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Rules: Write a poem for national poetry month on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a separate reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month have written 30 poems for National Poetry Month.
This year, there are no form requirements, only "tiers" or "rankings" given informally to all participants:
Bronze Tier: Participate at least once.
Silver Tier: Participate all days.
Gold Tier: Participate all days, and have all entries be the same form or have all entries be different forms.
Write a wisdom poem: sayings, parables, anything with some kind of lesson.
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If only it
were as easy
as following
some catchy
one liner,
I'd feel better
about living a much longer life
sentence.
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04-03-2025, 12:26 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-03-2025, 12:40 AM by RiverNotch.)
What the Gospel sets loose, the Apostles bind,
as the Law governs and the Prophets liberate;
as Homer and Ovid render human the divine,
the Philosophers and Lucan seek to divinize the human.
An oppressed people finds its voice in their kings,
while the oppressors' First Citizen is honored by the son
of a rural magistrate's plebeian assistant,
and seeking to synthesize, however roughly,
are the little-read Statius and Sirach,
are the little-grasped Dante and Job.
But diving deeper into themselves
than even Horace, Persius, Juvenal, and Terence
so as to make all division redundant
are Shakespare and Petrarch, Chaucer and Boccaccio.
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Too Spicy for a Fortune Cookie
Don’t depend on government to solve
a problem if you want it
to ever go away.
Poets write to gain the admiration
of poets, especially
their own.
Getting people to believe you’re
modest is an accomplishment
to be proud of.
Finding a needle in a haystack
is a mug’s game, kid–
buy a new needle.
A wise woman hides it until
she’s old enough for
men to notice.
Men and women are both well
advised to grow
a pair.
The wise man is the one
telling relevant
jokes.
[Form: wisdom/sayings]
Non-practicing atheist
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What's the point
of forcing yourself to do what you hate
and working tirelessly for the approval of others,
Only to be told it's not good enough,
that it was done wrong?
Do what you want, for fuck's sake.
You'll be criticized no matter what.
- ▀▄▀▄▀▄ depressedmetalhead ▄▀▄▀▄▀ ●︿● ˖ ⁺‧₊˚♡˚₊‧⁺˖ ☿
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Be a rainbow to run to
not a storm to flee.
Be the tropical sun,
not a tsunami.
Be a favorite blanket,
not one that is wet.
Be someone's home sweet home,
not a choice they regret.
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(04-04-2025, 10:18 AM)carahmellow Wrote: Be a rainbow...
Yay! Ya made it carah!
(04-03-2025, 04:28 AM)dukealien Wrote: [Form: wisdom/sayings]
Hmmm ?? A bit dicey with this one.
I'm gonna start making shit up, like:
Form: ancient angular
Form: rim tonal
Form: semi syncopatic
Form: poeticatina
Form: lessness
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What can I say
that hasn't been said
or seen, or drank
or eaten, or shat?
I'll find something.
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I am wise, I am wise,
(a burger with fries
on the side). I'm the greatest,
more than Ali,
scarier than Kali
Linux in its latest
release. I serve to please
myself mostly, then my base:
some, members of the human race,
others, lizard people. I love my sheeple.
