Hello Nowners, Nounders and community! I’m a big fan—unfortunately I don’t have a Noun of my very own yet, but I wanted to offer this proposal for discussion, and to invite any owners who support it to consider sponsoring it for an official DAO vote, or support from the retroactive/small projects fund if that is approved.
What: A poem a day, for a month, about each new Noun, minted alongside a picture of the Noun, and sent to that Noun’s new owner after auction settlement.
When: Every day, for thirty days.
What Else: I will also spread the good word of Nouns by sharing each day’s Noun Poem on Twitter and in the project’s channel on the Nouns discord server.
About the poems: Each poem is fourteen or fifteen lines long, and I try to stick to lines of three to four words. They are spare and economical, designed to capture the power and whimsy of the Nouns that are their subject matter. They have internal and external rhymes! Here are a few examples:
Poems will come from my Noun Poems collection on OpenSea, and I’ll set resale royalties at 10 percent.
About the poet: I’m Margaret, a traditional and crypto poet and copywriter. You may have seen my work with the etherpoems collective or as the resident bard with Forgotten Runes Wizards Cult. I’m also the resident poet with the Bored Apes Ladies Club. My first print collection of poems, Singing In The Dark Times, will be published by Patrician Press in February 2022. You can find me on Twitter at MargaretLabour, and on Discord I’m PoetryAgainstFascism:pencil2:
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Why do this? I love these things! Nouns are a delight, and writing about them is a wonderful challenge. Writing about them for a month will, I hope, bring the joy and meaning of Nouns to people that might not have heard much about them.
What next? If the community likes the poems, I’m happy to keep writing them going forward, and to catch up the back catalogue, so every Noun has a poem.
What if an eldritch serpent eats your computer or you get a tummy bug and miss a day? In this unlikely event, I will catch up as soon as I’ve rescued my computer/settled my tummy.
If the proposal is accepted, when will you start? Either at the beginning of the next calendar month, or starting with a Noun with a good number like, say, 70 or 75—whichever the community prefers.
Cost: 3ETH for 30 poems, payable at the beginning of the month. All poem gas and transaction fees will be covered by me.
