/lit/ - Literature

another little poem of Knott’s

>>11989031

fuck you let's actually discuss real poetry for once

When you are in that country
you must spread the good news about us
and praise our marvelous land:
here children all enjoy free education,
the old are cared for, the sick treated,
people live and work happily,
united in social harmony.
You can say our life is sweeter than honey
(although there’re a few lost ones
who squander public money for debauchery).
Moreover, our economy grows by the day.
Now it’s so easy to travel and communicate.
This country is rich and vast,
a garden of bliss in every way.
When you return from that country
you must bring back their bad news:
people there all live miserable lives,
most families are deep in debt,
men drink excessively and carry arms,
women are loose and shameless,
citizens burn their national flag in the open
and even curse their president on television,
children cannot see the purpose of life,
abuse drugs and indulge in sex,
many young girls get pregnant and some give birth,
common people have no chance to excel,
their economy has kept declining
and will soon collapse.
Don’t smirk like that.
I know what’s on your mind.
You’ve been thinking how to emigrate
so you can live in that country for good.
If so, you’d better shut up.
And don’t come back.

Having your arms outstretched, not close together, looks like flying. Bad poem.

>>11989260
>>11989271
this. fuck you and your short, oh-so-fucking-deep poem from a little kike-insipred faggot . i fucking hate you and all these poet assholes

>>11989271
Think of the triangular shapes your arms make when your hands are crossed on your chest. It's sort of wing-like.
It makes sense to me.

>>11989260

this is not fucking poetry you dorks. i bet you hate Keats you absolute dork

>>11989268
this is very charming but i dont know what more to say about it really

>>11989271
Do you need an extra long coffin to convince the undertaker to lay you out superman style or can you just pay him to fold you back in?

Poetry doesn't exist.

>>11989031
ok this fucking slaps

>>11989040
lololol

>>11989344
Uhh

Vibrations across spacetime or their consensus agreed upon symbolic visual representation.

>>11989327
t.dork

>>11989031
indifferent
>>11989040
mildly amused
>>11989260
turbocringe
>>11989268
based

The greatest living German poet, Rolf Schilling.
http://www.rolfschilling.de/Gedichte/messingstadta.html

>>11989434
The only poem in this thread to have rhyhtm and mildly powerful combinations of sounds

someone posted this one by richard siken here and i loved it
bought the book where it's from and it was 50/50. some good stuff, some pretty bad.
i really like yahya hassan and olga ravn as well for contemporaries

Wtf there's no single mention of Rupi Kaur, I'm disappointed /lit/

>>11989031
absolute shit poem

>>11989260
absolute shit

>>11989268
kind of shit

>>11989434
decent

>>11990254
awful, just awful

>>11990260
this one is nice

>>11990269
terrible

>>11990295
absolutely beautiful. I am in tears. Will be adding this one to my favorites

Richard Strand’s reasons for moving has a some doap moments

>>11989031
Cannot unread. Literally Rupi Kaur tier.

>>11990260
>'s reveald
Dropped.

English poetry used to be beautiful. How did it come from

FAIR isle, that from the fairest of all flowers,
Thy gentlest of all gentle names dost take!
How many memories of what radiant hours
At sight of thee and thine at once awake!
How many scenes of what departed bliss!
How many thoughts of what entombéd hopes!
How many visions of a maiden that is
No more — no more upon thy verdant slopes!
No more! alas, that magical sad sound
Transforming all! Thy charms shall please no more —
Thy memory no more! Accurséd ground
Henceforth I hold thy flower-enamelled shore,
O hyacinthine isle! O purple Zante!
“Isola d’oro! Fior di Levante!”

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>>11989040

>>11989031
Fuck yes!!

>>11992479
People grew up and stopped being pseuds.

Y'all in this thread are fucking retarding pretending like you know what poetry is like you're not scrolling with the same hands that jacked off to loli hentai ten minutes ago

Here's my contemporary poem:

A gay butterfly plays Minecraft one last time
A steam of tears rolls down it's gay asscheeks
I drink alcohol like a whale and have sex with the sea
Instagram titties makes me very horny
I saw the emoji movie last night with a large Mexican woman while she talked about the geopolitical climate of Saudi militants
Cum cum cum cum cun cun cun cun
I swallowed a bullet I swallowed a gun
I swallowed a girl's dick and it tasted alright
"There is no such thing as the United States of America"
-proclaims transsexual Jesus to god (who was diagnosed with Autism, summer 99')
Fuck anyone who knows how to read

>>11994588
Please, more

>>11992479
And yet you could hardly pick a more puffed up and bombastic dreck to illustrate your point.

>>11989031
Bonnefoy is great

>>11989268

>when you cede your culture's 1,000 year poetic tradition to housewives on SSRIs

In the kingdom by the sea,
In the mountains mantled blue,
On frigid winter's final day
Was born a man with but one task:

To kill the foe in Durza
In the land of shadows.

Nurtured by the kind and the wise
Under oaks as old as time,
he ran with deer and wrestled bears,
and from his elders learned the skills

To kill the foe in Durza
in the land of shadows.

Taught to spy the thief in black
when he grabs the weak and strong;
to block his blows and fight the fiend
with rag and rock and plant and bone

and kill the foe in Durza
in the land of shadows.

Quick as thought, the years did turn
'Til the man had come of age,
his body burned with fevered rage,
while youth's impatience seared his veins.

Then he met a maiden fair,
Who was tall and strong and wise
Her brow adorned with Geda's Light
Which shown upon her trailing gown.

In her eyes of midnight blue
in those enigmatic pools,
appeared to him a future bright
together, where they would not have

to fear the foe in Durza
In the land of shadows.

>>11995498
In the dark before the dawn
in the room where slept the man
the foe, he crept and loomed above
his mighty rival now so weak.

From his pillow did the man
raise his head and gaze upon
the cold and empty face of Death
the king of everlasting night

Calm acceptance filled the man's
aged heart; for long ago
he'd lost all fear of Death's embrace
the last embrace that a man will know

Gentle as a morning breeze
bent the foe and from the man
his glowing, pulsing spirit took
and thence in peace they went to dwell,

forevermore in Durza
In the land of shadows

>>11994588
this is great. post more.

>oh ah! twas yon past nightingayol unfetteredly and truly so my sweet love darling ah but what doth glisteningly leafingly bloombeam blaj bla hbaofsasdhaihfsisudhfsf

idiots

>>11995005
in english

>>11989434
I like it.

>>11990295
jsesu modern women are vapid narcissists

>>11989260
So. Your house is shit right now and you're not down to party...? Fuck that. That's not you man, you know the parties always going. What the fuck you got going on in there that you're trying to hide. Damn squatters rights gone to your head again? (They think no government is government enough as long as you're telling each other to fuck off and whatnought without given two fucks what anyones doing or whatever, you know those idiots.)

>>11994588
>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yo9WHrTvks