I am constantly amazed by the talent on steemit. The Minnow Support Project (PAL) on discord gave me the opportunity to curate creative writers, and this week I had so many to chose from that I actually had to make cuts to my original list. Here are my five picks of great writing on steemit:
"Because all fires are meant to go away
but we’re gonna destroy the city
before we fade."
The imagery in this piece of free verse is just spectacular. He addresses passion and romance without resorting to cliche, and I am just so impressed. I really think this is a minnow to keep an eye on if you're into poetry.
It felt righter than the truth. At the time.
We are caught between earth and stars,
Lives shapen by aches and cares
Moving as by wings lifted,
White music in our ears.
She had made it so. Refused to be defeated by the decay around her. Refused to succumb to the absolute dejection on all sides.
This is a three part story, but each part also stands on its own as a beautiful piece of prose-work, with a velvet hammer ending that both destroys and caresses.
Down Hope street I stumble, fumble
a cigarette to my lips and take sips of
carbon monoxide, nicotine and cyanide.
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