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<p dir="auto"><center><em>As a growing minnow myself whom recently won the 2nd place in the <a href="https://steemit.com/poetry/@marialin/bounty4love-poetry-contest-results-and-announcement-of-new-project" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">Bounty4Love contest, I decided this was a good opportunity to use that reward and create my own contest. <hr /> <h2><center>Introducing <h2><center><span><a href="/trending/poetwisdom">#poetwisdom <p dir="auto"><h2> <hr /> <p dir="auto"><img src="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmUa39GjPsTuKadtF5amotwWQkD9K9rCYVzhcqZV33nqVX/%23Poetwisdom.png" alt="#Poetwisdom.png" srcset="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmUa39GjPsTuKadtF5amotwWQkD9K9rCYVzhcqZV33nqVX/%23Poetwisdom.png 1x, https://images.hive.blog/1536x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmUa39GjPsTuKadtF5amotwWQkD9K9rCYVzhcqZV33nqVX/%23Poetwisdom.png 2x" /> <hr /> <p dir="auto"><center><strong>"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers"<br /> ~Alfred Tennyson <hr /> <p dir="auto"><center><h1> Theme : Mysteries of The Universe<br /> <center>An example (one of my recent poems) can be found <a href="https://steemit.com/poetry/@droucil/thoughts-of-a-stoner-spacing-out" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">HERE <p dir="auto">*<em>please note that the title of this poem wouldn't be valid for entry <hr /> <p dir="auto"><center> The aim of this contest is to bring forth the philosophical and poetic minds out there. Depending on how well-received this post is, future poetry contests will be held containing various topics relating to philosophy. <hr /> <p dir="auto"><center><h1>💰Prize Pool <hr /> <p dir="auto"><center><h3>First Prize: 10 SBD <p dir="auto"><center>Second Prize: 6 SBD <p dir="auto"><center>Third Prize: 4 SBD <p dir="auto"><h2> <p dir="auto"><center><strong>If the author payouts of this post were to exceed the initial reward money<br /> (minus the promotion costs) ALL additional makings will go to the prize pool! <hr /> <p dir="auto"><center><h1>Deadline : Sunday 9th of July 12:00 PM CEST<br /> <center><strong>Contest will be judgded by me and winners will be announced<br /> shortly after the deadline has been made. <hr /> <p dir="auto"><center><h1>📛 Rules to be Followed <hr /> <p dir="auto"><h3> <ul> <li><p dir="auto">Avoid Profanity in your poems <li><p dir="auto">Your entry should be titled:<br /> Poetwisdom #1 : (name of your entry) <li><p dir="auto">Poems should be above 8 lines and below 25 lines <li><p dir="auto">ORIGINAL CONTENT : No Plagiarism & pre-writes! <li><p dir="auto">One entry per person <li><p dir="auto"><br /> <span>Use <a href="/trending/poetwisdom"> #poetwisdom as your primary tag <hr /> <pre><code> Please consider supporting this project by <p dir="auto"><h3> <ul> <li><p dir="auto">Upvoting this post <li><p dir="auto">Resteeming this post <li><p dir="auto">Leaving a link to this post in your poem <p dir="auto"><h2><p> <hr /> <p dir="auto"><em>Looking forward seeing all the creative minds out there and the different approaches used towards this subject, Good Luck! <hr /> <p><p><p><p><p>