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bitesizedpoetry · 3 days

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A WRITING PROJECT: The Book of Strangers (pt. 1) is now available

A month ago, a phantom weight decided to make a home in my heart. For some reason, even writing couldn’t heal me this time around, so I asked strangers to tell me their story and I promised them a poetry/prose piece in return.

The concept of this writing collection involves a tea room. It involves strangers; another universe. Perhaps in this life, we won’t ever meet. But in another universe, we meet at the tea room where we aren’t strangers. You tell me your story as I make you a cup of tea. In this universe, I handweave poems and prose pieces using threads of your stories. In this universe, these written pieces are cups of tea I offer to you as my thanks for sharing your stories with me. I hope they help lift the phantom weight in your heart, even for just a moment.

A sincere thanks to everyone who contributed to this project. I have sent the link to you as well as those who have previously requested for it. If anyone else wants to read it, Send Me A Message. I will send you the link if: (i) you are following this blog; (ii) let me know what you think after reading it; and (iii) do NOT know me personally.

Also, if you sent your story anonymously, message me where I can send you the link.

I am currently working on Part 2, for those who submitted after the initial deadline. Submissions are open again for anyone else who would like to tell me their story in exchange for a poem/prose piece. Deadline for the second part is 17 May 2024. Tell me your story, dear strangers.

Tell me about the happiest version of yourself, your heartbreaks, the person you can’t stop thinking about, the most beautiful sunset you’ve ever seen, the day you realised you were right where you wanted to be, that moment in your life that you keep going back to in your head. Tell me about how it plays on a loop. About how you keep interpreting, reinterpreting, and misinterpreting all the things he said. About how you keep remembering and misremembering how she looked like in her favourite spring dress. Tell me what’s on your mind; what’s in your heart. The things you cannot tell anyone else. Tell me the things you desperately want to forget, but can’t.

- L. V., also a stranger confessing to strangers

[Photo: jeune fille à la tasse (girl with cup) by Léon François Comerre]

#a writing project

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bitesizedpoetry · 9 days

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Words related to Spring

to include in your next poem/story

Bloodroot -> a plant (Sanguinaria canadensis) of the poppy family having a red root and sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring.

Bluebonnet -> either of two low-growing annual lupines (Lupinus subcarnosus or L. texensis) of Texas with silky foliage and blue flowers.

Coltsfoot -> a perennial composite herb (Tussilago farfara) with yellow flower heads appearing before the leaves.

Crocus -> any of a genus (Crocus) of herbs of the iris family developing from corms and having solitary long-tubed flowers and slender linear leaves.

Magnolia -> any of a genus (Magnolia of the family Magnoliaceae, the magnolia family) of American and Asian shrubs and trees with entire evergreen or deciduous leaves and usually showy white, yellow, rose, or purple flowers usually appearing in early spring.

Morel -> any of several edible fungi (genus Morchella, especially M. esculenta) having a conical cap with a highly pitted surface.

Mourning cloak -> a blackish-brown nymphalid butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) that has a broad yellow border on the wings and is found in temperate parts of Europe, Asia, and North America.

Skunk cabbage -> any of several early-blooming perennial herbs of the arum family that occur in shaded, wet to swampy areas and have a fetid odor suggestive of a skunk.

Spring peeper -> a small brown tree frog (Pseudacris crucifer synonym Hyla crucifer) of the eastern U.S. and Canada that has a shrill piping call and breeds in ponds and streams in the spring. They are often just called peepers start singing on some of the earliest warm spring nights, ushering in the season with an evocative chorus. While they are highly successful in permanent ponds, they also utilize temporary, ephemeral ponds that appear briefly in the spring due to rain and snowmelt.

Tulip -> any of a genus (Tulipa) of Eurasian bulbous herbs of the lily family that have linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and are widely grown for their showy flowers.

#for reference

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bitesizedpoetry · 9 days

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i think i'd love you even when i don't know you. the deathlessness of devotion, the poets call it.

unknown // The Elektra Complex, Joan Tierney // L. V. @literaryvein, an excerpt, “mimicking maelstroms.” // Sue Zhao // No one has taken anything away, Marina Tsvetaeva (trans. Elaine Feinstein) // unknown // The Drowned Children, Louise Gluck // unknown //Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments // only source i found was this pin // Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts (?)

#poetry #literature

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bitesizedpoetry · 13 days

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UPDATE: A Writing Project

The Book of Strangers (Part 1: The Tea Room) will be available on 22 April 2024.

Send Me A Message if you want a copy. I will send you a link if: (i) you are following this blog; (ii) let me know what you think after reading it; and (iii) do NOT know me personally.

To everyone who kindly shared with me their story, I'll be sending you the link. Those who sent their stories anonymously, message me privately or email me: [email protected] so that I can send you a copy as well.

There were submissions sent after the initial deadline, so I'll be including those in a Part 2 and opening up submissions again. Deadline for the second part is 17 May 2024. Tell me your story, dear strangers.

- L. V.

#a writing project #preview

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bitesizedpoetry · 17 days

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Leo Tolstoy. Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Marcel Proust. Walt Whitman. Alan Wilson Watts. Czeslaw Milosz. Nadine Gordimer. Elias Canetti. Banana Yoshimoto. Kenzaburō Ōe. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Alexandre Dumas.

#quotes

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bitesizedpoetry · 23 days

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Thank you, everyone, for sharing with me your stories. I'll post an update soon when the writing collection will be out. Also, for those who sent in their submissions after the deadline, they will be included in part 2. Would love to receive your submission as well @lloulore :)

Submit for Part 2

A Writing Project: THE BOOK OF STRANGERS

Tell me your story and I’ll write you a poem or prose piece that will be included in my upcoming writing collection.

Tell me about the happiest version of yourself, your heartbreaks, the person you can’t stop thinking about, the most beautiful sunset you’ve ever seen, the day you realised you were right where you wanted to be, that moment in your life that you keep going back to in your head. Tell me about how it plays on a loop. About how you keep interpreting, reinterpreting, and misinterpreting all the things he said. About how you keep remembering and misremembering how she looked like in her favorite spring dress. Tell me what’s on your mind; what’s in your heart. The things you cannot tell anyone else. Tell me the things you desperately want to forget, but can’t.

Submissions will be accepted until the 31st of March 2024.

You may choose to be anonymous, or include an alias that I’ll cite to credit your story.

- MJL

#thank you #currently working on all submissions #will post an update soon when the writing collection will be available #(submissions for part 2 is open)

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bitesizedpoetry · 25 days

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Diane Ackerman. Robert Lowell. George Abbe. Anne Sexton. Lola Ridge. George Meredith. Sylvia Plath. Frederick Seidel. Charlotte Mew. Countee Cullen. Betty Adcock. Anne Sexton.

#quotes

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bitesizedpoetry · 30 days

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Are you still accepting story’s?

Cuz I have one hell of a story to tell I just don’t know how to put it into my own words ….

Yes, would love to hear yours :)

My writing project is still open for everyone. Just share with me your story (via /ask) and I'll write you a poem/prose piece.

#anonymous #a writing project #writeblr #spilled ink #writers on tumblr

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bitesizedpoetry · 1 month

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Sylvia Plath

#slyvia plath

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bitesizedpoetry · 1 month

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R. F. Kuang, Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

#rf kuang #quotes #literature #writeblr #writing prompt

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bitesizedpoetry · 2 months

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MJL, an excerpt from the writing collection, “Poetic Paralysis”

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bitesizedpoetry · 2 months

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A Writing Project: THE BOOK OF STRANGERS

Tell me your story and I’ll write you a poem or prose piece that will be included in my upcoming writing collection.

Tell me about the happiest version of yourself, your heartbreaks, the person you can’t stop thinking about, the most beautiful sunset you’ve ever seen, the day you realised you were right where you wanted to be, that moment in your life that you keep going back to in your head. Tell me about how it plays on a loop. About how you keep interpreting, reinterpreting, and misinterpreting all the things he said. About how you keep remembering and misremembering how she looked like in her favorite spring dress. Tell me what’s on your mind; what’s in your heart. The things you cannot tell anyone else. Tell me the things you desperately want to forget, but can’t.

Submissions will be accepted until the 31st of March 2024.

You may choose to be anonymous, or include an alias that I’ll cite to credit your story.

- L. V.

#poetry #writing #spilled ink #writeblr #writers on tumblr #poets on tumblr #literature #lit #original writing #request #story

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