/lit/ - Literature

>>10993464
Dumb meme. let it die

Not memeing I genuinely like this.
Then again I don't know shit.

Holy... I want more

>>10993464
unironically 100000000000x better than pic related, how do we get more of this kid's work published

>>10993468
it's not a meme, it's unironically a very well executed poem.

>>10994490
These would be so much better if the line breaks didn't occur seemingly arbitrarily. Like they wouldn't be good, but they wouldn't be ">poetry was a mistake"-tier either.

>>10994490
>i need someone
>who knows struggle
>as well as i do

Now this is a poem that really makes me feel

>>10994543
>yes but I don't want to
jesus... I need more these kids are fucking naturals

>>10994490
>i
stopped reading right there

>>10994543
>Mom, do you see me?
>Yes, but I don't want to.
>OK.

>>10994490
Every single one of her poems reads like an egotistical petition.
>i need
>i demand
Do ya?

>>10994587
I was reading a "think piece" about her that was praising her ability to connect to a generation obsessed with netflix and disinterested in literature. Like no shit. I think the irony of that statement was lost on the writer. Mass culture was always banal but literary critics used to stand against this.

>>10994543
Stephany and Nael actually give me hope for the future of poetry.

>>10994608
Link? This is too fucking much

>>10994512
Please explain how it's well executed.

>>10994608
i was reading
a "think piece" about her
that was praising
her ability to connect to a generation
obsessed
with netflix
and disinterested in literature
like no shit
i think the irony of that statement
was lost on the writer
mass culture
was always banal but
literary critics
used to stand against this

>>10993464
The penis
He escaped his cage
Yes
YES
The penis has came

I wish I told you your art was trash
Not to hurt you
But because as I lost my love for you
My love for the truth grew in comparison

Cool, poetry. I posted my prose this morning about 5am and never got a reply. Either I'm terrible or everyone was asleep, and both are equally likely.

God, You're kidding! Right?

How can you let
time slip by,
in what seems but
a blink of an eye?
Since; when I look back,
I am hit by the flack;
of previous endeavors
of mine.

All the countless hours,
and sleepless nights.
It's beginning to take
the last of Our
might.

But God, You're kidding?
This is all just Your ruse.
Helping me, to see
where We ought to be;
and where I ought
to lose.

There is hope in the Sun,
still closure in the Stars.
Yet here, I feel,
there's aching in our
hearts.

God. We're only kidding.
But I think you can see,
that; the truths we had held,
day in and day out,
are nothing more than;
a cosmic bout.

>>10993464
I usually don't enjoy poetry, but this one I like. inb4 brainlat

>>10995209
beautiful

>>10994543
>mom, do you see me
>yes, but I don't want to

>>10995209
Now just compile a book of these and sell it

>>10995283
Lose ALL the rhymes

>>10994543
Truly a writer headed for the oven.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoLs5KdeLQg

the saddest poem

>>10996111
Holy fuck

>>10996111
>My body
>Is work

>>10996132
>my belly hurts
>i try

>>10994543
This kid has undisputable talent

>it's a Nael vs. Rupi Kaur thread

I haven't been on /lit/ since 2015 or 2016 and you're still memeing this? That's really sad.

>>10993464
>>10994543
well, it is better than Ginsberg

>>10994543
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>10996085
A reason as to why, please?
I don't think it's formal enough, a mix of prose and metered pome sounds gross, huh?
I just hope the message/emotion is okay. Form I can change quite easily, the way I convey thought, not so much.

>>10994543
>Mom, do you see me?
>Yes, but I don't want to

What did he unironically mean by this?

>>10994543

>I wonder why
>Oh well, kids don't know everything

This is the beginning of the child's recognition of the bleakness and insignificance of humanity.

>>10994608

Someone wrote a profile of her that was one of the most spectacular tongue-in-cheek eviscerations I've read in a long time. Had me laughing more than once.

https://www.thecut.com/2017/10/profile-rupi-kaur-author-of-milk-and-honey.html

>>10996111

>I'd be a big black bear
>They're cute
>They're cute

>>10997700
thanks anon. I assume you've read the Watts piece? I encourage you to if you haven't. It's so savage.

>>10997727

I had not but good gracious was that well done.

>>10997700
>She is, deeply and truly, a poet of Instagram: In the manner of that medium, her work is human experience, tidily aestheticized and monetized, rendered inspirational and relatable in perfect balance.

Lmao this is great. I could easily see people into that shit not even realizing what a dig this is.

>>10997700
>>10997778
>“This guy is the best,” she says, noticing an edition of Kafka’s complete stories; she’s referring to Peter Mendelsund, the book’s designer. “The dream is to have him design my next book.”

>>10995283
Boring. I'm not trying to be mean, it's just a boring poem without much theme beyond obscure feelings. Plus, it's long. Boring and long isn't good. Try to think about what you like reading, and how you can give other people things they'd like reading.

A blotter pad, kids don't know
that, picking up excess
marks up in us
and speckling
experience
all that's to be done
is to rip off the top
and let it go
above the bin
where else?

>>10996111
No. One look at the thumbnail and title and I feel like weeping bitter tears. This world must be united with God. We take so much for granted, man.

>>10994490
anything times zero is zero anon
this is still garbage

None of the poems here are good. Go back to Shakespeare and Shelley.

>>10994543
>Mom, do you see me?
>Yes, but I don't want to

hahaha what kind of terrible parent says that haha