r/OCPoetry

270K archived posts · Apr 2014 – Sep 2026

Original Content Poetry

r/OCPoetry

A place for sharing your original work. Please read the rules before posting. Sister sub to r/Poetry & r/ThePoetryWorkshop

Created Mar 13, 2014

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Poetry Content

MESSAGE THE MODERATORS (but read the rules first) Send a message to the Mods

#Welcome to OCPoetry

This is a home for all of your original poems. See our sister sub r/poetry for poetry content. Don't know how to start with giving feedback? Check out our feedback guidelines

#r/OCPoetry Discord

We now have our own Discord chat server - come hang out at https://discord.gg/4yRvm4u

Rules:

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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
Arguing about the rules will earn you an immediate permaban.

Formatting Help

4 spaces before each line to format however you want

Two spaces at the end of a line a line break

Type Enter twice for a stanza break

Type "\ " for an empty line

For blackout poetry use the following format:
[content](#b) or [content](#blackout)

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If you have a question Send a message to the Mods

Moderators reserve the right to remove posts as we think best serves the r/ocpoetry community.

We're only human. If you have an issue please explain it clearly and concisely so that we are best able to help you. Also, please be nice.

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