plebpoet

Stacker Saloon

saloon

Been coloring with markers today like it's my fourth grade homework

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BooksAndArticles

Starting my literary journey 🖋️

Msd0457890

you've got something interesting written here

Music

Daily Discussion Thread ~Music Saloon!

Public_N_M_E

Photography

Street Photography From Venezuela

Malos10_

beautiful, I love especially the young biker with the older gentleman

culture

The death of the Nightclub

cleaningup12

I think I belong to the millennials at least at the tail end, I think, and clubbing is a very foreign activity to me. Like you mention, it was all house parties and the cheapest of alcoholic options. 

Books And Articles Newsletter, Issue 49

siggy47

has anyone told you lately you're the best territory founder?

devs

My Framework For Learning How to Code

bitcoinplebdev

Hello, I'm happy you are here. It has been a while since I have made a post about my work of the past few years; however, you may have taken notice that I will occasionally pop into The Saloon with a few fresh lines. Today, I want to tell you about a poem I penned in 2016. 

Here is *asleep on a bench* in it's virgin form, the first draft:
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I want to tell you a bit about what's going on here. I reference T.S. Eliot because I had just begun studying him in college, and his work was changing my chemistry. The opening lines, a kind of inscription device that Eliot himself used, are taken from [_The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock_](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/44212/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock), a poem that continues to change me, a poem I love dearly like a close friend. And in addition to the explosion of literature in my brain, I had traveled to England in the summer before beginning college classes, and there I walked the same places that many of the poets who changed my life had walked. I saw the gravesite of William Wordsworth, who famously [wandered lonely as a cloud](https://poets.org/poem/i-wandered-lonely-cloud), and I agreed with most everyone there in that town that his words were worth quite a lot, upon browsing their souvenir shelves. Going away to the England I dreamed of, returning to the ordinary place I grew up, then burying myself in books which opened up worlds that resonated with the deepest parts of me -- all of this came together at one moment and became this poem. I think it is the moment I was born.

Here is *asleep on a bench* after a few rounds of polish:
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Now, I do not believe this poem accomplishes what I feel a poem must. It is not universal. Too much possession of feeling obstructing a truth that you and I could share if I let it go. Still, each time I give it a read, each time I return to it with fresh eyes, I find the same rush of energy, the birth rush.

This is one of two poems of mine that have been included in a literary magazine. It appears in a library's collection of works published 2018, but it doesn't match either of the versions you have just read.

I continue to strive for excellence as a poet without taking any paved routes. Frankly, I don't know what I'm doing, and so much the better: I get to be free. Thanks for reading!

'asleep on a bench' - the first poem that made me feel like a poet

God Bless Photography

Women in my orbit are other planets
with complex weather systems.
Every now and then by chance
or happy accident, we syncopate,
a dance that leaves me dizzy,
then flung miles off my course,
a dark distance bewteen two stars,
and so affected by her gravity.

Photographing strangers on the street

the portraits you took of this man look like they could be his author photo on a book cover

HealthAndFitness

3 things I do every morning before I turn my phone on

PictureRoom

I just added the cold shower in my routine as well, loving it

bitcoin_beginners

You already work in bitcoin, you just didn't know

softglitter2d

Evening Light

![](https://m.stacker.news/72918) *from 2016 on film*

**God Bless Photography**

I am happy to see the return of this territory. Our dedicated photographer @Malos10_ deserves it! I am always happy to see life through the lens of others, it is often so sweet.

Cheers!