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Hijinks Admin

Hijinks · Jun 14, 2021

Leave your poem suggestions here for consideration! If you have a poem you'd like to see discussed in this club, drop it in the thread below. It can be a poem by a "famous" poet, by you, or even by another YWSer (make sure you have their permission to suggest it here first). Please include the title, the poet, and a link to the poem.

Of course, we won't be able to discuss every single poem suggested, so keep in mind that selections will be made based on criteria such as:

Whether we've already discussed a poem similar to it before - we'd like to have as varied a selection of poetry as possible!
Whether the poem will be accessible to everyone. For instance, we wouldn't want to discuss a poem with an overly mature or triggering topic that would make a lot of users uncomfortable discussing.

Additionally, the structures we're hoping to discuss this year include:

free verse [done]
limerick [done]
sonnet [done]
villanelle
prose poetry
song lyrics

So if your suggestion falls into one of those categories, that's an added bonus! If it doesn't though, don't let that stop you from suggesting it - we're open to all poems and we're totally willing to consider other forms as well. <3

If you'd rather PM whatchamacallit or Liminality directly with a suggestion, that works as well. Hit us with those suggestions!

Leave your poem suggestions here for consideration! If you have a poem you'd like to see discussed in this club, drop it in the thread below. It can be a poem by a "famous" poet, by you, or even by another YWSer (make sure you have their permission to suggest it here first). Please include the title, the poet, and a link to the poem.

Of course, we won't be able to discuss every single poem suggested, so keep in mind that selections will be made based on criteria such as:
[list=1][*]Whether we've already discussed a poem similar to it before - we'd like to have as varied a selection of poetry as possible!
[*]Whether the poem will be accessible to everyone. For instance, we wouldn't want to discuss a poem with an overly mature or triggering topic that would make a lot of users uncomfortable discussing.[/list]

Additionally, the structures we're hoping to discuss this year include:
[list][*]free verse [i][done][/i]
[*]limerick [i][done][/i]
[*]sonnet [i][done][/i]
[*]villanelle
[*]prose poetry
[*]song lyrics[/list]

So if your suggestion falls into one of those categories, that's an added bonus! If it doesn't though, don't let that stop you from suggesting it - we're open to all poems and we're totally willing to consider other forms as well. <3

If you'd rather PM [user]whatchamacallit[/user] or [user]Liminality[/user] directly with a suggestion, that works as well. Hit us with those suggestions!

yoshikrab

yoshikrab · Jun 14, 2021

Sonnet XVIII by Shakespeare? I like it a lot.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Hijinks Admin

Hijinks · Jul 4, 2021

@InuYosha thank you for the suggestion - that's definitely a fabulous sonnet, I agree. We already did our "famous" sonnet discussion last month, but if/when we circle back round to sonnets again, we'll keep that suggestion in mind for sure ^^

yoshikrab

yoshikrab · Jul 4, 2021

okie

anne27

anne27 · Jul 5, 2021

The Trees, by Adrienne Rich

The trees inside are moving out into the forest,
the forest that was empty all these days
where no bird could sit
no insect hide
no sun bury its feet in shadow
the forest that was empty all these nights
will be full of trees by morning.
All night the roots work
to disengage themselves from the cracks
in the veranda floor.
The leaves strain toward the glass
small twigs stiff with exertion
long-cramped boughs shuffling under the roof
like newly discharged patients
half-dazed, moving
to the clinic doors.

I sit inside, doors open to the veranda
writing long letters
in which I scarcely mention the departure
of the forest from the house.
The night is fresh, the whole moon shines
in a sky still open
the smell of leaves and lichen
still reaches like a voice into the rooms.

My head is full of whispers
which tomorrow will be silent.
Listen. The glass is breaking.
The trees are stumbling forward
into the night. Winds rush to meet them.
The moon is broken like a mirror,
its pieces flash now in the crown
of the tallest oak.

I love this one.

The Trees, by Adrienne Rich
[quote]The trees inside are moving out into the forest,
the forest that was empty all these days
where no bird could sit
no insect hide
no sun bury its feet in shadow
the forest that was empty all these nights
will be full of trees by morning.
All night the roots work
to disengage themselves from the cracks
in the veranda floor.
The leaves strain toward the glass
small twigs stiff with exertion
long-cramped boughs shuffling under the roof
like newly discharged patients
half-dazed, moving
to the clinic doors.

I sit inside, doors open to the veranda
writing long letters
in which I scarcely mention the departure
of the forest from the house.
The night is fresh, the whole moon shines
in a sky still open
the smell of leaves and lichen
still reaches like a voice into the rooms.

My head is full of whispers
which tomorrow will be silent.
Listen. The glass is breaking.
The trees are stumbling forward
into the night. Winds rush to meet them.
The moon is broken like a mirror,
its pieces flash now in the crown
of the tallest oak.[/quote]
I love this one.

MeherazulAzim16

MeherazulAzim16 · Jul 10, 2021

I've always liked this one: Meeting Point by Louis MacNeice https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/ ... ting-point

kattee

kattee · Aug 9, 2021

Here are some of my suggestions:

The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman could be counted as prose poetry? Not sure oop

Little Red Cap by Carol Ann Duffy

I Am Very Bothered by Simon Armitage

alliyah Admin

alliyah · Aug 9, 2021

I second that recommendation for us to read something by Amanda Gorman!

Would also be fun to read a Shakespeare Sonnet!

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