A community to celebrate published and OC works of poetry.
Guidelines & Community Rules
In addition to the general rules of lemmy.world:
Published Poetry
1a: Poetry posts should include the title and the author, when the author is known.
O.C. Poetry
2a: Sharing original poetry is encouraged, but it must be preceded by the tag "[OC]."
2b: If an [OC] post is requesting feedback, it should also follow with the "[FB]" tag. It would look like the following example:
[OC] [FB] Nothing Gold Can Stay
Feedback
All feedback should be given in good faith.
3a: All [FB] requests should be met with comments constructive in nature. It is okay to dislike parts of a poem, but make sure to explain why you feel that way.
3b: Feedback does not need to be extraordinary in nature. Simply expressing how a work makes you feel is often enough.
3c: Use the honor system. When you receive good feedback, return it in kind to another author. Everyone appreciates knowing their work is being read and appreciated.
As this community develops, these guidelines may be adjusted.
Formatting Help
Work in progress
To create a line break, use two spaces at the end of a line.
To create empty space, type .
Use four of these at the beginning of a line to create a standard indent.
UPDATE:
Some methods of access do not format markdown correctly. I am currently testing various apps and web interfaces to see what does and does not retain formatting.
In the interim, it is encouraged to post text poetry as you normally would, but to include a link at the beginning or end of the post with access to a website or image that retains the formatting as intended.
Other Poetry Communities
Poetry lovers unite! In the style of the fediverse, multiple poetry communities have arisen, and will continue to rise. I will try to keep a list here of communities across instances that are worth checking out!
"We have made it...."
Spoken by the people that did make it (yes, that's partly obvious) but in the context of civilizations, there are entire civilizations that fell and didn't make it, and some that have spent centuries or millennia at the bottom of the heap - they've never "made it".
Survivorship bias.
Precisely.
This is so good!
We've been though worse.
Yes, and the bad times ended because people fought back! Don't be complacent, don't minimize the issues. Fascism isn't weather.
I always find it interesting that millions of people never found out who won WW2.
I always think of Candide by Voltaire and how Pangloss gets tossed in the fire after telling everyone its all for the best
The only people who say this, are already well off to see more days. If you are struggling, you only see another day as a miracle.
Serious question: How is this poetry? Isn't this just prose formatted in a weird way?
Baby shoes
For sale
Never worn
Prose can be poetry too. I don't get why people should always want to criticize poetry, or art, for not being "proper". Poetry is there to reach inside the heart and to make you feel something. Nothing less, nothing more.
It sure makes me feel something. I doubt the author wanted me to feel that way lol.
That formatting is the worst, cudos to the enormous blanks too, wtf.
Poetry is both the sound and the silence. Without the silence and the breaks, there can't be any poetry.
Sure, but this is not poetry spaces, it's just badly cut up text IMO.
You think it is done intentionally? Like some post modernist style?
Some phrases remained intact, while some were abruptly cut off.
Thank you captain obvious.
So the sentence structure reflects the lives of the poem’s subjects, some endure but others are cut short. Is it that obvious?
Isn't this just prose formatted in a weird way?
When you get down to it, isn't that all poetry really is? But really, I think this would technically fall under 'free verse' (poetry with no rules).
How is it not poetry?
Did you feel anything when you read it?