Imagination Unleashed – Poems on Love, Love poetry

I’ll be There <3

September 19, 2017Written by dev

I’ll be There <3 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Just because life is being cruel to you While you are feeling upset and blue Remember me dear, you’re not on your own I will always be there; you’re never alone <3 Though you are unable to see my face As hard as you look around the place But start […]

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Life’s Rule <3

September 18, 2017Written by dev

Life’s Rule <3 ~~~~~~~~~ Smile, everyone gonna smile with you Cry, and sure you will cry alone <3 The sad old world must borrow it’s mirth But got trouble enough of its own <3 Sing, and the mountains will answer Sigh, sometimes it is lost in the air <3 The echoes bound to a joyful […]

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My Dream <3

July 15, 2017Written by dev

My Dream <3 ~~~~~~~ I dream to love you for all my life Wake up everyday with you by my side <3 Listening to heart beats against mine I dream so many thing and wanna say <3 But my mind goes completely blank Where my heart with love simply sank <3 I sometimes wonder if […]

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Wings of Love <3

July 14, 2017Written by dev

Wings of Love <3 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Over the wings of the love My feelings for you flies Soaring higher and higher And touching the blue skies I see the colors of the rainbow A point of no darkness or shadows <3 Like mountains, troubles stood tall Fears appear now like an ant so small All […]

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Love in Air <3

July 11, 2017Written by dev

Love in Air <3 ~~~~~~~~ Love is truly in the air And you may feel it everywhere It’s truly just a blessing To have someone in life Who cares <3 Love is truly in the air Its all around and everywhere Love is something you should share I know this that you really care […]

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Love Expression <3

July 10, 2017Written by dev

Love Expression <3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I love you with all my heart I knew it from the very start See how much I love you And how much this is true <3 I hope you find the time To read these poems through What my heart have revealed Over the years will be true <3 The […]

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Love Life <3

July 6, 2017Written by dev

Love Life <3 ~~~~~~~~ Beloved whenever I dream, you’re my only desire In my life now you gonna be only one to inspire In heart I embraced this love so open and strong I will never think of anyone else ever lifelong <3 When you’re far still I know you’ll be in touch At night […]

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Love You <3

July 4, 2017Written by dev

Love You <3 ~~~~~~~~ My saddest days Turn very bright <3 In the darkest nights You are my light <3 When I’m confused You make me see <3 When I’m in doubt You make me believe <3 When you’re with me I’m filled with happiness <3 When we’re apart I’m overwhelmed with emptiness […]

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Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow <3

July 3, 2017Written by dev

Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow <3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Consider today as the first day of our life The days just go by really too fast Let’s live together, love and be happy… Like in dreams as if it were our last <3 Forget about yesterday, its faults and blunders We cannot really undo the mistakes, we made […]

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What's a tag? How do I get into Poetry? Where can I share original work? and other FAQs

28 April 2021

HI EVERYONE. There are ONE MILLION people subscribed to r/poetry, and more subscribers for whatever reason JUST KEEP SHOWING UP. That's great. We love you. You love us. We all love poetry. Let's do some FAQs.

What is this subreddit for?

Talkin' bout the world of poetry and poets. Share your favorite poems, discuss how poetry works, ask for homework help, gossip about lit magazine drama. Hell yeah.

Can I share my own original poetry here?

No. Aaaaaaaaaaaabsolutely not. Very very no. Head on over to our sister subreddit, r/OCpoetry. (that would be "original content" poetry.) Make sure to read the rules before posting your stuff over there, as they have another fairly baroque system.

Why can't I share my own original poetry here?

There was a massive amount of original poetry, and it clearly needed its own space. So about seven years ago, we made the decision to split, and create a dedicated subreddit for original poetry. So this subreddit is for the world of published poetry, and for discussing it.

What's a tag?

It's our categorization system. This is one of the ways we prevent the subreddit from getting flooded with spam and other irrelevant stuff. You will notice that every post here has a certain word in brackets, like [POEM]. Anytime you want to post here, you need to put a tag into the title of the post, or else the robots will remove it. It's not case-sensitive, so you can type [pOeM] or whatever and it'll work fine. The tags are:

[POEM] - it's for sharing poetry, duhhhh [OPINION] - for discussion. "I hate rupi kaur" is a perenially popular hot take, if you want to start a fight [ARTICLE] - news and fun facts about hot developments in the poetry world [RESOURCE] - a literary journal, poetry writing technique, or automatic scansion robot. This category might share significant crossover with the [article] tag, so just pick whichever sounds most suited to whatever it is you're sharing. [PROMO] - If you have been published in a journal, or you have published a chapbook/collection, this is the one and only place you can promote your original work. You cannot use the promo tag for: self-published stuff, youtube videos, and the like. [HELP] - self-explanatory: call for aid from the randoms on the internet. what's a lit device? What poem is on the tip of my tongue? how do I do my homework? And if you are asking for homework help, please for the love of god explain how much you've done. it's not fair to ask the randoms to do your homework for you. The randoms have their own homework. [OPPORTUNITY] - Share contests, publishing opportunities, or other one-off commissions or requests to collaborate on artistic projects. [META] -- complain about how the subreddit sucks Is a tag flair?

No no no no no no

Can I share poetry in other languages?

PLEASE. Other languages are cool. It probably would help to post a translation though. It is completely okay to post original translations of published poetry. If you've translated the poem from your native language into English, just say so in the post.

Why was my post removed? It contained a really famous poem!

Probably because your poem is in our Hall of Fame: poems that got posted so often, that it started to get super boring.

How do I get into poetry?

Great question. "Poetry" is not really a single thing, but a vast and amorphous category of literature (and, kinda, music) spanning thousands of years. Sounds a bit daunting! So here are some of the best resources to make inroads and start appreciating stuff.

The Poetry Foundation has an excellent section just called "Learn" separated by age group (children, teens, and adults) with just scads of articles and podcasts teaching you how to appreciate poems. They also feature a glossary of poetic terms. .

Poetry 180 is a list of contemporary poems curated by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins. It was intended as a way to give high school students a poem a day. They're all really accessible, and it's a great tool for discovering authors you might like. This is more helpful than, like, jumping into old stuff like Shakespeare, Wordsworth or Donne and expecting to know what the hell is going on. (Those are all great poets too, but c'mon, we're modern dudes, we live in the modern-dude-world).

ModPo is a free online course with my main man Al Filreis at the University of Pennsylvania. He and his students take you through the modern poetry canon, from kinda mid-1800s (Dickinson and Whitman) all the way to the present day. The structure of the course is basically videotaped close readings of famous poems, and it's a really helpful way of learning to think about poetry. This is a really great course and I cannot recommend it enough. There's also a class forum which is active year-round. You'll have to create a free account on the Coursera platform to access all the stuff.

If you're more interested in learning about the classics, you can pick up a copy of the Norton Anthology . It's two thousand pages long. It contains nearly every significant poem ever written in the English language.

We also have a large and slightly organized wiki that you can browse.

How are you even supposed to read a poem?

Fortunately, there's a little article on exactly that subject.

How do I find other poems I might be interested in?

Poem-a-day from poets.org will, as promised, email you one new poem per day. Similarly, the Poetry Foundation's newsletter will do the same. This is probably the easiest way to do things.

Poems are published in literary journals of various sizes and prestiges. (Please leave more suggestions in the comments if you have your own favorites -- there are literally thousands of them.) Some great ones are:

Iowa Review American Poetry Review Poetry Magazine Kenyon Review Penn Review The Paris Review Ploughshares Palette Glass Rattle Kissing Dynamite Split Lip Mag How do I write poetry?

Uhhhh oh man, that's a big question. I'd recommend getting a book like Mary Oliver's Poetry Handbook, or a general writing advice book like Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones. This article is a very good list of "first time" poetry writing books.

I highly recommend you either join the r/OCpoetry community, or you head over to the Discord. Finding a writing group where you can get feedback, and where you can learn to give feedback as well, is probably the most important step besides "read and write a lot of poetry."

This is a google drive full of basically all the resources you'd need to get an MFA in poetry. Fair warning, it is suuuper academic. (It also contains a bunch of photocopied chapters from Mary Oliver's book, which is very not-academic.)

What about getting published in one of those "literary journals" you speak of?

First, revise your poetry. Give it to a friend to get their impression. You are not going to get published without some editing.

Second; find a home for your work. You'll likely have to submit your poem to a lot of different places.

Duotrope and Submittable are two apps that help you search for journals, and help you track what poems you've submitted to which places. Submittable is free, Duotrope is not. They are GREAT.

Poets & Writers has a list of lit journals, small presses, and writing contests. This is a great place to start. They also have a newsletter (monthly? I think?) listing all the presses and journals going into their submissions period.

Entropy Mag puts out a list of publications and writing contests going into their submissions periods every three months. Very useful.

Empty Mirror put together this Twitter list of lit journals and small presses, and they regularly post their calls for submissions here.

What if my question hasn't been answered?

Feel free to either make a post, or post your question in the comments below. This is a live document and will probably be added to later.

AIGHT PEACE OUT

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[POEM] The Life You Could Be Living (if You Weren’t Living This One)

22 September 2021

by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

The life you could be living aches in its compression, tires of being a spark, an asteroid, a falling raindrop bouncing when it hits. It’s wound tight between muscle and sinew, lodged in the happy gaps of a synapse. It’s fluid like flowers. It sounds like geese out of sight. It’s marvelous as falling asleep when exhausted, and it foreshadows your dreams like a stray piece of sunlight or an unnoticed icicle.

Pull apart the paper vignettes and subtle understandings. Find a favorite shoe lost decades ago, a line to an old song, and behind that, the melody that once made you lift your arms and twirl in your childhood bedroom after dark.

This life startles you with its foreign tongue of traumas and kisses, its vulnerable eyes staring into yours for mercy as it lies down beside you, tries to say—although it doesn’t know your language— that it’s okay how it turned out, that it’s still here, and despite its wish to be lived, it’s not going anywhere.

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[POEM] "Our Deepest Fear" by Marianne Williamson

22 September 2021

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,

Our deepest fear is that we are

Powerful beyond measure

It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us

We ask ourselves who am I to be

Brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There's nothing enlightened about shrinking

So that other people won't feel insecure around you

We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We were born to make manifest

the glory of God that is within us

It's not just in some of us it's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,

We unconsciously give other people permission

To do the same

As we are liberated from our own fear,

Our presence automatically

Liberates others

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[HELP] Poem recommendation to read and discuss with my depressed sister.

22 September 2021

Hi everyone! I'm not sure if this post is appropriate for r/poetry, and if not I apologize. I read the rules and it seems like it's ok.

For a little backstory, my sister is clinically depressed and has been diagnosed with a few other mental disorders. She is not suicidal. She is on FMLA from work, but is refusing to stay in any sort of rehab facility. She has cut off contact with most everyone except for me. We will talk for hours and hours, and it breaks my heart to listen to her talk in her spirals. If you have ever had a depressed loved one, I'm sure you know what I mean. We live 3000 miles away from each other so it's impossible to be there for her physically. She hasn't left her apartment in over a month. I recommended us doing a 'book club', where we read a short story and then discuss at the end of each week. My goal is just to spend time with her and let her brain ponder on things outside of her constant, anxious, cyclical thoughts. To my surprise she said "I can't commit to a book, but let's do a 'poem club'". I'm happy. She asked me to pick the first poem and now I'm stuck. I was never a poetry buff and I don't know where to even start looking for a poem. Would any of you be able to recommend a poem that we could start with? I would like a poem that we can really sink our teeth into, but isn't very long.

Anyway, if you've read this far, thank you. I appreciate any input.

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