The pen cuts swiftly across the page.
The pale white bleakness that is the poets flesh.
Words spill forth from open veins.
Assuming the semblance of ink.
We were giants then.
I with my brush and you with your words.
Amnesiac deities both.
Gods in winter.
Walking and trading secrets in the rain.
Said I to you, “Is this love?”.
and you to I, “Is this love?”
Such a silly ill defined thing.
A steady hand excises the remnants of what once. perhaps may have been.
Gathered into syllables, words, and stanzas,
pressed into the shapes of thoughts
and painful memories of happier times.
The water drops slake the thirst of fertile soil beyond the glass.
(The barrier between my world and that).
Protection for that greater realm,
containing stillness within.
Entropy and stillness.
For what else could come from half of duality.
There is no inclination to dance.
Lost are the edges of self.
A specter in a fog having neither light nor shadow,
with which to define a memory,
that was once a man.
A stroke of the pen severs my pain,
separate yet still a part
Troubling still,
Yet less troubling.
Bound now to paper,
and bound in turn.
Imprisoned between leather covers.
Left to creep and sulk between the leaves.
You know, that’s fair. Quite a bit of my older stuff is in the same boat, so I totally understand.
And thank you for the kind words! I’m glad this community is growing. It’s my hope to foster a community where people are actually engaged with the content that’s posted in a natural and curious way. :)
As far as the formatting is concerned, I agree. It is a real pain, sometimes. There is always the option of including picture submissions, much like r/poetry did, to preserve formatting without all of the extra effort. I wouldn’t be opposed to that! What do you think?
It would make things easier, but it would also make things less accessible for visually impaired readers using assistive technology. So I’m on the fence about that. It would be better if the platform would just stop messing with formatting and adding periods everywhere. I could probably just make a widget in Google Sheets to process my text and output a format that will display as intended when pasted into Lemmy. I’ll play with that idea later.
That’s true, too. Although, on the other hand, I’m concerned about that as it is. I’m unsure how well screen readers work with Lemmy in general, and aside from versions explicitly built with markdown in mind, some of them may not be too kind with the current formatting either.
It’s something I’ll have to keep in mind! As we grow, I’ll try to look into that in more depth. If you have any insight on the subject, I’d love to hear it. Also, if you do develop that tool, please share that with me as well! I could link a community version in the sidebar to help others!