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gasmask_colostomy
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 30, 2020 5:11 am 
 

DividerOfShadows wrote:
Hey, guys, long time no read.

I'm not going to beat around the bush, I'll just cut to the chase.

Seven Years of Twilight
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Bending shadow
With its translucent grin
Swings the clock of eternity

Sweet chords of the night
Sing together out of tune
And bless me with a song of reality

How will the children remember
The sight of their father's grave
When a fog of blood is underway?

I am to follow my tears torn asunder
And create heavens from this bedlam
Cradle it until its gaze stops cutting flesh

Toxic moons in an arboreal bed
They mean nothing to universe's eyes
But their spectres create another melody

Seven years of twilight
Perpetual kisses between night and day
I witness them growing more passionate with time

Hey again :-P
Liking the three-line verses in this one, there's really a purpose to them and section contains a complete thought. A lot of the images nestle between night-time and music, which couples with the "tears torn asunder" verse to give me the idea that you've been listening to Cradle of Filth a lot! Once more, there aren't a lot of actual events in the poem, though I feel a sense of progress from beginning to end.

That verse with children at their father's grave strikes me as something very specific in the context, yet it doesn't seem to echo in the other parts of the poem, especially since it's posed as a question. Perhaps the mood is stitching these separate parts together in some way.


As you probably know, China is in the grip of an epidemic that has led to the lockdown of several cities. People are staying off the streets and work is postponed. Where I am isn't too bad, but life is far from normal.

Doubts Grow
Disease is everywhere,
or so it seems now,
persecuted by the plague that travels each day.

Coming by train,
in packages.

Calculating production dates,
second-guessing what is safe,
what has remained untouched by it.

Doubts manifest,
itches grow.

Can that be scratched?
Bacterial transfer is a butterfly effect,
and everything hangs in the same web now.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 6:12 pm 
 

DividerOfShadows wrote:

Seven Years of Twilight

Spoiler: show
Bending shadow
With its translucent grin
Swings the clock of eternity

Sweet chords of the night
Sing together out of tune
And bless me with a song of reality

How will the children remember
The sight of their father's grave
When a fog of blood is underway?

I am to follow my tears torn asunder
And create heavens from this bedlam
Cradle it until its gaze stops cutting flesh

Toxic moons in an arboreal bed
They mean nothing to universe's eyes
But their spectres create another melody

Seven years of twilight
Perpetual kisses between night and day
I witness them growing more passionate with time
For some unknown reason, it doesn't work for me. (•ิ_•ิ)? I wish I could identify the problems, it might be just the language after all.

gasmask_colostomy wrote:
Doubts Grow
Spoiler: show
Disease is everywhere,
or so it seems now,
persecuted by the plague that travels each day.

Coming by train,
in packages.

Calculating production dates,
second-guessing what is safe,
what has remained untouched by it.

Doubts manifest,
itches grow.

Can that be scratched?
Bacterial transfer is a butterfly effect,
and everything hangs in the same web now.
What particularly appeals to me is the ease that makes a nice flow. Sometimes the simpler is better (especially when I read in English).
Your evil haiku on the previous page is cool too. ◕‿◕



By Sylvia Plath

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Crossing the Water

Black lake, black boat, two black, cut-paper people.
Where do the black trees go that drink here?
Their shadows must cover Canada.

A little light is filtering from the water flowers.
Their leaves do not wish us to hurry:
They are round and flat and full of dark advice.

Cold worlds shake from the oar.
The spirit of blackness is in us, it is in the fishes.
A snag is lifting a valedictory, pale hand;

Stars open among the lilies.
Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?
This is the silence of astounded souls.



Waking In Winter


I can taste the tin of the sky —- the real tin thing.
Winter dawn is the color of metal,
The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves.
All night I have dreamed of destruction, annihilations —-
An assembly-line of cut throats, and you and I
Inching off in the gray Chevrolet, drinking the green
Poison of stilled lawns, the little clapboard gravestones,
Noiseless, on rubber wheels, on the way to the sea resort.

How the balconies echoed! How the sun lit up
The skulls, the unbuckled bones facing the view!
Space! Space! The bed linen was giving out entirely.
Cot legs melted in terrible attitudes, and the nurses —-
Each nurse patched her soul to a wound and disappeared.
The deathly guests had not been satisfied
With the rooms, or the smiles, or the beautiful rubber plants,
Or the sea, Hushing their peeled sense like Old Mother Morphia.

Quote:
A poem like “Waking in Winter” presents us with a different kind of nightmare horror – an environmentally degraded landscape that appears to be a Cold War nuclear winter.
Nichols, Kathleen L. "The Cold War Gothic Poetry of Sylvia Plath." AMERICAN A GOTHIC G (2014): 328. (nice article :wink: )
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 07, 2020 5:38 am 
 

Osore wrote:
By Sylvia Plath

Her poetry is seriously intense at times, and I especially love 'Waking in Winter'. It's so atmospheric and unexpected, like Sodom lyrics through the eyes of a housewife, plus that fantastic wtf moment when "The bed linen was giving out entirely." That second one especially is what I'd call a content rich poem.

This one is not at all content rich, but supposed to be like a delicate spiderweb of meaning, barely clinging together. Written recently.

Surface Tension
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Under the ice,
a moving force
of numbness
presses down firm.

Veins holding blood
in desperate
embrace.

All distance
incalculable,
in this moment
transfixed.

The water rises
as moths
stick
to the ceiling.

Let go
and I will fall.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 08, 2020 9:18 pm 
 

gasmask_colostomy wrote:
Surface Tension
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Under the ice,
a moving force
of numbness
presses down firm.

Veins holding blood
in desperate
embrace.

All distance
incalculable,
in this moment
transfixed.

The water rises
as moths
stick
to the ceiling.

Let go
and I will fall.
It gave me an ASMR the first time I read it. It was the same when I heard Hammer of the Witches album for the first time (your poem reminded me of Blackest Magick In Pactice). :) The fact that I didn't have to translate anything definitely helped me to experience the poem. Physics-title is a surprisingly good fit for the drama that comes. Weirdly enough, I'm being reminded of the nightmare I had the last night as I'm writing this: I could see the top of my head covered by ice, and people removing it in panic, saying the bump is going to explode, and then I saw the blood seeping into the ice, and further towards the surface.

Recently I dreamt about a piglet on a moving table being introduced in a classroom, squealing with its abdomen openly cut longitudinally. I was crying, and people asked me why I didn't feel sorry for the rats, and I said they were horribly furry. o_O This leads us to the poem I wrote before this nightmare, and also before I was involved with rats, but after I had to decapitate some mice with scissors. The last line in a poem addresses my indifference for this act, which is why showing empathy in a dream was completely unexpected. I guess I would have felt at least a bit sorry if mice made noise like piglets... The poem can be read here (translation comes second): https://pesimum.wordpress.com/2020/02/0 ... nkom-ledu/.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:48 pm 
 

Osore wrote:
gasmask_colostomy wrote:
Surface Tension
Spoiler: show
Under the ice,
a moving force
of numbness
presses down firm.

Veins holding blood
in desperate
embrace.

All distance
incalculable,
in this moment
transfixed.

The water rises
as moths
stick
to the ceiling.

Let go
and I will fall.
It gave me an ASMR the first time I read it. It was the same when I heard Hammer of the Witches album for the first time (your poem reminded me of Blackest Magick In Pactice). :) The fact that I didn't have to translate anything definitely helped me to experience the poem. Physics-title is a surprisingly good fit for the drama that comes. Weirdly enough, I'm being reminded of the nightmare I had the last night as I'm writing this: I could see the top of my head covered by ice, and people removing it in panic, saying the bump is going to explode, and then I saw the blood seeping into the ice, and further towards the surface.

Recently I dreamt about a piglet on a moving table being introduced in a classroom, squealing with its abdomen openly cut longitudinally. I was crying, and people asked me why I didn't feel sorry for the rats, and I said they were horribly furry. o_O This leads us to the poem I wrote before this nightmare, and also before I was involved with rats, but after I had to decapitate some mice with scissors. The last line in a poem addresses my indifference for this act, which is why showing empathy in a dream was completely unexpected. I guess I would have felt at least a bit sorry if mice made noise like piglets... The poem can be read here (translation comes second): https://pesimum.wordpress.com/2020/02/0 ... nkom-ledu/.

I am very pleased about the ASMR (and the CoF song, obviously); it's always nice when you touch something that you didn't expect to. I think big themes like ice stir things up in people very easily. A great novel called Ice by Anna Kavan, if you are interested.

Your ice-poem was nicely muddled, especially when it's difficult to say who or what has been decapitated (seems like everyone). Actually, I feel like the dramatic parts should usually come closer to the end of the poem, but here they seem more sudden and unexpected, while the ending pales a bit by comparison.

I'll share a slightly silly poem that took its inspiration from the title A Room of One's Own. I was doing a lot of thinking about gender roles at the time, and it's written from a very male perspective.

A Womb of One's Own
Bubble from the primordial ocean
Rising, buoyant, ripening like fruit;
Octopus embrace crushes love close
(You are my limbs, sweet-segment)
Breathing into dewy flimsy lungs
That inflate majestically the petals
Floating on such tranquil soul-waters
Blossoming into accordant gaps:
Now,
Where do I fit in?
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 8:17 pm 
 

gasmask_colostomy wrote:
Your ice-poem was nicely muddled, especially when it's difficult to say who or what has been decapitated (seems like everyone). Actually, I feel like the dramatic parts should usually come closer to the end of the poem, but here they seem more sudden and unexpected, while the ending pales a bit by comparison.
I knew it would be difficult to tell who is who in the poem - I intentionally made the lyrical subjects indistinguishable from one another, until a mouse (or mice) talked to me at the end. ''I see myself completely beheaded'' is when its head falls down and pulsates shortly with red eyes pointed at the twitching body in the glass funnel turned upside down so that we can collect the blood. I tried to wrap this experience in Gothic/more sublime form; in reality, decapitating would be very relaxed and ordinary to me if they didn't defecate after decapitation. :annoyed:

gasmask_colostomy wrote:
A great novel called Ice by Anna Kavan, if you are interested.
I already have it on my to-read list. It hasn't been translated to Serbian yet, and I'm reluctant to read in English.

gasmask_colostomy wrote:
I'll share a slightly silly poem that took its inspiration from the title A Room of One's Own. I was doing a lot of thinking about gender roles at the time, and it's written from a very male perspective.

A Womb of One's Own
Bubble from the primordial ocean
Rising, buoyant, ripening like fruit;
Octopus embrace crushes love close
(You are my limbs, sweet-segment)
Breathing into dewy flimsy lungs
That inflate majestically the petals
Floating on such tranquil soul-waters
Blossoming into accordant gaps:
Now,
Where do I fit in?
If you hadn't mentioned a male perspective, it would have been only a nice expressionist picture with hidden meaning. I'm not saying this has changed, but it's difficult not to interpret it as an erection/passion projected to nature, which is slightly unpleasant with all those tentacles around. XD
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 12:26 pm 
 

Osore wrote:
gasmask_colostomy wrote:
A great novel called Ice by Anna Kavan, if you are interested.
I already have it on my to-read list. It hasn't been translated to Serbian yet, and I'm reluctant to read in English.

As far as I remember, it's not very complex in terms of vocabulary, but the narrative style is tricky. Either original English or translation wouldn't be a big problem for you I think.

Osore wrote:
gasmask_colostomy wrote:
A Womb of One's Own
Bubble from the primordial ocean
Rising, buoyant, ripening like fruit;
Octopus embrace crushes love close
(You are my limbs, sweet-segment)
Breathing into dewy flimsy lungs
That inflate majestically the petals
Floating on such tranquil soul-waters
Blossoming into accordant gaps:
Now,
Where do I fit in?
If you hadn't mentioned a male perspective, it would have been only a nice expressionist picture with hidden meaning. I'm not saying this has changed, but it's difficult not to interpret it as an erection/passion projected to nature, which is slightly unpleasant with all those tentacles around. XD

Funnily enough, I had nothing at all in my mind about erections or anything like that: I was trying to describe not having a womb or being able to bear children. It was part of a series of poems I did that were inspired by a comment by (I think) Simone de Beauvoir, which said that women needed to start writing themselves instead of letting men do it (this was in the '60s). Since then, there have been loads of poems about femininity but not that many poems written by males about the reality of their own masculinity.

This was another one of those, written quite a long time ago.

Other Flesh
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I’m not looking for what makes you human, I’m
seeking out the animal and the angelic, prying
you open to capture the insect itch of coiled feet, shaking
my reeling head at uncaptured demon eyes, photographed
and lying smugly but hellfire in the smouldering moment, eel
for a stomach belly-sliding in black ocean below, pursed
guardian lips a gargoyle spitting dirty water, bones
stretching against a leopard’s shifting skin, boudoir
curtain of silk hair suggesting illusions, owlish
stare of a piercing nose across harvest fields, spectral
wrist reaching through impugned reality, knowing
tilt of a mare’s dignified head, holy
laughter. Animal glory, angelic dirt; the depraved majesty
of her flesh.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 08, 2020 4:25 pm 
 

gasmask_colostomy wrote:
Osore wrote:
gasmask_colostomy wrote:
A great novel called Ice by Anna Kavan, if you are interested.
I already have it on my to-read list. It hasn't been translated to Serbian yet, and I'm reluctant to read in English.

As far as I remember, it's not very complex in terms of vocabulary, but the narrative style is tricky. Either original English or translation wouldn't be a big problem for you I think.
Hopefully I will be able to open that novel after I finish philosophy of science (at least not so boring like Sartre's Nausea). I also intend to read The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton.

gasmask_colostomy wrote:
Funnily enough, I had nothing at all in my mind about erections or anything like that: I was trying to describe not having a womb or being able to bear children. It was part of a series of poems I did that were inspired by a comment by (I think) Simone de Beauvoir, which said that women needed to start writing themselves instead of letting men do it (this was in the '60s). Since then, there have been loads of poems about femininity but not that many poems written by males about the reality of their own masculinity.
Now I feel better. ^_^ That is an interesting perspective, although I have never thought about it. As much as I like androgynous style, If I could wake up one day as a female, I would probably go to the nearest bridge or the tallest building for a unidirectional jumping.

gasmask_colostomy wrote:
Other Flesh
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I’m not looking for what makes you human, I’m
seeking out the animal and the angelic, prying
you open to capture the insect itch of coiled feet, shaking
my reeling head at uncaptured demon eyes, photographed
and lying smugly but hellfire in the smouldering moment, eel
for a stomach belly-sliding in black ocean below, pursed
guardian lips a gargoyle spitting dirty water, bones
stretching against a leopard’s shifting skin, boudoir
curtain of silk hair suggesting illusions, owlish
stare of a piercing nose across harvest fields, spectral
wrist reaching through impugned reality, knowing
tilt of a mare’s dignified head, holy
laughter. Animal glory, angelic dirt; the depraved majesty
of her flesh.
I had to translate roughly 10 words, and it killed the taste of the poem. Nevertheless, I liked the intense, dark cluster of words that seem to make a distorted portrait painted with Dali's brush. It's very condensed and almost surreal.
Was the appearance of animal and angelic at the beginning and at the end intentional? That kind of symploce might be excessive, I'm not sure. What do you think?

I'm publishing a bilingual poem again on the 25th of March on my blog. It would be nice if I could steal the time to write something new soon.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2020 10:05 am 
 

Had a sudden moment of inspiration last night, so I jotted this one down. Its in my native language, so I guess only osore will get anything out of it.

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Katarza

Cujem grobe opet zoves
Sapatom iz starih rana
Mracni pokrov, snova otrov
Nameces mi svakog dana.

Ima l neko da se nudi
Da zarije noz u grudi?
San je tezak, lose slutim
Razum mi se opet muti.

Da prekratim sebi muke
Mutnoj vodi sirim ruke
Pa nek nosi glavu, kosti
Vodeć me u druge luke.

Iskra seva, besa, gneva
Telo slabo odoleva
No kap kise sprati vise
Nece glavu sto ga sneva.

Da isceznem, da me nema
Nepoznatom sad se spremam
Sta ostane, nek nestane
Muk, tisina pregolema


Heavily inspired by The Stone - Teatar Apsurda album. Really killer stuff, you should check it out if you're into black metal!

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2020 10:49 am 
 

BloodMoonRising wrote:
Had a sudden moment of inspiration last night, so I jotted this one down. Its in my native language, so I guess only osore will get anything out of it.

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Čujem grobe opet zoveš
Šapatom iz starih rana
Mračni pokrov, snova otrov
Namećes mi svakog dana.

Ima l' neko da se nudi
Da zarije nož u grudi?
San je težak, loše slutim
Razum mi se opet muti.

Da prekratim sebi muke
Mutnoj vodi širim ruke
Pa nek' nosi glavu, kosti
Vodeć' me u druge luke.

Iskra seva, besa, gneva
Telo slabo odoleva
No kap kiše sprati više
Neće glavu sto ga sneva.

Da nestanem, da me nema
Nepoznatom sad se spremam
Šta ostane, nek' nestane
Muk, tišina pregolema


Heavily inspired by The Stone - Teatar Apsurda album. Really killer stuff, you should check it out if you're into black metal!


Nice octosyllabic verse! I'm keen on this suicidal call, although it brings the old spirit of Sima Pandurović who overdone this in his poems. Omitting one rhyme in every stanza prevented it from sounding too uniform and monotonous. Perhaps you can avoid having two same verbs in the last stanza (to disappear - nestati).
Your poem does remind me of The Stone. I enjoyed their Nekroza album more. When it comes to domestic BM, May Result and Thriumfall also come to mind.

Feel free to comment on other poems. ^_^ I'd like to read more of you as well.
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Perhaps you can avoid having two same verbs in the last stanza (to disappear - nestati).


Yea, I noticed and fixed it to "isceznem" in the meantime :D

As for other poems, I'm really enjoying them, but honestly don't feel like I can contribute with constructive criticism, it all sounds pretty cool to me from the start. You guys have a lot more experience with poems than I do, from what I gather (I just learned the term "octosyllabic verse"from you haha), so I just appreciate them in silence.

As for Nekroza, I'm onto it already. Haven't really listened to The Stone ever since Slovenska Krv, which is a looong time, so I'm catching up now, and am really blown away by how much they progressed since then! I'll check out Thriumfall as well, never heard of them.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2020 11:39 am 
 

BloodMoonRising wrote:
Quote:
Perhaps you can avoid having two same verbs in the last stanza (to disappear - nestati).

Yea, I noticed and fixed it to "isceznem" in the meantime :D
It's better now! ;)

BloodMoonRising wrote:
As for other poems, I'm really enjoying them, but honestly don't feel like I can contribute with constructive criticism, it all sounds pretty cool to me from the start. You guys have a lot more experience with poems than I do, from what I gather (I just learned the term "octosyllabic verse"from you haha), so I just appreciate them in silence.

As for Nekroza, I'm onto it already. Haven't really listened to The Stone ever since Slovenska Krv, which is a looong time, so I'm catching up now, and am really blown away by how much they progressed since then! I'll check out Thriumfall as well, never heard of them.

I had to google for the translation of osmerac actually, although I knew it's octo-something. :-P So, what kind of poems/poets appeal to you?
Atterigner from Thriumfall is a vocalist on Instinctus Bestials album by Gorgoroth.


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Osore wrote:
I had to google for the translation of osmerac actually, although I knew it's octo-something. :-P So, what kind of the poems/poets appeal to you?


I actually translated it in my head just now and facepalmed :D As for poems, I actually don't read a lot of poetry, though I'm working on fixing that, so feel free to send some recommendations my way (in Serbian preferably, and the gloomier the better, and I'll check your signature in the meantime :)). On the other hand it's really hard for me to get into songs that have crappy lyrics, so the few bands I listen to lately are as close as I get to poetry on a regular basis. I listened to a lot of Timber Timbre lately, for example, and I really like their writing style (they have nothing to do with metal really, but are pretty gloomy).

Like this one and this one

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BloodMoonRising wrote:
As for poems, I actually don't read a lot of poetry, though I'm working on fixing that, so feel free to send some recommendations my way (in Serbian preferably, and the gloomier the better, and I'll check your signature in the meantime :)). On the other hand it's really hard for me to get into songs that have crappy lyrics, so the few bands I listen to lately are as close as I get to poetry on a regular basis. I listened to a lot of Timber Timbre lately, for example, and I really like their writing style (they have nothing to do with metal really, but are pretty gloomy).

Like this one and this one

Here you go: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wnAiwmCD_jJ7YclgpgsfIG-SvsbI9Heo?usp=sharing. I suggest to try Georg Trakl first. Dark atmosphere ahead! :thumbsup:
I pretty much ignore lyrics because I think most of them don't have the quality of poetry. The examples you provided are okay as lyrics; I would cut some parallelisms to shape them into poems though.
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Got it, cheers! :beer:

Edit: I've also edited one stanza to:

San mi tezak, lose slutim
Razum mi se opet muti
Putem neba trazim, gledam
Hladna vasiona cuti

Cause the previous one sounded like Sinan Sakic or something. Not cool.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:18 pm 
 

BloodMoonRising wrote:
I've also edited one stanza to:

San mi tezak, lose slutim
Razum mi se opet muti
Putem neba trazim, gledam
Hladna vasiona cuti


Nice! I would only make an inversion (Vasiona hladna ćuti) in order to keep the caesura in the middle (after the fourth syllable).


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I'm not sure if this fits in this thread, but can anyone recommend/suggest some good, dark poetry?

And don't say Poe.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:42 pm 
 

Pellinore wrote:
I'm not sure if this fits in this thread, but can anyone recommend/suggest some good, dark poetry?

And don't say Poe.

Of course I won't, Poe's poetry sounds incredibly outdated, just like everything else from Romanticism. His prose, on the other hand, is very good.

Georg Trakl
Georg Heym
Sylvia Plath
Stephane Mallarme (majority is not explicitly dark, rather hermetic, or blind, if you will)
Charles Baudelaire
Gottfried Benn (Morgue and other Poems)

Arthur Rimbaud: Ophelia (he was 15 years old when he wrote it; this English translation sounds bad because it kills the rhymes)
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On the calm black water where the stars are sleeping
White Ophelia floats like a great lily;
Floats very slowly, lying in her long veils...
- In the far-off woods you can hear them sound the mort.

For more than a thousand years sad Ophelia
Has passed, a white phantom, down the long black river.
For more than a thousand years her sweet madness
Has murmured its ballad to the evening breeze.

The wind kisses her breasts and unfolds in a wreath
Her great veils rising and falling with the waters;
The shivering willows weep on her shoulder,
The rushes lean over her wide, dreaming brow.

The ruffled water-lilies are sighing around her;
At times she rouses, in a slumbering alder,
Some nest from which escapes a small rustle of wings;
- A mysterious anthem falls from the golden stars.

II

O pale Ophelia! beautiful as snow!
Yes child, you died, carried off by a river!
- It was the winds descending from the great mountains of Norway
That spoke to you in low voices of better freedom.

It was a breath of wind, that, twisting your great hair,
Brought strange rumors to your dreaming mind;
It was your heart listening to the song of Nature
In the groans of the tree and the sighs of the nights;

It was the voice of mad seas, the great roar,
That shattered your child's heart, too human and too soft;
It was a handsome pale knight, a poor madman
Who one April morning sate mute at your knees!

Heaven! Love! Freedom! What a dream, oh poor crazed Girl!
You melted to him as snow does to a fire;
Your great visions strangled your words
- And fearful Infinity terrified your blue eye!

III

- And the poet says that by starlight
You come seeking, in the night, the flowers that you picked
And that he has seen on the water, lying in her long veils
White Ophelia floating, like a great lily.


Translated by Oliver Bernard


Artur Rembo: Ofelija
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Na mirnom crnom valu gde zvezde sanjaju
Bela Ofelija poput velikog krina
Leluja velovima koji uranjaju...
Odjek hajke stiže iz šuma, iz daljina.

Već vekovima Tužna Ofelija tako
Plovi, sablast bela, rekom što crna teče.
Već vekovima krotka ludost njena lako
Romori svoju romansu u lahor, u veče.

Vetar velove vije, grudi joj celiva,
voda ljuljuška velove, spletene, bele;
Na ramenu joj drhte, plaču rese iva,
Nad čelom koje sanja trske se nadnele.

Uzdišu oko nje lokvanji koji venu;
Katkada u jovi zaspaloj budi gnezda
Iz kojih mali drhtaj prhne u trenu:
- Tajanstvena pesma sa zlatnih pada zvezda.

II

Bleda Ofelijo! Lepa poput snegova!
Da, Ti umre, dete, odnele su te vode.
- Vetrovi što se ruše s norveških bregova
Šaptali su ti reči opore slobode;

To dah jedan što ti guste svijao kose
Čudne nosaše zvuke tvom dahu što sanja;
Slušao ti je srce pev prirode, što se
Javi uzdahom noći i tužaljkom granja.

To ti glas lugih mora, grcaj nedogledan
Slomi detinju grud, a preblaga je bila;
To u aprilsko jutro lep bledi vitez jedan,
Jadni ludak, nemo sede do tvog krila.

Raj! Ljubav! Sloboda! Ludo, kakva snivanja!
Na toj si vatri bila ko sneg što se topi;
Reč ti vizija stesni u svoja zbivanja
- Sa stravom se beskraj u plavom oku stopi.

III

A pesnik kaže da preko zvezdane pruge
Dolaziš noću, tražiš cveće što si brala,
I da vide na vodi velove tvoje duge;
Ofelija plovi, veliki krin vrh vala.


Also, you can always check my signature for something dark.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2020 7:47 pm 
 

gasmask_colostomy wrote:
Rottir wrote:
Enjoying some of the poems recently posted - wish I had something interesting or useful to say.

As an aside, has anyone boarded the Instagram poetry train with their work?

That's cool to know that you're still reading. Really, however minor you think your comment will be, feel free to share; it can give a wider perspective on things and might be relevant feedback. Even if it's just things you like and dislike, that would make this thread more interesting :) There aren't many people posting here.

Living in a country without a proper connection to Instagram, I didn't even really know that Ins poetry was taking off. What's going on with that?


It tends to be short free verse with relationship-oriented or feminist themes; not something that personally interests me, but quite a number of personalities are making big bucks off of it and I find it fascinating as a cultural phenomenon. Here is an essay eviscerating one such poet - an entertaining piece but highly controversial. Should you read it I'm sure you will draw your own conclusions.

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In my part of the world winter continues to cling to life - it was -20 or -22 C last night - so a few weeks ago it provided fodder for a complaint poem. I also recently became aware of animism - the notion of natural phenomenon having a spirit force - and though I am a strong atheist, recognized a tendency in myself to have almost a superstitious streak about these things. Which resulted in the following poem:

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BOREAS

Once more the cold descends
Upon a northern land
Where it sometimes hurts to breathe.

A hare huddles in its den,
Eyes blank as the wide expanse
Beyond its patient stare.
Perched still in a leafless oak
A passerine pest derides
Men faring faint, grey lines
Carved into barren fields.
Laments emerge and rise
To soar above a world
Three times encased in ice -
'This winter will never end.'

Lay to the fire burning deep,
Lest the poplars cracking in the cold
Mistake it as a threat.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 5:57 pm 
 

Rottir wrote:
Here is an essay eviscerating one such poet - an entertaining piece but highly controversial

Quote:
In 2015 I heard McNish speak on a panel at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, where she was also a main performer. Two things she said struck me then as bizarre, both in themselves and for the fact that she chose to admit them publicly. The first was that her publisher (presumably by then Picador) had sent her a pile of books to read, because they thought she hadn’t read enough poetry. The second was that the poems she was writing presently were the same as the poems she had written in her childhood diaries.
:durr:

Rottir wrote:
In my part of the world winter continues to cling to life - it was -20 or -22 C last night - so a few weeks ago it provided fodder for a complaint poem. I also recently became aware of animism - the notion of natural phenomenon having a spirit force - and though I am a strong atheist, recognized a tendency in myself to have almost a superstitious streak about these things. Which resulted in the following poem:

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BOREAS

Once more the cold descends
Upon a northern land
Where it sometimes hurts to breathe.

A hare huddles in its den,
Eyes blank as the wide expanse
Beyond its patient stare.
Perched still in a leafless oak
A passerine pest derides
Men faring faint, grey lines
Carved into barren fields.
Laments emerge and rise
To soar above a world
Three times encased in ice -
'This winter will never end.'

Lay to the fire burning deep,
Lest the poplars cracking in the cold
Mistake it as a threat.
Subtle alliteration is a nice touch. Thanks to a hare and other constituencies of nature, this poem reminds me of a cute picture book and brings up the childhood memory of a small, precious rabbits my grandfather kept, and how I refused to eat their meat. I love meat, but I'm sure a rabbit would leave a bad taste in my mouth. I haven't tried it yet.
Winter is my favourite season, but this year it disappointed us - no snow. :ugh:
Greeting from +2 degrees, soon to drop to -2. ^_^
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 10:38 am 
 

In Brazil there were a few, but great symbolist/decadent poets, like Cruz e Sousa (the "Brazilian Baudelaire", look at this! that guy was son of slaves), Augusto dos Anjos, Alphonsus Guimaraens (christian approach) and Xavier de Carvalho (from my city, he has an very unknown masterpiece called "Missas Negras" - "Black Masses" in english). Portugal generated some great ones, like Mario de Sá Carneiro and Camilo Pessanha. Hey, the Moonspell singer released some nice poetry books too, which remember me of Augusto dos Anjos (but without musicality or rich rhymes).

Try to pick up it if you speak Portuguese or Spanish at least. Unfortunately, all these poets have little worldwide expression due to the enormous difficulty in translating their poetry (especially to rhymes), so their recognition is limited to the Portuguese world (that is, Brazil and Portugal, since Africans who speak Portuguese are not interested).

Listen to a poem by Augusto dos Anjos in a musical rendition (try to feel the lyrical power, as it is very difficult to translate into the English):

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Aquele ruído obscuro de gagueira
Que à noite, em sonhos mórbidos, me acorda,
Vinha da vibração bruta da corda
Mais recôndita da alma brasileira!

Aturdia-me a tétrica miragem
De que, naquele instante, no Amazonas,
Fedia, entregue a vísceras glutonas,
A carcaça esquecida de um selvagem.

A civilização entrou na taba
Em que ele estava. O gênio de Colombo
Manchou de opróbrios a alma do mazombo,
Cuspiu na cova do morubixaba!

E o índio, por fim, adstrito à étnica escória,
Recebeu, tendo o horror no rosto impresso,
Esse achincalhamento do progresso
Que o anulava na crítica da História!

(...)

Mas, diante a xantocróide raça loura,
Jazem caladas, todas as inúbias,
E agora, sem difíceis nuanças dúbias,
Com uma clarividência aterradora,

Em vez da prisca tribo e indiana tropa
A gente deste século, espantada,
Vê somente a caveira abandonada
De uma raça esmagada pela Europa!

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:30 pm 
 

Andre Gaius wrote:
Cruz e Sousa, Augusto dos Anjos, Xavier de Carvalho, Augusto dos Anjos, Mario de Sá Carneiro and Camilo Pessanha.
Thanks for sharing, it's good to know that spirit of decadence infected the speakers of Portuguese. Unfortunately, I don't speak neither Portuguese nor Spanish. I found some poems written by the mentioned authors translated to English, and none translated to Serbian. /:
This one stands out, as it doesn't require a dictionary and... :evil:

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Sexta-feira Santa

Lua absíntica, verde, feiticeira,
pasmada como um vício monstruoso...
Um cão estranho fuça na esterqueira,
uivando para o espaço fabuloso.

É esta a negra e santa Sexta-feira!
Cristo está morto, como um vil leproso,
chagado e frio, na feroz cegueira
da Morte, o sangue roxo e tenebroso.

A serpente do mal e do pecado
um sinistro veneno esverdeado
verte do Morto na mudez serena.

Mas da sagrada Redenção do Cristo
em vez do grande Amor, puro, imprevisto,
brotam fosforescências de gangrena!


Good Friday

Absinthe, green, bewitching moon,
amazed as a monstrous vice...
A strange dog scrabbles in the dunghill,
howling at the fabulous space.

This is the black and holy Friday!
Christ is dead, like a vile leper,
ulcerous and cold, in the ferocious blindness
of Death, his blood purple and shadowy.

The serpent of evil and of sin
a sinister greenish poison
spills from the dead Man in serene muteness.

But from the sacred Redemption of the Christ
instead of the great, pure unforeseen Love,
sprout up phosphorescences of gangrene!

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You're welcome. This one is a good literal translation. Unfortunately, rhyme and musicality are lost in English. Well, translating poetry is a hard work... But I've read a handful of Portuguese translations of Willian Blake that are "true" to the original content and form (or as much as possible). There is also an awesome and rhymed translation in Portuguese of Molière's "Le Misanthrope" (after all, ancient theater is often pure poetry and I strongly recommend it to those who have a misanthropic inclination to read this play - funny yet serious).

I don't know any Serbian authors, maybe none have been translated into Portuguese yet. From the Balkans I'm always reading some incredible Romanian authors. I know there is a great poet there (Mihai Eminescu), but I am familiar with others from philosophy, history and theater, like Emil Cioran, Mircea Eliade and Ionesco.

You quoted Georg Trakl. I like the images he creates through his words, but most of his poems seem repetitive (einsamen, schwermut, stille, Herbst, schatten, dunkel, schwarz - these words are written exhaustively) and unintelligible imo. But I enjoy this one:

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Amen (German)
Verwestes gleitend durch die morsche Stube;
Schatten an gelben Tapeten; in dunklen Spiegeln wölbt
Sich unserer Hände elfenbeinerne Traurigkeit.


Braune Perlen rinnen durch die erstorbenen Finger.
In der Stille
Tun sich eines Engels blaue Mohnaugen auf.


Blau ist auch der Abend;
Die Stunde unseres Absterbens, Azraels Schatten,
Der ein braunes Gärtchen verdunkelt.

Amen (English)

A ghost floats through the rotten parlor;
Shadows on the yellow wallpapers; in dark mirrors arch
Our hands’ ivory sadness.

Brown pearls stream through the dead fingers.
In the stillness,
The blue eyes of an angel open up like poppies.

The evening is also blue;
Our hour of death, Azrael’s shadow,
A brown garden darkens.

Other translation:

Putrid shape gliding through the rotten room;
Shadows on yellow wallpapers; in dark mirrors
The ivory sadness of our hands arches.

Brown beads run through the dead fingers.
In the stillness
The blue poppy-eyes of an angel open.

The evening is also blue;
The hour of our dying, Azrael's shadow,
Which darkens a brown garden.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 12:17 am 
 

Andre Gaius wrote:
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You're welcome. This one is a good literal translation. Unfortunately, rhyme and musicality are lost in English. Well, translating poetry is a hard work... But I've read a handful of Portuguese translations of Willian Blake that are "true" to the original content and form (or as much as possible). There is also an awesome and rhymed translation in Portuguese of Molière's "Le Misanthrope" (after all, ancient theater is often pure poetry and I strongly recommend it to those who have a misanthropic inclination to read this play - funny yet serious).

I don't know any Serbian authors, maybe none have been translated into Portuguese yet. From the Balkans I'm always reading some incredible Romanian authors. I know there is a great poet there (Mihai Eminescu), but I am familiar with others from philosophy, history and theater, like Emil Cioran, Mircea Eliade and Ionesco.

You quoted Georg Trakl. I like the images he creates through his words, but most of his poems seem repetitive (einsamen, schwermut, stille, Herbst, schatten, dunkel, schwarz - these words are written exhaustively) and unintelligible imo. But I enjoy this one:

[spoiler]Amen (German)
Verwestes gleitend durch die morsche Stube;
Schatten an gelben Tapeten; in dunklen Spiegeln wölbt
Sich unserer Hände elfenbeinerne Traurigkeit.


Braune Perlen rinnen durch die erstorbenen Finger.
In der Stille
Tun sich eines Engels blaue Mohnaugen auf.


Blau ist auch der Abend;
Die Stunde unseres Absterbens, Azraels Schatten,
Der ein braunes Gärtchen verdunkelt.

Amen (English)

A ghost floats through the rotten parlor;
Shadows on the yellow wallpapers; in dark mirrors arch
Our hands’ ivory sadness.

Brown pearls stream through the dead fingers.
In the stillness,
The blue eyes of an angel open up like poppies.

The evening is also blue;
Our hour of death, Azrael’s shadow,
A brown garden darkens.

Other translation:

Putrid shape gliding through the rotten room;
Shadows on yellow wallpapers; in dark mirrors
The ivory sadness of our hands arches.

Brown beads run through the dead fingers.
In the stillness
The blue poppy-eyes of an angel open.

The evening is also blue;
The hour of our dying, Azrael's shadow,
Which darkens a brown garden.

I have Misanthrope on my to-read list. I've also found another piece about misanthropy - a novel called The Dwarf by Pär Lagerkvist.
Translators indeed often keep rhymes; I guess those on the internet are done by someone whose English doesn't shine (like mine).

From what I found translated to Portuguese, recommended would be a short novel O Pátio Maldito by Ivo Andrić (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7792148-o-p-tio-maldito). Vasko Popa was Romanian, but he lived in Serbia and wrote in Serbian; here are some of his poems in Portuguese (http://www.culturapara.art.br/opoema/vaskopopa/vaskopopa.htm I only know that the first one is good, but I can't guarantee for the other ones as the original text is missing).
I found this book too: Poesia sempre – Sérvia. Fundação Biblioteca Nacional. Ministério da Educação. Brasil. Rio de Janeiro. N 29. Ano 15. 2008. I believe it's the anthology of Serbian poems. (https://escamandro.wordpress.com/tag/poesia-servia/)
I don't hold a high opinion on Serbian writers in general, maybe because I was required to read boring stuff for school. However, I collected some nice poems in my signature.

The Romanian writers you've mentioned are well translated, and I should pick up some of their works. I read only On the Heights of Despair (Na vrhuncu beznađa) by Emil Cioran and it was very good. ^_^

The first time I was reading Trakl, 9 years ago, it clouded my mind in heavy mist of confusion and light suffering, in lack of better words. If I had read 500 pages of such poetry, I think I would have gone crazy from all those repetitive words. Now, I don't notice them at all and every poem is delightful. His poetry is hermetic and common words are seen as personal codes/symbols. Since he carried the keys to the grave, we should let ourselves to the magical, evoking forces of verses, to the atmosphere that vaporises in a formless, yet visible charms.
I noticed that Trakl in English does nothing to me, which is why I succumb to Serbian translations. Damned be the day when they introduced Russian instead of German in my ex-school. :panda:
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 12:22 am 
 

Osore wrote:
I'm publishing a bilingual poem again on the 25th of March on my blog.
https://pesimum.wordpress.com/2020/03/25/gusenice/ Dadaist vibes. :-P

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 1:36 am 
 

Can we bring a dead thread back to its former glory? Well, you know, relative glory.

I finally have more time on my hands and am not just sitting in the house all day, so I think I'll be able to write more. The first fruits were inspired by a regular contributor to this thread, which is why I thought of posting it here! Any feedback (positive or negative), recommendations, quotes, questions, or weirdness with words will be welcome.


Salute to the Famished

Mr Fear, who I haven’t spoken to in months,
crashes back into my life with a theory of passive pleasure,
a sort of residual satisfaction that ebbs along behind
everything else, being that neutral happiness one feels
when things are going just fine.
And he’s right: the obstacles cleared,
plain sailing feels just the same as an adventure
into the great blue: the sails stream out;
the course shines clear and the map reads well;
words flow out like waves in the wind.

Mind like a window with spring sunlight streaming in,
drinking air of taste long forgotten
to quench a thirst for life’s cool fresh juice:
no need to gulp when the whole afternoon
opens wide its doors in generosity.
Mr Fear, if you’re listening now,
this passive pleasure feels like taking the lid off a stew,
when the pressure within the pot billows out
and the whole kitchen fills with the aroma -
tender meat and lilting herbs salute the famished.
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^ I feel honoured and can now die in peace knowing that I inspired a poem with such a natural flow and clever thought that could be stretched to the metaphysical heights of linking fear to passive pleasure.

But wait, as I lay dying, I must endure to make a decent translation:

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Изгубљено – тражено

Бело. Неонски јасно, експонатски и уседелачки оне немо вриште – две досадне паралеле у позирању болесничком светлу. Мирис зубара, помислиће неко. Дуги мантил и гумене рукавице слове за искоришћену крпу коју наново цеде због неретко снежног крзна.
Црвено. Наслеђује цијук и прати трзање олако обезглављених цепелина у муњама. Обазвампирује сваки напитак проливен на празно платно. Шапуће у ноћној мори и смехом избија сузе суве као красте што их открива распарани завој.
Зелено. Бележи ход на иглама, сваки грч који потискује бег потапајући ноте у посмртни кашаљ точкаша. Трули, недозвано и неопевано, рађајући најезду смрдибуба у мртвој природи каква се назире на лицу учењака.
Црно. Сумпор у капели. Усрана свећа у кавезу са изнутрицама. Увек хитна – на листи позива.
Шарено. Ротације и сирене самоубилачког будилника. Непримећени аларми и узбуне уврежени у центрифугална стања. Самопрекорни бич огрезао у коске кроз које јечи промаја. И сигурно, једна отворена рана свеже посољена црвима.
Цркотина, тај драгуљ у кући страве, позван је на вечеру.

07.01.2020.

originally published here: https://pesimum.wordpress.com/2020/05/06/izgubljeno-trazeno/.

Lost – Searched for

White. Neon clear, exhibitly and spinsterly, they scream in mute – two boring parallels posing to the sickening light. The smell of a dentist, someone will think.
Red. Inherits the chirp and follows the twitching of easily beheaded dirigibles in lightning. Devamps every potion spilled on empty canvas. Whispers in nightmare and bursts with laughter in tears dry as scabs revealed from a torn bandage.
Green. Records a walk on needles, every spasm that suppresses the escape by immersing the notes in cadaverous cough of the wheeled. Rots, uninvited and unsung, giving birth to an invasion of stink bugs in still life discerned on the face of a scholar.
Black. Sulphur in a chapel. Shitty candle in a cage with entrails. Always emergency – on a list of calls.
Colourful. Rotations and sirens of a suicide alarm clock. Unnoticed uproars and stirs embedded in centrifugal states. A self-reproachful whip, teeth sank into bones where the draft sobs. And for sure, an open wound freshly salted with worms.
Carrion, that jewel in the house of horrors, has been invited to dinner.

Excuse all the mess...

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 2:19 am 
 

Yume

Into the blue slumber
Entering the water of freedom
Just the heart of thine
My love for your wisdom
It's just passion

Drowning as I breathe
The adoration inside
Waters show no harm
I'll be by your side
For this is who I am

Life is an illusion
But you are the one I seek
The vision of reality
Come, my freedom of the heart
Let me swim with thee
Passion becomes so real
I WANT TO BELIEVE

Hand in hand
Love in love
Forever, we shall break the chains

Soul to soul
Heart to heart
Forever, our blood shall retain

RETAIN TO THEE

Let me sleep
And wake in thee
Insomnia is love
When I am awake
And you are in my reality

SCREAM FOR LOVE

(Guitar Solo 1)

Drop me in the oceans
To the depth of emotions
Into the coral reefs
I sail to thee

In my mind
In my soul
This is where I want to go
To the bottom where I see you again

A child could see
As close the eyes
Forever free
To the bottom skies

Let me fly below
Into thin Atlantis
The water flows
For the heart to miss

Hand in hand
Soul to soul
In this slumber
Thine precious
I SHALL ALWAYS ADORE
IN MY SLEEP

(Guitar Solo 2)

I can release myself
Open my heart
And turn to thee
Like the waters
Turn to the ocean
When I sleep
I see you again

Mermaid of spirit
Take me away
To a new heaven
Away from this Earth
And I'll give you love
Thou give me yours
And let me drown...

...IN YOUR LOVE
FOREVER
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This is more or less a ballad that I've written sometime last year.

An Ode For A Loving Old Man

...her shadow still dances on the wall
I'm sitting watching her on the music box
A young man, was I... a second of time...
My life had changed... I'm old

Getting up from my rocking chair
And decided to disappear into the walls
With her

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This is almost a decade old.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 4:39 am 
 

simonitro wrote:
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Yume

Into the blue slumber
Entering the water of freedom
Just the heart of thine
My love for your wisdom
It's just passion

Drowning as I breathe
The adoration inside
Waters show no harm
I'll be by your side
For this is who I am

Life is an illusion
But you are the one I seek
The vision of reality
Come, my freedom of the heart
Let me swim with thee
Passion becomes so real
I WANT TO BELIEVE

Hand in hand
Love in love
Forever, we shall break the chains

Soul to soul
Heart to heart
Forever, our blood shall retain

RETAIN TO THEE

Let me sleep
And wake in thee
Insomnia is love
When I am awake
And you are in my reality

SCREAM FOR LOVE

(Guitar Solo 1)

Drop me in the oceans
To the depth of emotions
Into the coral reefs
I sail to thee

In my mind
In my soul
This is where I want to go
To the bottom where I see you again

A child could see
As close the eyes
Forever free
To the bottom skies

Let me fly below
Into thin Atlantis
The water flows
For the heart to miss

Hand in hand
Soul to soul
In this slumber
Thine precious
I SHALL ALWAYS ADORE
IN MY SLEEP

(Guitar Solo 2)

I can release myself
Open my heart
And turn to thee
Like the waters
Turn to the ocean
When I sleep
I see you again

Mermaid of spirit
Take me away
To a new heaven
Away from this Earth
And I'll give you love
Thou give me yours
And let me drown...

...IN YOUR LOVE
FOREVER
Is this intended for a power metal song? I don't know why it gives me those vibes. Also, why have you chosen to use archaic pronouns when the rest of the text doesn't sound old?

simonitro wrote:
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An Ode For A Loving Old Man

...her shadow still dances on the wall
I'm sitting watching her on the music box
A young man, was I... a second of time...
My life had changed... I'm old

Getting up from my rocking chair
And decided to disappear into the walls
With her
I like this better. It has that fragmented, stream of consciousness appeal - like a note you wrote sitting in a pub, thinking about yourself sitting in a rocking chair in the living room reminiscing a moment long gone. The beginning immediately reminded me of a song Circle of Fear by HIM:
''Heartache is knocking on her door
Shadows dance outside her window
Tears keep falling on the floor
As the world around her crumbles...''
---------------------------------------------

Charles Baudelaire: A Carrion
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Rememberest thou, my sweet, that summer's day,
How in the sun outspread
At a path's bend a filthy carcase lay
Upon a pebbly bed?

Like a lewd woman, with its legs in air,
Burned, oozed the poisonous mass;
Its gaping belly, calm and debonair,
Was full of noisome gas.

And steadily upon this rottenness.
As though to cook it brown
And render Nature hundredfold excess.
The sun shone down.

The blue sky thought the carrion marvellous,
A flower most fair to see;
And as we gazed it almost poisoned us —
It stank so horribly.

The flies buzzed on this putrid belly, whence
Black hosts of maggots came,
Which streamed in thick and shining rivers thence
Along that ragged frame.

Pulsating like a wave, spirting about
Bright jets, it seemed to live;
As though it were by some vague wind blown out,
Some breath procreative.

And all this life was strangely musical
Like wind or bubbling spring,
Or corn which moves with rhythmic rise and fall
In time of winnowing.

The lines became indefinite and faint
As a thin dream that dies,
A half-forgotten scene the hand can paint
Only from memories...

Behind the rocks there lurked a hungry hound
With melancholy eye,
Longing to nose the morsel he had found
And gnaw it greedily.

Yet thou shalt be as vile a carrion
As this infection dire,
O bright star of my eyes, my nature's sun,
My angel, my desire!

Yea, such, O queen of the graces, shalt thou be
After the last soft breath.
Beneath the grass and the lush greenery
A-mouldering in death!

When thy sweet flesh the worms devour with kisses,
Tell them, O beauty mine.
Of rotting loves I keep the bodily blisses
And essence all-divine!

— Jack Collings Squire, Poems and Baudelaire Flowers (London: The New Age Press, Ltd, 1909)

Šarl Bodler: Strvina
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Sećas li se, o dušo mila, dan beše letnji
i nebo spokojno i jasno,
kao na zavoju ceste, na šljunku, mi u šetnji
strvinu gnusnu ugledasmo?

Nogu dignutih uvis, k'o žena bludu sklona,
s otrovnim znojem vrenja ružnih,
nehajno je, bestidno širila trbuh ona,
sav prepun isparenja kužnih.

Tu gnjileţ je grejalo i peklo sunce vrelo,
k'o savesni i vredni pekar,
željan da mnogostruko prirodi vrati delo
koje je sastavila nekad.

Nebesa su gledala bujanje mrtvog tela
što poput cveta stade rasti.
Smrad beše tako silan, da si od njega htela
u nesvest na travu pasti.

Roj muva je zujao kraj creva i kraj usta
a bataljoni crva, siti,
gmizahu naokolo, i kao tečnost gusta
prelivahu taj dronjak ţivi.

To beše kao talas, čas nadut, čas razliven;
meso je kipelo u vrenju,
kao da telo čuva dah neki, živ i skriven,
težeći umnogostručenju.

Sve to brujaše čudno, k'o vetar, kao plima,
K'o voda kada razlije se,
Il' zrnje žita, kad ga ritmičnim pokretima
u svom rešetu vejač trese.

Oblici nestajahu, kao san, kao slika,
što tek na mutnu skicu liči,
zaboravljena, pa je kičica umetnika
po sećanju tek uobliči.

Jedna nas kuja, malo podalje, ljutim okom
posmatraše, uznemirena,
vrebajući trenutak da na kosturu skokom
ugrabi komad svoga plena.

A međutim, i ti ćes ličiti na to smeće,
na ovu kužnu hrpu gnoja,
Ti, sunce moga sveta, očiju mojih cveće,
Moj anđele i strasti moja!

Kraljice draži, ti ćes, kad dođe čas i za te
da s pomasću se zadnjom kreće,
među kosture sići, da zajedno buđate,
pod travu i pod tusto cveće.

Tada kaži crvima, kad te kroz tminu
ljubljenjem gladnim budu obasuli,
da ja još čuvam oblik i nebesku suštinu
ljubavi moje koja truli!

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simonitro
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Joined: Thu Apr 08, 2004 3:41 pm
Posts: 473
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 9:54 pm 
 

Osore wrote:
simonitro wrote:
Spoiler: show
Yume

Into the blue slumber
Entering the water of freedom
Just the heart of thine
My love for your wisdom
It's just passion

Drowning as I breathe
The adoration inside
Waters show no harm
I'll be by your side
For this is who I am

Life is an illusion
But you are the one I seek
The vision of reality
Come, my freedom of the heart
Let me swim with thee
Passion becomes so real
I WANT TO BELIEVE

Hand in hand
Love in love
Forever, we shall break the chains

Soul to soul
Heart to heart
Forever, our blood shall retain

RETAIN TO THEE

Let me sleep
And wake in thee
Insomnia is love
When I am awake
And you are in my reality

SCREAM FOR LOVE

(Guitar Solo 1)

Drop me in the oceans
To the depth of emotions
Into the coral reefs
I sail to thee

In my mind
In my soul
This is where I want to go
To the bottom where I see you again

A child could see
As close the eyes
Forever free
To the bottom skies

Let me fly below
Into thin Atlantis
The water flows
For the heart to miss

Hand in hand
Soul to soul
In this slumber
Thine precious
I SHALL ALWAYS ADORE
IN MY SLEEP

(Guitar Solo 2)

I can release myself
Open my heart
And turn to thee
Like the waters
Turn to the ocean
When I sleep
I see you again

Mermaid of spirit
Take me away
To a new heaven
Away from this Earth
And I'll give you love
Thou give me yours
And let me drown...

...IN YOUR LOVE
FOREVER
Is this intended for a power metal song? I don't know why it gives me those vibes. Also, why have you chosen to use archaic pronouns when the rest of the text doesn't sound old?

simonitro wrote:
Spoiler: show
An Ode For A Loving Old Man

...her shadow still dances on the wall
I'm sitting watching her on the music box
A young man, was I... a second of time...
My life had changed... I'm old

Getting up from my rocking chair
And decided to disappear into the walls
With her
I like this better. It has that fragmented, stream of consciousness appeal - like a note you wrote sitting in a pub, thinking about yourself sitting in a rocking chair in the living room reminiscing a moment long gone. The beginning immediately reminded me of a song Circle of Fear by HIM:
''Heartache is knocking on her door
Shadows dance outside her window
Tears keep falling on the floor
As the world around her crumbles...''
---------------------------------------------

Charles Baudelaire: A Carrion
Spoiler: show
Rememberest thou, my sweet, that summer's day,
How in the sun outspread
At a path's bend a filthy carcase lay
Upon a pebbly bed?

Like a lewd woman, with its legs in air,
Burned, oozed the poisonous mass;
Its gaping belly, calm and debonair,
Was full of noisome gas.

And steadily upon this rottenness.
As though to cook it brown
And render Nature hundredfold excess.
The sun shone down.

The blue sky thought the carrion marvellous,
A flower most fair to see;
And as we gazed it almost poisoned us —
It stank so horribly.

The flies buzzed on this putrid belly, whence
Black hosts of maggots came,
Which streamed in thick and shining rivers thence
Along that ragged frame.

Pulsating like a wave, spirting about
Bright jets, it seemed to live;
As though it were by some vague wind blown out,
Some breath procreative.

And all this life was strangely musical
Like wind or bubbling spring,
Or corn which moves with rhythmic rise and fall
In time of winnowing.

The lines became indefinite and faint
As a thin dream that dies,
A half-forgotten scene the hand can paint
Only from memories...

Behind the rocks there lurked a hungry hound
With melancholy eye,
Longing to nose the morsel he had found
And gnaw it greedily.

Yet thou shalt be as vile a carrion
As this infection dire,
O bright star of my eyes, my nature's sun,
My angel, my desire!

Yea, such, O queen of the graces, shalt thou be
After the last soft breath.
Beneath the grass and the lush greenery
A-mouldering in death!

When thy sweet flesh the worms devour with kisses,
Tell them, O beauty mine.
Of rotting loves I keep the bodily blisses
And essence all-divine!

— Jack Collings Squire, Poems and Baudelaire Flowers (London: The New Age Press, Ltd, 1909)

Šarl Bodler: Strvina
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Sećas li se, o dušo mila, dan beše letnji
i nebo spokojno i jasno,
kao na zavoju ceste, na šljunku, mi u šetnji
strvinu gnusnu ugledasmo?

Nogu dignutih uvis, k'o žena bludu sklona,
s otrovnim znojem vrenja ružnih,
nehajno je, bestidno širila trbuh ona,
sav prepun isparenja kužnih.

Tu gnjileţ je grejalo i peklo sunce vrelo,
k'o savesni i vredni pekar,
željan da mnogostruko prirodi vrati delo
koje je sastavila nekad.

Nebesa su gledala bujanje mrtvog tela
što poput cveta stade rasti.
Smrad beše tako silan, da si od njega htela
u nesvest na travu pasti.

Roj muva je zujao kraj creva i kraj usta
a bataljoni crva, siti,
gmizahu naokolo, i kao tečnost gusta
prelivahu taj dronjak ţivi.

To beše kao talas, čas nadut, čas razliven;
meso je kipelo u vrenju,
kao da telo čuva dah neki, živ i skriven,
težeći umnogostručenju.

Sve to brujaše čudno, k'o vetar, kao plima,
K'o voda kada razlije se,
Il' zrnje žita, kad ga ritmičnim pokretima
u svom rešetu vejač trese.

Oblici nestajahu, kao san, kao slika,
što tek na mutnu skicu liči,
zaboravljena, pa je kičica umetnika
po sećanju tek uobliči.

Jedna nas kuja, malo podalje, ljutim okom
posmatraše, uznemirena,
vrebajući trenutak da na kosturu skokom
ugrabi komad svoga plena.

A međutim, i ti ćes ličiti na to smeće,
na ovu kužnu hrpu gnoja,
Ti, sunce moga sveta, očiju mojih cveće,
Moj anđele i strasti moja!

Kraljice draži, ti ćes, kad dođe čas i za te
da s pomasću se zadnjom kreće,
među kosture sići, da zajedno buđate,
pod travu i pod tusto cveće.

Tada kaži crvima, kad te kroz tminu
ljubljenjem gladnim budu obasuli,
da ja još čuvam oblik i nebesku suštinu
ljubavi moje koja truli!


I use that to many of my lyrics to sound more poetic. It adds a little more sometimes. Sometimes, the modern way of lyrics can get a bit boring with some archaic can add or spice things up. And yes, my lyrics are very power metal heavy.

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Ezadara
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:11 pm 
 

gasmask_colostomy wrote:
Can we bring a dead thread back to its former glory? Well, you know, relative glory.

I didn't even know this site had a poetry thread! I'll do my little part to try and keep it afloat. I've always been more of a fiction writer but going back to roughly the start of this year I've been writing poetry a lot more regularly and I've set a very loose goal for myself to have 35 poems I feel are worth keeping in my little poetry Google doc by the end of the year. This is one of them.

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Come & See

When at last your travels delivered you here
to these faraway shores, these minutes that became years,
you fell to your knees, your voice ragged
as a long-forgotten desert trail,
and exalted that you had found home.
How long had it been since you’d felt safe--
since your nomad’s heart had given you a night of rest?
The sun above would soon be gone, and you stood
and turned to face it, gazing out to sea, your callused hands
outstretched, as if to catch every waning shade of sunset.
You stepped into the sea, and the cool water
soothed your tired feet, swallowed up the memory
of each lonesome step, eased the haunting ache in your bones.
Then it took you apart, feet and legs, hands and arms, chest and heart,
parted skin from flesh, flesh from bones, bones from marrow,
pulled away every joy that had ever become a sorrow,
drew out every name by which you were known
in all corners of the world and erased them,
until there was nothing left, nothing of you,
just the vanishing sun and the blue of the sea.

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Osore
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Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2014 9:55 am
Posts: 595
Location: Serbia
PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 12:10 am 
 

simonitro wrote:
I use that to many of my lyrics to sound more poetic. It adds a little more sometimes. Sometimes, the modern way of lyrics can get a bit boring with some archaic can add or spice things up. And yes, my lyrics are very power metal heavy.
I guess it sounds right to you then. I can't grasp the exact feeling because English is not my native language.

Ezadara wrote:
I didn't even know this site had a poetry thread! I'll do my little part to try and keep it afloat. I've always been more of a fiction writer but going back to roughly the start of this year I've been writing poetry a lot more regularly and I've set a very loose goal for myself to have 35 poems I feel are worth keeping in my little poetry Google doc by the end of the year. This is one of them.

Spoiler: show
Come & See

When at last your travels delivered you here
to these faraway shores, these minutes that became years,
you fell to your knees, your voice ragged
as a long-forgotten desert trail,
and exalted that you had found home.
How long had it been since you’d felt safe--
since your nomad’s heart had given you a night of rest?
The sun above would soon be gone, and you stood
and turned to face it, gazing out to sea, your callused hands
outstretched, as if to catch every waning shade of sunset.
You stepped into the sea, and the cool water
soothed your tired feet, swallowed up the memory
of each lonesome step, eased the haunting ache in your bones.
Then it took you apart, feet and legs, hands and arms, chest and heart,
parted skin from flesh, flesh from bones, bones from marrow,
pulled away every joy that had ever become a sorrow,
drew out every name by which you were known
in all corners of the world and erased them,
until there was nothing left, nothing of you,
just the vanishing sun and the blue of the sea.

Wow, and I wrote only 51+29 poems (in prose) in 9 years... My goal is to have enough good stuff for a book before I die. :-P
Anyway, the first thing I noticed is the simplicity of your poem, but it was sold to me from You stepped into the sea... because from that point I knew it's going to be about suicide, which you described marvellously. I like both extremes in art, beautiful and heartbreaking tragedies and hilarious comedies that can elicit tears of joy and sorrow.

Feel free to comment on other poems, share yours and the ones you like, tell us about poets you like, what inspires you...
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Ezadara
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 12:28 am 
 

Osore wrote:
Anyway, the first thing I noticed is the simplicity of your poem, but it was sold to me from You stepped into the sea... because from that point I knew it's going to be about suicide, which you described marvellously.

Well, while I appreciate the kind words, it's actually not about suicide haha. I don't think I could ever tackle that particular subject with the appropriate honesty and depth of feeling.

I'm glad the simplicity stood out-- my biggest influences as a poet have always been the old Persian poets I grew up with like Rumi and Hafez, as well as the later poets they influenced like Nizar Qabbani and Ghalib, and part of what makes their poetry so special to me is the simple and intimate language they used. When I write, I aim to do the same thing.

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Osore
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Location: Serbia
PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 1:00 am 
 

^ Misinterpretation just shows the power of poetry. :-D

Nizar Qabbani might be the writer I could read, if only he was translated.
Are there any well respected anti-islamic/anti-religious writers in Arabic/Persian? I guess not. I know about Nietzsche being kind of popular in the Arabic world due to a lot of reviews in Arabic being written on Goodreads. It's probably because of the Antichrist, right? Love that book.

When it comes to simplicity, (old Japanese) haiku might be for you.

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Ezadara
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 1:18 am 
 

Osore wrote:
Nizar Qabbani might be the writer I could read, if only he was translated.

I'm not sure if there are any translations floating around in your native language, but there are poems of his that have been translated into English. One of my favorites is--

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In the summer,
I stretch out on the shores,
and think of you.
Had I told the sea
what I felt for you--
it would have left its shores,
its shells,
its fish,
and followed me.


Quote:
Are there any well respected anti-islamic/anti-religious writers in Arabic/Persian?

None come to mind who openly wrote with anti-Islamic/religious themes, but there were certainly poets who were accused by conservative clerics of being 'un-Islamic' (Forough Farrokhzad being a prime recent example; her works were banned in Iran after the revolution) and others who criticized the religious establishment and the ulema (the aforementioned Ghalib for example).

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Osore
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Location: Serbia
PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 1:55 am 
 

Damn, I have to vastly improve my English to be able to fully explore writers untranslated to Serbian, like the ones you've mentioned. Thanks for mentioning them anyway.

Ezadara wrote:
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In the summer,
I stretch out on the shores,
and think of you.
Had I told the sea
what I felt for you--
it would have left its shores,
its shells,
its fish,
and followed me.
Yes, it has that haiku vibe, nostalgia and reflexive natural motifs. You seem to have a connection to the sea, which is the very opposite from myself. For me, the sea has always been the distant and unknown and I see it functioning as an exotic flavour in my works (well, I used it only twice). I try to look away from the usual ''tourist on a beach'' feeling - I spent four holidays by the sea up to when I was 13 and I hated it every time, not to mention sunburns.

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simonitro
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Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 10:15 am 
 

Ezadara wrote:
gasmask_colostomy wrote:
Can we bring a dead thread back to its former glory? Well, you know, relative glory.


Spoiler: show
Come & See

When at last your travels delivered you here
to these faraway shores, these minutes that became years,
you fell to your knees, your voice ragged
as a long-forgotten desert trail,
and exalted that you had found home.
How long had it been since you’d felt safe--
since your nomad’s heart had given you a night of rest?
The sun above would soon be gone, and you stood
and turned to face it, gazing out to sea, your callused hands
outstretched, as if to catch every waning shade of sunset.
You stepped into the sea, and the cool water
soothed your tired feet, swallowed up the memory
of each lonesome step, eased the haunting ache in your bones.
Then it took you apart, feet and legs, hands and arms, chest and heart,
parted skin from flesh, flesh from bones, bones from marrow,
pulled away every joy that had ever become a sorrow,
drew out every name by which you were known
in all corners of the world and erased them,
until there was nothing left, nothing of you,
just the vanishing sun and the blue of the sea.


This is quite the tragic piece. Sounds like someone was killed in war and thrown into the ocean or something. The imagery is heavy and the emotion is in there.

Great writing, my friend.

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simonitro
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 10:16 am 
 

simonitro wrote:
Ezadara wrote:


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Come & See

When at last your travels delivered you here
to these faraway shores, these minutes that became years,
you fell to your knees, your voice ragged
as a long-forgotten desert trail,
and exalted that you had found home.
How long had it been since you’d felt safe--
since your nomad’s heart had given you a night of rest?
The sun above would soon be gone, and you stood
and turned to face it, gazing out to sea, your callused hands
outstretched, as if to catch every waning shade of sunset.
You stepped into the sea, and the cool water
soothed your tired feet, swallowed up the memory
of each lonesome step, eased the haunting ache in your bones.
Then it took you apart, feet and legs, hands and arms, chest and heart,
parted skin from flesh, flesh from bones, bones from marrow,
pulled away every joy that had ever become a sorrow,
drew out every name by which you were known
in all corners of the world and erased them,
until there was nothing left, nothing of you,
just the vanishing sun and the blue of the sea.


This is quite the tragic piece. Sounds like someone was killed in war and thrown into the ocean or something. The imagery is heavy and the emotion is in there.

Great writing, my friend.[/quote]

Safe

You saved all your belongings in me
You left and slept feeling all free
Did you know some fucker is robbing me?
Now, you are sad because I'm all empty

--------------------------------------------------------

This is just short and somewhat sweet. This is super old like 2011 old. Love writing those snappy short poems with a humor kick to them.

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Ezadara
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 20, 2020 3:04 am 
 

Osore wrote:
You seem to have a connection to the sea, which is the very opposite from myself.

I'm surprised you noticed that so quickly but it's true haha. The other day out of curiosity I tallied up the words that cropped up most frequently in my poems and the word 'sea' appeared 23 times in 23 poems (other frequent flyers were 'sun' at 27 and 'sing/song' at 26). I'd say it's my weak point when it comes to writing poetry-- a tendency to return to the same symbols/motifs time and time again.

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