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@kate-flournoy thanks for the poem and for the protection 😀
@jane-maree I feel honored to eat your pizza. Maybe it will motivate me to finish unpacking my dorm.
@emma-flournoy …everything? I love improvising on hymns, sight-reading and learning classical pieces, and messing with Disney/La La Land/random other musical music, and occasionally pounding out some 1 Direction. So like, good question.
@aratrea I’ve actually only read Crime and Punishment by him, but it was extremely compelling and moving. I’ll have to add Brothers Karamazov to my reading list.
@lifeofkatie *high fives back*@kate-flournoy I actually haven’t. Unfortunately I’m not a huge Tolkien person *covers head while all the Tolkien fans assault (that’s how it usually goes anyway)*. I liked the Lord of the Rings. Sort of. But I never really got into them so I never really explored his other work.
I didn’t used to like Emily Dickinson either, but then I did a research paper on her and read about a million of her poems and fell in love. I think it takes some practice to appreciate the quirky grammar and slant rhymes.
Super late to this discussion, but definitely recommend Robert Frost’s “I Have Been One Acquainted with the Night” and (if you’re writing poetry) Archibald MacLeish’s “Ars Poetica” and Psalm 42 and John Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud” and yes to “Ozymandias” and if you want something kind of random and obscure try “Patterns” by Amy Lowell. Honestly I love just finding a big book of poetry by different people and flipping through and reading random ones. It’s amazing what you find.
Very good question @daughteroftheking. I heard of it years ago on Figment, and then just recently saw one of the writing videos through a blogger I was stalking. Basically a bunch of Christian-online-writing-community rabbit trails.
Whoops @that_writer_girl_99 haha I wasn’t sure how to find what they actually were (is there a place I can do that?). Yep, I hope so! Eighteen credits doesn’t look like it’s going to allow for much, though…
@daeus and @Josiah DeGraaf: I’ve written about (?) three hundred poems, but there are 102 in my book. I do both free verse and rhyme, all forms (mostly forms I make up), but sonnets are pretty cool and I’ve messed around with those a lot, using the pentameter but breaking up the lines or using the lines but changing the meter etc.
@Elizabeth: I have written so many stories! Not as much lately, since they take way more time/commitment than poetry and college has sucked all my time away from me…I do love fiction dearly, though.
@Dragon Snapper: I’ll make sure to. I hear they breathe fire. I’d rather not roast.
@Shannon: I’ve played piano for about eleven years, and adore it. I think music is one of the reasons I write poetry. Poetry isn’t poetry without music woven through it, and a piece has to have a story to mean anything…I think they’re almost the same thing in two different languages.
@Emily: Austin, Birdsall, Creech, Cummings, Dickens, Dickinson, Dostoyevsky, Homer, Lewis, Montgomery, Rowling, Shakespeare, Virgil…yes I do rather like to read.
@SeekJustice: I’m currently reading Olio by Tyehimba Jess. It’s a conglomeration of poems, interviews, pictures, letters and stories that talk about what it meant to be free or enslaved during Scott Joplin’s time and before, and how jazz and rag were an expression of that. Difficult to explain but really beautiful and moving. As for my favorite book of the Bible, how do I decide that??? But I am a fan of John, Ephesians, Revelation, the Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and Genesis, if only because those are the ones I’ve dug into the most.
