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For the past two months since I joined Steemit, I've been posting all the poems from my first poetry collection The Competitive Edge, initially published in 2016 on Amazon. I enjoyed adding an extra dimension to each poem by having to complement it with an image. Below I'm putting the links to all the poems in the collection.

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*A collection of urban poems with occasional escapisms, for the corporate culture warriors out there, joyfully imploding day after day. Gets your mind off work and sabotages it simultaneously.*

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<h3><center>[The Competitive Edge](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/the-competitive-edge-1-of-the-competitive-edge-poem-collection)</center></h3>
 
<h3><center>[The Consumer](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/the-consumer)</center></h3>

<h3><center>[The Parsleyness of Being](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/the-parsleyness-of-being)</center></h3>

<h3><center>[To the City of Hopes and Steel](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/to-the-city-of-hopes-and-steel)</center> </h3>

<h3><center>[The Corridor](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/the-corridor)</center></h3>

<h3><center>[The Immigrant](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/the-immigrant)</center> </h3>

<h3><center>[Nine-to-fiving](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/nine-to-fiving)</center></h3> 

<h3><center>[Morning Skies](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/morning-skies)</center> </h3>

<h3><center>[Into the Big Blue-Gray](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/into-the-big-blue-gray)</center> </h3>

<h3><center>[The Bargain](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/the-bargain)</center></h3>

<h3><center>[The Clockpuncher](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/the-clockpuncher)</center></h3>

<h3><center>[New Pines](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/oilfield)</center></h3> 

<h3><center>[Note Left on Ledge of Bank Building](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/note-left-on-ledge-of-bank-building)</center> </h3>

<h3><center>[The Babyguard](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/the-babyguard)</center> </h3>

<h3><center>[Future Recollections](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/future-recollections-a-love-poem)</center> 

<h3><center>[Nature's Keep](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/nature-s-keep)</center> </h3>

<h3><center>[In Between Tomorrows](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/in-between-tomorrows)</center></h3>

<h3><center>[The Wall of Funny](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/the-wall-of-funny)</center> </h3>

<h3><center>[Out of Corporate Experience](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/out-of-corporate-experience)</center> </h3>

<h3><center>[The Trucker](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/the-trucker)</center> </h3>

<h3><center>[Offline](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/offline-or-the-competitive-edge-poetry-collection)</center></h3>

<h3><center>[Mahavishnu](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/mahavishnu-or-the-competitive-edge-poetry-collection)</center></h3>

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*The Competitive Edge – A Collection of Poems, © C.S.Begu, All Rights Reserved*

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If you've enjoyed any of the poems share it with a poetry-loving friends. Do you have strong feelings about them – positive or negative? Please express yourself in the comments.

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I'm  currentlyworking on another collection of poems entitled [Steel Waterfall – 108 Modern Haikus and Tankas](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/beneath-the-spring-or-steel-waterfall-cycle-14). So far I've written 14 of them. 94 to go...

In parallel, I'm going through the Poetic Forms Experiment where I'm writing one original poem for each of the 12 poetic forms explored in the book *The Making of a Poem – A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms*. The first poem in that series is a villanelle called [Letter to Magellan, Explorer](https://steemit.com/poetry/@csbegu/letter-from-magellan-explorer-a-villanelle-or-poetic-form-experiment-1).

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