/lit/ - Literature

Just write how you feel (5)
rhythm numbers must match up (7)
Its really not that hard (6)

>>21374627
If it doesn't come to you naturally, you're not an artist. Nobody ever taught me, I was COMPELLED.

Don’t focus on rhymes focus on meter

Have talent incel

>>21374921
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>>21375138
Everyone in this thread should immediately kill himself including me.

>>21375454
Can I kill myself too?

>>21374627
By writing it.

There are resources for writers in the OP of >>>/lit/wg/

This thread was weirdly mean and hostile.

>>21374627
1. learn the names of metrical feet to analyze poetry better
2. read lots of poetry
or just be born with a natural affinity for it, either way you're already literate so it's over for you tbqhwyf
>>21374921
english attempts at haiku are retarded, moraic versification does not work in the confines of a stress-timed language

just use
a lot
of line
breaks

it is so
deep

Okay, I'll try writing a love poem now:

When I wake up in the morning
And see the empty spot in my bed,
The spot where you lay yesterday,
I feel my stomach turn, I feel bad.

When I see through the window
The flowers and plants in the garden,
I think of your beauty. You're not here.
I feel in my heart the german word "Schaden".

When I shout in my pillow: "My love!"
I do so quietly, because of my mother.
I shout in my mind. I look at the moon.
I love you like nobody other.

I know that I stumble over my words
And cannot find the right rhymes,
But I want you to know that,
If you read beetween the lines,
You'll see how much your death still hurts.

I read Western Wind and The Best Poems of the English Language to get into poetry. Those were good and I'd recommend them, but I found they weren't enough to really understand rhyme, meter, the technical stuff. For that, I used sources online. I never found a good book although one certainly exists.

>>21374627
Here's my attempt, AMA:

Two souls flushed
Their worries hushed
The frog gives her a little treat
She can't think of anything more sweet

A souvenir she'll always keep
His company she'll always seek
Of this memory they'll always speak

There once was an ignorant channer
Who posted a lot in this manner:
"Retarded am I,
I wish I would die,"
Until someone obliged with a hammer

>>21378929
I exhaled

>>21378674
Huh whatever you wrote seems pretty profound. Think I need to read more Plato before I can decipher it.

>>21378694
Kino. I like it and it has an impactful ending

>>21378929
Kek

>>21374627
find a poet you like
read all of their stuff and learn two or three by heart, you know, be able to recite them don't osmosis it to your tittays
google "poetic forms" and write at least 10x10 forms alternating days between waxing and full moons or 3x10 forms wane to new
don't fall for starting sonnets, you'll be disciplined but too many singsong words (too-loo,la-dee-dah, hey-nonny, etc) will make you wanna visit that Ann of Hyru
good luck

>>21374627
"The ode less traveled" by Stephen Fry,
"La vita nuova" by Dante (Rosetti translation)
"The best poems of the english language by Harold Bloom.
If you read all of these and do not get into writing poetry there is nothing to be done.

>>21374627
Just be yourself and let that flow into your writing

>>21374627
To get into writing poetry, you must get into reading and thinking about poetry. But do not take this to mean that you cannot write until you have read, instead you should constantly be attempting to write. You can start out doing experiments like those of Charles Bernstein (https://writing.upenn.edu/bernstein/experiments.html)), or just write responses to things you've read, seen or heard. Try writing down your thoughts as prose and arranging them into poetry. One of the biggest mistakes you can make is valuing reading poetry over writing it. Do not read so much poetry that you become marinated in it. Start by finding out just two or three poets you really like, and read them. And then you can start adding more to that list as you write more.

>>21378929
>a lot -> quite oft
>I wish I would die -> Would that I would die
>missed an obvious 'ban hammer' pun that would tie it back to the fact that he's a channer

Still, not bad

>>21374627
i'm french and just learnt about the iambic pentameter. im pretty french poetry has no metre that takes into account stress as well as syllable count like the iambic pentameter does(right?). what do you call this type of metre and is it an english specificity?

>>21374627
i will be alone on valentines day again i know it

My heart became flurry
Why must you hurry
I offered you a hand
Me you clearly could not stand

>>21378694
I remixed your poem. Lord this was a difficult exercise. Fun though -- I recommend other people try it on other poems.

My rules were to I had to use each and every word from the original post exactly once. I added punctuation. Hopefully it's not too syntactically convoluted and still maintains some kind of narrative/conceptual coherence.

(I also hope your poem wasn't describing something real and that I haven't just chopped up a very personal piece of writing. If so, oops and sorry.)

>>21378694
I remixed your poem. Lord this was a difficult exercise. Fun, though -- I recommend other people try it on other poems.

My rule: I had to use each and every word from the original post exactly once, and only those words. I added punctuation. Hopefully it's not too syntactically convoluted and still maintains some kind of narrative/conceptual coherence.

(I also hope your poem wasn't describing something real and that I haven't just chopped up a very personal piece of writing. If so, oops and sorry.)

>>21380158
Could use some work but it's a good base

>>21380574
This is great but I think only because I've read the original. Don't know if I'd be a big fan if I saw it on its own

>>21380574
this looks like fun. i'm going to try it

>>21379584
Actually your edits make it sound fucking stupid. I chose my words intentionally you midwit