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desiresjab
06-04-2016, 06:44 PM
This is a second attempt to generate interest.

Some strong figures from the forum are already on board with the general idea of a Litnet poetry project. They may have better ideas for formatting the venture, but I am so eager to get started that I cannot resist.

Submit your best poetry here, folks. You can be part of it. Great poets give their lives for their body of work. They might have fifty or more poems that are great. Minor poets have fewer great poems, and unpublished poets are likely to have even fewer, maybe only a couple of pieces that might be called great, if any at all. We still give our lives, right?

This is merely a place to submit. I will not be judging your poems in this thread, at least not alone. No one knows exactly how the process will work. I suppose many details might be hashed out right here. I believe all those on board so far would lend their critical expertise as well as their poetry to the project. Yes/No and Loki already stated they do not want to be editors. However, these boys are not staying out of a good poetry discussion or a good project. They both consent to submit poetry, and I think they will just naturally become more involved with the project as it proceeds.

Well, hopefully, we are off. But someone has to jump first.

desiresjab
06-04-2016, 08:58 PM
Koto
by
desiresjab




A single note on koto
Twists, and he admits
The extent of all she took.

He is not like the crocus
That can find amidst
Ruination its succor.

He ponders, is it baser
To fall on a bed
Or the suicide saber?

He used to play the koto,
She would sit and bead.
Silence shares all that she took.

DieterM
06-07-2016, 05:03 AM
In order to comply with the rules of this section, I suggest we do not use this thread, desiresjab – here, one should discuss poetry but not submit one's own poems. Let's do it over in the "Personal Poetry" section, ok? I've already taken the liberty of opening a new thread here (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?85019-The-LitNet-Poetry-Anthology-%96-submit-here) and copy-pasting your first two posts. It's not important where this happens, anyway; the essential thing is that it IS happening.