#poem on writing | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

inksplashgirl · 1 year

Text

Words Live

From the second I started

to really read

I breathed words

and stories

and I wanted to weave

my own

And I read about

a nun who’s pen

sang with truth

as she told the world

the brilliance of women

and they forced her

to leave her paper

and never write her

beautiful words

again.

But

her words live

still

and so

will mine.

And that’s why I write.

36 notes · View notes

becomingvecna · 6 months

Text

— David Cronenberg, Consumed

81K notes · View notes

words-and-coffee · 8 months

Text

Alice Te Punga Somerville, Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised - Kupu rere kē

[ID: A poem titled: Kupu rere kē. [in italics] My friend was advised to italicise all the foreign words in her poems. This advice came from a well-meaning woman with NZ poetry on her business card and an English accent in her mouth. I have been thinking about this advice. The convention of italicising words from other languages clarifies that some words are imported: it ensures readers can tell the difference between a foreign language and the language of home. I have been thinking about this advice. Marking the foreign words is also a kindness: every potential reader is reassured that although you're expected to understand the rest of the text, it's fine to consult a dictionary or native speaker for help with the italics. I have been thinking about this advice. Because I am a contrary person, at first I was outraged — but after a while I could see she had a point: when the foreign words are camouflaged in plain type you can forget how they came to be there, out of place, in the first place. I have been thinking about this advice and I have decided to follow it. Now all of my readers will be able to remember which words truly belong in -[end italics]- Aotearoa -[italics]- and which do not.

Next image is the futurama meme: to shreds you say...]

(Image ID by @bisexualshakespeare)

77K notes · View notes

thoughtcascades · 2 months

Text

idk how to flirt but i can make things awkward if you're into that

#own #text #thoughtcascades #showerthoughts #shower thoughts #quote #quotes #writing #original words #poetry #literature #inspiring #quoteoftheday #poem #aesthetic #prose #inspiring quote #life #spilled ink

31K notes · View notes

pink-heart-writes · 2 months

Text

25K notes · View notes

nateconnolly · 9 months

Text

40,000 years ago, early humans painted hands on the wall of a cave. This morning, my baby cousin began finger painting. All of recorded history happened between these two paintings of human hands. The Nazca Lines and the Mona Lisa. The first TransAtlantic flight and the first voyage to the Moon. Humanity invented the wheel, the telescope, and the nuclear bomb. We eradicated wild poliovirus types 2 and 3. We discovered radio waves, dinosaurs, and the laws of thermodynamics. Freedom Riders crossed the South. Hippies burned their draft cards. Countless genocides, scientific advancements, migrations, and rebellions. More than a hundred billion humans lived and died between these two paintings—one on a sheet of paper, and one on the inside of a cave. At the dawn of time, ancient humans stretched out their hands. And this morning, a child reached back.

#nate's writing #prose poems #original post

70K notes · View notes

bebx · 8 months

Text

49K notes · View notes

letsbeapoemtogether · 5 months

Text

Sunrise, Louise Glück

#poetry #writersofinstagram #writing #writersociety #quotes #aesthetic #poems #poemsbyme #poemsociety #love #sunrise #louise glück

28K notes · View notes

whendidmythoughtsgocrazy · 25 days

Text

Don’t let anyone who hasn't been in your shoes tell you how to tie your laces.

k.b. // unknown

13K notes · View notes

perfectfeelings · 1 month

Quote

Repeat after me: My current situation is not my final destination.

Unknown

15K notes · View notes

fromdarzaitoleeza · 8 months

Text

{Words by José Olivarez from Citizen Illegal /@fatimaamerbilal , from even flesh eaters don't want me.}

56K notes · View notes

inksplashgirl · 1 year

Text

Pull

Winter's claws are deep in my ankle

Pain flaring as it pulls at me

Always when I least expect it

So long, so, so long until spring

I throw myself against the windows

Desperate to taste the sun, just once

So many months left,

waltzing on the edge of the end

I don't know how to live when I'm so cold

My hands, my brain, my soul

My mind is a wasteland

shadows reaching out, clawing

to pin me down and strangle me slowly

I'm under seige

There's only one way to beat this thing

I have to outlast it

This wolf, it's claws, they don't last forever

It only seems like it

At least, that's what I tell myself.

9 notes · View notes

thoughtkick · 1 month

Quote

as you get older, you realize that you’re not always right and there’s so many things you could’ve handled better, so many situations where you could’ve been kinder and all you can really do is forgive yourself and let your mistakes make you a better person.

Unknown

13K notes · View notes

thoughtcascades · 11 months

Text

I come from a long line of people with something wrong with them

#own #text #thoughtcascades #showerthoughts #shower thoughts #quote #quotes #writing #original words #poetry #literature #inspiring #quoteoftheday #poem #aesthetic #prose #inspiring quote #life #spilled ink

106K notes · View notes

thehopefulquotes · 2 months

Quote

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

Juliette Lewis

16K notes · View notes

lucidloving · 2 months

Text

Girlpool—Before the World Was Big // memorial bench quoting Toni Morrison's Sula // @inanotherunivrse // Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You // Zadie Smith, Swing Time // Fall Out Boy—The Kids Aren't Alright // Audrey Emmett // Mikko Harvey, "For M" // Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi) // Langston Hughes, "Poem"

12K notes · View notes