100 Days of Poetry Challenge
-----Update [Day 22]-----
Winners of Days 13–16 announced!(Week 2 winners as well)
Introduction
Hi! Happy Wednesday! Welcome to the update of our challenge of 100 days for Day 22. Day 22 will officially start at 6 PM GMT on March 28. Remember to stay within a few hours of this deadline when posting, if you can. (For example, you have a few more hours to keep posting for Day 21.)
If you are on a different day, then you must have taken some skip days at some point. ALWAYS title your posts the day of the contest, not the number of your entry. So if it's your 19th poem but it's day 22, title your post for day 22.
Changes to challenge operation & reminders
The biggest change to the challenge is the shifting of the poetry class to 1 hour earlier. Now it will run from 5–7 PM GMT. The main reason is to accommodate people who recently shifted times for daylight savings time. Also, there is a major update coming soon about how people that want to join the challenge late can participate. Look out for that information either late today or tomorrow. I also plan on shifting some people up in category and some down in category after Day 25, because we will be ¼ of the way through!
Daily & Weekly Winners
Day 13–16 winners are announced! To make it cleaner with several days, here are the winners arranged in a table. Below I'll list the weekly winners for Week 2 (8-14.)
Week 2
Days (8-14)Beginner — @whack.science
"Invisible breath"Intermediate — @josediccus
"Ugonma"Advanced — @mamadini
"Blood beads"
Class
Today's class will be on the topic of "reaching a little further" in our poetry. Shout out to @yahialababidi for mentioning this concept several classes ago. It has to do with sitting with the feelings & concepts of a piece before immediately writing them down in the most obvious way. It helps us maneuver around clichés and find unique avenues of expression. Please come take part during 5–7 PM GMT in our Steem schools live class: https://discord.gg/yZvYjfM. We hear new people introduce themselves in the first 20 minutes, then the lecture period of class begins. At the end for 30-45 minutes we share each other's poetry. Hope to see you there!
Workshops / Special Events
No workshops or events are currently announced. If you are interested in holding one in the future, please let me know! We are interested in organizing an international poetry reading event where we can hear people recite poetry in their mother tongues. It is fascinating for us even when we can't speak the languages! The tones, rhythms, and cadences do much to inform us of the meaning on an intuitive level. Let me know if you are interested in reading your non-English poetry at an event like this or know someone who might be!
Gratitude
Thank you so much to everyone involved in this challenge, including all the moderators of the Steem schools forum. You all do much work to ensure the smooth operation of our group. Special thanks to @flysky, @nikolina, @d4rkflow, @dobartim, @whack.science, @ajremy, @carmalain7, @acousticsteveo, @hopehuggs, & @himswheta for helping out in various manners on this project. Also a huge thank you to everyone who regularly attends class and helps build our community from a grassroots level. Much love!
Thank you for your donations!
1.@hopehuggs (50 SBD)
2.@girlbeforemirror (20 SBD)
3.@yahialababidi (15.017 STEEM)
4.@violetmed (15 SBD)
5.@carmalain7 (11.11 SBD)
6.@madushanka (10 SBD)
7.@moeknows (5.44 SBD)
8.@taliakerch (5 SBD)
9.@josediccus (5 STEEM)
10.@whack.science (3.14 SBD)
11.@corderosiete (2 SBD)
12.@johnrenald (1 SBD)
13.@nicholas83 (1 SBD)
14.@flysky (1 SBD)
15.@naquoya (1 SBD)
16.@zeleiracordero (1 SBD)
17.@mineopoly (1 STEEM)
18.@realnairda (0.5 SBD)
19.@emekasegun (0.2 SBD)
20.@setiagunawan (0.1 SBD)
21.@nasrol (0.1 SBD)
22.@rexdickson (0.1 SBD)
23.@zulacut (0.1 SBD)
Sum of all donations
.
127.79 SBD
&
21.017 STEEM
out of
1500 SBD total prizes
Donations go towards the daily (9 SBD), weekly (15 SBD) & overall (TBD) prizes for this challenge. They are highly appreciated because otherwise, the rewards are coming directly from my own earnings/savings. To donate, you can send to our dedicated account @steemitpoetry, or directly to me, @d-pend. I am keeping track of them all in a spreadsheet. Please let me know if you feel your donation was somehow missed. Thanks again!!
Writing & images
By @d-pend
3/28/18
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I heard you are teaching poetry from the steemit school discord and now I see you mention it, im hoping to join in soon, unfortunately, I'm a bit busy at the moment I am taking some wood restoration classes for work wish I could be in your class instead lol, anyway hopefully I can join soon. Keep up the good work you are truly an inspiration
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I have so much love for this challenge! Thank you for the recognition as there are so many goodies each day.
In gratitude.
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The best feeling I get these days is to wake up and realise I've got a poem to write... Am really developing my prowess as a poet.
Thank you @d-pend for this contest and to all the donors and contributors, I'm personally grateful for your efforts.
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What a cool idea!!! Oh man I wish I would be an english native speaker :-/
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It's good to know that my little remark will be developed further :) Thanks, Daniel, for your attention and best of luck with today's class.
Congratulations, too, to all the winners, above--I'm watching these announcements with interest, especially repeat winners, to better understand the taste of judges, and discover new voices on this platform.
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I'm totally convinced this is the best thing happening on the internet right now..
Thank you all so much for making this our reality right now :)
Love you all!!
With Love
Hart Floe Poet
♥
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Excellent contest going so far thanks for sharing and congrats to everyone
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Amazing to be the week 2 winner it's a really fantastic feeling,
It's been a really amazing journey, the poetic journey hasn't been really easy and it has certainly been far from perfect.
@d-pend I didn't envisage this project poetry would really be an amazing journey,
I'm glad and happy for all The guys who come over to my blog to critic and analyse my poem I'm really grateful.
I'm speechless, and thank you for the week winner award, I'm so proud.
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First of all congratulations to all the winners who are contributed alot to this contest through their wonderful poetry, Great job done guys :)
A big shout out to all these wonderful souls who are always at the supportive end to make this contest even more simple for the folks.
@flysky, @nikolina, @d4rkflow, @dobartim, @whack.science, @ajremy, @carmalain7, @acousticsteveo, @hopehuggs, & @himswheta
Massive respect for you two Greats @d-pend & @yahialababidi who inspired me write poetry in a language other than my native language.
Stay Blessed Guys :)
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It feels so good finally getting to be a winner in this awesome contest. It has been very intense soo far. I never thought I was gonna be a winner. I joined for the sole aim of improving my poetry skills and consistency.
Thank you @d-pend for organising such great contest. And thanks for the reward. Congratulations to every other winner.
Steemit school is all about winning. We win together!!
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Excellent work
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Please record today's class I wont be able to attend.
But starting frim tomorrow I'll be regualrly attending again ;)
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#steemitschoolpoetry found more poets in steem blockchain. Best skill improving work you doing @d-pend. Totally giving big salute you.
CONGRATULATIONS to all winners.
I wish you the best for more contribution and more powerful poetry.
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Congratulations to all winners and profound thanks to @d-pend for being both organizer of this contest and curator. Thanks to all curators, like @steemitpoetry and to all donors and voluntary reviewers like @acousticsteveo for making this enriching challenge/contest possible.
I'm honored you considered my poem as winner of day 15 intermediate level.
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I have started writing my poetry but i don't know if i am allowed into this competition since i didn't start early. @d-pend am i allowed or i should wait for the next?
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It I always nice to be on the poetry class. We missed you yesterday. But still we heard some poems from Hazem and others and I loved it.
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So, we listen in to the class and do a writing exercise during it and then submit? I am on a weird free-for-all sleep/wake schedule and since my circadian rhythm seems to be about 28 hours I sort of move forward through days and end up back around haha. I probably won't be awake for tonight's class but if I am I will pop in. Not sure how I missed all of the others days, I haven't been online much the last week or so but 22 days seems weird. I'm still figuring out how to best see the content I really like here on Steemit...
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The topic @yahialababidi suggested also reminds me of my requirement/suggestion for critique - to not answer it immediately. There is value to thinking things through, to not knee-jerking.
The workshop section is sadly and sorely lacking! :P For those who don't know, Thursdays have a critique focus. Tomorrow is Thursday. Feel free to bring poems (up to 150 words ideal, not over 250 words), to get them critiqued. And maybe critique some others' poems, which can only help you get better at writing yourselves!
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I'm speechless! :D :D :D
Big shout out to all my poetry class compadres :D It's really fun to attend poetry class and I encourage anyone to come and join us.
Set free your creativity, speak from the heart, expand your mind! Be Forever!
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This 100 day poetry contest is changing Steemit in a good way. I read through the intermediate poems and found a variety of themes and structures. Personally I liked the S poem and thought it was creative "Shapes of Stillness." I would just add one more S word of course... "Shapes of Stillness in Steemit." Is there a way I can catch a recording of the discord discussions? The live broadcast is like 4 or 5 am in Korea and I'm totally not with it at that time in the morning. If you provide a link to a recording I will check it out. I know you are swamped but consider it.
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Nice effort. I really like your poetry and when i am there i listen to the poetry class. You, hazem, whack.science and dobartim i love your poetry.
Really nice work.
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