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  • End of the beginning *Continued* by Miserable girl
    Contined of the marriage of Edward and Bella going down the drain
  • slave with OCD FET LIFE X POST by requiempoet
    I am in a M/s relationship...and I have OCD.
  • All That You Ever Wanted to Know About Poetry: So What is Poetry Anyway? by S D McDaniel
    So, perhaps you are new to writing poetry, and are a little confused. Or maybe you have been writing poetry for a while, and want to improve. Hopefully this column will grant you insight into the world of poetry.
  • The meaning of life by me and mitchell, from Pian-Pain
    What is the meaning of life? many people have pondered this question, giving me and mitchell the answer to the meaning of life. Since so many people have spent their lives trying to find out the meaning, led us to the conclusion that the meaning of life is searching for the meaning of life. Does this not make perfect since though, for people who have searched, have died in vain searching for it.
  • Séasúr Amhrán by Tammy Knott, from Little Eagle
    This is a form of my own creation. The example provided was written by me.
  • Sneadhbhairdne by Lewis Turco & Tammy Knott, from Little Eagle
    Examples by me, further examples can be found by clicking the link to the column below.
  • Giving critiques by Dryad Enya
    How to give constructive critism without offending anybody and allowing the poet to improve with out feeling stupid or unworthy.
  • The 'Dream Refrain' Poetry Form. by GlorianaFabian, from AlexandraHamilton
    A new, interesting, rhyme/meter form invented by myself.
  • Future plans by Hetha
  • the Bucket by Lucian Valcor
    some times I wonder how humans have lasted this long when i look at all the things going on in the world at this time right now from greed to government control to the war's and religion disagreements from the east to the west if we have always been this ignorant as a whole how is it we have all lasted this long ,

    It all started today when i was out front watering my plants in the front yard so they don't cook ( since I live in southern california and it is a 105 today ) I lite a cigarette haven't had one in 4 days i figured i lasted that long i deserved one
  • What Makes A Good Comment On Oldpoetry by JS, from Old Poetry
    On OLDPOETRY http://oldpoetry.com/ members and guests are welcome to make comments about the Old Poets and their poems.

    Briefly the criteria are Relevance, Decency and Courtesy.
  • How and Why Poets should love their self by Me and Various sources that I've noted, from Stevie.me
    I wrote this article for my blog but I'm posting a copy here for you to read.
    Learn why loving yourself is important to being a poet and some ideas on how to do it.
  • Top 10 by me. by CentrifugalCorpse
    My writing phases, prompts and 10 favorite poems by myself.
  • Barack Obama by Dark Geometry
    I'd like to know if anyone feels the same.
  • Help/Hot Lines for Support by kareneisenlord
  • Growning up by Binkyball, from Binkyball
    This poem is a life poem
    It tells you one day every body grows up.
    so don't be afriad to grow up it is just a way of life.
  • Nigga (Not offensive, don't remove) by Anubis
    I hate the n-word
  • Bipolar Disorder by Main Resource - GSC Home Studies and my own research., from kareneisenlord
  • Quibble Notes: Writing Poetry by hoeftra
    (SEE ORIGINAL QUBBLE NOTES)
    Infrequent Remarks on THE ART OF POETRY as I Practice It. I speak for no one else but myself, the way I write poetry, my subjects, what inspires me, or special ways I think that might yield a poem. And none of this is Quibbling. If you find any of this helpful, surprise me, tell me.
  • Tanka, haiku, Senyru practice by Draig aine
    a place for member of Lovers of Oriental art and Haiku, Tanka and Senyru groups can post and develop their writing we can help each other grow by writing and commenting or writing off each others posts, to late tonight for more,feel free to start adding posts and learning from each other

    this is a link to Myron's Essay on Haiku, well worth the read

    http://www.writinghood.com/Style/How-To/The-Truth-About-Haiku.83389

    this is a link to my favorite Tanka poet Ki No Tsurayuki
    often when I want to study the poetic form I read one of his poems then write a response to him like a love letter, there are many other Eastern poets on Old Poetry
    I strongly suggest taking the time to read and learn from the master

    http://oldpoetry.com/oauthor/show/Ki_no_Tsurayuki

    this is another link to 100 gems a collection of Tanka the best way to learn is to read the masters and learn from the sublime words

    http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/hvj/index.htm

    21 Classical Tanka

    The 21 tanka here have been selected from three of 21 Japanese Imperial Anthologies: the 1st compiled in 905, the 8th in 1205 and the 9th in 1235. They were all written before Archbishop Walter de Grey started the massive rebuilding scheme around the year 1220 that ultimately led to the present York Minster.

    One of the female poets here, Ono no Komachi (ca. 850), flourished just before York was occupied by the Vikings. Monk Saigyo and Fujiwara no Shunzei were in their teens when Fountains Abbey was founded in 1132. The youngest among the poets here, Shunzei’s Daughter, might have seen the first Oxford college founded in 1249 if she had been in this part of the world.

    1
    Ono no Komachi
    a female poet, ca. 850

    Was it because I went to sleep
    Thinking always of him
    That I caught a glimpse of him?
    Had I known it a dream
    I would not have awoken.

    2

    Ono no Komachi
    a female poet, ca. 850

    When I cannot meet him
    On a moonless night
    Passion rises within me;
    A flame running through my breast
    Sets my heart on fire.
    3
    Ono no Komachi
    a female poet, ca. 850

    The colour of the cherry blossom
    Has faded in vain
    In the long rain
    While in idle thoughts
    I have spent my life.

    4
    Fujiwara no Teika
    1162 – 1241

    Waiting for one who does not come,
    Like the seaweed burnt for salt
    In the evening calm
    At Matsuho Bay
    My body is smouldering

    5

    Fujiwara no Teika
    1162 – 1241

    The path at the foot of the mountain
    Through which the one I wait for wends his way
    Must by now be blocked.
    For, on the cedar by the eaves
    The snow is heavy.

    6
    Fujiwara no Teika
    1162 – 1241

    The black hair through which
    I used to run my hand for her;
    Now strand by strand
    it rises before my mind
    When I lie down alone.

    7
    Fujiwara no Teika
    1162 – 1241

    As the floating bridge
    Of my spring night dream
    Breaks
    A bank of clouds parts from the peak
    In the dawn sky.

    8
    Fujiwara no Shunzei
    1114 – 1204

    In unbearable longing
    I look at the sky
    Over your dwelling.
    The spring rain falls,
    Sifted through the haze.

    9
    Fujiwara no Shunzei
    1114 – 1204

    To one who rarely comes here
    The wind through the pines
    Sounds sad at night time.
    Does she hear it always
    Beneath the moss?

    10
    Princess Shikishi
    1149 – 1201

    Deep in the mountains
    The pine branch door
    Does not feel the coming of spring:
    Only the slow dropping of gems
    From the melting snow.

    11
    Fujiwara no Teika
    1162 – 1241

    On their way home,
    On the wings of wild geese
    That have drooped
    In the turbulent frosty skies,
    The spring rain falls.

    12
    Monk Jakuren
    1139? – 1202

    As spring passes
    I do not know
    Where its harbour will be:
    A brushwood barge on the River Uji
    Falling into the haze.

    13
    Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
    1169 – 1206

    The oak forest:
    Have the dewdrops from the leaves, too,
    Changed their colours?
    In the grasses beneath the trees
    Autumn has deepened.

    14
    Monk Jakuren
    1139? – 1202

    The rough winds of autumn
    Have laid low the grasses
    Where the stag had his bed.
    From deep in the mountain
    Comes his cry.

    15
    Monk Saigyo
    1118 – 1190

    Cricket,
    Are you getting weak
    As the autumn nights grow cold?
    Your cry sounds faint
    And becomes more distant.

    16
    Fujiwara no Teika
    1162 – 1241

    The autumn wind blows
    The traveler’s sleeves inside-out.
    The lonely evening sun shines
    On a wooden bridge
    Clinging to the mountainside.

    17
    Monk Jakuren
    1139? – 1202

    The drops from sudden showers
    On the leaves of cedar
    Are not yet dry
    As mists rise through them;
    An autumn evening.

    18
    Shunzei’s Daughter
    171? – 1254

    I cannot expect a visitor now.
    Autumn has come
    Bringing blustering storms,
    The grassy path to the house
    Buried under dead leaves.

    19
    Fujiwara no Teika
    1162 – 1241

    There is not even shelter
    To rein in my horse
    To shake the snow off my sleeves.
    Around the Sano Crossing
    On this snowy evening.

    20
    Princess Shikishi
    1149 – 1201

    Broken by the sound of the wind
    That plays on the bamboo leaves
    Near the window
    A dream even shorter
    Than my fleeting sleep.

    21
    Monk Saigyo
    1118 – 1190

    Sending my soul away
    To where the moon has sunk
    Behind the mountain,
    What shall I do with my body
    Left in the darkness?

    The 21 poems have been selected and newly translated into English by

    Dr Hisashi Nakamura, York St John College.

  • Critique Your Own Work by Nam
    Even the best authors on this website can and have written bad poetry. I wouldn't consider I am one of the best writers on this website but I do consider that I am at least good at what I particularly write, in the vein in which I write in. I used to just write bad poetry, and nothing but. People would tell me it's good either to make me feel good, to inspire me to keep writing, or just to be nice. None of those things helped me in any way of improving my work. So, if they weren't going to help me improve my work then I would help me improve my work.
  • Pen and Brush ~ weekly column on Art and Poetry by Ariosto II.
    Pictures Worth a Thousand Words

    I thought it was time to start a column. One with pretty pictures and poems.
    Art and Poetry, go hand in hand. Images inspire words and words inspire
    images, it never fails
  • The Differences between Poems, Prose and Free Verse by Definitions taken from online dictionary, from Griswold
    Do you write Poems, prose or free verse?
  • Positive's folder by Kaylee Fox, from DinkyDiver
    This Folder is for my positive's which can be from noticing something beautiful in the day/night, doing something nice for myself, helping others, doing something nice for somebody else etc. You get the message. I will try to add to this daily to keep my positive's up with the date attached! and I will do each day in a different colour.



    My reason for starting this is I enjoyed doing it in my DBT and I think it will help sometimes because we forget the beautiful things in life that are clouded by our dark days.




  • Quotes. by Walking Oxymoron
    Quotes to inspire those curious of you... These items of gorgeousness can also be used for poetic inspriation.
    (Just don't forget to credit!!)
    And if you do, send me the link.. I'd love to see what you made of it! (I'll definitely comment...)

    Feel free to comment at the bottom, tell me which ones you like and why! I'm nosy like that, I'd love to know!
    (PreWarn, please include quote, because scrolling for 92 dfifferent numbers gets tiring!)

    I shall probably add to this...
    Enjoy, Peoples!

  • Poem: My heart beating in your chest. by Angels of satan
    This poem is written by me about someone who i truly love,
    and i wanted comments on the poem because i'm going to show him the poem, so i want it to be the best it can be.
  • Are you interested in becoming a greeter? by Miss Faerie
    If you are interested in becoming a greeter, please read this and then apply to Ap Greeter Training and Application Group
  • ACTION REQUIRED by Old Poetry
    There are still some gaps in our coverage on this site and we would appreciate details of any of these people.
    Please send us any info either by IM or email adding the source if possible.
    BUT, please check the comments below as some have already been chosen by others. Thank You
  • Some rules of Haiku by Mairi bheag
    A little about how to use this form, traditionally associated with Japan - a form which balances freedom and discipline.
  • Ingrained Beliefs by © Kayla Martin, from Rose Dark Thorn
    An essay about why I've always felt like my best was never good enough. It's very personal.