Isle of Write Poetry Publication Week 2 Roundup

Message in a Bottle #13
Origin: The Isle of Write
Sender: @geke
Recipients: Steemit Creatives

Each week for eight weeks we're choosing six poems across Steemit that we hope to publish in April in our poetry anthology. Our curation missive went out about two weeks ago, and we are pleased to announce that we have picked six more wonderfully written poems deserving curation!

These posts may be more than seven days old, so upvotes won't benefit the authors, but feel free to check out their latest work and offer them a congratulations for being chosen!

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Our first find this week was from Daniel Pendergraft (@d-pend), a graphic artist, poet, and experimental musician who believes in the ability of cryptocurrency to restore personal sovereignty. We've curated and hope to feature his poem, I Smile in the Mourning:

Lighthearted lurker
In the midnight moon,
Smirking through the quiet
Of morning that blazes through;
Blink, and gone I'll be: too soon.

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Vitaly Kolesnik (@vitkolesnik) is a poet who heads up a program here at the Isle of Write using teacherless feedback to critique writing in a workshop setting. You can learn more about this program here: Impact Feedback. We'll be featuring Vit's prose poem, Time for Peace:

forests glow in a milky sunshine,
treetops finely silvered with frost.
The faraway mountains float, groundless,
on a white, bulky pillow of fog

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Here are a few more Steemians we curated this week in hopes of including them in the anthology!

• @mamadini for ers:

There are hours when the light shows the thread,
nights when I feel connected by things dark and floating outward,
memories of scars and love that
with a tug do come back,
still.

• @uniwhisp for ”Clouds of September”

The contrast forms lines so clear,
Drawn by the hands of god-children
As they practice their stokes of creation.

• @dbooster for Does haiku have to be 17 syllables?:

evening
snow beating down
my son is snoring

• @luthvarian for Confessions:

she told her story in poems
and bullet journal pages
in baked goods and yarn

Every one of these poets is worth reading, upvoting, following, publishing. Thank you to all of our readers: without your upvotes, resteems, and follows, none of this would have been possible! If you want to support our efforts to bring the best of Steemit writing to a broader audience, you can help by upvoting the Isle of Write posts and spreading the word. And of course if you're feeling especially generous, we'll never say no to a donation of some SBD or a delegation of SP. Thank you for reading!

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