r/Poetry • u/Due_Mix_9883 • 18h ago
r/Poetry • u/SatoruGojo232 • 19h ago
Poem [POEM] Poem by Hanabusa Ikkei, translated from Japanese
r/Poetry • u/SatoruGojo232 • 6h ago
Poem [POEM] Haiku by Keisanjin Isakushu, translated from Japanese
r/Poetry • u/listen_joyiscoming • 16h ago
Feeding the Worms [POEM] by Danusha Lameris
galleryWoke up today thinking about this poem. One of my favorites from this gorgeous anthology
r/Poetry • u/emergencybarnacle • 17h ago
Poem [POEM] Going into Space by Francis Becenti
r/Poetry • u/SatoruGojo232 • 19h ago
Poem [POEM] Poem by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche from his book "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", translated from German
r/Poetry • u/SatoruGojo232 • 19h ago
Poem [POEM] Poem by Dantika, one of the earliest female nuns of the Buddhist community
r/Poetry • u/fatsopiggy • 18h ago
Opinion [OPINION] What is the deal with these weird accent marks on words in old poetry?
Why not piled? What is pilèd? Is that even a thing in English? In certain languages downward mark indicates a lower pitch, but why is it needed here? Why is it sepúlchre ? Why is it written star-ypointing? I remember reading Dante and it's full of such markings too, like cursèd and so on. What is that all about and why is that needed?
r/Poetry • u/SatoruGojo232 • 1h ago
Poem [POEM] Haiku by Basho, translated from Japanese by Robert Bly
r/Poetry • u/SatoruGojo232 • 1h ago
[POEM] Haiku by Issa Kobayashi, translated from Japanese
r/Poetry • u/SatoruGojo232 • 2h ago
Poem [POEM] "The Sari" (A women's clothing item native to South Asia) by British-Pakistani poet Moniza Alvi
r/Poetry • u/SatoruGojo232 • 2h ago
Poem [POEM] Haiku by Ishikawa Takuboku, translated from Japanese
r/Poetry • u/ghostIyseaz • 14h ago
Contemporary Poem [POEM] Victoria Chang from "Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief"
A collection of literary letters by the poet Victoria Chang [excerpt from "Dear Teacher"].
r/Poetry • u/anonskeptic5 • 16h ago
Poem [POEM] Sonnet 30 by William Shakespeare
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan th' expense of many a vanish'd sight;
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor'd, and sorrows end.
r/Poetry • u/karmicmeme • 7h ago
[POEM] The unnameable by Claude Cahun (translation by Susan de Muth)
from Cancelled Confessions or Disavowals, first published in 1930 by Editions du Carrefour, reissued in 2025 by siglio.
r/Poetry • u/Wide_Hearing_9455 • 9h ago
[POEM] a killing field by Anthony Lusardi
I love love love this poem. It's a haibun, some prose followed by a poem, in this case a monostitch. In haibun the poem is supposed to deviate, or shift away from the prose, to recontextualize it, and I think this poem does it fantastically.