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!
One of the great joys of poetry, to me, has always been sharing it. As a result, I love talking about it—about poems I love and (claim to) understand, and about those of which are shared with me.
I really enjoy the cadence of this piece, and the choice of language is informal yet strong enough to carry the weight of the ideas its conveying. I've never read it before now. What is it that you find most enjoyable?
a digital archive is something I've thought about often actually. if someone were to try to piece together who I am based just on the data they collected about me from my multitude of accounts scattered across the internet, what kind of impression would it give? I realized any descendants looking through my journals would have to look through social media accounts to understand me as well. And my digital journal entries, and various files, and reviews, etc. Does it ever really end? Digital historians and archivists will really have their work cut out for them.
So I guess I was predisposed to like the content of the poem. The structure and, like you said, the cadence, just make it that much more enjoyable.
I'd like to think that our digital traces could compose a sort of self-portrait like those images that describe movies by the average color of every frame. For instance, this is the whole Harry Potter series in one go.
It doesn't look like much, but if you're familiar with the movie you can follow the plot just based on your memory of the scenes' colors. I like the idea of my digital footprint leaving a similar "ghost" that doesn't mean anything unless you can fill up the negative space with context.