#john berryman

[derangedrhythms]

—I suppose it was lust / But it was holy and awful.

John Berryman, The Dispossessed: The Nervous Songs; from ‘Young Woman’s Song’

#john berryman #the dispossessed #the nervous songs #young woman's song #poetry #excerpts #u

[apocryphics]

john berryman, this is a poem written from the pov of a sheep

#fragments #john berryman #poetry

[poetrysmackdown]

#round1 #poetry #poll #danez smith #john berryman

[apoemaday]

Dream Song 14

by John Berryman

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatingly) “Ever to confess you’re bored means you have no

Inner Resources.” I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature, Henry bores me, with his plights & gripes as bad as Achilles,

who loves people and valiant art, which bores me. And the tranquil hills, & gin, look like a drag and somehow a dog has taken itself & its tail considerably away into the mountains or sea or sky, leaving behind: me, wag.

#poetry #john berryman #dream song 14

[rosieofcorona]

poems for astarion ✨ snowdrops, louise glück/ fare well, john berryman/ asphodel, that greeny flower, william carlos williams/ a note on the body, danez smith/ a reading from the book of exile, pádraig ó tuama

#astarion #astarion ancunin #astarion x tav #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion x reader #poetry #quotes #we know he appreciates a good poem #did making this post break my heart a little? yea <3 #poetry recommendations #louise gluck #john berryman #william carlos williams #danez smith #padraig o tuama

[mid-by-midwest]

In honor of the finale of Succession tonight, here's the John Berryman poem that has been the source of all the finale titles in the series.

#john berryman #poetry #dream song 29 #succession #all the bells say #with open eyes #nobody is ever missing #this is not for tears

[woundgallery]

John Berryman from Dream Songs

#dream songs #john berryman #poetry #fourth of july

[bossybigeyes]

how’s everyone feeling!!!!!!! super normal??

#succession #succession finale #succession spoilers #john berryman #dream song 29 #jesse armstrong you diabolical genius #kendall roy #jeremy strong #pepe silvia

[mysharona1987]

#john berryman #dream songs #poems #succession

[derangedrhythms]

John Berryman, Berryman’s Sonnets; from ‘Keep your eyes open when you kiss…’ (36)

#john berryman #berryman’s sonnets #keep your eyes open when you kiss #poetry #excerpts #darkness #o

[roycunts]

“There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart

só heavy”

Succession, 04x03 / John Berryman, Dream Song 29 / Succession 04x10

#kendall roy #succession #hbo succession #john berryman #this came to me in a dream

[dig-with-it]

Dream Song 29

There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart so heavy, if he had a hundred years & more, & weeping, sleepless, in all them time Henry could not make good. Starts again always in Henry's ears the little cough somewhere, an odour, a chime. And there is another thing he has in mind like a grave Sienese face a thousand years would fail to blur the still profiled reproach of. Ghastly, with open eyes, he attends, blind. All the bells say: too late. This is not for tears; thinking. But never did Henry, as he thought he did, end anyone and hacks her body up and hide the pieces, where they may be found. He knows: he went over everyone, & nobody's missing. Often he reckons, in the dawn, them up. Nobody is ever missing.

— John Berryman

#dream song 29 #john berryman #poetry #poems #quote #quotes

[apoemaday]

The Song of the Demented Priest

by John Berryman

I put those things there.—See them burn. The emerald the azure and the gold Hiss and crack, the blues & greens of the world As if I were tired. Someone interferes Everywhere with me. The clouds, the clouds are torn In ways I do not understand or love. Licking my long lips, I looked upon God And he flamed and he was friendlier Than you were, and he was small. Showing me Serpents and thin flowers; these were cold. Dominion waved & glittered like the flare From ice under a small sun. I wonder. Afterward the violent and formal dancers Came out, shaking their pithless heads. I would instruct them but I cannot now,— Because of the elements. They rise and move, I nod a dance and they dance in the rain In my red coat. I am the king of the dead.

#poetry #john berryman #the song of the demented priest

[moonmovement]

All the bells say: too late.

John Berryman, Dream Song 29

#john berryman #dream song 29 #i truly do love a good bell mention #whether wedding or funeral or dinner or alarm or voice #but especially in terms of voice #sigh sigh sigh

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

unfortunately now i am thinking about alloran/john berryman. on their own, though, NO vissers allowed

Love it/ Hate it/ Tolerate it/ Would write it/ Have written it/ Would never write it/ Would read it/ Have read it/ Would never read it/ That would be a TRASH FIRE (affectionate)/ That would be a TRASH FIRE (derogatory)/ Squick/ Yay/ Fits with canon (affectionate)/ Fits with canon (derogatory)/ Makes no sense with canon (affectionate)/ Makes no sense with canon (derogatory)

Other: My brain struggles to conceive of any circumstances where Alloran would ever be interested in a non-andalite, but I could see John Berryman having a wild crush on Alloran.

#animorphs #shipping #crack #john berryman

[woundgallery]

John Berryman

#john berryman #poetry #god #christianity #prayer #text #joyful things #rh #ns