someone tagged me for the first poem they're memorizing but deleted it before i could see. mine is recuerdo by edna st. vincent millay because i've half memorized it anyway

so I’m doing that memorise one poem each month of 2024 challenge because I think it will be good for my brain & I’m gonna thread all of the poems I do here as a record bc why not

and since I shared the one he picked last time, here's the poem my dad picked for February― George Herbert's "Love (Ⅲ)", published 1633.

so I've been trying to memorize mending wall for a really long time now and I think I've been having a lot of trouble because it's blank verse, which isn't my usual kind of poetry, but in the interest of trying to finish memorizing it by the end of the month (trying to memorize one poem a month, as per the challenge) i'm going to type out everything I can remember including all the mistakes and post it, then see how I did

I'm allowing myself the grace of not needing all the line breaks and punctuation being correct, just the words

Mending Wall

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun So that even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing, I have followed behind them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made But at spring mending time we find them there. I tell my neighbor beyond the hill. And on a day we meet to walk the line and make repair To each the boulders that have fallen to each. We keep the wall between us as we go. And some are loaves and some are so nearly balls We have to say a spell to make them stay; "Stay where I put you until my back is turned!" We wear our fingers rough from handling them.

ok that's as much as i've got... time to post it and then look it up and grade myself

oh mary oliver we’re really in it now

for @dostoyevsky-official's challenge. short and sweet. i love the imagery and it's satisfying to recite.

muddled march

I wanted you to meet my cat, you presented me your mother.

I wanted to build my own home, you told me about diaspora lives.

I wanted to step on my steps in jeopardy, you saved me a safe seat in the back.

I've always thought that this is a getaway car, but I learned that you love risky trips.

so tell me again, canım, will it happen overnight? or will it be out of sight? your mind might be in the light, but mine is never right.

broken souls can't be healed with words, your lifeful laugh deserves the world, in an exquisite place that's reserved, doubtlessly not for the absurd.

confusion is the only guy I've known, from the first day you entered the zone, mixed feelings are what you've shown, was it you or me who is not fully grown?

but giving up isn't your forte, even as hurdles coming in the way, you repulse to back down, not a day, and I am lost again in obscurity of why to stay.

yet comes again the parody, and the vagueness in clarity.

people call me hana, but you prefer honey.

The first poem I’m memorising is Telescope by Louise Gluck

Decided to do the 2024 poetry challenge (memorize one poem a month)

Starting with Ozymandius by Percy Shelley for…..reasons

if anyone else is doing Escapril please let me knowwwww !! i'd love a poetry writing buddy for next month <3

The 2024 dostoyevsky-official challenge:

January: ‘I Loved You – And Maybe Love…’ by Alexander Pushkin

Get ready for a troll message! I’m going to memorize In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound. Then next month I might do A Lover by Amy Lowell. 😝 and a happy new year to you!

4.2.24

ボクが「2024年一ヶ月一首チャレンジ」に対して選んだ二首目は……

室生犀星の『愛の詩編』（大正漆年・西暦壱玖壱捌年）からの

「しぐれ」

（旧仮名版） あはあはしい時雨であつた さつと降つて またたく間に晴れあがつて行つた 坂みちを上りながら 空はと見れば しぐれは街のなかばに行つて 片町あたりにふつてゐた さうかと思ふともう寺町の高台あたり 明らかに第二の時雨が訪づれ そのおとは屋根屋根の上をつたつて 蒼い犀川の上を覆ふのであつた

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（現仮名版） あわあわしい時雨であった さっと降って またたく間に晴れあがって行った 坂みちを上りながら 空はと見れば しぐれは街のなかばに行って 片町あたりにふっていた そうかと思うともう寺町の高台あたり 明らかに第二の時雨が訪れ そのおとは屋根屋根の上をつたって 蒼い犀川の上を覆うのであった

I'm too late for @dostoyevsky-official 's challenge for january.

But this month I'm learning this poem by Christina Rossetti.

long past my teenage years I find myself blushing under the gaze of a stranger I won’t see again and I giggle as I tell the anecdote to a friend like oh finding someone who pulls on my curiosity after so long feels like a small miracle meeting someone by chance and connecting with a few words and glances and the feeling of being understood without having to explain myself makes me feel the energy shifting around me whispering you don’t have to do anything but you could it's the possibility that plays with the feeling you cannot deny when it’s so clear there is no room for insecurity or confusion because you both know it’s there invisible but palpable the gravity between two people naturally drawn to each other for more than simple looks or status I know that if we had our eyes closed we would find each other it's inevitable how life works

written for Escapril day 22 — desire

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