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
wonderful Wunder
by Marta Gazzola on Tezos
Enjoy and collect here
Los domingos y su cansancio
by Maria Verde on Tezos
Enjoy and collect here
Tip to grow
by Arjan Tupan on Zora
Enjoy and collect here
Flowers
by Leon Faesulis on Tezos
Enjoy and collect here
Soulreacher
by Arjan Tupan on Zora
Enjoy and collect here
infer
by Gomp_art on Tezos
Enjoy and collect here
The Black Boulevard
by Miriam Dunn on Ethereum
Enjoy and collect here
Painted Rhymes
by Leon Faesulis on Tezos
Enjoy and collect here
did wither
by Gomp_art on Tezos
Enjoy and collect here
In Art We Trust
by jj Collin on Solana
Enjoy and collect here
The Last Goodbye
by jj Collin on Solana
Enjoy and collect here
Wintergarden collection
Laurence Garden Cinematic - Hope This Finds You Well
by Laurence Fuller & Vincent D'Onofrio on Arbitrum
Enjoy and collect here
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
Soulmates
by jj Collin on Solana
Enjoy and collect here
Chinese New Year
by The Art of Haiku on Tezos
Enjoy and collect here
reach
by Gomp_art on Tezos
Enjoy and collect here
found timeless
by Gomp_art on Tezos
Enjoy and collect here
Water Froth
by OddWritings on Polygon
Enjoy and collect here
reaching
by Gomp_art on Tezos
Enjoy and collect here
Complicity
by VAN on Tezos
Enjoy and collect here
Vanadis
by OddWritings on Polygon
Enjoy and collect here
The Island of Enhanced Stability
by OddWritings on Polygon
Enjoy and collect here
Dressed In White
by jj Collin on Solana
Enjoy and collect here
The Forgotten
by jj Collin on Solana
Enjoy and collect here
The Last Goodbye
by jj Collin on Solana
Enjoy and collect here
Without You
by jj Colling on Solana
Enjoy and collect here
Pegasus Bridge
by Arjan Tupan on Zora
Enjoy and collect here
Sprinkle Crypto Winter
by CyntihaC on Tezos
Enjoy and collect here