Poems Should Be Fun

a poem, but is it fun?

Photo by Seyedeh Hamideh Kazemi on Unsplash

poems
in rigid or free form
gave us the beauty
captured by eyes and minds
in the past.

may poems
truly communicate
who we are
without stigmatizing
one style
over another.

Tagging Alexandra Forsyth | Bhavna Narula | Hannah M. Moore | Aaron Kemp | Haider Jamal | Anuradha Wickramarachchi | Mary Keating | Kasun Ranasinghe if you’re up to it and anyone else interested in today’s prompt: what role does poetry play in your world? Is it a coping mechanism? An expression of who you are? A piece of self-care?

How to join: include the original post of the person who tagged you for reference and tag 5–10 other people (or simply ‘tag all’) who might be interested in this prompt! (Ps, there’s no deadline!)

Hi I’m Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) and poetry to me is a form of expression, a piece of self-care, a coping mechanism, which is all to say that I wish to have fun through these words. What about you?

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