Dig deep, write from the heart, and win BIG prizes like 150 SBD for 1st place!

Original Photo Processed Via App = Okay!

It's the first Steem Poetry Slam, where authors from every walk of Steemit life have a chance to share their work while gaining exposure, a chance for rewards, and greater interaction with the Steemit community at large.

Rules

• Post your entry on your own blog and tag it #steempoetryslam

• Please title your entry post clearly. For example:

(Steem Poetry Slam Challenge Entry: (Title of your work)

• Please use any form of poetry you like from Haiku to Sonnet, to Sound Poetry (for more about sound poetry check out Hive account@greatdabu).

• Poetry can be free form, but formatting and markdown may play a role in how your entry is judged, so make it count!

• Please feel free to use pictures, drawing, or paintings with your poetry but only if they are your own work or in clear collaboration with another artist! Beware a call to steemitabuse-classic if reverse image search turns up something.

• Collaboration and community is the life blood of Steemit - Go ahead and work together, but make sure it is clear it is a collaboration and only post it on one account.

• You can post up to 3 entries on one post so let your creative juices flow! Just make sure they are clearly separated in the post.

• Different guest judges will be relied upon to decide who will receive 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes, as well as Honorable Mentions.

Deadline: The last day for the challenge is Friday, September 9th Midnight (UTC -4). Please exercise patience while the guest judge/s make their decisions. The results should be released during the weekend, with a fresh challenge to follow!

Rewards

1st Prize: 150 SBD

2nd Prize: 50 SBD

3rd Prize: 25 SBD

Great thanks to Hive account@timsaid, who loves art and has pledged 100 SBD towards the prize pool. SBD rewards from this post will help fund future Slam Poetry Challenge Themes, so your upvote is an upvote for the challenge and community! If you'd like to be a sponsor reach out to me, Hive account@prufarchy, on Steemit.chat!

Honorable Mentions

10 SBD will be awarded to the honorable mentions for this challenge, based on the judges. (Keep an eye out for an update about who will be the guest judge/s and more!)

Here are some examples to inspire you :)

Hive account@jamtaylor was kind enough to give me some advice as well as permission to use some of his work for the below example. I LOVE these latest originals and was instantly inspired to write something. His series was just released TODAY, so go HERE and make sure to upvote this and the rest of the beautiful work he produces, and make sure to keep up with the Steemit Photo Challenge! Thanks for the support Hive account@jamtaylor!

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(JUST AN EXAMPLE) Steem Poetry Slam Challenge #1 Entry: The Walk

Hive account@jamtaylor's "SNAILS!" click here and upvote!

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It's a big rat race

When you're a snail on the ground
Or human, on Earth.

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Here's an example of how to present a collaboration, in this case some Sound Poetry by Hive account@greatdabu of a poem I wrote recently. Shameless plug for him because he's brand new to the platform, I love the work he does and I didn't even know about Sound Poetry.

(EXAMPLE OF COLLABORATION) Steem Poetry Slam Challenge #1 Entry: "Although" a Sound poem by @greatdabu featuring poetry by @prufarchy

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Get Writing!

The above are just two examples of possible entries. It's up to you to decide what style to use, but there isn't a preference for a particular style, so get creative and take a risk.

There's so much talent on Steemit, and every day that talent grows. Let's help bring well-deserved attention to the poets among us. Make sure to follow to keep up to date with this and more!