POETRY.

[fuckrobertfrost.livejournal.com]

Okay guys, I want you to write some poetry about or by your characters. It can be stupid, short, long, rhyming, haiku, whatthefuckever.

Just this once, I will allow you to choose the wuss out option: you can use poems by other poets.

If you don't want to write poems, then name your favorite poets. Or write a screed about why you hate poetry — quite frankly I sympathize — anything, I don't care. This post is about poetry.

Posting this with the relevant account even though I dropped him. FIRST ONE TO POST ROBERT FROST GETS THEIR EYEBROWS SINGED OFF. no I'm kidding he is a fine poet and I greatly admire his diction sob

Comments

[pacifisted.livejournal.com]

YOU WROTE THIS?

I loved that one from the moment I read it on the meme--and spent the better part of the following hour trying to Google it to find out who the author was and where I could find more!

(Did you also write the one about green eyes? I saved them both to my computer that day.)

[exprophet.livejournal.com]

:O!!!!!!!!!! omg. I was excited because someone left a comment that it was "lovely", and it is so amazing to hear this from you, thank you!

I was concerned about the hokey rhyme pattern or... lack thereof... but it wasn't intentional, so I left it.

[pacifisted.livejournal.com]

Rhyme pattern is usually one of the first things that puts me off poems. People rarely use it when they express themselves naturally (speaking or ranting or thinking) so it just tends to throw me out of the comfy spot floating in the middle of the river when it comes to word flow.

And you're quite welcome--beyond welcome! <3

[exprophet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, like, I do enjoy verse, but the formality is sometimes off-putting. Then again, some people still manage to make it flow. I have no idea how to write, for instance, sonnets. Mostly I just prefer to read or write from that same middle of the river space.

[exprophet.livejournal.com]

Green eyes was not me! Was that in the most recent anonmeme? /zooms to read

[pacifisted.livejournal.com]

I don't remember which anon comm I found it on, but I do know that I read yours and it on the same day--I'm super picky with poetry so when I find one that strikes me I try to save it on paper or the laptop or something so I never lose it, hee.

[exprophet.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, I love that. "Fact of his pulse" and crash test cars, and the ending.

Man, I love that a poem like this could just be delivered to our doorstep, so to speak. Because it's so intimidating and exasperating to go out looking for poetry by people who aren't yet published.

[doubleoohbaby.livejournal.com]

Randomly, this reminds me of James. Except he has blue eyes. But the rest I can relate to him in one way or another.