Poetry in general

[Kaya Young]

I’ve been reading more poetry lately, and wondered what you all thought.

So…

What are your favorite poems?

What is your best advice for writing poetry?

Has anyone tried blackout poetry?

Feel free to share any poetry you have written!

@ingridrd @alia @rochellaine @ariella-newheart @jenwriter17 @ariel-ashira @daughteroftheking

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[Jenna Terese]

@kaya-young I literally know nothing about poetry 😜 But I do know that my favorite poems have come from @rochellaine 😉

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[Grace H.]

@kaya-young I’m at the moment sort of experimenting with poetry once in a while. I like to write beautiful, graceful free verse rather than structured stanzas, although I do enjoy poems with structure as well.

Some great poetry tips I’ve heard include using imagery/metaphors as much as you can and aiming to make the piece beautiful.

Does anybody write structured poems (rhyme scheme, rhythm, etc)? I can’t really fit my huge thoughts into structured lines, but I would love to hear the perspective from anyone that does 🙂

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[Ariel Ashira]

@kaya-young I like writing lots of different styles and rhyme patterns and rhythm patterns.  I don’t know what blackout poetry is.  One of my favorite poems is called The Destruction of Sennacherib by Byron.  Thats the first one that comes to mind.  Here, I’ll post it for you.

 

The Destruction of Sennacherib
BY LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON)

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,

And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;

And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,

When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.

 

Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,

That host with their banners at sunset were seen:

Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown,

That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.

 

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,

And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed;

And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill,

And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!

 

And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide,

But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride;

And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf,

And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf.

 

And there lay the rider distorted and pale,

With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail:

And the tents were all silent, the banners alone,

The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.

 

And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail,

And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal;

And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,

Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!

"In a mask, was he?"

[Rochellaine]

@jenwriter17 *blushes* Goodness!  Thank you. 🙂

@gh24682468999 I write structured poetry.  Daeus did too, but he’s not here anymore.  (He’s one of those traitors that snuck off to join the enemy at Story Embers. 😛 )  I’m horrible at giving advice, but I would guess reading a lot of good poetry would help.  I write mostly comic poems, so I don’t focus on the beautiful and elegant as much.  I know it can be done in structured poetry, though.  Here’s an example you may have heard before from Longfellow’s A Psalm of Life:

Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream! –
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

There are several more verses, but I’m just giving an example.  Longfellow is one of my favorite poets.

@kaya-young I’ve never tried blackout poetry, but it sounds interesting.  Maybe I will try it someday.  I don’t usually plan to write poems, though.  I’ll just get the idea all of a sudden and write it all out in one or two sittings, and then be done with it. 😉

@ariel-ashira I’ve liked that poem since I was very young.  The rhythmic pattern is very bouncy and fun.

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[SeekJustice]

@kaya-young

I sometimes write free form poetry, just to get my thoughts out, usually in my journal. I have tried writing an “Epic” poem, which ended up being longer than some of my short stories and I structured it around syllables (each line had, I think, fourteen syllables), which gave it a really nice flow. That’s not a very popular way of writing poetry, but I really enjoyed it. It was slightly different from everything everyone else was doing and a bit unique.

Anyway, that was just a random post, basically to say that I’m terrible at poetry and don’t really have anything to offer 😀 But good luck!

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[SeekJustice]

@kaya-young

Oh and yes! I’ve done blackout poetry! Remember that time KP did the blackout poetry contest? I wrote an entry for that, though I never entered it, and it was also a lot of fun! Have you done much blackout?

INFP Queen of the Kingdom commander of an army of origami cranes and a sabre from Babylon.

[Kaya Young]

@seekjustice  I’ve done three blackout poems, and they don’t really have much of a design on them so I’ll just post the words here:

1. “Dreams meant running in a new stimulus”.

2. personality flung in to dramatic friendships”.

And last but not least, this one, which I have no clue what it means…

3. “”Are you eloping?” “No! “Unfortunately.” She impishly spared the young Pete He amused her and did odd things”.

Wow. None of those make much since written down like that.

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[SeekJustice]

@kaya-young that last one literally made me laugh out loud. 😀

But I really like that first one. Its pretty cool!

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