I work in partnership with the MSP curation team to find and reward great quality poetry on Steemit. I manually curate 5 pieces of poetry and upvote them through @msp-curation. My top choice for the week also gets resteemed on that account. My ultimate goal is that poetry grows as a niche on steemit, and that poets have a place where their efforts can be rewarded as much as art or fiction. 

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>My words are beyond flat.
Paper thin.
Counterfeit copies of counterfeit copies
There is a pill for that.
If you call them by Monday the side effects come free of charge.

<a href="https://steemit.com/steemitschoolpoetry/@tygertyger/you-can-t-bend-what-s-broken-day-65-of-the-steemitschool-100-day-writing-challenge-by-d-pend">You Can't Bend What's Broken</a> by @tygertyger is full of sharp wit and irony that brings a smile to my face while it punches me in the gut with feels. I'm sure every poet, hell every artist, feels this at one point or another. 

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>An ancient energy -
Spawned at the dawn of history...
Forging Universes.
Mutating Matter
Warming
Heating
Burning
Destroying
Life-Giving.

<a href="https://steemit.com/steemitschoolpoetry/@hartfloe/fuego-100-day-poetry-contest-day-61">Fuego</a> by @hartfloe explores the nature of creation and destruction through the extended metaphor of fire. The staccato beat reminds me of popping embers, and it ends with a slow burn. 

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>Now that costume, the stranger, the figure. Gaunt, shrouded in costumes grave. Mask concealed corpse.

<a href="https://steemit.com/poetry/@girlbeforemirror/black-out-poetry-japhofin8or-inspired">Blackout Poetry</a> by @girlbeforemirror is crackling with darkness. I especially love the juxtaposition and interplay of appearance and reality. 

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>A day be rare, crisp and clear
and only three in the fog.
So often dawn was sharp and salty
those days they reached the water.

<a href="https://steemit.com/poetry/@japhofin8or/three-dream-for-the-sea">Three Dream for the Sea</a> by @japhofin8or inspired @girlbeforemirror above, so of course I had to check it out- and I'm glad I did! Blackout poetry is some of my favorite, mostly because I love the act of transformation. How cool is it to take something that someone else created and make it your own? 

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>Remember this day
like a rose stored
in between pages
of worn-out books
its beauty kept
until the last petal withers

<a href="https://steemit.com/poetry/@reewritesthings/lovely-poetry-29-nostalgic-an-original-poem">Nostalgic</a> by @reewritesthings uses simile in a masterful way- I love how the comparisons match the theme. There's a magic and a familiarity there. 
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