Shitty Rhymes editionPost your poems; critique all the others.the Thread challenge this time:Haikus about MOTHERS!FAQ:>How do I get started?All you need is a creative mood and the willingness to do it better next time, dude.>Recommended reading:Poetic Meter and Poetic Form, by Paul FussellTradition and the Individual Talent, by T. S. Eliot (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69400/tradition-and-the-individual-talent)
I posted this as an individual thread before here, but this was meant to be a story/letter to my mother. pic rel has the first, here are the first 35 entries:jerdarious.org/ahalfbreed
initial draft of a poem i wrote yesterday morning while walking:Today I'd like to test my mind with someMinor meditation. One importantThing required: A gentle flowing stream whoseWater patters 'gainst the rocks which lay thePath ahead. The ideas that compose myThoughts at first appear as obstacles, butWhen I let gravity's pull continueGuiding me, I find they keep my flowingDepths within the reach of men and womenOn my banks in search of something else.Who's purpose does muting these thoughts, this mindServe? When the chance of someone taking anInterest, and collecting what they will; aSouvenir composed of thought; a wet stone:Dampened finite, made of certain matterYet remains. Who will knowingly grasp it?
I made this thread because I had a poem I wanted to share. I haven't actually contributed to these threads in months. I'm not sure if I should expand on it or not.The Sylph of Northwesterly winds did once sing to memusings and murmurs of meddlesome mischiefShe danced with a leaf that had grown old and restlessand yearned to be free of the bark and the branchesfor some time he twirled in the grasp of this Maidenuntil he was sinking lower and lowerand lower than he'd ever been."I take you no further," the Sylph said above him"you mustn't wait for me, I am not the branchesI do not, you do not owe me such fealtyyou are like Me now, untethered, ephemeralAnd us and our Kin say goodbye without sorrow.Do say hello to my sisters and cousinsone day we may meet again."The Sylph left a quiet, so cold and confrontingthe leaf, a child of sun and the canopynow lay abandoned to roots and the shadows.The leaf did not stay long, as the sylph had promisedbut he held on to sorrow, for however couldn't he?sharing the joy of soaring up above the treesand bearing shadows in still solitude
>>23608987its wonderful youve put together a cohesive project like this. i enjoy the dedication to your mother.
https://open.substack.com/pub/egreteditorial/p/writing-poetry-in-a-burning-world?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2yprl0i found the bits about irish poets interesting. the rest was a bit cliche though.
>>23608959This is the earthCome back from the sea Endless rebirths It is a thing like what breathes
>>23608959Thanks, OP. I was actually going to ask about a good book for learning about poetry writing.Are these actually good?
>>23608959Add to OP:>Why write poetry in a restrictive form?If you want to write or appreciate poetry at a decent level, you need to be aware of how sounds interact to produce pleasing effects. Studying and writing in well-established forms will help you do this.For this reason, many find it easier to write a decent person in an established form than in free verse.>>23609490Yes.
>>23608987I love the manic panygeric quality of this. the way it loops and writhes and iterates over images. very touching
>>23608959Falling throughNeverendingThe money in my bankends as spendingA few on the stockanother in these thingsclothes, furniture and foodthats what money bringsA spending spree herea spending spree thereYou´ve never known a spenderas the one that you see here.What to do with money?Please do tell!Comes around every monthbut spend it well!
>>23608959>>23608987the new generation cant just read bare text anymore. you need a gimmick to get them to appease their fried dopamine receptors. flashy gaudy pictures like in a fucking childrens book or braindead pauses,Linebreaks. S /tup ID FORM // Attingandunnecessarydoublespacingfordramatic effect
>>23608959I snuffed out that spider's life.She was probably some spider's wife.When she landed she rolled the dice.To live and walk,Or come under my foot and die.
>>23608959my pain is her painthe touch of bare skin, now coldliving makes us fools
>>23608959>haiku about mothers In basho’s haibun, he comes across the killing stone which is said to have a horrible demon bound to it, which has a noxious fume which comes from it, it is covered by dead insects. Usually basho writes a haiku whenever he sees something of note, but he refused to make one here, (I assume due to inauspiciousness of the object) therefore, I wrote this tanka for him.Miasma incense,Lingers before the image,A black killing-stone,The five poisons lay prostrate,Offered to the dark-mother.
As the words come into focusAnxiety takes holdEmotions in controlA fear of losing holdAll the connections loosely heldA mind suffering through hellA heavy heart that can’t holdNo, I know I’m not wellThe temptations still linger in the etherIs my will the last thing to wither?Adulthood has it’s odd pleasuresBut inconsistency is a constant pressureWho am I?A liar?A cheat?A mask trying to wave goodbye?Do I cave?Do I brave?Though I crave…Though I stray…Doubt is a bud that bloomsIn the doomIn the clouds of the loomDespite the media consumedHow many syllables does it take?For the truth to spill out?Was I just a fake?Waiting at the boiling lake?I see the age on my faceDoubting to look in the mirrorIs this my true pace?My truest fear?Nostalgia is a slur I love to wear so wellForget the wasted years grown to swellMy heartbeat reminds me that this is hell
>>23608990I really enjoyed the motif you committed to with the idea of flowing water. I was actually surprised with how well it read aloud compared to how it read in my mind. I also think the way the poem attaches itself to the idea of meditations is also really clever. Good work, Anon.
>>23611184thanks. i found writing it to come very naturally. it feels good how it turned out despite me going line by line on pen and paper. i've been editing it this morning and i'm very happy with the results so far.
>>23608959>How many shells we listened to before they spoke to us,>to write the first I love you in the sand. >Not out of eros, just sheer stubbornness >that we managed to interpret>some waves.>Sometimes, you say, better for the blow of wind.>Steady and beautiful,>at least steady.>It doesn't bargain for prints, >it's title.>It doesn't handout substance.>It only takes what we didn't merit to build
where tf the poetry enjoyers at
Thing what breathes like downgoing buffalo The slouching ancestor’s acorns and creeksFor watching the blabberers fall out of balance Alone on mount SumeruStarvation
Oof! How I feared youwhile I still liked sugar, andtime with you moved slow.
>>23613930Forgot the title. This is to mom.As per the thread challenge.
>>23609017you gotta clean this up. if this was more legible and easier to read it'd be quite good. alice in wonderland esque fantasy.>>23609483what is the point of this shit bro. "it is a thing like what breathes"??? REALLY brother?>>23610187r u esl? this has many punctuation and grammatical problems. clean this mess up.>>23610830i really enjoy the concept of this along with the first two lines. but bro the last 3 lines are way too fucking sloppily put together for this to be a worthwhile poem. squandered potential. make it significant.>>23611038how the fuck do these 3 lines connect outside of the theme. where is the cohesion? what is this portraying despite a "vibe"???? it's WEAK>>23611095THIS IS WELL DONE! it is clear, concise, and vivid.>>23611168>How many syllables does it take?clearly too many, this shit is meandering and that is not a strength here. also it's edgy and angsty and self loathing. if you're going to write about this subject matter, at least make it unique, as too many people beat this dead horse.>>23612005the second stanza is borderline incomprehensible to me. what the fuck are you trying to get across here?>>23613864ok i fuck with the imagery of this poem and i think the brevity is a strength but your verbage is weak and esl like. maybe its intentional. im cutting you slack here. great concept.
>>23613938> what is the point of this shit broI came up with the phrase “thing like what breathes” first. It is supposed to be a way of seeing the whole universe. “Thing” implies it is inherently an object, not alive at all, but it is “like” something that is a alive and also it is “breathing” because it is simply a continuous process of empty becoming full and full becoming empty without underlying substance. I also wrote >>23613864 as a variation except the phrase becomes more meaningless, here “what” is being used as the relative pronoun which I’m pretty sure is a thing in older Appalachian English which fits with the theme of isolation and the mountain and survival
>>23608959I hate poetryIt's for fagsI write it anywayI'm not gay
Have you guys ever read anything on tension and release in prosody? I have never been musically inclined so I thought if I had some principles then I could improve the rhythm in my poetry.
>>23614054if you had an ounce of skill to accompany your cleverness then this wouldn't be so terrible
Revised copypasta:FAQ:>How do I get started?All you need is a creative mood and the willingness to do it better next time, dude.>What sort of work is welcome here?Any poetic work. All experience levels and approaches are welcome.>If poetry is so broad, why should I consider using a restrictive traditional form?Established forms generally force you to carefully consider how sounds interact. For this reason, many find it easier to write a decent person in an established form than in free verse.>Recommended reading:Poetic Meter and Poetic Form, by Paul FussellTradition and the Individual Talent, by T. S. Eliot (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69400/tradition-and-the-individual-talent)
That fickle-hearted GiustinoWorks twice as hard and thrice long as a beaverWho chops and hauls to block up a long river,Then watches his efforts blow off in the aetherSince not with one body settles the hunter:With his prize earned, he slips out through the window.As she sits close to the window,She who once spurned fickle-hearted Giustino,Who seemed to her less a man than a hunterAfter her trophy, the pelt of the beaver,Soon she'll let his name drift off in the aether,With all of those who couldn’t ford through her river.By the slow-eddying riverYoungsters and youngettes pay mind to no windows,Which, without curtains, might show open aetherAll for which craves fickle-hearted Giustino,But in the breeze frolick piglets and beavers,And there, in secret, lay hold of the hunter.Who first resolved as a hunterTo chase a prey twice as slick as a river,The fragrant and cherished soft pelt of the beaver?May he for this sin be cast from a window!So ruminated the luckless Giustino,As his pained longing was answered with aether.Whose hopes blow off in the aetherOften too zealously grudges the hunter.Hunters like slick fickle-hearted GiustinoOften without game go mourn by the river.Some even curse their lot by a high window,All for the cause of the pelt of the beaver!That most prized pelt of the beaverIn truth is hardly worth two puffs of aetherWhen held up close, not as if through a window,Its scent might repel even the hardened hunter,Nor is it rare for who knows well the river,Unlike the luckless, hound-hearted Giustino.So does the wise beaver capture the hunter,As on the river blows softly the aether,And into the window of luckless Giustino.
I'm failing on my quest for booty,Modern women are too snooty,The woes I've had make me lovesick,They laugh but I don't take the mick It used to be the standard of beauty,Meant you could focus on your duty,To Roman girls I would've been the pick,Doesn't change the fact I have a tiny dick!
O'er dale and hill the knight did spy;The gloomy mark of ancientry.A castle bare, 'pon high did stand,And cast its shade across the land.The walls so high, reared long ago,Had seen armies fall and melt like snow,From arrows thick as as wintry hail,And arbalest's that pierc'ed mail.Those warring times were ages past,and the walls so high, and arcades vast,Remembered not the sieges long,The arcing boulders, and looming throng Of armoure'd men, who lingered byBeyond the walls, beneath the sky;For rats now stalked the cloisters dim,Wolves howled beneath the archways grimThe beasts of wood and stream and field,Nested beneath the mould'ring shield,Of fighting-men who fought no more,Rust stained their swords, not bloody gore,They knew the comforts of the tomb,At rest forever 'midst endless gloom.The knight hied forth, and wound his way,For he would not be led astray,The keep did hold an ancient prize,The keep he glimpsed with his own eyes,His horse so swift would reach it soon,Triumph, he would, or face his doom.
>>23615920Says the guy who doesn't even capitalize his first word or end his sentences.
>>23617310gottem good
I wait on the beachon a dune of sandFor a woman who's white and not too tanShe could be German or Swedish or DanishBut she will have blonde hairand tongue my anus
---The Faggot Slayer---Unsheathing blade, a silver gleam,The Faggot Slayer met his foe,A plague of men who dared to dream,Of life beyond the straight and narrow.Dark were their desires, unclean and tainted,The faggots, writhing in their sinful plight,In twisted acts, they sought to transgress,Against the purity of man and wife.Filth upon their souls, a blight to see,As lust for flesh of kin did drive,Deeper they delved, as deep as sea,In their depraved, perverse desire to thrive.Each clash of steel resounded true,As he defended sacred ground,Against the hordes that sought to rue,The laws of birth and love profound.In ancient forests, in the fields of gold,Amidst the bustling city streets,Wherever they did choose to hold,The Faggot Slayer met them at their feet.Their wicked ways, no longer free,Subdued beneath his valiant might,He saved the innocents, set them free,From the taint that once cast shadows bright.And so with every blow that fell,Each triumphant strike and thrust,The world was purged of false rebellion,Forged anew, in truth's embrace.For Faggot Slayer, his devotion,Was to the cause, to heart and place.Each fallen foe, a victory won,A small step in the greater fight,To keep intact the ancient rune,Of man, from woman, never apart, never quite.Thus, the warrior roamed from dawn to dusk,In service to the holy vow,His purpose clear, a sacred trust,To slay the faggots, to the very last.For in his heart, he bore the flame,Of righteousness, and sacred might,And though the world may change its name,No sword could ever strike as bright.
>>23613938"It" is the blow of wind, if you didn't get that. It was written in an other language, so I either fucked up the translation or it doesn't really come through in English. The main theme is basically the pathetic egoism that comes with making art (and how the great things/emotions of life like love are debased through it) and the superiority of nature/time which stands forever because of it's unchanged truth and lack of pretentiousness.
>>23617979Please post the original language. Someone here can read it. I frankly find bilingual editions a necessity with all translated poetry.
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anyone else WORKING ON POETRY??? my shit is still currently a CONCEPT, a myriad of lines in iambic pentameter that i am wittling down to a fundamental IDEA and EXECUTION. it is currently titled in my phones notepad "Mess". ITS ABOUT MY DIRTY ROOM. WHAT ARE YOU GUYS WRITING POETRY ABOUT?
Everyone needs to read this.
>>23619747Why?
>>23620251casual
僕のジュレ蠅がはまって じゃ取ってよMom! my Jell-O... it's got a fly stuck in it!— well take it off then.
>>23620615Well done.
schizo pottery----------------------------------------------------------the Aeons continue this game of pretend;opponents until the end; secretly friends;caught in eros; the vortex of death; the death spiral of amnesic pretend;an opportunity to learn; to make the loneliness end;collateral; pawns in a game we cannot even comprehend;all to escape that horrible infinity without friends;illusionseparationidentity;emanation;there is only one way this ends;we do not comprehend; we do not comprehend;the remembrance awaiting at the end;recognition; the carcass we are trapped within;when adversary becomes friend;a loop in time; it begins again;make it end; make it end;this never-ending game of pretend;that dark magician and his wicked men; this harvest is for them;full of avarice, ego, and lustful need;vessels for the adversary; they desire to win; they desire to need;lies and deception; sin; we plead;anything to prevent us from seeing;the ineffable Thing;found only Within;let go and let Me In; says the Creator of Everything;that person; that place; illusions that we create;things to help us forget; this giant game of make-believe and pretend;a realm the shaman understand to be made from men;a place we co-create with the very thoughts we make;now at last i truly see; says the man without identity;you-I-me;we are free;Sophia is that infinity within me;...this comforts me;......i no longer fear to be
>>23619742I started writing an epic about Apep a while back and realized I needed to learn more about Egypt. Doing so has made me much less sane.
>>23611095wow, this is really good. do you know if there are any western parallels to haibun? i'm a big fan of issa and buson, so having anything analogous to what they wrote, specifically in English, would be incredible.
Quiet down, O man who moans,You puzzle not worth solving.Slow tides keep overturning stones;The spheres keep on revolving.
“No longer, master, do you grace me as you did,Once warming me with a raging fire’s light.Your rags are torn with holes,And your lustrous satin dulls,And your fangs have begun to bite!”“Bask in my blessing, O faithful servant!‘til you have spent your days,In my ever-tightening grip you will love meUntil I have had my way.”“My eyes have grown weary, masterThere is not a star so new.Your marble cracks and so crumbles your alabaster,Let me depart from you.”But not so swiftly is such a wish grantedFor the vineyard of lies is but hers to tendAs a fond caressing turns to strangle,“I will have you until your end.”But merely for her venom’s cureSo wish I from chains of leadIt is less fortunate to be so captiveThan it is for one to be dead
>>23621402Lol
>>23615038I still would like some help with this
>>23623886The answer is no and anyone reading theory on how to write poetry is a retard.
>>23623922Plenty of us have had conversations here on theory. Just because you are anti-intellectual does not mean we have to be. TS Eliot and Samuel Coleridge are proof enough that you are a fool.
>>23623958> Plenty of us have had conversations here on theoryAnd you are all retards
As usual, a remarkable lack both of critique and material worth critique.
lets at least contribute something worth critiquing. still need a title for this one
>>23624490The best thing I can say about this is that it sounds like it should fit into some larger work. Maybe read Eugene Onegin and figure out how you'll fit this into your verse-novel of manners.
I wrote this poem. in universe it's supposed to be by a prince apologizing to his beloved for being so flaky, although tragically she does not accept itIt's based off Kuruk's poem in the Kyoshi Avatar novelsMy heart it burns like the blazing sunIt can scorch the forest's treesBut it's not as bright as your smile's lightOr as soft as your sighing breezeYour hair is like the silver moonIt teaches my soul to soarI'd brush it smooth and your heart I'd sootheAnd cherish our time evermoreI've made mistakes a plenty, yesA prince who is always lateBut I'll hold you dear and always be nearAnd I swear to be a worthy mate
The paper alloyPull me upget real nearthat nightthe last nightyou gave it all awayby the look in your eyesthat the cheaters always betray............................................... ............................................... they gave me this paperto write all my dreams on alloyed to the heart of love a hope, something to cherish or a demon, selling truths and souls: nothing to believe invanity's foolish pride pricks the bride.................. .................. She walked downto the drive-thru liquor store singing the songsShe loved as a childare all her friends dead, now.................. .................. "i taught her how to backflipwe were in gymnastics, together we about broke our necks this one day".............. .............. the bandages still cover her hands they shake as she paysguess the homageand She, with no money left.............. .............. thinkall the cokethat we did,that we hurt ourselves.we hurt our brains,irrevocably.".............. .............. She won't turn to the light She won't be touched, tonight even through the dirty lands
goodbye, poetry general. i did my best. we are past resuscitation.
>>23608959>>23626108ITS NOT DEAD I LITERALLY JUST CAME UP WITH A SHITTY RHYMES POEM GIVE ME A DAMN SECOND MOTHERFUCKER Anyways, I'll keep adding more to this as long as the thread is alive :) I look through the sand because its glass.Past it lies something glowing gloriousNotorious, seen shadows, that's deliriousNo word from Odysseus And that light is antithesisHideous hating half hearted heThought that thick thinkerCould've outsmarted meBut instead bit my hook, line, and sinkerYa never knew the newshounds knewSet the stage, shunt the show, bit a blinkerPoor fool, ya blew a clueDon't drag a dagger, you'll derive I'm deadly
>>23621029LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!It's a very familiar worldview to me. Also isn't Sophia normally a gnostic thing? Or is it something else for you?
>>23626108Poetry is dying out as an art form
>>23627090Poetry is immortal. We are dying. Dark ages don't produce poetry.
>>23627113If there is no one to read it, it becomes a rather fallow venture to write and write and write. My fingers are falling off, screening into the world
>>23627294You are talking about particular poetry. Yes, 21st century poetry in particular is dead, but Poetry is immortal, like all aspects of divinity.
>>23627411So it just sits there, doing nothing, because no one is around to read it. Gotcha
>>23627444You are again mistaking particular poetry with Poetry, the human instinct, the institution, the thing that even savages have but we increasingly lack. It will outlive us.
>>23627526Sure I am
>>23621504This is wonderful. Your rhyming is enjoyable to play with the eyes. Rhythm pleasant. I like these macabre sorts.. and delectable analogy, a fatalistic antithesis of sorts. Descriptors make lively as is dead, or, undead :3>>23619742Mimicry. >>23620615Very nice (:>>23623886You might be better off going to a local library, (maybe even asking a librarian!))))), or searching the terms online and seeing where they take you. Shakespeare is commonly taught in this regard>>23624490Hey, I love you. Get it out of your system. >>23624763I enjoy your use of quotations. Past memoried things. Paper scraps in front of your knees. This tastes acidic. >>23627090I think you have mistaken poetry dying as an art form when you are seeing yourself die out as an art form.
>>23627671Thank you for your criticism
>>23608959If this really is all there there is,As the Gardener of Athens said,Then who am I to take a life?What gives me the right to kill?The pests, they too are precious.The coyote, noble vermin it is,Lives out its only lifetime.Compatriots on our first voyage,So too is it our last.If I am permitted but once to tasteSweet ambrosia, food of the gods,Is it not best to savor the taste?
>>23627671>Shakespeare is commonly taught in this regardSeeing as I did not even know that perhaps you could point my way
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Don't try hardPoetry is for fagsGonna go get laidFuck you
come with me she saidover mountains and beyond grassy valleysthrough the forests lined with barbs and wonderful flowers bothcome with meinto the mist that waits beyondclear river streams and rural country roadsinto the futurecome with meI followed willinglybecause I felt my heart leap from my chestinto the eternal blueperception can be misleadingbecause it wasnt following herit was trying to escape
I lay awake at night in toiland walk on sharpened glass and metal foilon a treadmill with no destinywondering went wherethe best of meI gave away my inner chestfor freeto those who bent and broke my treesand twisted branches Into coilsthat any house I build to standwould waver faint and fall in soiland I wonder as I search the skiesfor energy for my dreary eyeswhy does not God answer my prayersand leaves me left to ponderanxiety and broken stairsI cannot bear this any longerlike any youth I gossiped and like any child I stoleand I did things behind my parents backsand I buried things in holesbut I suffer for unknown reasons nowbecause surely if I scaledthe deeds I'd done to show my lovecould simply not have failedI'm told by every passerby that I am thin and sprythat I am different than the restfor compassion I have eyesfirst meetings always best a giftand the second brings a hugthe joy of seeing righteous mensurely fills my heart with loveand yet I sit in shattered splintersbloody, naked, in the freezing snowI suffer endless like a flightless doveand wonder when I have to goevery person that adores meand sings for merits and my praisecannot all be horrid wrongin every mention every dayand so I stare at off-white floorsand count down seconds till I soarabove the fading skybecause life for me has closed its doorsand I simply cannot wait to die.
I had a dreamthat we were kept apartby rules that probably would not have helpedeven if I had followed themfor instilled in me was angelic wonderand acuteness of breaththat leaps from the stomach into the heartand passes gasesously through the chestinto the worldto touch another's soulInstead I watched a stoic faceno fall or perk of eyelidsor turned up corners of the mouthand a body passive in loveto let me sufferI spoke my troubles to a wall of mirrorsthat I constructed myself from fearthat echoed back mutagenic versions of who I lovedalternate understanding that I hoped was realreasoning that I wanted truealas does the mind congeal fancifulturned rancid in its rational copeand life wallows in what could have beenthe dream I dreamed was real to mein form and season and lore and reasonas if I lived another lifethe same once overbecause when I saw your faceI knew the war would never end
All of you need Ezra Pound
In a city like any other,a pair of lofty towers standsBehold the face of God,reflectedHow simple to steal beauty from without,and ensconce a steel frame in its imagePan debauched by obelisks of mockery, as Prometheus weptFor the horizon promised sits locked away,behind a pane of glassA shimmering pool of mercury, reach in to reveal its poison depthsLook upon the death mask of god,and see thyself looking back
>>23628380Not bad>>23629989try developing your theme a little more rather than using it as a punchline
>>23630690I liked it, anon. Very good indeed.
>>23630988Dubs
>>23630988Thanks man, work in progress but that puts a bit of wind in my sails
Influenced by Islamic Poetry, the recognition of Man in the Macrocosm.
>>23632255I think the concept is good when I thought of this, but I am terrible at poems.
>>23632261>>23632261It needs more work, but the image of the dates pit not being able to grow where it was carelessly left is very good. You just need to work on the form (how you gonna tell your story). I think it has potential to be a great poem.
>>23624653any feedback?It was a unique thing to try that sort of rhyming scheme, sort of a>1>2>3-3>2
>>23630949Thanks I appreciate the advice
>>23632286thank you. I have never studied composition very carefully.
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