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Twitter or Tumblr artist just like Joaoppereiraus?

I remember a few years back, I was on know your meme, and I found a furry image that was nearly like Joaoppereiraus and they had a oc that I think was called Peppermint, she had a red hair, big boobs, a brown explorer outfit, and I believe she was a brown bunny.

There was also a second image where Peppermint and her female friend was kissing, and it was just a thought made by their creator, and decided they weren't going to do that. I have been trying to find it on Knowyourmeme under the furry section but I can't find it.

So I was wondering if anyone here knows the description of what I am talking about at all, and if it was deleted.

Including their tumblr as well. Any assistance or insight would be great.

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How to Write Poetry: 11 Rules for Poetry Writing Beginners

Here are the 11 guidelines you can use to start on your poetry as a beginner. For number 1, the first thing to do read lots of poetry,  since if you want to begin poetry, at least read it a simple way, by not looking into a grander meaning and let the words of your favorite poem flow out of your voice. Then, you can analyze, ponder, do a line-by-line analysis or retrieve the symbolism from any poetry works such as a Robert Frost verse, an Edward Hirsch poem, an Emily Dickinson’s work, or even a William Shakespeare sonnet. The number 2 rule for poetry writing is to listen to live poetry recitations. Since listening to poetry can fun like a musical, such as the first time you go to a poetry slam and hear the catchy consonants of the poem out loud or being at a bookstore to see the fun and instructive poetry readings. By listening to the sound of great poetry, you will find the hidden beauty in the making of them. From stressed and unstressed syllables to alliteration and clever line breaks, the moment you hear good poetry out is when you never look at this art form the way ever again. For rule number 3, it is best to start small because overwhelming yourself is not good. So, starting with a short poem like a haiku or small rhyming poem rather than an epic. For the haiku or small rhyming poem can be the start that is needed to being poetry. Let’s not be mistaken for Quantity over quality, as it is better to read a seven-line free verse spotless poem than a sloppy rambling epic empty section iambic pentameter. In rule number 4, don’t obsess over the first line, since if the words don’t feel right, then keep writing and come back to the first line when you’re ready to try again. The opening line is just the start of the overall piece of art. So please don’t give it too much importance.

In rule number 5, you have to embrace the tools you have been given, such as a thesaurus or a rhyming dictionary, to complete your poem. Many people can be surprised that tons of professional poets use these tools to their advantage. But you have to be sure to understand the meanings of the specific words you decide to put into your poem. Some of the synonyms listed in a thesaurus will not mean the words you are trying to express. For rule number 6, you have to enhance the poetic form with literary devices such as metaphors, imagery, allegory, synecdoche, and even metonymy. This can be easy or challenging depending on the poem, such as in unrhymed free verse poems or poetic forms with strict rules about meter and rhyme scheme. Finally, in rule number 7, you must tell a story with your poem since ideas such as a novel, short stories, or essays can come out of poetry. A narrating poem such as The Waste Land by T.S Eliot can be as long a book, while a poem such as The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe can you feel as much fright and danger as a horror movie. Communication is an essential part of poetry, so embracing that instinct is needed to tell short stories in your poems.

For rule number 8, you must express big ideas, such in a lyric poem like “Banish Air from Air” by Emily Dickinson, as that poem can express philosophical ideas or political concepts used in an essay or poem. You can be precise or detailed in language and express philosophy in a few words that you carefully choose to use for great poetry. Especially in nursery rhymes or silly rhyming limericks, they can also express big, bold ideas if you choose the best words for the job. For rule number 9, you have to paint with your words or use words to paint a picture of the ideas you want to write about with your word choice. In creative writing, you have to paint a picture of what you are describing in your own words, from people to objects to scenes and so much more, as the artist’s method is the written word. For rule number 10, you must familiarize yourself with myriad forms of poetry since every poem or type of poetry has its own requirements, from the rhyme scheme and the number of lines to meter and subject matter, which makes them unique from other poems as the structures are the poetic twin to the grammar rules that are used in prose writing. It is important to succeed in the boundaries of poetry you have chosen whether you are writing a villanelle or a free verse poem. You will have to combine all of your work into one kind of poem while also keeping flexibility in it. And finally, in rule number 11, you must connect with other poets, whether in poetry readings or writing classes, to reciting them out loud to each other as poets can grow and learn from each other to perfect their own craft, as they read from each other and even take notes from their partner’s feedback. Listening to many forms of poetry created by others can inspire you to do better at your poetry work. Since being in a community of poets will help you grow a larger state of mind as an artist and even influence other members to become poets themselves.

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3 reasons you should write poetry today.

 There are three reasons you can write poetry, and the first reason is to deepen your understanding of Poetry. Poetry will make you look for language that resides in a beautiful world. For example, instead of saying how someone “slowly walks through the door,” you can say rather “enter casually.” For in the art of poetry, you must choose your following words wisely, as it has to fit the flow style of the entire piece. Since writing poetry needs you to articulate the thought of feeling almost musically while making the words on the paper seem imaginary. This means we have to develop this writing style to practice, try again, fail, succeed, and keep on writing and repeat as writing poetry will help deepen the understanding of the concept of language and how to use it well.

 The second reason to write poetry is to break the rules since some rules are made to be broken for a sign of good writing to learn how to make your own rules. For that is how laws are to be created to being with. This is why in poetry; you can break many more directions. As whom says you are to be bound by a particular length for poetry. Also, you can use grammar to make a rhythm and not just divide dependent sections. How long the poem has to depend upon you. From either a few short words, or it can be hundreds of pages like The Illiad. But not all rules are meant to be broken, for the authorities are there for a reason, but we don’t need to take them seriously to be excellent writers.

 Finally, the third reason to write poetry is that so your writing can get better or to write better prose. For writing poetry, can you see your writing in a different light, to be to express your thoughts, feelings,  emotions, and ideas better? Take Shakespeare, for example; he started his career as an actor and playwright. But the theaters were closed due to the plague in the middle of his career in 1593 and 1594. So, during that time, Shakespeare began poetry, and two years later, he went back to writing plays but learned something new. Shakespeare had written many comedies and histories, but after he started writing poetry, he took a crack at dramas and tragedies such as Romeo and Juliet or Macbeth. Those two such works are a part of the finest works in the English language.

 In conclusion, we should not fear writing poetry as we might limit ourselves by doing so, which we need to encourage ourselves to become better at writing. And we can do that by writing what we are scared to write about as poetry is a wonderful defined by literary work in which particular concentration is given to the manifestation of feelings and ideas by using unique style and rhythm. For poetry can be anything, all you have to do is write it and express those hidden feelings and emotions you have inside you with class and rhythm.

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The Power of Poetry

 With Georgia Heard, she understands how powerful words when she was a little girl at the age of 10, as they could move people. And when she went to college, she decided to become a poet and work with Columbia University’s Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, which took her to New York City schools to teach poetry. Right now, she is the go-to classroom poet for students and teachers alike.

 From her point of view, she understands a lot about poetry, such as the idea of poetry. However, she learns that it is a dry definition that can’t be explained. You can talk about the components of poetry from image to rhythm and even the metaphor, but it does not describe it. And only with poets such as Robert Frost can they come to a definition together, since a poem begins a lump on someone’s throat and just by thinking and talking about it, will make all come together nicely.

 Georgia also explains that it is essential to teach poetry because it is a doorway into literacy for many kids, especially those struggling with it, even English language learners. Still, it can be short and handy such as a five-line poem that is both beautiful and complete. Another poet such as  Grace Paley, says that she went to poetry school to study prose, learns about the many elements of language and writing within poems such as word choice, revision, and rhythm that can be taught in short form.

 Georgia’s favorite poems include an anthology of list poems such as Falling Down the Page because it helps kids start writing poetry while not thinking about rhyming or counting to 1 to 5 on their fingers. This includes some poets such as Rebecca Kai Dotlich, Pat Mora, J. Patrick Lewis, and some anthologies from people like Paul Janeczko. Furthermore, if some teachers don’t have a knack for poetry, they should find a few poems that they genuinely love, share them with the students, and talk about how much they love them, making the students fall in love with poetry find themselves.

 Not only that, if teachers want to make National Poetry month feel fresh, they can direct the children to create poems about friendship, food, and animals, or even that is topical like the ecosystem and global warming. Or they can also write letter poems, which are also called apostrophe poems to someone or something that is not there. Furthermore, the children can act out the poems and illustrate the images of poetry into picture books. Also, Georgia heard was working on a book called Awakening the Heart which has heart mapping, or where kids make drawings and write words about people or about memories they have as they are just like seeds that they can pick up and write more on.

 Next, teachers should be careful and not have students write in single forms such as haikus, cinquain, or limerick since even though there is nothing wrong with those forms, they forget how to express them if they spent too much time trying to rhyme or count syllables, giving the impression that poetry really is something like that. Teachers can also showcase poetry throughout the year by starting with the day with a poem and then ending the day with one, or even after recess to center kids. Not only that, if they can take 20 minutes once a day to a week to read and write poetry, then by April or some other month, kids would write many poems and a lot about poetry.

 Finally, Poetry can be used throughout the school or college curriculum to personalize certain information. Such as if you reading about the civil war, then read a poem about it, instead of learning about causes and dates. The same goes with making a poem on observing how plants can grow, or even read a poem about math, for it is a way to take on and combine what they are learning.

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Poetry: Who needs it?

 We currently live in multiple ages, such as grace, futility, speed, and even dullness. But the way we are living now is far from poetic. There is prose in everything we do, from eating to drinking to breathing; prose can do no harm but can be medicinal, such as the way snake can cure everything by cure nothing. Yet, we can still live deaf in what language can do regarding ill-written, ill-spoken, or lousy prose.

 Poetry can be loved by some people, disliked if not loathed by others, and bought by almost no one but the silent majority, which means the long dead. But now we currently have a poetry month, a poet laureate, and poetry being seen on buses, subway cars, and billboards; if the subway car does not have enough space for the poem, the poet can tweet it in 20 words or less. Yet even with all of these ways poetry can be given to people, the crowd can have people who have not read poetry or want to read it, and even if they do read it, they will probably buy the latest edition of Paradise Lost.

 This is not that big of an issue, since people dislike certain things, such as watching sports or watching others do ballet or seeing the latest exhibition of Georges de La Tour. However, poetry is considered a significant art with a small audience leading to some poets finding it challenging to live off of poetry. Yet, some exceptions of poets make sonnets into bankrolls and make just as much money as those who bet on the south sea bubble.

 Then some love poetry but in a different category, the disturbed or unsocial, and coming in the monologues of Browning and the hazy quatrains of Emily Dickinson. This can also include the bad but happy poems of Elizabeth Bishop and finding some things that are not in the novel or the pop song.

 Poetry once flourished like many other arts had at one point and still survived to this day. However, while a century ago, poetry appeared on the pages of newspapers and mass-circulation magazines, it was starting to decline, and stop being printed for a long while. Not only that, but poetry was also being not in use for schools a long time ago, as some colleges find courses on Augustans or Romantics harder than classes on gender, style, and race. Furthermore, poetry, especially in high school and grade school, can be seen as a shudder of self-expression with no attempt at looking at parts that make poetry the way it is from the difficulties and majesties of verse and subtleties meaning. This leads to many kids not liking poetry, as it bullies them into feeling so-called compassion and tolerance to make them good citizens and yet wrong readers of poetry.

 Thus, here is a proposal by William Logan: They teach the kids to read poetry such as Shakespeare, Pope, and Milton by the 5th grade, Dante and Catullus by high school, and by graduation, Anne Carson and Derek Walcott, all of which would be learned by heart. The children taught to analyze a sentence by Dickinson would have no trouble understanding Donald H. Rumsfeld’s known knowns and unknown unknowns.

There is an idea that poetry must well know is not accurate, but who would have guessed that the local movie theaters would host the Metropolitan Opera and the National Theatre from London to America. So the promoter who chews the cigarettes finds a way to put the poetry before the reader will make them love it, do more for the art than 100 years of hand-writing, and turn a buck.

 Many people can live their whole life without knowing a thing of poetry, just how many others can live a life without seeing a Picasso or “The Cherry Orchard. Also, tons of people surround themselves with some art, such as Amy Winehouse or Richard Avedon. This also includes the daubs or stains on the refrigerator by the toddler artist have their place.  Language gainfully working has its place. Poetry will never have the same audience as “Game of Thrones” — that is what television can do. Poetry can help only what language alone can do.

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What is a Poem?

When some students ask about what is a poem, it usually described likes this. Either a painting in colorful words, a song that describes a certain beauty that can’t be described and rhymes. Depending on the individual, that answer won’t satisfy them. That is why some teachers ask to their students to bring something that has a value to them, and explain to the object in a first person view, which is can be another to describe a poem. One kid describes the gas mask he brought as a weird device that helps people breath in dangerous circumstances for a short amount of time, but can also have future use when everyone needs me. What this explains is that the poem in general is a strange idea that does not operate like the world does and operates on its own rules. While it is strange many people got use it with prayers such “Our father who art in heaven; but when you think back on it, you question what is really a poem.

In another example the author explains he did not understand a poem when he was younger such as Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” but could not understand the concept of it, and begun to dislike it as to him every poem was annoying, a scribble of words, that he though got away of real understanding and as well as true feelings. Yet to those who are writers and poets, it might make more sense to them as they understand the concept of poetry more clearly than others. Through looking at magazines or being online, the poem is best described as by what it is not, a prose that runs constant from the left to the right margins of the page with line breaks unpredictable line breaks. For the poem want to you read it not just look at it: I am different. I am special. I am other. Ignore me at your peril.

And when you read the poem you become disappointed  due to how bland it can be or how it can be summed up with a simple moral that can easily found , or how the poem puzzles the opening understanding. Some might be thinking that poetry is useless, for it cannot compare to the  sublime combo of lyrics, instruments, and melody of music or the novel that can help us escape or explore real or imaginary worlds. Even though Poetry can be a home for deep feelings, stunning images, beautiful lyricism, tender reflections, and/or biting wit, it just that other arts and technologies can do all of that better or more so. Yet, a poem can help the mind play with its much travelled markings of thought, and can even help reroute those patterns by making us see the familiar anew. But although poems embodied ambiguity it is not what you want. If you can’t tells what a poem is. As a poem can’t be a machine or an animal in comparison for it won’t make sense in slightest .

Furthermore, a book of poems presents itself as a thing for its own sake.  For the poem is something that can be reach like a mental object, as it can still be in your head, like the lyrics in a song for a long time. Not only that the poem that is staring in your face, such as the one in the page of New Yorker, something that you might wonder if it reads you as you read it, and if the poem you reading captures your interest or was it was a waste of time. Nevertheless, it can be said some read the poem for the sake of it, not to be seen as a product to be constantly published, since the poem is a text—a product of writing and rewriting. So, poems for its own sake or sake-ness are poems that put their made-ness in your face, and also called visual poems, concrete poems, shape poems, or calligrammes. This also includes George Herbert’s “Easter Wings” from the 17th century, as the poem is created in the wings of a bird, making us notice it as a blotch with a meaning.

The next poem from the 19th century  French poet Stéphane Mallarmé was called Un Coup de Dés (“A Throw of the Dice”). The book-length poem uses the boundaries of the page to its advantages, such as the gutter or the seam in the middle of the book, which is the alley where the dice or words are thrown but also uses black type, font styles, and white space. This poem allows readers to make numerous connections between the lines and phrases from reading up, down, across to in combination, or according to specific fonts, with some scholars viewing Un Coup de Dés as a herald to hypertext.

As readers, we have a certain freedom in how we navigate the poem, yet in space, it will need more work, self-motivation, willpower, and even a certain degree of disorientation. This leads to poems having a particular predicament, as the poems are so strange and so other that other people would likely ignore them. The poem from the 1960s by Aram Saroyan is called lightght. And yes, that is the whole poem, which might seem mindless, as some students tried to understand the idea of the poem, where light is implied, but the typo ght is suggested, which is the point. The idea is that the gh in light is silent, so we don’t pronounce it, leading to the double gh making us realize it more. As the poem calls the interest of language itself, the parts you can combine letters with, and the relationship between sound and sense, with the word light being made new, if only for a single moment. 

For in Saroyan’s own words: The crux of the poem is to try and make the ineffable, which is light—which we only know about because it illuminates something else — into a thing.” For when you come across any poem, it should not be thought of as a thing of grace, but as simply something, as language is all metaphor thought of by linguists and theorists in the first place. Yet a poem still has the power to surprise others for a single moment outside all the real and virtual, the audio and digital chatter that envelopes it. And since the poem might be argued, it is just a metaphor for all that can’t be on it or just a replacement for a live event or feeling. Not only that a Jewish tradition pointed out, but parents should also teach their kids to love Talmud by having them lick honey from the pages instead of reading it first; that would seem an ideal way to experience both bee spit and poetry.

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Poetry has a power to inspire change like no other art form

In numerous ways in cultures, poetry has been used in cultures, from Haiku that used composite images in everyday life to lyrical poetry that expresses emotional and personal things. The poet comes in many identities from the painting artists, the workers on the construction site, the bards, the dons, the soldiers fighting for their countries, and many more guises.  Some people fear poetry, thinking it is a puzzle that can’t be solved, but the fear is soon gone once those people look to understand and see poetry in their own ways with the utmost confidence. Students who learn poetry have to find their voice, meaning how they write it in their terms in their way, for the poetry has to weigh both the reader of the poem and the writer who is creating it.  Poetry has a lot of importance now, whether you read it or not, but if you want to reach to poetry to make a change in your life, then go for it, as poetry can be read through good times, bad times, birthdays, weddings, funerals, etc. For poetry can provide clear emotions that can be expressed at times that are tremendous and hard.

Markers of change

Poetry has been used to mark pages of significant change through celebrated civic actions because reading and writing poetry can life-changing, such as on the Day of Remembrance Sunday. The poem told us about the loss in harsh reality and remembering the military lives had been lost in service. Other events include the Manchester Arena bombing, where Tony Walsh wrote his poem and stated this is the place and gives the city a unifying voice. This also includes David Jones’s In Parenthesis, which tells his experience in the trenches, and Holly McNish’s experience as a mom in her book Nobody Told Me. Thus, it can be said that poetry communicates through specific personal experiences and direct focus by poets including Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath. Poetry can make us think about specific questions and lead to answers that others are looking for. Such as Shakespeare’s poem the Tempest, which tells the death only the transformation of a new beginning rather than an end: “Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change, Into something rich and strange.” These words of comfort are on the grave of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Rome.

Looking forward

Poetry can also be used to understand the potential for change in the future, as it carries the poets’ hopes, dreams, and fears. Such as in Interim by Lola Ridge, another poem that holds great importance. This is the case as a change in Interim is change yet to happen, and encounter the moment before the significant change, the build-up to it, and prepare for what is next, such as a future movement or event. Ridge’s words of a resting world are up for interpretation whether the world is waiting for the people to come to order to evolve; it is the reader’s thoughts alone to make them feel something about the story and help them in times of testing or change. Thus, Poems have power and relevance, which is ongoing whether or not you are a regular reader or encounter poetry during the winds or times of change.

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A site for poetry

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