare cache?
"I was kicked pretty low but to the top I’m climbing.
It takes pressure, quite a lot to form some diamonds.
I like to vent about life through art and rhyming.
I didn’t have the greatest past but hey I’m trying.
..I’m trying.."
Author : Me
I enjoy writing because it helps get some stuff off my shoulders.
Shadowbot rocks 😉
@drtarts
How do I un love you?
How can I uninstall this emotion operating like a pro version in my heart?
I can't even lie, even though I know you're curled in the arms of your lover, I still want you...badly!
click here post original link, peom not mine
I like this peom because it talk about love and life. About someone deeply in love but don"t no how to leave or quite
https://steemit.com/fiftywords/@godwine/anopheles-diary-her-last-entry
This poetic story is very short but one of my favourites though. It is inspired by the African experience, especially Nigeria.
Mosquito is one of the most dreaded insects in our part of the world. They contribute to a great percentage of death through malaria.
Well, as the poem went: they pray for a safe night hunt...but little did they know: insecticides awaited them. lol
Using this moment also to give a great shout out to one of the persons who contributed to my steemit success by telling me about shadowbot and giving me a few lines of inspiration many months ago on steemit chat...@jonbit.
I have neither reciprocated this good gesture in anyway nor forgotten it. I still have you at heart and will surely make it up to you. Thanks a lot sir.
long live #shadowbot and the entire development team!
"I never take a day off
Work around the clock, my engineer gettin' paid off
Rock like Aesop, light the weed and take off
So high I cannot see, Adolf
Now I got these rappers all breakin' up a sweat
Cause every time I get up on the mic, it come correct-"
Writer : Mac Miller
One of my favorite musicans and producers.
He mentions Aesop Rock <3 Not sure how much of Aesop's stuff you know but this one is great writing and the art is amaaaazing!
My favorite bit from this :
To my people who keep an impressive wingspan
Even when the cubicle shrink
You got to pull up the intruder by the root of the weed
N.Y. Chew through the machine
Oh yeah. Im from MN so rhymesayers is pretty big for most of us here. Eyedea is one of my fiances favorites
Crazy... I thought you were mixing him up with Atmosphere because Aesop is from NY (I'm from back east) but I googled it and lo and behold I never knew he was on that label. I don't keep up as much with it, but that's dope, and now I am also looking through all the other projects they have that I missed.
I really love this poem even though it is so short because it is how we all feel sometimes. It reminds me that when you feel insecure or afraid others do to. It to me is reminding of talking to yourself and believing it is another person. Most of us talk to ourselves but we mostly know it is ourselves. There are times though that we all can admit that the feeling of questioning oneself exists and this poem is a reminder of that for me. He knows this voice is not real, which means he is sane. But he also is afraid of this voice since it is inside his mind. To me it reflects the battles we all face with what is and is not real!
hello guys i want to introduce you very beautiful poem it was written in 1893 by Georgian poet Vazha-Pshavela. i decided to choose this poem because country itself isn't very famous and maybe many of the people haven't heard about it...
Host and Guest
Veiled in the gloom of night
The sweet face of Kisteti
Appears, among hills around,
A rocky throne among cliffs.
The river moans in its dark ravine
Turbid, with grief at its heart.
The mountains too are bowed down,
Laving face and hands in the water;
I chose this poem because as you see poet has his own unfamiliar and wonderful way to describe landscape. also United nations created a peace day with the name of Vazha-pshavela, because he was talking about peace and humanity in his poems in XIX century. i don't know if the poem is translated correctly, i read it on : https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Georgian/HostandGuest.php
Vazha Pshavela (real name - Luka Razikashvili) was a Georgian Poet and Novelist who is considered as one of the greatest of Georgian writers and his works are included in the school educational programs one of which is the Guest and the Host.
The Story of the Roebuck was written by Vazha Pshavela in 1883. The plot of the novel is same as plot of the Disney Cartoon "Bambi" which was released 59 years later. Wikipedia says, that Bambi is based on the Bambi, a Life in the Woods by Felix Salten. The latter was published in 1923.
Judge by yourself
I have only heard of it because of news about war and invasions :( thank you for sharing something to show it is filled, just like everywhere, with real humans that are just like everyone all over the world. Not just numbers on Tv :/
"From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Really loving this as it sends a lot of optimistic vibes on my way. I am not the happiest person alive but I do believe that everything happens for a reason in life and everytime a light will come out no matter what :)