#everyone hates poetry

[nobrashfestivity]

Everyone Hates Poetry 2024

Rules

Write a poem before Feb.5th and submit it to me with the submit feature or in an ask.

Poems should be less than 500 words

You can use your real name or your blog name but they can't be completely anonymous.

Poems will be published at 9pm on Wednesdays and then a link to each poem will be added to the bottom of this pinned post so people can read them all.

I can't stop anyone from reblogging their own poems and generally sharing art is a wonderful thing, but don't turn it into some kind of social media campaign. because people with a small number of followers would be at a disadvantage. This is supposed to be fun. Please do reblog this post and tag people if you think you know someone on tumblr that might be interested. Since the post will contain links to the submissions, your poem will not be lost in the shuffle.

If I receive less than 10 entries I'll cancel the contest and consider it a failed experiment.

Public voting will begin after the 5th.and account for 50% of the vote

A panel of judges will also vote but will not submit poems themselves, and their votes will make up the other 50% of the final tally.

.There will be small prizes for the winner and runner up.

This is my art blog and will remain so, as it always has been. I'm doing this because poets here don't get much chance to get their stuff read and I have a fair number of followers. It's just a little thing to do if you want. I'm not turning this into a poetry blog or a contest blog or anything else.

Poems don't need to be finished. Due to the one month time frame I would suspect these would be first drafts, but please write something new. I want to encourage people to do something now, however imperfect, rather than showing work that's already done.

Updates will follow. Thank you!

Rule clarifications

-Please dont send poems anonymously if at all possible. I am happy to include a name that doesn't identify your blog directly but it's impossible to refer to or contact people who submit poems anonymously. I can't have anonymous poems considered without at least a name for you and if you were to win a prize, you'd need a name and address to claim it. I don't so much care about the latter part, that's for you, this becomes very disorganized and hard to regulate with anonymous messages floating in.

-Please put the title of your poem above it. If it is below it, I have no way of distinguishing with certainty if it's a title or a last line.

One poem per person please.

if you do not wish to see the poetry contest entries just filter the tag "everyone hates poetry 2024"

Due to the very high volume of submissions I am blogging them more gradually as to give more attention to each one. The same tag, "everyone hates poetry 2024", that you can filter if you do not want to see these can be used to find the submissions. If you follow this tag you'll get them all.

Please note that I am now publishing these as asks, previously I had to retype to keep the formatting and there are simply too many entries

Submissions are now closed, I will be publishing submissions all week and then when all have been posted we will start the voting (stay tuned as to how and when)

#nobrashfestivity #everyone hates poetry #poetry #poetry contest #everyone hates poetry 2024

[dearreader]

maggie and milly and molly and may - e.e. cummings // Out Of The Woods - Taylor Swift

#my favorite poem connected to my favorite artist #thought of this in response to everyone hating the beach aesthetic #anyway taylor’s feeling clean y’all #let her find herself in the beach aesthetic #kelly babels #edit #web weaving #ee cummings #out of the woods #1989 #1989 tv #taylor swift #poetry #my edit

[marzipanandminutiae]

"Lucille is hiding her true deranged evil self behind a fake ladylike exterior!"

sometimes Ladies are just deranged and evil and that does not invalidate their intelligent conversation, well-modulated voices, impeccable manners, and many genteel accomplishments okay. how dare you. the impertinence etc.

Ladies can have a little brother-fucking and murder and martyr complexes. as a treat

#lucille sharpe #crimson peak #I feel like she has a complex relationship with being A Lady anyway. in my headcanon #she wasn't exactly brought up to see it as For Her given her status as all-around household drudge who everyone but Thomas hated #but she IS a baronet's daughter. and a woman in that society #it SHOULD be For Her. only the people she hated most denied it to her #and her interests are actually VERY lady-coded for her society: natural sciences But Not Professionally. poetry But Not Professionally #music But Not- you get the idea #she puts her household and its Designated Man first in all respects. she's endlessly self-sacrificing (until she's not) #Angel In The House energy. it's not fake- that's The Real Lucille as much as when she's killing or banging Thomas

[simmyfrobby]

― Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag.  

#tw: injury #tw: serious injury #concussion #logged into twitter dot com after a controversial game like an IDIOT #this is not so much a hockey poetry post as an essay cut into bits and cobbled together #to make my point #which is #I Have Mixed Feelings About Professional Sports And Im Making It Everyones Problem #I hate the way injuries are talked about. I hate the way games are judged. I hate the way athletes are expected to Play Through Injuries #playoffs stress me out #im doing a second round of trigger warning tags in case something slipped through the cracks #injury #head injuries #blood #although I admittedly cropped out the blood #and also most of the faces #tw: professional sports being nervewrecking #the media being disgustingly voyeuristic but I dont have a tag for that so ok #hockey poetry posts #NHL wide #nolan patrick

[aishespoeticmuse]

I only write when its hard to breathe and my lungs fail to play their part.

#i hate how i wrote this quote but everyone keeps using it wo giving me the credits #i mean come on #literature #words #reading #aesthetic #poetry #writers and poets #english literature #writers on tumblr #poems on tumblr #quotes

[habshihalwa]

"you don't understand"

you know what I don't understand?

how could you go from talking to me every single minute of every damn day, laughing so hard you cry,

to becoming a random stranger. and not being able to look me in the eye

~ a poem about losing your best friend

#i hate you #maybe im exaggerating #im not #losing your best friend #best friend #friendship #poetry #deep poems #deep thoughts #quotes #relatable #losing friends #almost the whole friendship group was on her side so i lost basically everyone #i cried and cried for months #then i went to my homeland and i realised i AM enough #idgaf about you #i just hope you're doing well #but my family made me realise i AM enough #so fuck you #im never going back to you #keep glancing at me as you walk by but i hope you know you're not getting a glance back #this poem is closure for me #i finally found peace in myself #so good fucking bye #go find someone else to deal with your issues and care about you as much as i did #lots of love #kisses

[auggietopia]

green thirteen

i’ll be buried in my bedroom, filled with moss and torn by time. i flagged it with a grave marker back when i turned thirteen, and was sentenced to a social death because i was unclean; a large, unsightly thing. drown me in the reservoir. lay my weary bones to rest and leave me well alone or else, laugh at me in death when my ears can hear no more, or, at least, i can’t be told. after all, i’m stagnant water  with a film of ugly algae; sitting mildew since thirteen. i don’t want to be to blame for once. leave my bones to dust here until the end of time. no one will visit my deathbed and mutter amongst themselves “how on earth did they bury them up on the second floor?” and outside the window, the sky will be blue, and the grass freshly cut and crisp green.

#writers on tumblr #writing #my work #poem #my poem #writer #writersontumblr #mywork #poetry #poets on tumblr #poems on tumblr #writers and poets #original poem #poems and poetry #tumblr writers #writerscreed #writers #writerscommunity #writers community #poeticstories #queer poet #you know that one awkward stage of becoming a teenager when you realise everyone hates you behind your back #for a reason you were never let in on? #yeah #i remembered whilst doing this you can do shift + enter to make the spaces between lines smaller than the default #ive been doing html this whole time and for what #i submitted to my first online magazine a few days ago!!! #now i just have to keep submitting consistently to people until they give up and let me in

[im-an-anthusiast]

Spiralling

The absence of words is heavy

On your tongue, my ears and my mind

It is too crushing to carry

Too important to leave behind

Trivial not to think about

But I can’t get my mind off it

And I am strictly not allowed

To say anything about it

I think I might be spiralling

I’m collapsing unto myself

I can’t describe how I’m feeling

When will I stop hurting myself?

Oh, there you are – in all your beauty

Stand still, let me take you in fully

Your presence, your taste – it’s all so sweet

An urge to eat, every time we meet

You are more than worth all of the wait

So it never matters if you’re late

You are more than making up for it

Making up for sins you didn’t commit

Finally! Some time just for ourselves!

It is true, I easily obsess

It's no problem – for the time being

Wait, what? You’re already leaving?

What am I to do without you?

My breath quickens, my heart stops

In your absence, I’m gone too

I’m feeling more dead than a corpse

I think I might be spiralling

These walls are closing in on me

Spinning so fast – it’s sickening

It’s my fault – that, I clearly see

Oh, there you are – filling me with bliss

I don’t want anything else than this

How badly have I missed you, my dear

What do you mean you have just been here?

I think I am seeing a pattern

Shaped like a spiral – still, I won’t learn

I am sure it all will turn out fine

Just stay with me- Oh? Alright, fine

I think I might be spiralling

I think I’m going to be sick

I think I’m not really coping

I think you think this is some trick

Oh, there you are – lovely as always

Making me happy, in countless ways

It all is more than fine while you’re here

Right. Sure. I will be waiting right here

I think I might be spiralling

Oh, there you are

My head is endlessly spinning

Oh, hi, goodbye

Oh, there you are – might be spiralling

I think I might be – good as always

Endlessly, endlessly spiralling

This might just be the end of my days

#I HATE THIS WITHOUT THE PROPER FONTS #WHY TUMBLR WHY PLEASE JUST LET ME USE DIFFERENT FONTS #i don't wanna post poetry through images man #ack #anyway yeah poem :3 #I really do swear that it is better with the proper fonts #poetry #poem #original poem #writing #poemblr #signed; fa #anyway if youre this deep in the tags then mwah mwah love you - and I am certain everyone else in your life does as well

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

found this in my gallery and immediately thought of this blog

tweet (2022) - gatorade

"come is inside you"

submitted by @mango-bubbletea

#poem #blackout poetry #submission #LMAO #slay #hows break been for everyone #i learned im allergic to strawberries #and possibly mangos and or pineapple #i fucking hate it here #anyway #thank you so much for your submission!!

[theood]

Th' stereotype that autistic people like numbers was always one I was like "oh! not me though haha. Cuz we are normal"

In 4-5 grade all I would write were Haikus. I wrote hundreds of them for my classes and I would share them when we shared our work. My teacher was super positive about nurturing this in me and I loved counting out syllables and following the rigidness of writing them.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately

#elias howls #Little literature boy strikes again. I started to say I hated poems because that's what everyone else around me did at a certain age (and i #had to fit in) BUT I DON'T!!!!!! I'VE NEVER HATED POETRY!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!! I LOVE COUNTING STANZAS AND LISTING OUT RHYMING SCHEMES AND #I LOVE LITERARY ANALYSIS ESPECIALLY WITH POEMS BECAUSE TWO PEOPLE CAN TAKE TWO VERY DIFFERENT IDEAS/MORALS/END FROM POEMS. GRRRRGRUAGH I W #ISH I COULD GO BACK TO ANALYSIS. I HAVE SO MUCH PASSION FOR READING AND DISCUSSION AND LITERATURE. FUCK!!!!!!!!!!

[nobrashfestivity]

When You Have Words I’ll Be Waiting to Hear Them

I'm watching the corners of your mouth

curling out of a dream

Sleepy

little wanderers who made the uncertain rove

to my side of the world

Where was your origin tiny smile?

Was it in an auburn fog of Momma's close face,

her writhing in accents floated above

bumbling petitions for your laughter?

My love,

was it the still

of Daddy's lone kiss that comes overbrim

the stoney dam of his stoic lips

to bless you a good day at the door?

Was it something kept solely tucked

into the folds of your burgeoning brain

that you conjured from abstract shapes you absorb

while I polish the dishes or read you a book?

Was it something I know nothing of?

I remember the first dream I dreamed of you

Your bursting eyes a fresh fire of bliss

intently I focused

so intently, I swear

until the current of subconscious pictures swung on

and the film I stared through was replaced

by something unremarkable, then awake

I remember how relieving it was to be living that morning

The kind of relief that steals time from the past

giving the present more room to stretch out

and makes right anything that was ever unright

In this timelessness breathed the infant prayer that was morning

and I felt I remembered the clarity of early life

So, maybe what you dreamed was something long since forgotten?

What bittersweet heartbreak it is

taking this peculiar arrangement of time

to remind us how purely we were cherished

Just being gave way to the wholeness of love,

that someone once cared that we dreamed

- Nikola Scannell

#submission #everyone hates poetry

[newfeeling77]

thats why these ppl are so obsessed w the idea of living in communal situations bc they think if they just had one person, this fantasy person who’s magically capable of doing basic life tasks, they can do it for me and supplement that part of my life. completely unaware that they could be that person if they just tried. and took care of their own shit.

#im not opposed to community but also. i dont want ppl doing shit for me lol its my business #everyone do their own thing + i hate eating meals with ppl . #these ppl write poetry abt the kitchen being a holy space but they wont bless it with the mop

[dont-look-me-in-the-eye]

man, i don't think anybody likes you enough to care

@canonkiller is the artist of the dragon sketch. the manga is chainsaw man.

the rest were stuff in my folder which I don't know the origin of. sorry.

#web weaving #<- found the correct tag everyone #image set #poetry #id in alt btw #on being the bearer of hate #on being unloved

[mokeonn]

I started an honor mode playthrough with probably the cutest tiefling in bg3 and I fuckn got killed during the Phase Spider Matriarch, so I decided to continue my save with dishonor because my character was just so damn cute. Well for some reason or another the game didn't?? Switch it to custom mode?? It's still honor mode??

So I'm either going to get those golden dice in the most dishonorable way possible or the game is just pulling on my leg and It's just honor mode without the reward.

#simon says #the character btw is a pink tiefling fae warlock/bard named Poetry #she's wearing purple and yellow clothes until I find pink dye #and she's wearing the volo bard reward clothes which make her look absolutely adorable?? #i just gotta draw her soon #she's also a Wyll romance. because I have yet to romance Wyll and I think warlock/bard is a GREAT combination to romance him with #it's funny because so far Astarion has been my main romance (i think 3 times now) #and he fuckin HATES her #Poetry is a little goodie two shoes who is not using those Illithid powers so everyone else loves her kindness and whimsy #and Astarion thinks she's the world's biggest pinkest killjoy #legit got angry at her and asked if it's her life purpose to ruin his fun #it's gonna take him a while and a lot of silly responses to get him to warm up to her #and i dont think the mild annoyance at her goody goody antics will go away #but yeah i just... love her so much #the other playthrough is another goody goody no illithid playthrough but he's a half-drow druid saving himself for Halsin #it's pretty funny as Poetry though because Shadowheart is already ready to start something together and Gale has started flirting #but she's only got eyes on the blade of Frontiers baby #oh and Poetry is also a dark urge playthrough who is avoiding her urges as much as possible #unless it's an unavoidable event she is surpressing that #Bhaal somehow spawned the world's cutest murder machine #anyways im gonna keep playing today because im tired (i drank last night) but I gotta draw poetry soon she's so cute

[girldewar]

have spent all day being mentally ill online instead of studying for my lit exam (who needs to know about aemilia lanyer anyway) & reading the nyt article about the aconcagua climbers instead so it's back to mountain climber hyperfixation hours. anyway i think connor dewar would happily die on mount everest

#it all comes back to him it rly does #the temptation to write a doomed climbing expedition wild ensemble fic is both strong & hilarious to me #babygirl (me) there is something wrong with you #anyway i'm sorry aemilia lanyer i was joking everyone go read her poetry it slaps. i wouldve said andrew marvell but that felt too basic #& i hate him & don't want his name on my blog. 'vegetable love' is the worst phrase any human being has ever put into print #bees speaks

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

not one character in hannibal that i don't relate to. not one.

#raj shitposting #i relate to will because hell is other people indeed all hail jean-paul sartre also infj and only child in a dysfunctional fam solidarity < #i relate to abigail because wtf my parents are not really okay i need help also only child in a dysfunctional family (father) solidarity <3 #i relate to hannibal because wtf that rude misogynist does NOT deserve to live also classical music poetry medicine and art history <3 #i relate to chilton because fml i really wanted to be like this person for xyz reason but now i just have an unsolicited rival who i like < #i relate to freddie because why not i love trolling people and making their lives miserable also journalism <3 #i relate to bella because wtf let me just die in peace why am i important to y'all you pieces of shit #i relate to beverly because there is def something up with this middle aged bastard ik it i just do #i relate to margot because jfc everyone in my family hates me for being a girl #i relate to alana because i'm gay and i did not know this til it was too late lmao #i relate to jack because wtf is going on why are y'all acting up #i relate to bedelia because i am surrounded by idiots #i relate to jimmy because fuck everything i love bees #i relate to brian because i have really groovy friends #hannibal