A Dead Poem Society Production

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After a week a steemit post is a dead man bobbing in the blockchain. Could be the finest blog ever written but there is no rewarding it. And it is not even a week; it is six and half days. I learnt recently that in the last 12 hours before pay out, a post cannot receive a monetary upvote. Another bloggers here has come up with a bit of a remedy to this situation. Hive account@whatamidoing hosts the the deadposts initiative. He invites steemians to enter posts from the past and maybe receive some rewards. Here is his latest deadpost contest. There is still time for you to enter.

Along this vein, I would like to host a more specific contest. I am inviting all steemian poets to drop the link to an old poem below and the . I could never choose a winner and so I won't; you will, but I will read them and upvote as many comments as I can.

Here are the rules.

Upvote and re-esteem this post. The higher the turnout, the bigger the payout for the winners and the more people who will see and maybe upvote your comment.

The post must be at least a week old, but the older the better.

Depending on turnout, vote for 1-3 other entries in the comment section. Do NOT upvote the original post. That is a wasted vote. Upvote the comment here.

I will choose from among the poems that received the most votes and best quality comments and gave the best comments and did their diligent best to upvote 1-3 other entries.

Poems only, all forms of poetry welcomed.

Don't vote for yourself

The number of winners will be linked to the size of the payout. The bigger the payout, the more poems I can and will reward. This initiative is about strengthening the poetry community on steemit. But there will be at least a first place poem that receives the largest share of the payout, and then perhaps a second place, the second biggest payout and a so on.

Winner/winners and maybe participants, depending on the size of the payout, will receive the SBD from this post.

Last week the first prize of 1.1 SBD went to Hive account@xplore and a second prize of 0.5 SBD went to Hive account@dabeckster. I was really pleased with the amount of interaction on last weeks contest and the remainder of ~ 2.6 SBD went out to the other participants that posted a deadpost and did their diligent best to comment and vote on other people. Hopefully you all have also received or will receive some author rewards on your comments.