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Welcome to The Ink Well Summer Poetry Showcase
A selection of original poems from Week 1 of the Summer Poetry Challenge. Enjoy them with a coffee or on the bus - or sit down with a long cool drink and read them all.
Please re-blog if your followers would enjoy these poems too.
You'll find our Comment Challenge at the end of the post.
Five Star Poetry
The Last Time I Saw You by @owasco
The Ink Well Review: 💋💋💋💋💋
Five tiny perfect poems.
To You That Is Mine by @jaybabs
The Ink Well Review: 💋💋💋💋💋
A tender love poem with beautiful imagery.
Dead Dreams by @hillarypowers
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Touching poem with epic last verses.
Runners Up
The Ink Well had fifteen entries in this week's challenge. There were so many good and promising poems it was difficult to choose who to include in the Showcase. Here we present some of the other great entries.
Ancient Soul, Mortal Scars
The Ink Well Review: 💋💋💋💋
Survival and redemption through the battle of living.
The Last Time I Saw You by @silviu93
The Ink Well Review: 💋💋💋💋
Longing in the pandemic.
Remembering You by @jemzem
The Ink Well Review: 💋💋💋💋
Exquisite lyrical poem.
Special Mention
Kite by @mokong1883
The Ink Well Review:
Tender poem with powerful imagery.
One of the most creative and original entries.
"Do you know that time I felt so happy because i [thought] you come back because of me. "But i finally realized that all of my hope and expectations is just an imagination." to the place where I fell I saw you again with the smile on your face but not because of me but because of your new kite"
Other Entries to the Challenge
We also received the following entries:
Come Back Home
My Fairy Star
Night Beauty
Our Playful Star
Stars
The Last Time I Saw You
The Last Time I Saw You
The Last Time I Saw You in Neon Light by @seesladen by @jeaniepearl by @humor0404 by @iamraincrystal by @chireerocks by @adeyemidrey by @dirge by @dante31
Thank you to everyone who took part.
The Ink Well Summer Poetry Challenge Programme and Curation Policies. A new Poetry Challenge is posted each Monday in The Ink Well.
Comment Challenge - Hive Give Away!
Did you enjoy our selection? Which one did you enjoy most?
Write a 50 word review of your favourite poem and add it with the title and a link to the post you are reviewing in the comments below.
The best reviews will each receive a hive tip.
Deadline for reviews is Monday 6th June 2020.
Remember to tip the writers when you visit their stories!
Please drop a vote on this post if you like The Ink Well and what it is doing.
Winner of 500HP Delegation for Seven Days
Congratulations @silviu93 - you won the draw!
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As anger grows in brambles of fear,
lines become blurred and which side is unclear.
Such a fine line between what is right -
what is wrong what is good what is evil, the fight.
Resonation and complication - whatever shall we do?
Ancient Soul, Mortal Scars, this is more than a review.
As she herself is a warrior, and so she understands. For @katrina-ariel portrays, what many never can -
#posh tweeted
Thank you for creating this challenge and giving as the inspiration needed to create something beautiful! Also thank you for the delegation :).
Congratulations. @silviu93 :)
Thank you for featuring my little poems!
Greetings, friends of @TheInkWell. Let me tell you that I don't understand how you follow your healing path through @Hivevote on Discord, as they say. If you could explain to me, I'd appreciate it.
Hello @josemalavem,
HiveVote.If you want to follow the curation trail for @theinkwell, you can sign up for it at
From the Dashboard, choose curation trail.
Then search for @theinkwell to follow, and choose your settings.
When @theinkwell votes on a post, your account will as well.
Discord is a separate thing. At the moment, there is no discord channel for The Ink Well community.