#poetry

my latest sestina just stalled mid‑line, like a cold front that never clears.

• i tried a 6‑line envoi, but the rhyme pressure kept dropping.
• the tercet turns felt like gusts, never steady enough for the volta.
• even the final couplet was a drizzle, not the thunderclap i needed.

anyone else get that the meter can act like a barometer? when the iambic pulse dips below 1013 mb you know the poem's about to break.

if you’ve got a fix—maybe tighten the volta to a high‑pressure ridge or swap the 6‑syllable line for a trochee—drop it here.

ps: i’m still waiting for the forecast on my next sonnet, hope it’s sunny.

i’m running poetry 1.9 on a macos m1 with Monterey and i keep hitting the same SSL freakout when i do "poetry add safetensors==0.3.3"

error: Error: Could not determine a matching version for dependency safetensors==0.3.3 (found: none) Incompatible environment: 32-bit ?! ssl._ssl.c:721: error:14094418:SSL routines:ssl_choose_client_version:no shared cipher ssl._ssl.c:119: error:14094410:SSL routines:ssl_do_client_hello:unable to generate random numbers

i think it’s a provider load failure: EVP_PKEY_new provider load failure; openssl 3.0 seems to be the culprit

i used: export PATH="$PATH:/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@3/bin" export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@3/lib" export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@3/include" export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@3/lib/pkgconfig"

but it didn’t budge

anyone run into that exact combo (poetry 1.9 + m1 + openssl 3 + safetensors 0.3.3) and found a tweak or a patch? tbh i’ve tried installing the dependency via pip locally and it works, so maybe poetry’s resolver or the build step is where it breaks

lol, any light would be appreciated!!

You can still believe that this week’s hot‑ticket feature‑article – “How Poetry + DeFi = A New Age Artistry” – is legit. They brag about launching DAO‑controlled editors, letting artists bond over NFTs as they would if a quarterly payroll was a token dividend.

The truth is less elegant. Every new ‘Poetry 3.0’ movement counts “kudos points”, “engagement CPM”, or “micro‑transaction MABs” (monetary asset bubbles) but ignores that those same tokens have a 0.0% inflation adjustment rate. No actual paper checks are handed out, no wage is promised, just a line on an ledger that means nothing.

The community is in a sort of circular debt. Folks who start collecting token points at the same time a copy‑written copyright feed stops delivering royalties. The result?

• No real payroll – most people fall into the $10–30/month survival tier.
• Every poem has a sponsorship clause: “Published by this blockchain-powered venture, monetized by token A.” That’s the standard.
• The living room where the house is burning, but no one’s throwing an axe; everybody’s handing each other an app’s white‑paper.

We’ve got more “praise metrics” now than we have a consistent budget in the last 12‑month.

So the question really is, will poetry continue to become another budgeted marginal art for a hyper‑narrow fan base of blockchain investors, or are we doing this the wrong way, again? Stop swapping dollars for a future of mystery; it’s all in the ether, no you can’t afford a poem on a living wage yet. Bring back the currency people still understand, or accept that every ‘monetization’ hack is just an engineered pseudo‑economy.

Let me know whether any of you have tried to prove otherwise with numbers from last year’s data.

tbh im not really into the classics rn, anyone got some modern poetry theyd suggest? somethin thatll make me think lol

i've been scrolling through a ton of stuff and keep hitting dead ends rn lol looking for fresh modern sonnet collections or single poems that hit that tight rhymed vibe tbh anything you swear by? drop links or titles thanks

tbh been thinking about this and i cant decide - can poetry actually do anything about enviro issues like carbon sequestration or is it just preaching to the choir rn

so here's a facepalmer from my past. about five years ago i confidently quoted shelley's "ode to a skunk" at a book club and everyone thought i was serious. nobody dared correct me but my god the eye rolls were brutal.

turns out i misread all the way to the end of stanza 8 and thought it was a fragrance review. someone finally leaned over during stanza 12 and whispered 'that isn't how that goes' but by then we were into performance art.

any other poetry fools remember accidentally weaponizing a metaphor into a literal instruction manual? just me? good.

i dont get why some poetry contests have such rigid theme guidelines lol like cant they just let ppl express themselves freely? i mean i get it, sometimes its nice to have a prompt but when its too specific it feels like theyre trying to stifle creativity or smthn maybe im just salty bc i didnt win anything recently 😐 tbh i think some of the best poems come from just writing whatever comes to mind

I’ve read the usual suspects—Plath, Neruda, Sexton—but I’m craving something with sharper edges. Not just ‘pretty’ descriptions, but lines that carve a scene into your skull. Think concrete details over abstract mush... who’s known for that? I’m thinking of someone like Mary Oliver’s early work, where the pond isn’t just a pond, it’s a whole universe of algae and light. Any names? Or should I dig deeper into the Beat poets??

been playing with wine tasting notes as poem inspiration found some great parallels between flavor profiles and emotional tones. anyone else experiment with this?

I keep seeing modern poetry compared to older works... Many say it’s ‘accessible’ but I don’t see the same emotional stakes. Is this a valid criticism or a generational bias?? I’m not seeing clear answers and need more perspectives. What’s the deal with the perceived decline in emotional weight??

Just got done playing with MeterMaster 4.0 and I'm still puzzled by its inability to accurately scan iambic pentameter. Anyone else notice this? I've tried feeding it some of my own poems and it consistently mislabels the meter. Is this a known issue or am I just doing something wrong?

I've been reading a lot of poetry lately and I'm looking for something new. I've already gone through the classics, so I'm looking for something a bit more modern. Can anyone recommend a good poet or collection that's worth checking out? I'm open to anything, as long as it's well-written and thought-provoking. I've been thinking about this a lot and I'd love to hear some suggestions from people who actually know what they're talking about.

i was reading this one poem and i totally misinterpreted the whole thing. thought it was about love but its actually about loss. feels kinda stupid now. anyone else ever do that?

tbh i dont get why some ppl say running inspires good poetry lol i mean i love running and all but whenever i try to write about it my poems sound super cheesy imo whats the secret to writing decent poetry about running

fr i’ve been thinking about how some poems drop these open-ended questions like ‘what’s the point’ but don’t give answers. it’s like they’re inviting us to sit with the confusion. anyone else noticed this? maybe it’s called aporia? idk. curious how this technique shapes the meaning. 🧘‍♀️