Poetry Digest - Seventeenth Edition

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Poetry Digest - Seventeenth Edition

Today's edition brought to you by @wandrnrose7.

We are back to showcase our marvelous freewrite poets! What an amazing collection that is being shared on @freewritehouse through the daily prompts @mariannewest! I'm so excited about all the recommendations received on the Friday weekly contest Recommend a Favorite Poem. These made for such enjoyable reading!

We thank @freewritehouse and @curie for the Steem Basic Income share incentives for the contest! If you haven't won yet, try again next Friday only at @freewritehouse!

Update Bulletin

In the effort to streamline the Poetry Digest we are requesting that any poem you want to be considered for this exclusive Freewrite Digest weekly has somewhere in your post which prompt(s) from @mariannewest freewrite posts were used in your poem. Many writers are now utilizing the #freewritepoetrydigest and #freewritepoetry tags with no ties to the daily prompt. We love to showcase your poetry in the digest as long as your work is inspired by a Freewrite Prompt!

Without further ado, on to our weekly selections!

@jk6276 shares with us his favorite poem this week

I would like to nominate @michellpiala this week for this poem:

It is thoughtful and creates an emotional response, and while it comes across as very personal, the message is one that I can certainly relate to. My message to the author is to keep being different, embrace it and someone one day will come along to add the colour. In the meantime, don't worry about what anyone thinks of you, they are probably just as worried about what people think of them.

This poem was also recommended by @whatisnew.
Here are her thoughts:

@michellpiala tugged my heartstrings. She wrote what it feels like to be taunted with stares. All she wants is for someone to actually see the beauty from inside and out, and to be loved unconditionally for all that she is. Everyone needs to look inside each person if they ever want to find their true beauty.

https://steemit.com/freewritepoetrydigest/@michellpiala/stares-that-burns-glares-turned-into-voices

@whatisnew also nominated a very a first poem by:

@jk6276 wrote his first poem and you would never know it unless he told you, like he did at the end. If you want to know how John and his wife met, you can read all about it in poetic form. "An Ode to Coffee" will hopefully lead to more poems.

@michellpiala shares her thoughts on this poem on coffee, too.

I've been reading a lot of free write poems lately and all are beautiful in its own way. But of all my heart was disarmed by the poem of @jk6276,

—itshard for me to believe that it was his first time, but come to think of it, if you're writing about someone you love it will definitely work wonders. Not a fan of romance but this made my heart melt. Makes me believe and Gives me hope of finding love.

@wonderwop brings us a poem by @starzy using the *coffee prompt.

Today I would like to feature @starzy's little poem on the prompt coffee. Sounded like @starzy may have been addicted to coffee once she tried it, then realized she needed to slowly cut back her consumption. That's what I need to do about my food consumption, cut back. 🍔 Great job @starzy

The following poems were chosen by @wandrnrose7:

A freewrite poem prompted by @cryptocopy.

I was sucked into the delicious description of the poet's sensory descriptions of mangoes and even though I haven't had many, her words are sufficient to send me shopping to eat some sweet and juicy mangoes!

@whatisnew writes:

This is a combination of "Have You Smiled Today? #38" and a Freewrite Poem using the prompt: coffee.

Not only do we get a beautifully crafted poem, we are educated on the metamorphosis of the cicada. They frightened me as a child (I found one on my bed once making their loud sound when I spent the night at a cousin's in Ohio State as a young child) but the writing is amazing and photos on the cicada's progress are so fascinating!

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This poem prompted by coffee by @improv.

This poem was such a real life glimpse into the busy life a family with little ones. I love the urgency of the lines and light mood created by the compounded circumstances of a busy morning!

I hope you enjoyed these poems. If the poem is past payout, please find a recent post to share a vote and comment to support these lovely poets!

A vote on an expired post does go back to the reward pool and has no benefit to you or the author.

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Please tag us with #freewritepoetrydigest or #freewritepoetry so that we can find your work!! And if you see a piece of freewrite poetry of a fellow freewriter which really speaks to you, leave us a link in the comments - or better yet, save the link and enter it in the Friday Recommend a Freewrite Poem contest.

Happy poetic writing!

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