#instagrampoetry

[writtenbyaloner]

My favourite thing about the moon is how I can profoundly stare at it without consequences. There’s a price to pay for admiring the sun.

– Abdulsamad S. M.

[thepoeticbubble]

I was like a self taught handicraft artist, you walked through my heart's congested street, bargained for the biggest apartment, i ruptured the clots to make space.

leaving meant shutdown and you didn't care. My sadness was handmade by me - my poems were the exibition of my tears, Everyone was in awe but no one felt sorry.

-tabish.j

[lokilysolbitch]

My new fixation is bad poetry

and its making me think about how to define art and poetry and what makes poetry good etc but I can't go back and find my sophomore english teacher and rant about it so I'm making it yalls problem. but mr c if ur in here pls read also what do you mean thats one way to skin a hamster. thats not how it goes what are you talking abou

first of all, ive finally figured out my current definition of art: records of the human experience or just experience in general. so yes paintings and poetry but ALSO tiktoks or a decorated room. idc if you think its stupid there are remnants and references to human experiences ALL OVER those. so basically if it left a mark at any point, its art. maybe not always "good" or skilled, deep, etc but it is art (to me)

secondly, what is poetry? the same sophomore english teacher asked this at the beginning of a unit and the class was struggling. every time we listed a requirement for poetry he went "is that necessary though?". "it has to rhyme" "does it?" "it has to be deep" "does it" "it needs to have words!" ".....does it?" man idk i was 15 and sleep deprived

but now im less sleep deprived and i have an answer. I would consider poetry a spectrum (but not necessarily flexible. i wouldn't say you have to bend it's meaning to make something fit) but also playing with language, to be playful with it and have fun with it, to use it as a toy in a way. using language in a way different from its intended use. so writing a personal narrative about a deep topic? not poetry. maybe you had fun with it but thats still its main use. to make words rhyme, to alliterate, to use words just plain wrong? probably poetry. its still a spectrum. and im aware this means that saying something like "yew nork/glass fork" would count as a shitpost and poetry while "Ill love you and ill never stop loving you" doesnt and um i dont care i said what i said--

this would also mean most books and speeches would have little bits of poetry in there and i stand by that too. maybe the entire thing isnt poetry but bits of it could count. i came to this conclusion on the meaning of poetry because i saw too many "aesthetic" free verse poems that were just. tweets. you coulda just made it a sentence and posted it for free. there was no attempt to play with language. you just used it the way you were supposed to. its just a quote.

im definitely going to add more onto this about what i think poetry critics miss sometimes and why formal teaching of poetry is flawed but not all in one post bc its a lot. However i have one last concept to attempt to define. this one has always made me the angriest

GOOD VS BAD POETRY/ART

where do i even start. maybe we should just get rid of these terms completely and make people say what they mean. is it good or did he just use literary devices correctly. is it good or is it genuine. is it good or is it deep. is it good or is it entertaining. is it good or do you like it. is it good or is it popular. is it good or is it complex. is it good or is it creative.

ive been saying since i was i was maybe 12-13 that even though good does not have a solid stable meaning, there is still a sense of what good is. We know what its supposed to be. classical music, Edgar Allen Poe, Da Vinci are good. sure most people barely know or understand or care about these things other than one piece of work they can recall because they had to look at it in highschool that time and the teacher seemed to appreciate it. and we know that reality tv, messily hand drawn animals, and half assed near unintelligible tiktok skits are bad.

but....wait we like those though

ive come to the conclusion that while still shifting, "good"'s meaning in scholarly settings tends to come down to whatever those somethingth century european dudes and what the modern smart looking guys deemed intelligent. and in colloquial settings, what everyone likes.

many pretentious types will say rap is bad and the subject matter is crude and the same way im sure some old european guy would have said or has said traditional african music is too weird and primitive to be respectable.

now. i dont really listen to rap intentionally. if its in there its in there. I used to be pretentious and after changing i just never got too deep into it BUT. i listened to a Nicki Minaj song one time just to see and yeah it was not family friendly but dear god was it clever. the way she'd drop the most genius alliteration-personification-allegory-englishvocabword and then just keep it moving like im not gonna have to stop and ponder the seven layer reference to bedtime hanky panky. its smart. its creative. its complex. and so many rappers can write about the same topics over and over and still come back with a new way of phrasing it. its genuinely impressive

but so many still wouldn't consider it good.

the term good when it comes to art, while having somewhat of a meaning is still useless. make your own personal standards for what is important for you to see in art. its kind of silly for us to collectively decide "okay this art? we like it. this is good" and then go to a different community (age group, culture, race) and go "were going to show you the new gold standard for good! its what we liked! you dont do it like this?? then yours is bad!". historically thats never been a good move

what i find important with poetry (and by poetry i mostly mean song writing bc i dont even read poetry like that) tends to be "is it a poem? or a sentence/paragraph". everything other than that just has to do with my taste and what I prefer in the moment. and it goes the same for everyone else. there's no universal good or bad with art. its just what a dominant or culturally respected group of people said was important.

limericks are bad tho jesus told me/j

TL;DR: i think anything that records an experience is art. i think toying with language mostly makes it poetry, and i think its weird people create little boxes for good and bad and make everyone else adhere to it

[planetwisdompoet]

Are children really the future? #childrenarethefuture #parents #families #lives #poets #poems #poetry #instagrampoetry #bullets #votes #reeds #wetlands #trees #climateaction #planetwisdompoet https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp8DIyXtX-e/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[elyse-hart-poetry]

Friends, we are getting closer to the launch of Poems for Squares! Here's an excerpt I would like to share with you, which was written for @entrompadorateo. (Swipe to see the photo that inspired this poem!) #poetrybook #newpoetry #newpoetspotlight #newpoem #poembook #instapoetry #instagrampoetry #instagrampoetrycommunity #amwriting #book #books #instapoets #writing #selfpublished #writersofinstagram #writerscommunity #bookclub #bookclubs #poetsofinstagram #poetsofig #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstack #diybook #writersofig #smallpress #indiepoetryplease #indiepoet #indieauthors #indieauthor https://www.instagram.com/p/CoN3c1qyr-M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[afoxespalette]

Your thoughts are semi-automatic. Pull your finger off the trigger And be careful where you leave your weapon, It could go off at any moment.

Words, Photography and Edits by me, #afoxespalette

[amateuroccultist]

Repost from my Instagram: ThePoetryOracle.

"I tried something a bit strange with the rhyme scheme with this one. As always: feedback is appreciated. Like and follow for more.

Clematis reach, clematis rise! This card is all about growth and speed. Clematis covers a lot of ground and holds onto anything it can get its vines around. It does this to place its flowers where they can best soak in the sun and rain. Do what you can to use the momentum signaled by this card to get yourself in a position that makes you feel fulfilled rather than using it to compete with others. Turn your face toward the sun. Also: make sure you honor the ones who help you out along the way.

The Clematis card is from The Seed and Sickle Oracle Deck by Fez Inkwright.

The poem is my own."

[kairos-thehumanpoet]

You're Trying To Run You walk like you're trying to run from something inside. (What are you really trying to leave behind?) ~kairos💛 note: i am so sorry that i've been gone. not all creators are consistent i guess. i am just doing my best. i appreciate your all's love and support. i am so grateful for you humans. all my love 💛💛💛 #poetry #poetrycommunity #kairos #kairosthehumanpoet #instapoetry #instagrampoetry #tumblrpoetry #tumblr #poetrylovers #poemoftheday #poetryfortoday #poetrygram #igpoetry #micropoetry #poetryislife #poetrysociety #poem #poems #sadpoetry #shortpoems #shortpoetry #visualpoetry #poetryaddict #poemcommunity #love #bittersweet #sadpoems #thoughts #imtryingmybest https://www.instagram.com/p/Cia8d7vprG7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[wolfe-poetry]

weightless, flying thing . . . #spilledink #communityofpoets #igpoets #instagrampoetry #instapoet #poem #poet #poetscorner #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrygram #poetryislife #poetryisnotdead #poetryofinstagram #poetrysociety #poetsandwriters #poetsofig (at Michigan, USA) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnQGSHspH67/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[yourpoetess]

love (.n)

it all comes down to the not so stupid souvenirs you unintentionally or intentionally decide to cherish,

they're not just things but things with memories,

a timestamp of every second that you were lucky enough to spend with your lover,

a timeline of when you were happy,

a reason to keep going because you know there's someone who would do this again for you in a heartbeat,

an unsubtle reassurance of being wanted.

- yourpoetess

[whimsicalpoet44]

[writtenbyaloner]

I was the ocean without depth, the healer without health. I was Franz Kafka without Milena, the poet without a lover.

– Abdulsamad S. M.

[captainpirateface]

#pornographyontheradio #instagrampoetry #instagrampoets #instagrampoet #instagrampoems #instagrampoem #bipolardepression #bipolardisorderawareness #CaptainPirateFace #chemicalimbalance #poetryofinstagram #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #poem #badwriting #sighthsandsoundsofinstagram #pleaseshare #yohoyohoapirateslifeforme #CaptainPirateFaceLovesYou #butter #captainbutterface https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd6cnw9u406/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thepoeticbubble]

I'm a forsaken house

Built on a bald paper

No poetry , no prose, no quote hashtag no nothing

[I'm blank, once words used to scream out of me]

I am like a haunted building,

Drawn in a marshy land

Certain to be swept off

More precisely to be swallowed in

Yet I keep the doors open

As if spirit of a dead language would arrive,

Slide itself in

Stare around and drop an infant in my arms , a cry of newborn poem would surface out

While I'll wonder weather to feed the child or committ an another infanticide (of feelings)

[The sin of killing an expression, a feeling soon as it's born, soon before it would surface out of mouth]

-tabish.j

[daviddonihue]

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[lokilysolbitch]

my new guilty pleasure is watching this poetry critic critique bad influencer/instagram poetry but the thing is I also don't particularly like the critic so it just ends up being

critic: this poem is underdeveloped and lacks rhythm

me: ur so right also fuck you