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!
Jokingly: "a way out of the silence" - wow, most of us are trying hard to find a way INTO that!:-D
Fr tho: love it, especially that into. Some sections take a moment to parse like "weightless" (metal)? Which is ofc the point.:-) Though red and white... blood and bones perhaps? Nice pacing and format, and use of imagery and so much else that I lack the words for but manage to appreciate regardless:-).
Thank you. I still remember a lot of my inspirations for this from when I first wrote it over a year ago.
“I know that I have been hanging from the stormy tree for nine consecutive nights, wounded by the spear, as an offering to Odin: myself offered to myself.” This here is a verse from Hamaval.
Jung later analysed this saying, “hanging . . . has an unmistakable symbolic value, since swinging (hanging and suffering as one swings) is the symbol of unfulfilled longing or tense expectation”
Now the hanged man is the 12th enigma of the tarot pack.
FRAZER, Sir James G. The Golden Bough. London, 1911–15. Here you'll find analysis that the primitive man kept his god living by keeping him between heaven and earth. A suspension .. or mystical isolation.
The inverted position in itself is the symbol of purification as it inverts the natural order.
And so the hanged man hangs from his own doctrine. To which he is so attached he cannot separate himself and his very being hangs upon it.
The hanged man wears red and white. The mystical colors of the two headed eagle of the alchemist. His arms tied with bags of gold coins falling. An allegory for the spiritual treasures to be attained upon self sacrifice.
What I wrote I wanted read exactly as you did. And yet the symbolism on it's back was supposed to allow you to feel the depth you did notice! Being able to be read as a story and a symbol was vital for me.
I really appreciate your response. Thats basically exactly what I wanted. Thank you.
I have to be careful not to insert politics here bc it's so much on all of our minds these days (worldwide even). But in any case:
And so the hanged man hangs from his own doctrine. To which he is so attached he cannot separate himself and his very being hangs upon it.
This seems such a profound warning as well as potentially a good time - or rather we think the latter but find ourselves trapped, and freedoms restricted, having less fun than we hoped with it.
Then again, do we truly want to be free, or to go back to sleep in the hammock... or the noose - "a way out of the silence"?
That is brilliant. I will rant on whether we really want to be free another day since I have a lot of thoughts on that too. But that's a lovely observation
I am weird. I am always glad when my weirdness helps a few people:-).