Poetry thread. Write your own short poem

Now, what you know about a sweet MC from the North Sea
None of these skills you’re about to see come free
So you wanna be a sweet MC, you gotta become me
If you ever wanna be one, see

 

You say these skills don't come free
You're right I saw them on wish for a lil fee
I've got bars heavier than fellatious D
But cut the grooming that's not for me

 

I write haiku sometimes. Here are a handful of my personal favourites from the last few months.

Ascend the mountain.
From the peak descend and then,
climb back up again.

Snowflakes pirouette.
Gone before they touch the earth.
Such impermanence.

Magpies in the grass,
watch out! Hidden in the bush
is a sneaky cat.

Lonely on the plains.
Night falls, I see an evening
redness in the west.

Lemonade dances
on my tongue, tastes like Summer.
Longer, warmer days.

 

Great stuff! Love the one on snowflakes.

Basho is one of my favorites, but I’m sure there are other good ones I haven’t read yet.

 

He's had enough, theres more for another,
rest in peace for an additional brother,
It does seem like you've opened fire,
But come on son, just retire

You say I can get it,
but to get I must recieve
I have yet to find
A bullet I can't weave

 

@Mr Rn @LyarTheTruth

NothingMoreNothingLess on the scene
You step to me and you're gonna get creamed
Corn all up in your teeth, y’all rhymes are weak
They’re the opposite of sleek ya freaks
Going to rhyme every week like it’s holy week
Your rhymes are like antiques, nobody wants them
They throw them all away
Rhyming from the get go like your brain is on delay

 

I wrote this not long after starting my nofap journey:

Innocence

I remember when I was young​

Summer evenings seemed to last forever
Running through the meadows..
Blades of grass almost as tall as me
Picked wild flowers to make a necklace
A gift fit for a princess
The sky was so tall, so blue
My father would swing me around in a circle
Round and round until we were dizzy
Collapse laughing on the floor in a heap
Those laughs came from deep within
When I'm dying those are the memories I will recall
Not the other stuff, the nasty stuff, the porn..
That doesn't deserve a place in my memories
No, I will remember the love, the laughter
The kindness, the beauty, the innocence.

​

 

Thank you! I am currently reading through a collection of Basho's work.

 

This is Beautiful! Thank you for sharing it. ​

 

I like the ‘magpies‘ one too. The use of
Watch out! Is very effective.

 

Thanks. It's surprisingly difficult to make stuff like that work without it sounding weird. A lot of Japanese poets do have those sorts of "pauses" from what I have noticed.

 

You mean like

Rain is falling
Goats run into shelter
Thunder is raging

 

Thank you! You're welcome, I'm glad you liked it

I wrote a few more but this was always my favourite one.

 

Closer to something like this, found in this haiku by Basho

An old silent pond

A frog jumps into the pond—

Splash! Silence again.

There is a specific word for this pause that I cannot remember the name of, but it's generally associated with a traditional haiku structure. To be honest though, what constitutes a haiku is hardly set in stone. A lot of modern poets dont even stick to the 5-7-5 format.

 

I was trying to remember it too. It is
kireji
Cutting word apparently! Don’t know Japanese, so can’t be sure.

 

That sounds right, I vaguely remember hearing that used before.

 

Just a few more I wrote.

Snowfall in the spring!
What an unusual thing,
flowers dusted white.

Fields of lavender
sit under a burnt pink sky.
Hear the ocean waves.

Polychromatic
sky flashes to life as the
lights of heaven dance.

 

Here's a pencil
Go home, write some stuff, make it suspenseful
And don't come back until something cool hits you
Screw it, take the mic with you
Looking like a cyclone hit you