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Hijinks wrote:

April 22nd: Poetry Crew Pick

An Open Letter to Who Will Let Me Survive
by @WeepingWisteria

Today's #PCrewPick is a poem from WeepingWisteria's NaPo thread Signed, the Universe. Faer poem touches on some heavy ideas about how suffering and sacrifice can sometimes be idolized by those around us, and the effects that can have on our own self-perception. Check out this captivating opening:

Can we talk about how
shooting stars are just painful deaths
broadcasted across a velvet movie screen

Go give the rest of this poignant poem a read right here! If poems written from the perspective of various planets intrigue you, then you should definitely give the rest of their thread a look, as well.

Plume wrote:

April 20th: Poetry Crew Pick

Today's #PCrewPick is this poem by @Ari11! When I first read it, I found myself enraptured by all the gorgeous imagery that describes the focal point of the poem, the ethereal she.

The use of nature imagery in this was absolutely stunning. Some of my favorite lines included:

Her feet brush lightly over the grass, her head is wreathed in clouds.
Her arms span miles as she raises them, scraping glitter from the moon
It showers her in light, catching in the rivers of her hair
Waves of night tumbling past her shoulders.

"Glitter from the moon" and "wreathed in clouds" are just goddess-like images, and are just so beautiful in the context of the poem. They make the last stanza, a singular line, truly hit hard: "Does she know how beautiful she is?" It perfectly conveys the speaker's awestruck adoration of her, and it works so well.

You can read more of Ari's poetry in their thread Ari's Poetry Cove. I highly recommend it!

Zeus is once again turning into animals to woo women.

HUH???

AHHHHH MORE SEA-LIFE