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rosanna warren, "eclogue" / wendell berry, "marriage" / ada limón, "the unbearable"

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you post another video of the both of you fucking hard and raw and even i could see more for 7.99. i exit the app and redownload tinder.

if it’s coping for you it’s coping for me.

i get a little drunk and a lot high so when he posts a picture of us together on my snapchat story i forget to take it down. you post a photo of the two of you together in the town that was once ours.

there was no coping that night. i clenched our old love in my sweaty palms and screamed myself raw.

we are nipping at each other like feral dogs trying to draw first blood. this hurts. but at the end of the day this still hurts less than loving you did.

#woof woof #fuck im so angry and sad and bleeding out #whatever #i have remember i knew it would be fucking hard #and that it’s okay if it’s worse than i thought #blue #spilled ink #poetry #spilled thoughts #poetryriot #spilled words #writing #an excerpt from a story i'll never write #poetryreaders #poets on tumblr #writers #breakup poem #break up poetry #breakup

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i honestly haven’t thought about them in months. i didn’t even realize i had the lack of an ache until i had a dream where they took they’re place in center stage. it was the ghost of a ghost. a memory from a past life, that tasted raw in my teeth.

when i woke up it took minutes for my mind to catch to up the honey heavy feeling coating my skin. i had forgotten what is was like to be hunted. i had forgotten how to be scared of the lion. then it came back in spikes of adrenaline and foggy strikes like i’d never left all over again.

but i got up and made myself breakfast. but it took about an hour before i’d scrubbed myself clean. i no longer had to wait days for the bruises to heal. i no longer had to clean the cuts.

-this is healing even if it feels like another lost battle

#red #i literally had a dream abt them and it was weird bc i had forgotten to be sad over them anymore #spilled ink #poetry #spilled thoughts #poetryriot #spilled words #writing #an excerpt from a story i'll never write #poetryreaders #poets on tumblr #writers #an excerpt from a book i'll never write #an excerpt from my life #poem #depressing quotes #depressive #depressing thoughts #poetry corner #spilled poetry #spilled poem #break up poetry

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you said loving her came easy while loving me came like a firing squad but today she flinched when the door slammed

now it’s my turn to speak. i’m not the soft place to lay your head you wanted me to be but i’m also not the girl who towered over you either..

i’m not any version of me that lives in you, but you are the beast that hunts her moments of peace

-you never knew how to let a good thing rest

#best of 2022 #i think i posted 3 poems this year #and i’ve liked all of them but #i lack a part of myself i used to have #and that’s good thing even if it has negative Consequences

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i hold his hand with the tenderness that was beat into me, too scared to squeeze in fear that he’ll see the violence that hugs me like a second skin

when he tells me he loves me it takes all i have not to clench my fist around him so that he’ll forever be stuck under my fingernails

but i use that pent up energy to throw rocks through his window and memorize the way his heart beats against mine

and yes the first time he calls it romance but the fifth time he stops calling all together

they all say they want clingy until i’m beating on their at 4:28 am talking about how my dog died for the 12th time

they all say crazy is hot until they get called up at noon being told I'm at the hospital again getting my stomach pumped

trust me i’ll take the next one slowly

until i don’t

and trust me you’ll never have another one who burns as brightly

until you do

#ive never been like this #and this is years old #back when i wrote it i think i wanted to love this much #and a few times ive gotten pretty close #but at least now i understand that while i need passion there are other ways to make it #spilled ink #poetry #spilled thoughts #poetryriot #spilled words #poem #depressing quotes #poetry corner #spilled poem #writing on tumblr #heartbreak poetry #heartbreak #heartbroken #break up poem #break up poetry #im breaking #sad #deppression #depressing thoughts #depressive #crazy ex girlfriend #crazy in love #poetry riot #poetry community #new poetry

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one day the air will stop forgiving me for wasting it.

one day the loss will finally sink into my bones and take root.

for now i’ll cycle through the mismatched moments. i’ll keep picking up the firsts and putting it back down. i’ll clean my room and throw my clothes on the floor.

-my teeth are tired of clenching and i’m tired of clenching them.

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you’re gonna get some hate for your blazed post most likely, but in all honesty and regardless of whatever anyone says, you aren’t a bad writer. you have an interesting and solid grasp on metaphor, imagery, and language. if I had to make one constructive suggestion it would be to try to unify the theming of your poems a little more, maybe with more similarities between the comparisons/metaphors you make? if you make your poems a tiny bit more cohesively themed you could write some really powerful stuff, you for sure have the talent. :)

thank you for looking out for me! i didn’t get any hate so im lucky there ahsvshha. i wanted to check out if doing a blazed post actually did anything and i can say now that it doesn’t really help me. i definitely agree with ur advise and it’s something i edit into poems that i put more work into and care more about.

#ur so sweet and honestly it feels good to get any advise about my writing #i did get a reply that told me it was good for a blazed poem tho #so i guess im perfect and awesome #the ghost speaks

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Ive been seeking leftover parts of you in other people's bed, but i guess thats the way life goes when you refuse to count your last cigarettes as blessings.

Ive been digging holes in my backyard and then forgetting what i was meant to bury in the first place, and the lemon tree has been using the soil as a starting point.

This isnt your fault because if it was id have to admit you were ever real in the first place, but it isnt my fault either because i dont want it to be. 

When you see me next tell me what you thought about when you first tasted the blood you licked from my wounds.

-if i couldn’t find your reflection in the mirror i’d draw it in

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Homesickness

1. Louise Glück

2. Franz Kafka

3. limer3nce

4. Miriam Adeney

#the first one wow okay #other peoples art

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you said loving her came easy while loving me came like a firing squad but today she flinched when the door slammed

now it’s my turn to speak. i’m not the soft place to lay your head you wanted me to be but i’m also not the girl who towered over you either..

i’m not any version of me that lives in you, but you are the beast that hunts her moments of peace

-you never knew how to let a good thing rest

#red #I actually really love this one #i’ve been holding onto it for awhile #old old old #spilled ink #poetry #spilled thoughts #poetryriot #spilled words #heartbreak poetry #sad poetry #poetic #poem #original poem #writers and poets #poets corner #spilled poem #spilled writing #breakup poetry #break up poem #break up #heartbreak #heartbroken

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i’m not unending hunger. i’m the lack of self preservation. they say refusing to wear a coat in the cold is self harm but turn their head to my reheated responses and twitching fingers.

i’m not unending hunger. so they feel safe letting me see their back. the girl on the bus told me it’s easier to bear my teeth than gain their trust but she forgot the third option was to let them forget you still need air to breathe.

i’m not my unending hunger. and they are not their addictions. if we both showed our wrists to the sun she would see no difference between us.

i’m not my unending hunger. but i’ll naw at my own flesh just the same.

-you’ve been feathered and plucked just the same

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Hieu Minh Nguyen, from This Way to The Sugar: Poems; "Buffet Etiquette"

[Text ID: My house is a silent film. My house is infested with subtitles. ::: That's all. That's all. I have nothing else to say.]

#other peoples art #hmm okay kill me why don't yeah #it the yellow lines

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jigsaw by @inderstimmungfurliebe (Me), inspired by this post

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Life begins with two men chained to opposite sides of a filthy bathroom

And another lying in a pool of his own blood in the middle

Like a dog dreaming about being hungry.

Life begins in a filthy bathtub

Like a baptism, like a drowning

Life begins with a hand stretched out

To kill

Life begins with a chainsaw.

Life begins with a rock (Cain)

Life ends with one (Abel)

Life plays out like a 2 second play

And you are Cain and Abel and the rock

And you are dreaming

About being hungry

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#other peoples art #that first line hurt like a bitch #like wow

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#this is beautiful #i love the socks line #wow i felt my heart flutter at the thought #it’s the little things! #like harry styles fanfic i read in middle school #anyway thanks for the reminder to romanticize everything possible #other people’s art

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Is it safe where you are?

#i can’t remember the tag i use for other peoples stuff #but i haven’t read a poem in a while that like made me feel things #like understood yknow #anyway thank you for reminding me of that #fav line: i still flinch at closing doors and pretend it didn’t happen #holy hell

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lose this sense of understanding. rewind this quicksand year. tell me i’m already drowning in the only river that runs through town. let them whisper about who dropped me off this unsteady bridge. i’m lucky to have seen the stars as many times as i did. i’m lucky to have whished on enough tunnels to have gotten me this far.

close your eyes. let the hands take over. the end of a story is always sad no matter what it says. hold it while we wait for the wine to rot in the bottle. we aren’t the kids that got skin made of gold. we aren’t the kids that kill themselves at the end of the day.

-were the kids that do a line in our broken down car and preach about our long term goals