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

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[origamiguardian.livejournal.com]

BIG SISTER by Death Quaker, written right now

She flies paper dragons
Catches bullets with cards
Stares death in the eyes with a smile

She sleeps in closets
And sets her face a-fire
Scared to death by threatened smooches

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ETA: Also my favorite poets are ee cummings and T.S. Eliot, neither of whose styles I am imitating above.

[magicalworld]

I really like the last two lines :3

[origamiguardian.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[exprophet.livejournal.com]

Lovely and endearing, much like Maggie! And I really like what I've read of both of cummings and Eliot. I'm ashamed I haven't read more because, well, they're such huge poets! But I'm intellectually lazy and I demand that poetry comes to me instead of the other way around.

[origamiguardian.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I know what you mean. :) Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is probably my favorite poem--it's looong but lovely; if you haven't read it (and you might have), give it a Google if you're looking for stuff to read. :)