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Does anyone here just write poetry in the own time and like... never publish them?
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this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2025
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Honestly sounds like a cool hobby to have. You don't need to publish it to make it worthwhile like others have said, but that said, there's no harm in throwing it out there somewhere on the internet.
Maybe we should even have a dedicated community for sharing these sorts of things, hobbyists and dilletantes sharing what they make and giving each other constructive feedback or just discussing it, without influencers/promoters/businesses and the lack of an online following being a requirement, and also without it being seen as advertising/promoting/shilling.
The whole thing framed as a sort of variety showcase, where sharing is a bit more personal and the person sharing can give some information about who they are and what they do and maybe make friends or meet like-minded people along the way, a community where just about anything goes from a table to a poem as long as the poster made it themselves and they aren't promoting, and the lurkers in such a community would get a diverse feed of all sorts of things they probably never would have interacted with otherwise, with maybe even some diamonds in the rough.
I love this idea, and thought about exactly this when looking for places to share my Pocket Paint kinda-sorta-collage monstrosities (not quite memes, too many borrowed materials for me to feel great about posting in ArtShare, etc.)
Basically just a pretty loose 'i made this' community. There's a couple in that sort of vein but didn't quite have the feel I was (and it sounds like you are) going for. !originalpoetry@literature.cafe is a decent community for poems specifically, though, and could use more love.
Ugh...starting to think I need to get over my allergy to moderating...
Edit: you know what, I'm taking some of this back. !imadethis@lemmy.zip is looking like it fits better than when I last thought about it.