#Stanzas At Best

[cedarboots]

Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines; Curl me about, ye gadding vines; And oh, so close your circles lace That I may never leave this place: But lest your fetters prove too weak, Ere I your silken bondage break, Do you, O brambles, chain me too, And, courteous briers, nail me through. (x)

Close-up under the cut:

#drawn in large part with crayola pipsqueak markers! #and of course my best friend colored pencil #don't read the poem it is a long boring work about how much some guy loves this english country house #but this stanza. hm. #tagging for #blood #but don't worry about this man he is neither alive nor dead but a secret third thing #17th century #my art

[baylardian-1]

Was listening to Open Up Your Eyes and getting Endgame Admiral Janeway inspies hehe. :3

#was thinking itd be quirky if she gave some eerily resonating advice to Amelia somehow :) #that like..... sticks with her yknow #just the two of them hehe #is it convenient the song starts with her talking about giving a lesson in regards to this being Lesson Plans inspy UMMMM YES!!!!!!! #id love to draw the admiral kinda stern and circle walking around five year old amelia but the poses r hard lol #oh my gosh and id love to draw the admiral with that one stanza about it being best for her to survive on her own #just with her seeing C7 blossom and her distancing herself from her children in that timeline heeheeeeeeee <3 #IM NOT THAT GOOD SADLY HAHAHA #My Art #Kathryn Janeway #Endgame #Star Trek: Voyager #Human #Threshold #AU

[bookwyrminspiration]

I don’t know if I just haven’t found the right poetry yet, if I’m engaging with it wrong, or if poetry just isn’t for me, but man I wish I understood and connected with poetry on the level the rest of y’all seem to it looks nice

#poetry #everyone talks about it so highly #and so many people express themselves through it #and I don’t know if it’s a me thing with a very niche type I haven’t found yet #or if I just need to learn how to read it better #but like. it’s just good at best for me #I see what they’re doing I can analyze themes and such #but it just. doesn’t hit!! #but maybe I’m reading poetry that isn’t right for me #I connected with one stanza of one poem once #and it was in the borderlands #since there was a quote I really connected with #but that’s all there’s ever been #we’re reading poetry in class and people are going on about it #rightfully so! I can tell this is a talented and celebrated and leading poet #but I just. I’m not there #I’m not being consumed #like so many others seem to be #it just doesn’t click #and I wish it did

[praisethelamps]

(Very) late P8reon upload, got it out late cause I got Covid rip (I'm okay now)

It's nearly finished, but I know I'm gonna take a while making tons of minor tweaks before it is, because I always do

#the full stanza is in the alt text btw! the preview text was supposed to be the full stanza so idk why it cut it off like that lmao ?? #I was so tempted to put the best line as the preview but....I can't lol #original poem #original poetry #political art

[infatuate]

- the mirror of simple souls, marguerite porete (tr. ellen babinsky)

#the mirror of simple souls #marguerite porete #you guys get dusty pdf zero context final three stanzas of her best poem cause im here #i will go back & reread & post more im just deeply thoroughly obsessed with these lines #you too can be subsumed into the perfect union with god 🫶🏿

[nopeleavemealoone]

I wrote some poetry, just thought it sounded neat

they said not to look directly at the sun

or else it would burn your eyes blind

but whenever I look at you,

all i know is the world can be kind

#Poetry #i suppose you could apply this to soukoku #or ranpoe maybe #But i just wanna put this out in the world on its own because i got really happy with how that stanza turned out #Theres more #i just liked this stanza the best #Ill post this now before i decide im a horrible poet and need to stop writing for eternity #Mine

[shcherbatskya]

here’s my poem inspired by ocean vuong’s telemachus for @theend4’s poetry event! i tried to keep a lot of the original formatting and obviously the odyssey symbolism <3 (id under cut.)

an image of a poem organized into couplets, it reads as follows: “as any pious wife would do,

i spin a web of stories, and of lies

woven and unwoven every night.

an endless shroud for the funeral of my virtue.

because your absence led to a self imposed exile

to weeping in the room we used to share

because ive stopped receiving word and

sometimes i don’t think you’re coming back.

if Athena is the hope of soldiers, then i pray

for a sign from Hera, hope of wives. (it never comes.)

the only hope that you might come home

lives within me.

i could be anyone’s wife, looking back on it

“richly dowered penelope” but i am yours.

i take the form of a wildfire

burning across rocky ithaca.

the tricks will not hold out forever

i cannot hope for you indefinitely.

the hopelessness hasn’t arrived yet

it will in due time,

when your only son confesses

he can’t remember your eyes or your smile.

in time i must take on the task

of weaving our future.” END ID]

#this is not like the best one ive ever written (the stanza constraints were realllly hard.) but i like it <3 #in a way it’s about like. yk how an absent loved one (away due to military reasons and stuff.) will make you feel. #that line about being unable to remember what someone looked like was brought on by me #genuinley not being able to think of a single memory of my father (military) before like. age ten or so. #anyways!!! #samael speaks

[sunshinetrinket]

i've been missing virginia (i drove through it once on the way to another state)

tags: @thinkingaboutctommy @qjaiden

#wanted to experiment with styles a little. i usually do complete free form but this ones 4 lines a stanza and 4 syllables a line #also if the 'i am standing' line seems out of place its bc it was supposed to be followed by something but i decided against it #im also really into cinematography and so is one of my best friends which is nice and i pass things all the time that are so pretty #poetry #also if my other mutuals or even my followers want added to the tag list please tell me !! i am just so so scared to ask anyone else 🙏 #sunny.txt

[townhulls]

continuing my trend of doing literally anything but studying when i should be studying, here are a few blackout pieces i did of russell potter's transcript of the peglar papers. taken from pages 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.

#the terror #bees speaks #also think of the ellipses as stanza breaks or as transitions between different poems #they function as a break in concept #except the one between O and tertell. i just forgor about that one #& i did the whole thing but these are the bits i liked best! #plus i just left the c the c the open c as it is i couldn't take that one apart i love it too much #also this was a fun exercise as half of it is illegible anyway #so i got to choose which bits to keep AFTER i'd narrowed it down to legible pieces #but also got to play the game of 'can i make this fragment of a word carry meaning here' #it was quite fun #this is less important but i also tried to relate it to the events of the show #in somewhat chronological order. thus john faithfull ashamed & the kindness turnd dirty & etc.

[creatediana]

“November’s Greetings” - a poem written 11/23/2022

#this hasn't been the best month of my life #2022 #college years #poetry #poem #iambic tetrameter #but that's just the opening line of each stanza #speaking of which #cinquains #i feel like i don't often write in those. or maybe i do. i like them. #trochaic meter #catalectic trochaic tetrameter #trochees #poets on tumblr #spilled ink #seasonal depression

[babbling-starling]

For the love of all that is good, some musically inclined person please do a cover of Fields of Glory with lyrics moded for pokemon, I’ve had an earworm for weeks

#I’ve got most of the lyrics switched up already it’ll only take a few tweaks #Yes I know galar is pokemon England and the song is about Ireland but hear me out: I love the tune #And the bodhrán hell yeah #Not so much the sports culture but pokemon instead makes it ok #… or just imagining it’s about straight up fighting #I see you Ireland I know sports are a stand in for intertribal warfare #Wanted to make some art of my team chillin on a overlook for these lyrics but I can’t feckin draw #One stanza legit only needs one word changes (and is brought to you by team yell) #I once met an old man who told me great stories/ Of legends of old who trained hard for the glory/ #Of leading their partners to that moment of triumph/ His memories kept me enthralled/ #OF THE FIEEELLLLDDDSSSS THE FIIEEELLLDDDDSSSS OF GLOOOOORRRRYYYYYY/ THE FIEEEEELLLDDDDSSSS WHERE RIVAAALLLLLSSSS BECOME FRIEEEENNNNDDDDSSS/ #THE FIEEELLLLDDDSSSS THE FIIEEELLLDDDDSSSS OF GLOOOOORRRRYYYYYY/ MAY THE BEST TEAM WIN- WIN IN THE END #Are u FEELIN IT #pokemon #pokemon edit #pokemon photoset #Pokemon screencaps #Galar #pokemon sword #pokemon shield #pokemon hop #hammerlocke #because that fortress is so extra I love it #I’m not feeling the longing for and idealized fictional world /you’re/ feeling the longing for an idealized fictional world haha #Have an escapism

[aelkitofsunset]

darlin I’m running on empty

I’m running out of time

so before my heart beats away

let me know if yours is mine.

  Yes, I asked myself

everyday

if I’ve made a big mistake

in shoring up all my courage

to maintain your masquerade

but now I know the truth

it’s not about having you;

  it’s about every day

I got to say hey,

how are you?

its about those

almost too lates

and always trying my best

so forget about the rest

and let me say —

I love you

  I know the way you see yourself

the bottom of the heap.

I remember those nights I spent

protecting your sleep,

and I’m

not sorry that

I met you

and I’m

not sorry that you

changed my life

not even at

this cost

#kit's scribbles #nameless scrap #fan poetry #poetry #written in november 2020 #mostly unedited #a lazy thing #Castiel doesn’t know yet that they went canon in spanish #the poor dear #this isn’t my best work #but it’s going up anyway #literally found in the notes app #the ending is weak af imo #guess past-kit ran out of inspo #the second stanza is a bit of alright i think #but the rest? *shrugs* #Destiel #deancas #extremely belated live reaction post (like years late) #bc i was too much of a coward to post shit back then #(i hate SPN to clarify) #(the ending was BS) #I like the better fictional version that exists inside my head #like most ppl

[hautaaja]

Baudelaire, Le Balcon (The Balcony)

How beautiful are the suns of sultry evenings! How space grows deep! How the heart compels! As I leaned towards you, my beloved queen, I seemed to breathe in the perfume of your blood. How beautiful are the suns of sultry evenings!

#baudelaire #poetry #translations of french poetry are no good but i like this quite literal one the best #changing ‘parfum de ton sang’ to ‘scent of your blood’ is just an unforgivable crime of some translations #anyways i love this poem and this particular passage #the strength of the images and the sensations is impeccable #and i am known to be a sucker for repetition #there’s something so intimate in the recollection of certain light #and something deeply melancholic about the immensity of space being recalled in a stanza so carefully enclosed

[angst-and-fajitas]

This next round of queued poetry will have some Emma originals in there! Some old stuff, some new, and I def don't think I'm especially great at poetry but there are a few I'm decently proud of that hopefully y'all might enjoy

#i tend to write really short poetry idk #i think i just like striking right to the core of something as succinctly as possible #one or two stanzas is my best range #emma talks #thanks to red for encouraging me :')))

[sunflowersareonfire]

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#personal #people that go out of their way to be mean can eat shit #and I mean literal shit #may chris gardocki and tommy force upon you the solid white shit that you must lick #if you know that reference leave a comment lol #I tried to put myself out there and was not just let down but was told that I was a 4 at best...out of 10... #a simple no would have been sufficient #but then I also recognize that most people DO NOT STOP #so meanness sometimes becomes just an automatic response because it yields results #that isn't lost on me #but also body shamed yesterday after complimenting a persons jacket?? #maybe everyone's just sad and salty #there is a lot of shit going on in the world #I am just of the mindset that we should put the energy out into the world that we want to get back #which is why I try to live the this number one rule #DONT BE A DICK #In other news I had a dream that I was trying to recite Shakespeare during the civil war but I was growling each stanza while trying #to reload my musket and then screaming like a toddler #someone tell me what my dream means #I'm a mental health specialist so maybe I should figure it out on my own #PS I don't think I'm a 4 or a 10 #not that it really matters #the principle here is what matters

[firefighting-idiot]

My prof writing down his email for me to send him the sonnet I made for King Lear has me Giddy

#vulpersonal #'i think it's well refined you can make changes but its already refined for publication' Literally one of the best compliments I've ever #gotten for my writing #a classmate read it too and asked 'did you write that for class?' and ' #'no for fun' 'For Fun?! That's really good' like thank you for my serotonin for today #i also asked if it was clear that the pov was Kent before the third stanza and both prof and classmate said they got it by the second stanza #and my prof liked my play off of kent's last line 'my master calls to me /I cannot say no' but making it 'by the curtain's call I can't say #no' #like yeees #and the ending couplet is supposed to be the prof and he's like 'adapted for your poetry' with a laugh soooooo