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# My Greetings To You!
### I apologize, but I forced to reduce the number of prizes... the circumstances...

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### The theme for Steemit Poetry Contest #15 - Night
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# About Prizes:
#### First Place - 6 SBD #### Second Place - 5 SBD #### Third Place - 4 SBD #### Fourth Place - 3 SBD #### Fifth Place - 2 SBD #### Sixth Place - 1 SBD
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# Entries will be accepted within five days from the date of publication of an announcement! # Deadline - February 16 3:30 PM UTC
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# The winners of the Steemit Poetry Contest #14

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#### 1st Place - "Three to's, three too's, or three two's?" by @Lymmerik

### Our words are conflicting, when spoken or written, ### A study in depth you will find. ### There’s to, and too, and two; this, of course, is your clue, ### So be wise and keep this in mind.

### When speaking this sentence, it just can’t be written, ### So don’t even bother to try. ### And with pencil to paper; you’ll use your eraser, ### This is how words go awry.

### It’s just how they sound, when not written down, ### Which one do you actually use? ### You can’t write this sentence, you’ll find it a menace, ### Three to’s, three too’s, or three two’s?

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#### 2nd Place - "Pirate Words" by @isteemithard

### All hands hoy, heave ho or shark bait for the sea, ### swashbuckling seadogs, blow the man down, an eye for an eye. ### Avast ye now batten down the hatches, there's land we see, ### feed the fish of Davy Jones' locker, walk the plank, aye aye.

### Hornswagglers get a hempen halter ye hear, ### so we pillaged pieces of eight until the conch shell blew. ### Blimey lad, cleave a buccaneer to the brisket with this cutlass here, ### no privateers nor scallywag landlubbers, just old salt sailing the blue.

### Up in the crow's nest, the lookout keeps sight for low tide, ### strung high from the mizzen, a black flag of Jolly Roger held tight by knot. ### Run a rig, run a shot across the bow, keelhaul ropes tied, ### bring a spring upon'er, the shallows we go not.

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#### 3rd Place - "Where Words Go To Die" by @chrisroberts

### Across the sea of doubt, beyond the hills of mystery, ### There is a place where old words go to die. ### "Misconstrued, misunderstood and mystified are we," ### Say words long past, "We cannot tell a lie."

### The time has been when stroke of pen could lift a million souls, ### But so much goes unwritten now by choice, ### Their time is gone, and words move on; the parchments, papers, scrolls ### Have vanished, and now silenced is their voice.

### Longing for a renaissance, renewal of the word; ### The ones who seek the truth will always try ### To stop the censors' silly game, the madness they've inferred. ### Let words live on in peace and never die.

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#### 4th Place - "The Strangest Thing" by @brokemancode

### Words are utterly complicated ### "Dip" and "deep" sounds the same but are not related ### Why does "q" always needs the letter "u"? ### Why "big" and "huge" are similar but different too?

### There are words that are short like "I" or "a" ### Or as long as the word "onomatopoeia" ### Tired of hearing the word "love" being said? ### You can try hundreds of other languages instead.

### Words are such strange things ### But are also powerful just as a supreme being ### For without it there are no songs,story and poetry ### These letters mean nothing and you cannot understand me.

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#### 5th Place - "The Signified and the Signifiers" by @ecoinstant

### They say that pen is mightier than sword, ### when used to resonate with brain wave chords. ### And I hope you'll not think me too unt'ward ### for considering each and every word.

### Using words properly, our mental test, ### Understanding symbols is of int'rest. ### Our words signify reality's depth; ### defining concepts is a mystic quest.

### Light philosophy that floats on the breeze ### or heavy leather tomes filled with treatise, ### since the ancient times of wise Socrates ### words have been used to bring men to their knees.

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#### 6th Place - "Word Cloud" by @danmaruschak

### “How's it going?” you ask in greeting. ### “How are you?” said with a smile. ### You ask these questions without meaning ### To dredge up what is deep inside.

### Fine! Good! Doing great! ### That's what I'm supposed to say. ### You didn't send your words with weight ### Just noises made in cheerful ways.

### But asking questions makes me think ### My real answer: scraping by. ### But I'll suck it up and follow the script ### While wishing you had just said “Hi.”

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#### 7th Place - "Words" by @diebitch

### Lost in thought when I can’t speak ### Strung in lines to make me strong ### They lose their way if I don’t weigh ### and fail me if I am wrong.

### The music, to which my heart beats ### Paints a picturesque swan song ### My love forever, binds on sheets ### Remembering me, when I’m gone

### Lovingly Crafted ### Rhythmically stirred ### What’s the magic? ### Words

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#### 8th Place - "Inaccurate" by @bennettitalia

### Slippery fish in an ocean of sound ### Little ones, big ones, floating around ### Some scream, some whisper, one sings like a lark ### Here's a drab one, a fancy one, a glow-in-the-dark

### Here's one: you have to experience to get it ### Another's ineffable (don't try to eff it) ### One says different things to different people ### Another sounds good but is actually evil...

### I did find the right one, but it slipped away ### Leaving me grasping at straws all day ### So here's a replacement that doesn't quite fit ### The meaning I needed: "inaccurate"

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# Rules of The Contest!
* #### Only one entry is allowed. * #### Your entry-post must be tagged both #poetry and #poetrycontest * #### The Title must be "SteemitPoetryContest #(with the number of the actual episode)" + the name of your poem. * #### You can use any types of rhyme - End rhyme, Cross rhyme, Internal etc. * #### The size of the poem - three quatrains (one quatrain = four lines). * #### Do not steal! The contest is only original works!

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#### I wish everyone good luck and creativity!

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# Let's make STEEMIT more interesting and varied together!

Sincerely, Terry Craft.