egb, 1 month ago to poetry

Playing catch-up today! Today’s prompt was to write a sijo, yesterday’s was to write a sonnet. I’m not really happy with how the sonnet turned out (sonnets in general are one of my least favorite forms), but the sijo form is new to me and I really enjoyed it!

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Irish goodbye Please don't blame me when I avert my eyes Half-asleep inside melancholy dreams Just a few deep breaths from the exit sign Creeping as I come, trampled as I seem In the leaving there's a certain romance Melody of footsteps undiscovered Echoed in that verse-Ecclesiastes 1:2-but the earth remains forever How needing just dissolves for a SIM card And lonely is mistaken for a life I took the numbers straight, like a coward My labors left to die in my device The joy I've found in self-destruction mode Is no secret—at least, the neighbors know...

EgyptianAphorist, 1 year ago to random

A #poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. ⚡️

— Randall Jarrell

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juliancday, 1 year ago to random

Looking to get off Twitter. The one thing really keeping me there is the larger community of poets, who are inventive and fascinating but also incredibly resistant to change. So if you're on Mastodon, and a poet, and I don't follow you, hit me up so I can change that.