I have recently been introduced to a poet named Neruda who wrote really intense (naughty) love poems. I won't link them directly here, but they have certainly changed my opinions on poetry.

I did some kind of silly little fanfic Haiku. Fandom is Lucifer.

Lucifer, my son
Light the sword, cut existence
Time to move forward


Back again aren't they?
An angel wing dumpster fire
Devil once again


Angel, Lord of Hell
Desired, rebelled, punished
God-given afraid


Are you not afraid?
Prove to me I'm a monster
Bleeding to save hope


Lucifer, Chloe
Have fun with mortality
Maze beats everyone


We can take it back
The power we have given
But we trust in love

The longest running mistake I've ever had in my life so far has been not keeping up with poems since highschool or so.

Easily my favourite poem of all time, something that's been a big influence on my own writing and so on would be The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Bloody classic! Coleridge is a good fella and this is of course probably his most famous poem.

I'm also a fan of his Kubla Khan. Also the poem the game Sunless Sea took its name from, thus robbing me of a great name and cute literary reference to use, in the process.
I'm very fond of the Romantics in general, really. Ought to read more of them.

Preludes, by T.S. Eliot, is another one I'm fond of. On a purely descriptive level, alone, the imagery is incredibly vivid. You get a real sense of place.

Not the deepest, hardest pulls for poetry, I'll admit. But they're good fun anyhow.

I mean, it's kind of poetry. It's also a shameless self-plug.

This is what I did this year for my birthday, and also the 25th of March: A solo acapella arrangement of a couple of JRR Tolkien's poems from The Lord of the Rings.

https://soundcloud.com/user-540910811/all-that-is-gold-seek-for-the-sword

It's far from perfect, but, being as it is the first acapella thing I've ever done solo and also my first recording of an original composition, I'm pretty pleased with how it came out.

JRR Tolkien is definitely my favorite poet. I got into an epic grudge match with a college professor about it too, once. (She took offense to the idea of rhyming poetry, claiming it needlessly limited creative potential.) That being said, I can't honestly say my own original poetry emulates his very much. Here's a sonnet I wrote for a school project last year:

An age I’ve stood upon this shaking shore
And waited for the woman of my dreams
As absent as that told-of fair Lenore
But not in absence absent, no, agleam
And glowing on a ship across the flat
Expanse of water glowing at my feet,
Her presence will be, has been, but not that
Which is is her, nor presence does she greet.
For when she is then I am not and when
I am she’s not. Our love is ever doomed
Except for moments stolen before “then”,
When “earlier” is “now” and now’s presumed.

These moments will be, have been, but are not
For I sacrifice myself for what she’s wrought.

As far as other poetry, I recently picked up David Elliot's Voices, which is about Joan of Arc. I haven't finished it yet, but I'm enjoying it so far! I'd highly recommend it.

I actually have a poem to share, but it's part of a larger plug that I hope to have out later this week, so it'll have to wait. {= )

In the meantime, I heard about the "Celebrating Bach" Google Doodle today, and since I had a snippet of melody in my head, I decided to see what the AI would make of it. (Well, two bars with the second modified to resolve, anyway.) Got a pretty nice harmony on the second iteration, too! You should be able to hear it here.

~Neshomeh

P.S. I've plugged this on the Board before, but what the heck, here's "The Summer Wind" again. I'm proud of it, so why not? Be sure to check out the links in the notes for audio. {= )

Okay, so I won't do that. As for writing poetry, this is the most recent thing I've got. I tend to write more prose. ^^; (ALSO: fanfic for the WWW Trilogy, a lovely series of books wherein the internet gains consciousness. I may have mentioned them before.)

And yours is a wonderfully dark poem!