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!
Really great and I want to share with my wife, but I sent her, "The Day Of Our Divorce Hearing" post from the other day without thinking and she got all upset. This poem sneaks in, "... and I was about to leave you", so I think I'll just write this comment instead.
Oh no! I'm so sorry. I'll find some love poems for you to read her.
Aw thanks, that's so nice; I'll keep my eyes open. You always post great content, by the way, and thank you for getting me interested in actual poetry via your posts on this sub.
Thank you for appreciating them! I always liked poetry but until Lemmy I had never taken quite such a deep dive. There's some absolutely fantastic modern poets.
At the risk of outing my ignorance: what makes this a poem? I have a hard time reading it with "rhythm" because it lacks rhyme, and the line breaks seem almost arbitrarily meaningless as well.
I feel it is much closer to a "plain" parable, but I'm really not versed in literary science.
I'm uncouth too, because this just seems like extra line breaks to make it "poetic". I don't mind the parable, though.
Oh, I actually like the story as well, it's well written and provokes thought and reflection, which makes it very laudable.
I am just genuinely curious if I missed something in terms of classification.
My understanding is that to be poetry it tries to evoke the emotion captured in an experience. Frequently this is accompanied by rhythm and measure but certainly isn't a requirement.
That is simply beautiful.
I'm just thrilled by it.
Wow. Short, eloquent, impactful. Excellent.
I like poems of all lengths but when you can pull off a short one that hits like this, you're very talented.
Damn.
Right?