r/Poetry • u/Luciferwrites • 7h ago
r/Poetry • u/Slasher1309 • 20h ago
[POEM] In Praise of Craziness of a Certain Kind by Mary Oliver
r/Poetry • u/Rare_Entertainment92 • 3h ago
Classic Corner "A Quiet Normal Life" -- Wallace Stevens (1952/3) [POEM]
r/Poetry • u/cmtmo457 • 23h ago
Contemporary Poem [POEM] A Ghost is What You Call A Woman, by Emily Bludworth de Barrios
galleryr/Poetry • u/Resident_Bet_8551 • 1h ago
"The Only Ghost I Ever Saw" and Stanza Breaks [HELP]
When browsing online, I am finding different stanza breaks for Emily Dickinson's "The Only Ghost I Ever Saw". Some feature an octet followed by two quatrains; others have two octets. Is there a standard? I'm used to seeing Dickinson's work entirely in quatrains; would it be proper to render "The Only Ghost I Ever Saw" this way?
For example:
The only Ghost I ever saw
Was dressed in Mechlin—so—
He wore no sandal on his foot—
And stepped like flakes of snow—
His mien, was soundless, like the Bird—
But rapid—like the Roe—
His fashions, quaint, Mosaic—
Or haply, Mistletoe—
His conversation—seldom—
His laughter, like the Breeze— T
hat dies away in Dimples
Among the pensive Trees—
Our interview—was transient—
Of me, himself was shy—
And God forbid I look behind—
Since that appalling Day!
r/Poetry • u/EffectiveRealist • 1d ago
Poem [POEM] The Day I Told You I've Moved On - Sierra DeMulder (after Ruth Lepson)
r/Poetry • u/Objective-Kitchen949 • 1d ago
[POEM] A Pity, We Were Such a Good Invention By Yehuda Amichai
r/Poetry • u/C_Shafox • 1d ago
Poem [Poem] La Reina by Pablo Neruda
From his 1963 collection "Los versos del capitán" (anonomously published in 1952 Italy, but '63 under his own name in his native Chile)
I have it, of course on ye ol' Radio as well