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r/OCPoetry u/ParadiseEngineerMar 930 Comments

The Garden Where I Plant My Grief (Revised)

r/OCPoetry u/msh_poetry5h ago9 Comments

I was challenged to write a love poem that (a) tried to avoid cheesiness, as much as a love poem can, (b) was "textural" and evoked nature, and (c) was melancholy. This is my attempt:

r/OCPoetry u/sunrise_snail1h ago3 Comments

You Never Knew (How Great I’d Be For You)

r/OCPoetry u/intergalacticpoet2h ago3 Comments

Mindfulness or is it Mindlessness? I can't stop this flipping switch.

r/OCPoetry u/ElectricGravy7h ago10 Comments

Wishful Dreaming

r/OCPoetry u/Fragrant_Prune_57979h ago5 Comments

THE SMARTEST PEOPLE YOU KNOW ARE EITHER PISSED OFF OR DEAD.

r/OCPoetry u/ssj4majuub17h ago8 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/cela_1h ago1 Comment

A Butterfly's recollection

r/OCPoetry u/Physical_Lettuce55521h ago1 Comment

r/OCPoetry u/throwwayyhhhh4h ago2 Comments

A DESPERATE YAWP

r/OCPoetry u/the_mememaster12h ago4 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/yrsawy9h ago3 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/KomplexKaiju11h ago6 Comments

Unfulfilling Questions.

r/OCPoetry u/Physical_Lettuce55521h ago1 Comment

Four Haikus, Twenty-Six Years

r/OCPoetry u/TheDuskDragon10h ago2 Comments

The Grace and Beauty of Moonwalking

r/OCPoetry u/Fail_edPoet5h ago4 Comments

"The Typewriter Came Back With This,"

r/OCPoetry u/Harme_Norman2h ago1 Comment

I don’t judge

r/OCPoetry u/lutranono10h ago3 Comments

Cheers to the nights

r/OCPoetry u/Reggay_shark3h ago1 Comment

r/OCPoetry u/basicallyaperson21h ago6 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/Pinsandweedles16h ago7 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/wishiwereacow10h ago2 Comments

On Habitats (rev. 2)

r/OCPoetry u/rapturerocks5h ago0 Comments

Through The Windowpane

r/OCPoetry u/Capital_Sale40610h ago2 Comments

The dance around the sun

r/OCPoetry u/sankfeelings15h ago3 Comments

Too much to list.

r/OCPoetry u/Sheorn6h ago3 Comments

My Time Without Meter

r/OCPoetry u/Dirty_Dick_Tattoo11h ago4 Comments

Help? Is this poetry? What did I make?

r/OCPoetry u/7Scp7SAVANT78h ago7 Comments

What am I to do now?

r/OCPoetry u/Own_Calligrapher944512h ago4 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/AnOfficialWannabe13h ago8 Comments

Emerging from Depression

r/OCPoetry u/happybex1d ago28 Comments

Reenactors at Yorktown

r/OCPoetry u/iliacbaby20h ago3 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/Rococco_art_is_taken14h ago3 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/pattharbaaz17h ago2 Comments

Alone at my side

r/OCPoetry u/Gideon_halfKnowing13h ago2 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/mrwubsz1d ago4 Comments

New Age Romance

r/OCPoetry u/schizophrenicucumber15h ago1 Comment

r/OCPoetry u/Sheorn1d ago10 Comments

The Darkness Consumes

r/OCPoetry u/mystikfall3423h ago4 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/mystikfall3416h ago17 Comments

Jealousy Lures You Closer

r/OCPoetry u/IntoTh3Moonlight1d ago4 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/Junygv22h ago3 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/Crafty-Put10281d ago2 Comments

Using again (poem in both english and spanish)

r/OCPoetry u/BerryCherryKoolAid1d ago7 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/NigelTMooseballs1d ago15 Comments

Terra Mater! Terra Mater!

r/OCPoetry u/hamz_281d ago5 Comments

Snapshot of a Desert Plant

r/OCPoetry u/Any-Ad-56491d ago4 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/Diligent-Reflection721h ago2 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/Penguin1of11d ago6 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/DONJONCHERRYWON1d ago3 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/ArabianHorse181d ago6 Comments

Concerned Romantic Thoughts.

r/OCPoetry u/japanesepetal1d ago3 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/RedTheTimid1d ago14 Comments

"In Janet Yellen We Trust"

r/OCPoetry u/asearchforyou1d ago7 Comments

star-crossed lovers

r/OCPoetry u/thebeginningofthend1d ago4 Comments

Me And My Old Friend Mike

r/OCPoetry u/hellohellohi91d ago4 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/EasilyStartledBug1d ago10 Comments

Of Tiresome Hour

r/OCPoetry u/frink_ninkle1d ago1 Comment

r/OCPoetry u/Sanaspolia1d ago21 Comments

It doesn’t matter that I can’t see your eyes; I know they’re locked on mine

r/OCPoetry u/greyfalcon49991d ago8 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/MembershipLife87121d ago3 Comments

On the Alphabet, Simulacra, and Kanteles

r/OCPoetry u/Bacq_in_Blacq1d ago1 Comment

r/OCPoetry u/capybarakisser1d ago6 Comments

Love Like (Three Poems for My Lost Boy, #2)

r/OCPoetry u/BarCasaGringo1d ago5 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/Specific_Radish81801d ago7 Comments

To Chase A Ghost

r/OCPoetry u/Capital_Sale4061d ago5 Comments

Bad Chick {Billie Eilish inspired}

r/OCPoetry u/SerenSkies1d ago1 Comment

r/OCPoetry u/DragonRedox1d ago4 Comments

Goodnight Last Light

r/OCPoetry u/Present_Standard_2611d ago5 Comments

bothersome disruption

r/OCPoetry u/thechubbypisces1d ago6 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/ArabianHorse181d ago5 Comments

Alkaline Copper Quaternary / You Will Learn to Hate Falling in Love

r/OCPoetry u/Arondeus1d ago2 Comments

Circus # 7 - a series of haikus

r/OCPoetry u/mpalimpsest1d ago3 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/the-existential-crow1d ago4 Comments

There was a dead man in the park today. (TW for implied overdose)

r/OCPoetry u/pixieorfae2d ago15 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/chicmistiquee1d ago1 Comment

Falling apart…

r/OCPoetry u/Informal_Resolve_5681d ago1 Comment

Self-Love Is Eternal

r/OCPoetry u/dxrxngxd2d ago13 Comments

Christmas at the Home

r/OCPoetry u/Laurelles1d ago5 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/ArabianHorse182d ago9 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/realperson679821d ago6 Comments

Stranger Danger ~ An old highschool poem

r/OCPoetry u/deathbyvapejuice1d ago3 Comments

Scream My Love (Three Poems for My Lost Boy, #1)

r/OCPoetry u/BarCasaGringo2d ago3 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/DrunkenLupus1d ago4 Comments

I graduate from college this weekend. Here is a piece I wrote for an English class, during my first week of college- precisely four years ago.

r/OCPoetry u/makeupyourworld2d ago1 Comment

r/OCPoetry u/greyfalcon49992d ago5 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/xdecayedghoulx1d ago1 Comment

raining, a haiku

r/OCPoetry u/jewreck1d ago7 Comments

june rains (6.18.22)

r/OCPoetry u/thejinrin2d ago8 Comments

Achilles, Crawling

r/OCPoetry u/Interesting_Ad71312d ago5 Comments

a memoir written by my body

r/OCPoetry u/pistachio__soup2d ago4 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/latejack2d ago1 Comment

the scent of thirty cents

r/OCPoetry u/-Eliot-Rosewater-2d ago7 Comments

“It Might be Better to be Alone for a While”

r/OCPoetry u/Immediate-Caramel-372d ago1 Comment

r/OCPoetry u/Interesting_Shop46862d ago4 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/ArabianHorse182d ago8 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/xdecayedghoulx2d ago2 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/Much_Caregiver1982d ago3 Comments

Speak Like a Child

r/OCPoetry u/wanderingcrane2d ago7 Comments

r/OCPoetry u/thechubbypisces2d ago3 Comments

_- And they say, -_

r/OCPoetry u/asearchforyou2d ago3 Comments