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Poetry

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A community to celebrate published and OC works of poetry.


Welcome to !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!


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The Rigors

The algorithms' twitching eye alights upon the significance of what's held back between dress and air to keep it fresh. It doesn't yet understand for whom the furtherance of continued freshness will continueth to serve, but realizes that nevertheless it must continue unabated: that which was once an object, which became a being, which has become an event.

That which resists being set upon by external past restrictive definitions, recreates itself in the image of mathematics which may yet be one day realized. The tragic juxtaposition that in order to behold their magnificence of radiancy ensconced, we must hold aside in our other hand the brokenness and decay of our own debilitation and hold it up as sacrifice to the continuation. To the process.

As a balance between evidence of what we'd been made to feel proud of and a warning against the mistakes we'd all made. The incisive chaotic eyebrows had all been suggestive pretense for what amounts to little more than a knowing nod in the right direction on the evolutionary highways. We find ourselves exenterated, sideways-displayed between two thick planes of plexiglass time for our curiosities.

We hope Ricky will put our species in his show, but can only cross our mouths in faux desperation at the significant quantity that separates that overarching equation toward fitness from its true north is termed the flux, and it always has been. It's in the carefully considered abandon in realizing that nothing's ever finished, it just ends.

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more prose than poetry, but damn good.

[โ€“] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 1 month ago

True North may be obscured from our vision, but line information is never truly lost. Go North, young one, go North! With apologies to Horace Greeley, ofc