this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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Poetry
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A community to celebrate published and OC works of poetry.
Welcome to !poetry
Guidelines & Community Rules
In addition to the general rules of lemmy.world:
Published Poetry
1a: Poetry posts should include the title and the author, when the author is known.
O.C. Poetry
2a: Sharing original poetry is encouraged, but it must be preceded by the tag "[OC]."
2b: If an [OC] post is requesting feedback, it should also follow with the "[FB]" tag. It would look like the following example:
[OC] [FB] Nothing Gold Can Stay
Feedback
All feedback should be given in good faith.
3a: All [FB] requests should be met with comments constructive in nature. It is okay to dislike parts of a poem, but make sure to explain why you feel that way.
3b: Feedback does not need to be extraordinary in nature. Simply expressing how a work makes you feel is often enough.
3c: Use the honor system. When you receive good feedback, return it in kind to another author. Everyone appreciates knowing their work is being read and appreciated.
As this community develops, these guidelines may be adjusted.
Formatting Help
Work in progress
To create a line break, use two spaces at the end of a line.
To create empty space, type .
Use four of these at the beginning of a line to create a standard indent.
UPDATE:
Some methods of access do not format markdown correctly. I am currently testing various apps and web interfaces to see what does and does not retain formatting.
In the interim, it is encouraged to post text poetry as you normally would, but to include a link at the beginning or end of the post with access to a website or image that retains the formatting as intended.
Other Poetry Communities
Poetry lovers unite! In the style of the fediverse, multiple poetry communities have arisen, and will continue to rise. I will try to keep a list here of communities across instances that are worth checking out!
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He screened Birth of a Nation in the White House. That film, along with Gone With the Wind, is responsible for pushing Lost Cause bullshit into popular culture.
Birth of a Nation is what inspired the formation of the Second Klan. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s gang had mostly cleared off by then, the 20’s were a revival.
The Second Klan was massive and mainstream. They fielded charity baseball games. Something like a third of white people in Indiana were members. It was normalized.
People forget - those lynchings we read about? They’d let kids out of school to attend them. They’d take commemorative photographs.
Can you imagine? Living in a world where your teenage son could be brutalized, have his body mutilated, for the “crime” of maybe having whistled at a white woman?
Condemning the violence of the poem without understanding the context misses so much.
He's largely responsible for writing that lost cause BS, of course he wanted to get it into popular culture. I still consider Wilson to tie Jackson for worst president so far.