Poetry

Poetry

For the poetry writer, reader and lover.

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  • ongoeslife
    ongoeslife · Mar 18, 2016
    I think it's fascinating to watch letters just appear as I write, and I also enjoy the look of hand-written words on a page. How cool is it that a pencil or a pen that you control can create a symbol that we have given meaning to and use it to convey your thoughts?

  • Iamawriter replied · Mar 16, 2016

    I think I may have heard it.


    TZH replied · Mar 23, 2016

    Yes I have read it countless times. :-)


    RubyRed replied · Mar 23, 2016

    :D


  • Aley replied · Feb 24, 2016

    Yup


    Caerulean replied · Feb 27, 2016

    There were a few times we were tasked to write haikus back in school, but no, I've never managed to actually write one besides those.


    TZH replied · Mar 23, 2016

    Nope but read :-)


  • SecreteJournalist
    SecreteJournalist · Jan 7, 2016
    Question To The Group:
    Does anyone have an experience with a poetry slam?
    What is it like?
    Were there judges? If so, what were you judged on?
    Time limitations?
    Proper attire?

    - I'm hoping to throw our town's very first poetry slam in April for Jr. High and High school kids to promote a club at our school and to get potential poets a time to shine, and I have a lot of work ahead of me, so any and all stories and experiences with slam poetry is welcomed!-

    Karzkin replied · Jan 8, 2016

    I've done a bit of slam. I like it, but it's not for everyone. Here's how slams typically go:

    There are judges (usually 3 -5), picked randomly from the audience. The judges can judge using any criteria they like. They just give a score 0 - 10 (usually they just write it down and confer at the end of the slam, so no one knows which judge gave what scores). Typically the time limit is 3 minutes, starting from the poet's first word (so usually there's no intro or anything, just straight into the poem), although if you're running the slam you can decide on the time limit (I've been to 2-minute slams and no limit slams, both are cool). Usually one of the judges has a little bell or something that they ring when there is 30 seconds left. Usually props and music aren't allowed; just the poet and the microphone. There's no "proper attire" I guess. Maybe in your first slam don't have judges, just make it an exhibition instead of a competition? It might be cool also to have some musical acts or a resident poet perform while the judges are adding up scores instead of just sitting around.


  • Iamawriter
    Iamawriter · Jan 6, 2016
    That horrible sad feeling you get when after writing/learning about poetry for school someone says "who else hates poetry now?" They hated writing it and learning about it. So sad! :(

    TheUnknownWriter replied · Jan 6, 2016

    Once we had to create poems about ourselves in school and one of my friends didn't know what to write about since he hated poetry. So, I just told him to write about why he hates poetry. After he wrote it, he said it wasn't that bad afterall! At least he tried anyways!


    Iamawriter replied · Jan 6, 2016

    @TheUnknownWriter at least he tried! This just made me plain sad! Like a shot to my freaking heart! I love poetry!


    TheUnknownWriter replied · Jan 6, 2016

    I know right! When people tell me they hate it, I always ask them if they tried writing poetry. Once they do they either think it's not so bad, or hate it even more :( I dunno there are just different ways people express themselves *shrugs*


    Aley replied · Jan 6, 2016

    The hardest thing for me is when they say they don't like it because it rhymes or because it doesn't rhyme or because it is too sing songs or not sing songs enough. Like seriously people. You just haven't found a poet you Like yet. You might Not hate poetry, just the authors you have read. The worst is "I can't understand it." I introduce them to Billy Collins when I hear that one.


  • Aley replied · Dec 10, 2015

    lol, that's really cute.


    Iamawriter replied · Dec 10, 2015

    @Aley I find that sometimes I can express myself better with poetry because it's shorter than stories.


    ongoeslife replied · Dec 11, 2015

    Cute. =)


  • Snazzy
    Snazzy · Dec 9, 2015
    We went over some poems in ELA in our poetry unit, and this is by far my favorite-

    The Snow-Storm
    BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON
    Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
    Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,
    Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air
    Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,
    And veils the farm-house at the garden's end.
    The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet
    Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit
    Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed
    In a tumultuous privacy of storm.

    Come see the north wind's masonry.
    Out of an unseen quarry evermore
    Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
    Curves his white bastions with projected roof
    Round every windward stake, or tree, or door.
    Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work
    So fanciful, so savage, nought cares he
    For number or proportion. Mockingly,
    On coop or kennel he hangs Parian wreaths;
    A swan-like form invests the hidden thorn;
    Fills up the farmer's lane from wall to wall,
    Maugre the farmer's sighs; and, at the gate,
    A tapering turret overtops the work.
    And when his hours are numbered, and the world
    Is all his own, retiring, as he were not,
    Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art
    To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone,
    Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work,
    The frolic architecture of the snow.


    Also here's a poem I posted yesterday. It is already out of the green room, but I was wondering if anyone else wanted to review it. :D
    We Are

  • TeenageSupergirl replied · May 25, 2016

    I'm literally addicted to alphabet poems XD


  • Aley replied · Oct 6, 2015

    I just wish it was a little more active ^^;


    fantasydragon01 replied · Oct 7, 2015

    Yeah


  • rainforest replied · Jun 9, 2015

    Hey! I will definitely review, but can I please have a link?


  • bluesofdays
    bluesofdays · Mar 21, 2015
    oeps; I mean:

    <a href="http://nl.tinypic.com?ref=2moyv5s" target="_blank"><img src="http://i57.tinypic.com/2moyv5s.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a>

  • bluesofdays
    bluesofdays · Mar 21, 2015
    <a href="http://nl.tinypic.com?ref=2moyv5s" target="_blank"><img src="http://i57.tinypic.com/2moyv5s.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a>

    My first poem, please review? :)

    niteowl replied · Mar 21, 2015

    Are you trying to post a picture? If it's already online, just copy-paste the image URL and put [img*] [/img*] (w/o the stars) around it. If it's a YWS link, you only need to paste the link!


    bluesofdays replied · Mar 21, 2015

    okay thanks hahaha sorry!



Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
— Rumi