The Onchain Poetry Digest 25

What is onchain? That is the question I was facing when scouting poems for this issue. About a year ago, when I started this endeavour, it seemed a rather simple question to answer. With most blockchains supporting the NFT, onchain poetry was a poem minted on the blockchain. Sure, that is something that can be dissected, but well, simple often is good enough. Now, however, I became faced with a challenge. One of the poems I found was, strictly speaking, not onchain. A poem posted as a post on Paragraph, without even the option to collect it. Collecting a post on Paragraph, will get you an NFT to show you collected that post. So, this post was not onchain on the face of it. Now, you can send your newsletter to wallets on Paragraph, which would make it onchain. Even more, the poem experimented with a new phenomenon: frames on Farcaster. How? Well, when you post the link to a Paragraph post on Farcaster, it magically turns into an interactive 'widget'. The poem in question could be read inside this frame, line by line by clicking next. A new experience. So, I decided to add this one to the list below as well.

On to the poetry

Concert to the soul
by jj Collin on Solana
Enjoy and collect here

The Apocalypse
by jj Collin on Solana
Enjoy and collect here

Self-Portrait 2023 - Bluish
by RyBred on Tezos
Enjoy and collect here

Earth Machine
by OddWritings on Polygon & Optimism
Enjoy and collect here & here

https://oddwritings.cent.co

Poem : Earth Machine

I write poetry and play with creating poetry NFTs and/or associating NFTs with books I have written.

https://mirror.xyz

001 Free Poem Mint on Optimism

This is my Proof of Authorship for my poem "Earth Machine"

wonderful Wunder
by Marta Gazzola on Tezos
Enjoy and collect here

Los domingos y su cansancio
by Maria Verde on Tezos
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Tip to grow
by Arjan Tupan on Zora
Enjoy and collect here

Collect NFT

Flowers
by Leon Faesulis on Tezos
Enjoy and collect here

Soulreacher
by Arjan Tupan on Zora
Enjoy and collect here

Collect NFT

infer
by Gomp_art on Tezos
Enjoy and collect here

The Black Boulevard
by Miriam Dunn on Ethereum
Enjoy and collect here

https://www.joyn.xyz

The Black Boulevard

Black Boulevard is a MP3 video with original poetry and voice narration by the author.

Painted Rhymes
by Leon Faesulis on Tezos
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did wither
by Gomp_art on Tezos
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In Art We Trust
by jj Collin on Solana
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The Last Goodbye
by jj Collin on Solana
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Wintergarden collection

Laurence Garden Cinematic - Hope This Finds You Well
by Laurence Fuller & Vincent D'Onofrio on Arbitrum
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Vincent Garden Cinematic - Talk To Strangers
by Laurence Fuller & Vincent D'Onofrio on Arbitrum
Enjoy and collect here

A really hard look at what I don't like about myself
by Rogan X on Paragraph/Farcaster
Enjoy and collect here

https://paragraph.xyz

A really hard look at what I don't like about myself

I imagine an unfurling parachute, slim and struggling to catch its breathThe horizon growing ever flatter and less distinct as the gap shrinksHeartbe...

Soulmates
by jj Collin on Solana
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Chinese New Year
by The Art of Haiku on Tezos
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reach
by Gomp_art on Tezos
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found timeless
by Gomp_art on Tezos
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Water Froth
by OddWritings on Polygon
Enjoy and collect here