/r/Poetry

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A place for sharing published poetry.

For sharing orignal content, please visit r/OCPoetry

Original Poetry

Use /r/OCPoetry for original poetry

What We're About:

This is a forum to talk about the world of poetry. Seek advice on submitting your poetry for publication. Offer a lesson on enjambement. Spread the news of a new poet laureate. Etc.

We now have our own Discord server! Come hang out and join the weekly open mic!

The Dos and Don'ts of Poetry:

  1. This subreddit is for sharing published poetry and for discussing the world of poetry. Do not post any original poems. Share your poetry on our sister subreddit, /r/OCPoetry.
  2. Put a [TAG] in your post title, e.g., "[Info] Lesson on rhyming" (See below for available tags).
  3. To ask for homework help, state that you are asking for homework help and show how far you've gotten.
  4. To sell something, use a self post and offer a sample poem. To promote something, like publications, be detailed about your product.
  5. Do not use a URL shortener.
  6. NEW If you are sharing a poem in translation, both the original poet and the translator must be credited.
  7. NEWER ALL Poem submission HEADLINES must include the name of the poem and the author. Period

We moderators reserve the right to remove posts as best serves the community.

Available Tags

In order for your post to go through, you must use one of the following tags--in brackets--before your title.

  1. [POEM]: For sharing a published or anthologized POEM. (Not for sharing your own amateur poetry.)

  2. [ARTICLE]: For sharing a link to an ARTICLE from the general world of poetry.

  3. [OPINION]: For discussing your OPINIONS about any aspect of the general world of poetry.

  4. [RESOURCE]: For sharing outside links to RESOURCES that are related to the general world of poetry.

  5. [HELP]: For asking for HELP from the poetry community. (Still not for sharing your own amateur poetry.)

  6. [PROMO]: For PROMOTING your own creative project. (Still not for sharing your own amateur poetry).

  7. [OPPORTUNITY]: For announcements about professional OPPORTUNITIES for prospective poets.

  8. [META]: For discussing the subreddit itself, or discussing other posts that appear on the subreddit. Posts using this tag may be subject to moderator approval. If in doubt, please ask first.

Have a question for the mods? Click here!

Formatting Help

Reddit formatting (aka 'fancy courier font trick')

  • 4 spaces after each line escapes double spacing

  • Double space the end of a line for a line break

  • Double return for a stanza break

View our navigation menu in the header to view useful subs/resources!

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[POEM] The Ballad of Good Council by Geoffrey Chaucer. More relevant now than ever, I think, 700 years after it was written

Good Council of Chaucer Flee from the press, and dwell with soothfastness; Suffice thee thy good, though it be small; For hoard hath hate, and climbing tickleness, Press hath envy, and weal is blent o'er all, Savour no more than thee behove shall; Read well thyself, that other folk canst read; And truth thee shall deliver, it is no dread.

Paine thee not each crooked to redress, In trust of her that turneth as a ball; Great rest standeth in little business: Beware also to spurn against a nail; Strive not as doth a crocke with a wall; Deeme thyself that deemest others' deed, And truth thee shall deliver, it is no dread.

What thee is sent, receive in buxomness; The wrestling of this world asketh a fall; Here is no home, here is but wilderness. Forth, pilgrim! Forthe beast, out of thy stall! Look up on high, and thank thy God of all! Weive thy lust, and let thy ghost thee lead, And truth thee shall deliver, it is no dread.

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2025/02/02
09:20 UTC
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[Opinion] The Forgotten Anti-Fascist Poet: Lauro De Bosis

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2025/02/02
01:54 UTC
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[poem] dream land: rossetti

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2025/02/02
01:10 UTC
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[HELP] Requesting a short excerpt from one of Yves Bonnefoy's more obscure poems

Bit of an odd request and probably a long shot, but the source text of a piece of translation that I'm working on is quoting Yves Bonnefoy's poem "Hello? Hello?" from "Ursa Major". I found almost all the lines I need in English by trawling through Google, but I'm missing a small part. Does anyone happen to have the book and/or know the few lines that follow this section:

Hello? Hello?

I would like to speak with you.
Who are you?
Red, a sky that is all red.
Have you another name?

I thought I'd try Reddit before admitting defeat and shelling out £15 to buy the hard cover of the book just for those few lines...

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2025/02/01
23:56 UTC
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