#i'm going back to minnesota where sadness makes sense

[derangedrhythms]

I know, I’m strange, too much light makes me nervous

Danez Smith, from I'm Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense

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[haveyoureadthispoem-poll]

"i know something that doesn’t die can’t be beautiful."

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[hellotomyoldheart]

& THE ONLY THING THAT CAN'T SHINE.

crane your neck, lady lamb / self portrait against red wallpaper, richard siken / shirley: visions of reality, gustav deutsch / no light no light, florence + the machine / i'm going back to minnesota where sadness makes sense, danez smith.

#lady lamb #richard siken #gustav deutsch #florence and the machine #danez smith #crane your neck #self portrait against red wallpaper #no light no light #i'm going back to minnesota where sadness makes sense #seasonal depression #winter #summer #lynn speaks #my post #this has been in my drafts FOREVER #it's august and i'm STRUGGLING so enjoy this i'm finally posting it ! #also rip tumblr ruins all quality #web weaving #poetry #compilation poetry

[malaisequotes]

“O California, don't you know the sun is only a god if you learn to starve for him?”

I'm Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense by Danez Smith

#I'm Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense #Danez Smith #Quote #Poetry

[hepatosaurus]

national poetry month, day 12

I’m Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense O California, don’t you know the sun is only a god if you learn to starve for him? I’m bored with the ocean I stood at the lip of it, dressed in down, praying for snow I know, I’m strange, too much light makes me nervous at least in this land where the trees always bear green. I know something that doesn’t die can’t be beautiful. Have you ever stood on a frozen lake, California? The sun above you, the snow & stalled sea—a field of mirror all demanding to be the sun too, everything around you is light & it’s gorgeous & if you stay too long it will kill you & it’s so sad, you know? You’re the only warm thing for miles & the only thing that can’t shine. —Danez Smith

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[poetrysmackdown]

#qfinals #poetry smackdown #poetry #poll #danez smith #andrew kane

[torsamors]

I’m going back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense - Danez Smith

[text id: O California, don't you know the sun is only a god / if you learn to starve for him? I'm bored with the ocean

I stood at the lip of it, dressed in down, praying for snow / I know, I'm strange, too much light makes me nervous

at least in this land where the trees always bear green. / I know something that doesn't die can't be beautiful.

Have you ever stood on a frozen lake, California? / The sun above you, the snow & stalled sea- a field of mirror

all demanding to be the sun too, everything around you / is light & it's gorgeous & if you stay too long it will kill you

& it's so sad, you know? You're the only warm thing for miles / & the only thing that can’t shine. :end id]

#i found it. the poem that most accurately encapsulates the feeling of missing those lakes and winters #like. yeah #x #words #poetry #danez smith

[woahpip]

rogue one / "I'm going back to minnesota where sadness makes sense by danez smith

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[extollingtheeveryday]

Danez Smith // "I'M GOING BACK TO MINNESOTA WHERE SADNESS MAKES SENSE" [ID in alt text]

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[redwinesupernova]

there's a poem in here somewhere probably

minnesota by samia / i'm going back to minnesota where sadness makes sense by danez smith / exits: sooner is relative by hanif abdurraqib / a lake + a field + a mountain + someone’s home

#web weave #save #poetry world

[ao3dorian-gay]

on haku & haunting devotion violence love mercy grief fathers zabuza

ft. naruto + a glossary of haunting / the pain scale / woodtangle / wuthering heights / before dispossession, or surviving it / i'm going back to minnesota where the sadness makes sense / the reasons / the day after / folding a five-cornered star so the corners meet / snow and dirty rain

#web weave mostly as personal reference / Mood Boarding for my haku fic. but. here y'all go #mine #full citations in the alt text even for my niche posting #managed to get my ndn media crit in there too hehehehe

[chaotic-orion]

apollo weave

I'M GOING BACK TO MINNESOTA WHERE SADNESS MAKES SENSE by danez smith // candle by kim hyesoon (trans. don mee choi) // my assignment is to "draw chaos" by jess rizkallah // untitled poem ["why feel guilty because the death of a lover causes lust?"] by alan dugan // corn fires by kai carlson-wee // the plague on TV by jaswinder bolina

#web weaving #poetry #prose #sun god #sun #apollo #greek myth #greek mythology #greek gods

[altschmerzes]

not to overthink poetry on main (on anon in ur inbox) but i think the dark in november line you rbed and im going to minnesota were sadness makes sense are both just like. oh! im allowed to feel negative things and not be On 100% of the time. the cold allows that the darkness allows that the world gives these feelings a home etc etc. the world allows me to not feel as though im wasting time by not doggedly trying to make the most of every single moment i am on it by reserving this time and space for the “lesser” parts of life that aren’t lesser but are quite beautiful for the mere fact that they are human, actually. etc etc. ‘im going to minnesota’ much more overtly than november but. yea. Yeah. or maybe im just overthinking it idk but you opened my eyes to a little common thread with that rb there so thank you! i also just generally think the little poem lines you rb are always very good and very nice and i loooove seeing them okay that’s all bye

no i think you're very onto something here, it's part of the reason i like the cold and the dark of winter so much honestly. like. yeah. it's a kind of hibernation, to give yourself rest from needing to be On, from needing to be like. bright and present and Seen. people are so much more understanding about 'i just don't feel up to it' in the winter, i feel. summer makes me feel agitated and exposed a lot of the time. i'm going back to minnesota where sadness makes sense. night grows in november. you're the only warm thing for miles and the only thing that can't shine. we can quiet down in november. etc.

i'm so glad you enjoy the clips and bits of poetry i collect here like a raven dropping bottle caps and bits of tinsel into my nest bc that's exactly what i'm doing here sldfjs it makes some part of my brain light up and i slam the reblog immediately

#gav gab #gav answers

[poisongardenz]

Letter to My Blackout

Helen Considers Leaving Troy

The Prestige

Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem

I'm Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense

Holocene Sonnet

#rambles #idk thought this was fun :) #poetry #poetry recs #polls #reading list

[malaisequotes]

“I'm bored with the ocean. I stood at the lip of it, dressed in down, praying for snow. I know, I'm strange, too much light makes me nervous.”

I'm Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense by Danez Smith

#I'm Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense #Danez Smith #Quote #Poetry

[boudicca]

ur passion against the dog poem is so funny to me 😭 personally i love that poem but never stop

it's so bad. to me. and i cannot believe it beat i'm going back to minnesota where sadness makes sense. my BEST FRIEND i'm going back to minnesota where sadness makes sense. even if it weren't a poorly paced wall of text and stupid as all fuck it still should not have beaten mx danez. i will ALWAYS complain about the dog poem and i will NEVER stop being a hater!!!!!!!!!

#i still love u... even despite this #anyway hi amorette ^-^ how are u #ask