/lit/ - Literature

It's just a poem, settle down.

>>2847583
A man who collects books that are art offered to pay to bind one of my books if he could get a signed copy.

You jelly?

not as jelly as i am about dem bangs

get a haircut faggot

>paid
>poems

>Emo haircut covering eyes
>2 Deep for me
>Shitty poem about being bullied or some shit
>Also underage you look 15

Big deal, dickwad. I've been published, no one care and neither did I. Writing into your drawer and getting your stuff published doesn't really make that much of a difference.

Back to reddit with you.

cool, man. congratulations

are you sure you don't mean paid to publish author? Cause World Poetry Movement is a scam.

Sorry, OP

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110415101226AAjDVSY

Post what you got published then, you fucking idiot.

>>2847635
Ahahahahahahahahahaha. Oh fuck, holy shit OP.

Peak for you, OP. Peak for you.

>>2847635
Nice.

Site looks seedy as fuck too: http://www.worldpoetrymovement.com/

>>2847635
ahahahah you should have known you suck.

>>2847635
LOL
oh op, you silly faggot

>>2847644
>site is a scam
>64k people like it on Facebook
Sure are a lot of gullible aspiring poets on Facebook

>>2847657
some of them likely know that it's a scam but will pay the money to be able to tell people that they were "published".

>>2847662
oh god no. please. that's make me want to cry. tears of blood.

I fell for a scam like this in my early years of high school and almost ended up paying $75 for a fake shitty poetry collection

>>2847657
>implying there's not people who's specific job is liking things on facebook with a fuckload of different accounts

So, uh, I guess OP was lying about getting paid, lol.

Wait a minute. This photo is from 2006 (I checked the exif data). OP is just a troll, it turns out. Oh well, was funny while it lasted.

OP goddamit thank you for being such a fucking foolish human being...im still lol'ing at this.
oh fuuuuck HAHAHAHA

>>2847678

Dammit

OP is obviously a troll, but that image in itself is great.

do write a poem about the tears you're shedding right now, OP, and how bitter they taste

>>2847684
Haha, I'm just fucking with you. I couldn't get any exif data out of it at all.

so.......OP failed to troll..........here......on /lit/.......this is a really shame, OP, leave

It's certainly cute that OP thinks we'll take anything published in a magazine other than The New Yorker, Harper's or The Paris Review seriously, lol

good god

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I almost feel bad. Almost.

>>2847657
>Sure are a lot of gullible aspiring poets on Facebook

... yes? that is a true statement

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oldest trick in the book, kyle. the whole Flarf poetry movement spawned from people trying to flood those competitions with shitpoems.

found the original by image searching

http://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/xacao/i_know_its_small_but_i_am_officially_a_published/

Anyone remember poetry.com?

About ten years ago, they were a similar operation to this, and it annoyed the shit out of me that my sister was boasting that Poetry.com accepted 4 (!) of her poems, so I did some research and found out they accepted and print every poem that gets submitted to them (like TAR, actually). To prove it to my sister, I sent in a list of titles I had on my shelf, like:

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Then, nausea.
and The French Revolution
Are you there God?
It's me the life of pi.

And showed her the acceptance letter (much like OP's) when it came.

>implying my poetry wasn't being published before I was 10

This picture, straight from Reddit, ladies and gentlemen.

4chan, now losing all respectability as the last bastion of OC.

http://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/xacao/i_know_its_small_but_i_am_officially_a_published/

If you got paid, then yes, props to you...If you just got published, still ok, but I've published like 13 of those..kept getting hit up to buy the book my poem was in and to buy tickets to a poets convention..lol...no sale. But it does feel good to be published, so good for you either way...

And here is the actual poem, ladies and gentlemen:

Sadness
Piercing, seething, throbbing sadness
My chest constricted, every breath a fight against myself
And although my heart keeps beating, there is no life in my veins
Sadness
The sun outside taunts me, for I have no warmth in me
An icy hand is sifting through my memories, stirring up pain and tears
I see no color, only grey
Sadness
It chokes out all other feelings
A boundless human prison
It needs no walls to keep me in
Sadness
There is nothing else

>>2847784
I hope this is a joke and you just made that up

>>2847784
that's hilarious.

>>2847763
>(like TAR, actually)

lol'd

>>2847786
Nope. That bad boy is taken straight from the Reddit thread. I personally believe this guy is up there with Keats and Eliot, and rightly deserves a place in the western canon.

...keep in mind the dude is probably like 16, that there is some structure, that it does sorta convey, although perhaps roughly, an emotional experience...I think you should keep writing, maybe make it more "personal" in that you give us a character, not just th emotion...just an idea....

>>2847831
The guy isn't in this thread, you fucking idiot.

This thread is pretty bad, it turns out. One poem wouldn't mean much anyway (IMO). Get a novel published, THEN I'll be impressed.

>>2847847
Yeah Sunhawk, it's almost as bad as your threads

>>2847847
Get a job, then we'll be impressed, Sunhawk.

>>2847849

But not quite, right?