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lunchboxpoems · 3 months

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THINGS HAUNT

California is a desert and I am a woman inside it. The road ahead bends sideways and I lurch within myself. I’m full of ugly feelings, awful thoughts, bad dreams of doom, and so much love left unspoken.

Is mercury in retrograde? someone asks. Someone answers, No, it’s something else like that though. Something else like that. That should be my name.

When you ask me am I really a woman, a human being, a coherent identity, I’ll say No, I’m something else like that though.

A true citizen of planet earth closes their eyes and says what they are before the mirror. A good person gives and asks for nothing in return. I give and I ask for only one thing—

Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. Bear the weight of my voice and don’t forget— things haunt. Things exist long after they are killed.

JOSHUA JENNIFER ESPINOZA

#joshua jennifer espinoza #poem #poetry #haunting #haunting poem #haunting poetry

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kaajoo · 2 months

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Haunting Symphony of Darkness

In velvet cloak, the day descends, A hush descends, and darkness mends The frayed edges of the world's bright face. Stars ignite, each finding space In the vast canvas stretched overhead, Whispering secrets softly said. Moonlight spills, a silver stream, Dancing on a silent dream. Shadows stretch, then twist and turn, Whispering tales the day forgets to learn. Owls hoot a haunting symphony, As crickets chirp their lullaby.

The unknown beckons, veiled in black, Yet within its depths, a light tracks Through unseen paths, unburdened, free, Where fears dissolve and mysteries Unfold their petals, soft and rare, Like treasures hidden in the air.

For darkness holds a gentle hand, Guiding dreams across the land. It cradles hope in slumber deep, And promises that secrets keep, Will rise renewed with morning's light, Bathed in dawn's ethereal might.

#poem #poetry #poet #darkness #symphony #haunting #haunting poem #darkness poem

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myfakeplasticlove13 · 6 months

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You know I didn’t want to, have to haunt you, but what a ghostly scene

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flowerytale · 6 months

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Mahmoud Darwish, from "Mural", Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems (tr. by Munir Akash & ‎Carolyn Forché)

#mahmoud darwish #unfortunately it was paradise: selected poems #poetry #poem #poems #palestinian literature #fragments #ghosts #haunted #*

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metamorphesque · 2 months

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Untitled, Tathève Simonyan

#quotes #literature #poetry #poems #selfhood #a girl is a haunted house #my writings #tatheve simonyan #poets on tumblr #spilled ink #spilled thoughts

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asoftepiloguemylove · 1 year

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Joan Tierney Why Are You Haunted? / @/oceaii (tumblr) / Liv Ullmann Changing / The Elektra Complex / Rosario Castellanos Monologue of a Foreign Woman from "Meditation on the Threshold: A Bilingual Anthology of Poetry / unknown / @/violentcherries (tumblr) / @/nutnoce (tumblr) / Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea / unknown

i. Joan Tierney Why Are You Haunted? [ "This haunting is architectural. It is not about you. It is about where you are. There are bones in the foundation. This house is a graveyard. This house is a corpse. You are inside the corpse. That makes you the maggot." ]

ii. @/oceaii (tumblr) [ Black and white illustration of a deer. The deer looks forwards in the first panel and turns back to face the audience in the second panel. "Turn and face / the person you've become." ]

iii. Liv Ullmann Changing [ "I will never forget the loneliness I knew as a child. For a period in my life I hid behind a mask. Did not want to acknowledge any longing. / Now it is a part of me-something I can share. / Both the loneliness and the longing." ]

iv. The Elektra Complex [ "If you were to peel the skin of me apart as a fig's, you would finally understand. I am my mother's daughter. From poisoned seeds sprout poisoned fruits." ]

v. Rosario Castellanos Monologue of a Foreign Woman [ "I didn't want / to be the dead star / that uses borrowed light to survive." ]

vi. unknown [ Black and white illustration of two deer. They are both labeled with words. The deer in the background says "just be." The deer in the foreground replies "just being is the hardest part." ]

vii. @/violentcherries (tumblr) [ "the environment you are not thriving in is not yours forever / IT'S OKAY TO LEAVE / ... / IT'S OKAY to abandon the things you used to love" ]

viii. @/nutnoce (tumblr) [ Black and white illustration of a scorpion doing chores. It's tail just barely curls over the front of a clothes line. Various pairs of socks hang from the clothes line. It stands before a bucket with more clothes inside. "I come from the toughest, meanest place you can imagine. / I want to be gentle, I want to die gently, but / It seems that when life gets hard / I have to get harder to match." ]

ix. Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea [ "I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar." ]

x. unknown [ "1. Man is a MORAL animal. / 2. You can get human beings to do anything - IF you can convince them it is moral. / 3. You can convince human beings that anything is moral." ]

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silent-insanities · 8 months

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You haunt my mind.

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lucidloving · 5 months

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n.h // Letters of Summer Past (Listy Tamtego Lata) VI // Oihergi Eleder Estornes Rivera, Woman looking back // Etel Adnan, Time // Erica Jong, Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected // Anne Carson, "The Glass Essay" // @tuoer_sg on Twitter // Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada // Sue Zhao

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ginasdiary · 1 month

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Classic literature aesthetic 🕯️🩶

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newvision · 10 months

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— Richard Siken, from ‘Birds Hover the Trampled Field’ in War of the Foxes

#wanted to use a bone saw on my skull so naturally I started rereading Siken #some poems will haunt me forever #Richard siken #crush #war of the foxes #poetry #queer poetry #queer books #queer lit #queer literature #american poetry #american lit #american literature #mine

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2008hondacivic · 10 months

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Yellowjackets x Ash by Tracy K. Smith

#i’m not a big poetry person but i really liked this poem #yellowjackets #web weaving #ash tracy k smith #yellowjackets spoilers #shauna shipman #jackie taylor #taissa turner #lottie matthews #natalie scatorccio #van palmer #mari yellowjackets #akilah yellowjackets #travis martinez #haunted house #my post

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trickstersaint · 7 months

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decomposition (dysphoria) // june 2023

#GOSH i kept forgetting to post this one. do you all love her. be honest with me #poems about being trans #poems about being nonbinary #it's me and comparing my body to horror tropes for real. this and the haunted house one...#poetry #poem #poems #poets on tumblr #poems and poetry #poetsandwriters #original poetry #original poem #trans poet #trans poetry #gender dysphoria #thinking about the title still. it was just decomposition originally but i kind of fuck with laying out the metaphor more clearly...#and hey it works for all kinds of dysphoria! isn't that awesome #let me know your thoughts. in the comments below

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noughticalcrossings · 2 days

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Commander James Fitzjames

There will be poems

#the terror #the terror ghosts #james fitzjames #the ol’ Fitzjimbles themselves #my art #there will be poems and they will be better than the voyage of the HMS Cornwallis #fkn ‘no milk in our tea though so close to My-cow’ pun haunts me

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flowerytale · 6 months

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Mahmoud Darwish, from “Mural”, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems (tr. by Munir Akash & ‎Carolyn Forché)

#mahmoud darwish #poetry #poem #poems #palestinian literature #fragments #ghosts #haunted #*

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metamorphesque · 2 years

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— a girl is a haunted house, tathève simonyan

[text ID: “This is me”, he whispers and I can feel the breath of his fist on my virgin cheekbone. / “This is me”, his voice is clearer, “do you take me as I am?” / But all I can think of is how my mother invented helplessness to raise my father up. / I refuse to build a throne on my head for another man.]

#a girl is a haunted house #quotes #literature #poetry #girlhood #selfhood #tathève simonyan #my writings #my poetry #poems #tatev simonyan #dark academia

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stillfertile · 5 months

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Some things happened to me in my formative years

that I don't want to tell you about

but some things happened to you too.

Salvage by Hedgie Choi

Thomas Lohnes / Christian Petersen / Loop Images / Claus Andersen / Anadolu / Icon Sportswire

#that last image was taken seconds after Connor hit the goal post and fully believed he broke his ankle #it has been haunting me ever since I found it #and this poem has been haunting me ever since I found it #connor mcdavid #hockey poetry #tw animal violence #tw blood #tw animal death #tw road kill #my collage

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