Take The 'Some Blues Of Summer' Poetry Challenge

Create a blues poem based on the picture below and enter the 'Some Blues Of Summer' Poetry Challenge. Below is a couple of stanzas showing how blues is used in poetry.

from The Weary Blues
by Langston Hughes

To the tune o' those Weary Blues.
With his ebony hands on each ivory key
He made that poor piano moan with melody.
O Blues!
Swaying to and fro on his rickety stool
He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool.
Sweet Blues!

from Twenty Notes Gone South
by R.D. Armstrong

remember those beer-stained nights
of rompin', out-of-focus blues
when couples squeezed onto crowded dance
floors
to dance the crazy-legged be-bop & jive, or
jumpin' at the woodside, or
doin' the crosstown, las' chance fo' romance-
closing-time boogie

Blues is said to have come out of Africa and born to the USA with the slave trade. From cotton fields to Blues and Jazz Clubs to Beatniks and Coffeehouses the Blues live on in both music, poetry and art. Think culture, dignity of man, yearning for a missing love. Blues is almost always sad but behind the sadness in blues there is almost always laughter and strength.

Two Ways To Enter And Win

Splashhall Poetry Boards Members Choice Challenge. Top poems are decided by anonymous Splashhall Members Choice open voting poll. Award Banners are given to First Place and Honorable Mention. To enter your blues poem in the SplashHall Poetry Members Choice post your 'Some Blues Of Summer' poem or prose Here at SplashHall Poetry.

Rollin Thunder Poetry Editors Choice Challenge. Top poems are decided by Rollin Thunder Poetry Editors, by a scoring method. Award Banners are given to First Place and Honorable Mention.

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To enter your blues poem in the Rollin Thunder Poetry's Editor's Choice post your 'Some Blues Of Summer' poem or prose Here at Rollin Thunder Poetry.

Top poems are also published on our syndicated blogs including Rollin Thunder Poetry, BlogOsphere ZoO and SplashHall Art & Poetry.

You can enter the same poem or different poems in either challenge or both. There is a limit of 1 poem per person per challenge. Poems that do not have a Blues tone to it will not be included in the voting or scoring.

Submit your Blues poem or prose today ..invite your friends to take the 'Some Blues of Summer' with you !