ITT: We pretend to be Rupi Kaur

I cannot wait until she's slightly older, and not a "young attractive female poet" anymore, just a "female poet," and desperately wondering why all her attention evaporated

I DON'T UNDERSTAND??? WHAT BOUT ME CHANGED???? I STILL WRITE BLANK VERSE ABOUT HOW MEN LOOKING AT ME IS IRRITATING WHEN I'M ON MY PERIOD????? AREN'T I STILL RILKE????????????????????????

love people no matter their skin
their face, which will grow old
love can beat hate
don't be like trump

a little weight
is nothing to worry about
a lot of weight
is nothing to hate someone for
what matters is inside

your privilege is nice
fair skin, a bulge in the pants
but to give it up
is so much greater

you need a vacation
they need a meal
rich men who don't give
won't find peace inside

>>8916645
If you don't
make life easy
for grils
you're a bad daddy

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>>8916665
>>8916669
Okay this is so fucking hilarious she literally takes photos about her fucking period just lmao you stupid piece of shit there is more value to the thousands of pieces of furry porn on the internet then your fucking stupid photos.

I don't even fucking like poetry and i know shes terrible.

when i was younger they told me to be a princess
when i was younger they told me to be fair

i dont want to be a princess
society is not fair

when i was younger
they lied to me

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>>8916677
yikes

Rupi Kaur is a conte
mporary Canadian feminist
poet, writer and
spoken word artist based in Toronto. She is popularly known as an
Instapoet for
the tra
ction she gains online on her
poems on Instagram.

>>8916677
whyboner.webm

Brutal thugs
get me wet
thanks dad

>>8916665
>blank verse

found the pleb

>>8916645
>>8916669
>>8916678

Someone should attach some stupid line drawing to these and release them on tumblr and intagram

women are to
the world
what water is
to man

If you roll down
a hill
you meet an end

If you roll down
a mountain
you bring an avalanche
and still meet
an end.

I am sitting on the toilet taking

a shit and I couldn't fall asleep. I

have food allergies and something I ate

today has made me break out in hives. So

fucking itchy and antihistamines aren't

working.

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>>8916645
Tumblr needs to remember this poem anyways?

body hair
is totally natural
if he doesn't like it
you don't
have to like him

some people think brothels are for weirdos
and maybe we are weird
maybe this music is weird
and the clubs are overrated

A girl is beauty
She doesn't need
To prove it
To herself
To her friends

The sky is blue
The birds
Don't know it
Because it is
All they see

a women holds
the power of healing and
growth right at her
breats

can
anyone
reccomend me
the best
collection of shakespeare's
works?
i'd like one
with a glossary and notes,
but not
excessive
notes.

>>8916728
This actually seems pretty legit did you steal it off her?

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens

the scars on my arms
tell stories
that dead white men
could not dream of

The act of sex gives
human beings a tremendous
amount of pleasure.
Pleasure they don’t deserve.
No one deserves to
experience so much pleasure,
especially since some
humans get to experience
it while some are denied it.

>>8916732
i don't know
your
budget
or if it has any notes
or glossary
but this looks
pretty neat
nevertheless
http://biblio.co.uk/book/complete-works-includes-poems-sonnets-shakespeare/d/836390908?aid=frg&utm_source=google&utm_medium=product&utm_campaign=feed-details&gclid=CjwKEAiAkajDBRCRq8Czmdj-yFgSJADikZggTW8rN1xntmpO6AsTNXhqsNRKSxovKRbjQeE6eOPLxxoCXv_w_wcB

we should create our own rupi kaur. make a twitter account where we post similar shit tier poems and gain followers because our bio says "feminism + sisterhood [emoji]!!!!"

it is probably a lucrative idea

they flee horrors untold
yet you take that brick
and build that wall
you are comfortable now
-refugees

she has a slim figure
a pretty smile
broad shoulders
and angst inside
-a women

liking people like you
its natural
loving people like you
its the worst thing in the world
-love

i will be strong
bravery is my trait
loud i will speak
deep down i am weak
-women of color

what
you are reading
right now
is a sentence

there are no rules
they can't
tell you
what to do
you are
you
be to yourself
true

>>8916767
I think it should be time for a /lit/-tan, we will use her as the alter ego. Not joking. I really think we should do this, I mean /v/ has their Vivian slut - so why can't we have ours?

What should we call her?
I propose Dolly Bell

>>8916741
kek

>>8916787
>Dolly Bell

not ethnic enough

it has to be more intersectional

something like Aadhya Chhabra

>>8916677
BLEED IN LOO

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>>8916799
>not ethnic enough

this is true

it would also be fun if part of the name alluded to something more /lit/ aswell

>>8916787
Dolly Bell sounds to white we need a strong independent women of colour name to show how progressive we are.

I propose Latisha Black: A shy half nigger raised by her white mother but who identifies as black. She lives in an inner city apartment where she is trying to fulfill he dream to become a philosopher.

>>8916812
I would just like to add Black isn't her actual last name she just chose it because of how proud she is of her identity.

Luisa J. Borginos

>>8916810
Daevaki
Fawad
Wadhwani

>>8916812

I propose keeping your character, but propose the name be 'Fetisha Boniface'

>>8916767
we should make fake rupi kaur poetry images with Elliot Rodgers quotes in her style of free verse

When a woman has sex with a
beautiful man, she probably
feels like she is in heaven.
But the world isn't supposed to be heaven.
For some humans to actually
be able to feel such heights of heavenly pleasure is
selfish

>>8916810

you could just make an anagram of rupi kaur

Kira Upur

When a woman is ready
she opens her wounds the world
for sharp fingers will peer in
and look
at the yeast infection
please send me some cream
it itches; but is beautiful

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>>8916865
too obvious
>>8916859
more like this please

>>8916733
Can't be. He used caps. Everyone knows pleb-tier feminist blank verse can't have caps.

just remember
when you hurt
that your pain is more valuable
because
it is yours
and humble

One need only look
at a woman’s shape
to discover that she is not
intended for either too much mental
or too much
physical
work

with girls
nature has had in view
what is called
in a dramatic sense
a striking effect

women
in truth
exist entirely for
the propagation
of the race
and
their destiny
ends here

beauty
is a knife
to cut girls
to break them down
it's a shell
and no one notices
what's inside

>>8916869

beautiful women are
what we are confronted with
and divided into
and the remainder ever
is proof of our
incommensurability

>>8916665
>AREN'T I STILL RILKE????????????????????????
lmao

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>>8916645
check your priviliges, chess
fourteen male pieces longing to capture
the only female one
rape
whilst keeping the great male - the king -
safe
but if you check your prviliges,
check mate

check mate - Rupi Kaur

>>8916954

lovely

all a feminist poet
has to do to sell books
is write sentences about
how girls are strong
and oppressed
by men
and no one will notice
her poems are all the same
and take no effort
at all

I wish I could hear
your lips spluttering those heavenly
exciting filthy words, see your mouth making dirty sounds
and noises, feel your body wriggling under me, hear and smell the dirty fat
girlish
farts
going pop pop
out of your pretty bare girlish bum
and fuck fuck fuck fuck
my naughty little hot fuckbird's cunt
for ever.

>>8916677
haha, that's so gross and definitely not something im into

So what
I love
sex
So what
I am
a slut
So what
I fuck on camera

I am
still smart
I still
have existential
dread
I read
Sartre

Existentialism and Sex, Rupi Grey

my voice will be heard
until we stop teaching our kids shakespeare
until we stop telling people being healthy is good
until we stop complimenting people we don't know
until we stop telling our kids that god is a white male
until we stop standing in silence facing menspreading
my voice will be heard

my voice will be heard - Rupi Kaur

he told me to not be
so loud
so angry
so excitable
so
me

he thought be loved
a cloud yet he
was afraid of
storms

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>>8916869
this is kind of what I had in mind, obviously they should be done better so that they don't look like obvious shops.

>>8916893
Kek'ed that's so fucking true.

>>8916997
Typo aside, I would be completely unsurprised if I found that in her book.

two to the
one
and the one
to the three

I like good
pussy
and I like
good tree

>>8916724
This tugged a strangely genuine emotion from me anon wtf

>>8917035
this is perfect, totally believable

So who's gonna compile all of these together and publish it under the title "Cream & Sugar"?

>>8916645
wtf is this gibberish nonsense, dont quote that tranny again

>>8917120
>"Cream & Sugar"
LOL

Fuck the spoken word scene tho.

I played as a drummer in one of their low level competitions. One girl did these pandering type of poems, and easily beat out the competition, many of them people who seemed put genuine effort in.

Also ton of the competition seemed like extremely white rap with no back track. was weird.

>>8916645
lines written by somebody
for the witless nobodies
put out for everybody
when read by anybody

they realize that

they could be somebody
writing for shallow nobodies
and then everybody
would cease to be amazed by anybody

writing meaningless lines
on instagram
dressed in milk and honey

>>8917148
>>8917122
Change last line to cream and sugar instead of milk and honey, so you get the useless name drop.

>>8917120
I think the idea of doing a character assassination with these is hilarious, but it's nothing time won't take care of itself when this lady's moment is gone and she doesn't find an SJW crowd to pander to anymore

>>8916645
Stop shitting up the board with your butthurt. Why don't you discuss good poets instead of getting butthurt over shit ones.

>>8917151
meant to reference

>>8917120
instead of >>8917122
whoops.

>>8916677
Feminism's goal
>Women can prove that they are capable of just the same ACTIVE STRIVING as men!
>We'll show men that their VIRTUE and VIGOUR through LIBERTY is the human condition!
>We'll show men that we don't neeed thm to dote on us, and that we are capable of Bildung and boldly facing the world, just as well as they!

Feminism's result
>my passive excretions are interesting
>my unearned appearance is interesting
>give me free money
>you should care that i'm sad and weak
>i'm weak and i feel bad feelings and it's your fault. look at this picture of my cooter

>>8916701
>>8916787
>>8916799
>>8916812
>>8916815
>>8916824
>>8916832
>>8916869
>>8917120
Please make it happen, we do not need much just 40 or so "poems", some bullshit doodles and a backstory about a mixed race girl with gender fluidity.
This could be our thing, what is more post-modern than white male conspiring to make this up.

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>>8917114

>>8917160
Pretty much this. There can be great feminist writers like Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir, but the problem with most feminist literature today is that it gets its adherents to assume that just because they are a woman they are intrinsically interesting and deep.

Rupi Kaur is the perfect example of this. Her poetry is terrible and all on the same theme. If she wasn't a woman and a poc nobody would give her two seconds of attention. Instead her banal observations and platitudes land her a spot on the bestseller list and a ton of praise.

Just because an observation comes from a woman doesn't make it interesting. Just being a woman doesn't make you special or absolve you of responsibility for your decisions. And no, showing pictures of your period is not a revolutionary act.

Woolf and Austen are part of the canon because their work had value in and of itself. That's the only test that matters.

>>8917223
The reason that Woolf and Austen attained to that level was because men had brutally harsh standards for judging a woman's work, too.

Being overly judged is better than being overly assumed to be interesting.

Women are being kept in perpetual childhood by this. Society's reaction to Rupi Kaur is a parent's reaction to his five year old drawing a snowman with feet. Snowmen don't have feet, but we'll put it on the fridge anyway.

the clears tears
from my face
reflect
the red tears
from my womanhood

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>>8917120
I went and got started with the cover image.

>>8916832
JOYCE REINCARNATED!

>>8916893
True, but he could have added some because he did not notice it.

>>8916972
Hi Rupi Joyce!

when it rains
it pours
they say
why can't love
pour
like rain

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>>8917241
How about this, something sweeter is needed.

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>>8917241
Needed a pun

>>8917241
we should juxtapose images related to the poems like she did, but with memes and pastebin watermarked shit

>>8916645

stop complaining about rupi kaur. her concepts of her poems didn't need to be original because i didn't know that rape and molestation had to be an original concept.

>>8917148
That was genuinely
amazing
well done
sir

>>8917155
Because its funny faegot

>>8917271
Rape is a sexy concept.

>>8917160
How did it go from Jane Eyre to this, the worst thing is hat the ones that read Jane Eyre STILL act like this!

>>8917271
literally no one brought into question the integrity of her poetry.

it's undercooked tumblr
sophistry with
line breaks and
no
discernable
talent
targeted towards the most
gullible fucks
i'm the history of
the
internet

>>8916893
That isn't blank verse. Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter. You're thinking of free verse.

>>8917223
this, this and this!

>>8917279

she writes from personal experiences and some quite hard topics and it's really kind of fucking rude for you to think it's garbage and an insult to good writing. intellectual bullshit

>>8916799
Keep in mind that this will be the name of /lit/'s mascot, I think we might need to come up with a /lit/ name and change it around so it becomes more foreign.

>>8917303

Luisa J. Borgina

>>8917309
this

>>8917301
back to tumblr

>>8917301
it isn't her experiences that are being diminished or invalidated, it's her work.

she never made it passed note-taking and it's a perfect synecdoche of this age of pandering to maximum emotion with minimal effort. There is simply no craftsmanship or respect for the poetry medium.
I'm not going into detail but I can almost promise you I've endured more trauma than Kaur; it doesn't justify whatever the hell this is supposed to be, there is some measure of "death of the author" taken into account. bearing in mind that she went through some shit while reading her work is subtractive to the work.
She has enough rudimentary ideas in her book to craft a genuinely respectable (albeit shorter) work, and she opted to print out her notes instead.

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>>8917114
>>8917264

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>>8917272
>>8917151
There you go anons

>>8917326

I don't think anyone asked for your "opinion," anon. You can see yourself out of this post.

there are very few kinds of people worse than book snobs, i swear. i wish they would just read their "real" poets and enjoy it instead of trying to prove to everyone that they have Better Taste(tm) and that they are the True Intelectuals(tm). honestly, nobody cares, we're all too busy minding our own businesses.

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>>8917328

>>8917328
>>8917330
Ecstasy, shall we make a new thread?

This is
a
poem because I
Said so

>>8917303

Someone made a Joycean one above
>>8916832

>>8917341
kek. we should instead of writing another hypersphere just make a milk and honey knockoff.

>>8917328
>>8917330
Bruh fix my typo
>>8916997

and hook your boy up with a legit image, I want pseuds on tumblr to give it a fuckload of notes without realizing what they're doing

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>>8917341

>>8917339
>I don't think anyone asked for your "opinion," anon. You can see yourself out of this post.
>honestly, nobody cares, we're all too busy minding our own businesses
wew lass

>>8916732
i would
reccomend the latest
edition of norton.
but
a single collection of shakespeare
is large
for individual plays
try folger, or arden if you decide you
want lots of notes.

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>>8917363
Ok anon, creme and sugar version with fixed lines

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>>8917363
>>8917368

We don't need
to start with old writing
when what
we have now
was always out of sight
to them

What we need
is young
strong
passionate
in no couplets

>>8917394
Did it, come on in!

>>8917396
I meant this one.lel
>>8916997

>>8917398

lol god damn

>>8917398
das it mane

>>8917398
What's the best way of releasing this into the wild?

>>8917419
>>8917406
Start with this thread

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>>8916921
>>8917398

>>8917398
I unironically like this.

>>8917279
lol do this one

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>>8916906
>>8917431

>>8917339
lol what the fuck is this

If you want to actively consume and defend shitty poetry and literature then this board isn't for you. "Book snobs" are valuable for giving trendy trash the exact amount of respect it deserves. If that business that you're so busy with is reading Starbucks-flavored feel-good ephemera then you really shouldn't be wasting that valuable time on /lit/.

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>>8917431
wait that picture from that emo album what the hell

>>8917476
ayyy someone knew.

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>>8916728
>>8917463
alright, I'm done messing around for now

with girls,
nature endows them
for a few years
with a richness of beauty
and a fulness
of charm
at the expense
of the rest of their lives

>>8917463
How do you make these, I have an idea for one of these.

>>8917501
It's not too hard
Cambria font at 6pt
773x1000 canvas
consistent text placement
google images + quick photoshop clean up of images

woman will be brought back
to her proper and natural place
and the lady
that monster
of European civilisation
and Christian–Teutonic stupidity
will no longer exist
there will still be women
but no unhappy women
of whom Europe
is at present full

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>>8916645

>>8917516
kek

>>8917515
makes me think of Lady Brett Ashley desu

>>8917235
trooth
look at George 'Mary ann Evan' Eliot

>>8917568
It's Schopenhauer

I was thinking to try to disguise some parts of obviously misogynist works as Rupi-style poetry.

>>8917616
brilliant. I think that's a better direction to go with this, rather than just mimicking her and spouting the same sjw ideology.

a black
person doesn't
always fire
first
why won't you
unforgiving whites
recognize that
????

>>8916748
muh Cioran

>>8916669
>>8916768
how are these satire

I
am sick of being me.
but no one else can be me,
just like no one can be you.
keep being you,
it is all you can do

the pain of
my own being
isnt a joke
nor finite

it is the accumulated
experience
of
blackness

white people
do something

yesterday i bought
a plant from
wal*mart and i brought
it home in
a plastic bag later i
brushed my teeth
but only after putting the plant
in a clay pot this
mornning i had a nightmare
i am the potted
plant

spoopy dream -gyri kayg

Writers like Kaur - young poets in general - have ruined contemporary poetry.

There never seems to be any actual skill - no rhyme, no meter, no imagery, no wordplay - there's nothing that separates these people from your average cunt on tumblr
who
writes poems
like this
about her life,
or about her subjective view on it.

They should end themselves.

>>8916689
>Just her wiki entry, cut into her shitty line verses
Actually brilliant

>>8918062

how 'for the tra' is cut off and then visually spills into the "sh" sound of the "she gains" in the next line, thereby finishing the thought we all have

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>>8917328

>>8916645
last night i
had a dream that
i was all alone but
i woke up and looked
around my room to
see my
cat and i didn't
feel lonely
anymore

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he tells you
to spread your legs
as if
he can enter when
he pleases but
you are a castle
and he is not
welcome

>>8919309
Missed a prime opportunity for a shitty Kafka allusion.

ilu lit

the kindness
between two women
is a bird calling out
into the morning