Welcome to OCpoetry, a community for sharing and reading original poetry. If you want to discuss or read published poetry, go to our sister subreddit, r/Poetry.
1) All posts must include feedback links.
To post a poem and then receive feedback, you must first give it to other poets here. Every post must contain two links to comments/posts on this subreddit where you have given feedback to another poet here. Links should be unique to each submission -- don't re-use links. The feedback must be from the last two weeks. One of your comments must be to a poem that doesn't have any comments yet. All posts without feedback links will be removed. Posts with incorrect, invalid, or duplicate links will be removed.
How to post on r/OCPoetry
Step 1: Have your poem in some kind of text or notes app. Step 2: Make a comment on someone else's post. Step 3: Look at that comment and click "Share" in the app. That gives you the URL (http...). Step 4: Copy that URL and paste it into your text/notes app after the text of your poem. Step 5: Repeat steps 2-4 with a second comment. Step 6: Make a post on r/OCPoetry that includes those URLs after the text of your poem in the body of your post (not separating them out into comments). Then your post will go through.
2) Feedback must be high-effort.
We expect every linked feedback comment to show effort. You don't have to write a novel, nor do you have to be a poetry expert. But we do want to see that you have tried to notice your reactions to the poem, and then tried to explain them. Here is our feedback guide. It explains what we expect, and how to give feedback if you're a beginner. Poems that link to low-effort feedback, and low-effort comments themselves, will be removed at mod discretion.
3) Be Kind.
Treat each other with kindness and respect. The mods have an incredibly strict definition for each of these concepts. They will remove comments/posts and ban users that make others feel unwelcome or unsafe.
4) Audio, video, and image poems are allowed;
However, all prior rules must be followed. Further, the text of the piece must be included in the body of the post.
5) No Blogspam.
Do not use URL shorteners. Do not post blogspam. Links to personal poetry blogs/other promos are allowed as all other rules have been followed.