#Refusing Heaven

[llovelymoonn]

can you recommend some good poems about icarus?

lucas jorgensen non-cento from the bureau of the library of alexandria

gottfried benn icarus

jack gilbert refusing heaven: poems: "failing and flying"

marcia carlson a masque for icarus

larry eigner three poems: "the feet of icarus..."

kofi

#tbr list #tbr #asks #anonymous #anon #poetry recs #poetry rec #poetry #poem #poems #poet #poets #lucas jorgensen #non-cento from the bureau of the library of alexandria #icarus #on icarus #gottfried benn #jack gilbert #refusing heaven #refusing heaven: poems #failing and flying #marcia carlson #a masque for icarus #larry eigner #three poems #the feet of icarus

[tinkercreek]

Jack Gilbert  from Refusing Heaven (Knopf, 2005)

MUSIC IS IN THE PIANO ONLY WHEN IT IS PLAYED

We are not one with this world. We are not the complexity our body is, nor the summer air idling in the big maple without purpose. We are a shape the wind makes in these leaves as it passes through. We are not the wood any more than the fire, but the heat which is a marriage between the two. We are certainly not the lake nor the fish in it, but the something that is pleased by them. We are the stillness when a mighty Mediterranean noon subtracts even the voices of insect by the broken farmhouse. We are evident when the orchestra plays, and yet are not part of the strings or brass. Like the song that exists only in the singing, and is not the singer. God does not live in the church bells,  but is briefly resident there. We are occasional like that. A lifetime of easy happiness mixed  with pain and loss, trying always to name and hold on to the enterprise underway in our chest.  Reality is not what we marry as a feeling. It is what walks up the dirt path, through the excessive heat and giant sky, the sea stretching away. He continues past the nunnery to the old villa where he will sit on the terrace with her, their sides touching. In the quiet that is the music of that place,  which is the difference between silence and windlessness. 

#jack gilbert #poem #poetry #refusing heaven #music is in the piano only when it is played

[abellinthecupboard]

The Lost World

Think what it was like, he said. Peggy Lee and Goodman all the time. Carl Ravazza making me crazy with “Vieni Su” from a ballroom in New Jersey every night, the radio filling my dark room in Pittsburgh with naked-shouldered women in black gowns. Helen Forest and Helen O'Connell, and later the young Sarah Vaughan out of Chicago from midnight until two. Think of being fifteen in the middle of leafy June when Sinatra and Ray Eberle both had number-one records of “Fools Rush In.” Somebody singing “Tenderly” and somebody doing “This Love of Mine.” Helplessly adolescent while the sound of romance was constantly everywhere. All day long out of windows along the street. Sinatra with “Close to You.” And all the bands. Artie Shaw with “Green Eyes” and whoever was always playing “Begin the Beguine.” Who can blame me for my heart? What choice did I have? Harry James with “Sleepy Lagoon.” Imagine, on a summer night, “Sleepy Lagoon”!

— Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven (2005)

#The Lost World #Jack Gilbert #Refusing Heaven #poetry #jazz age #writing #literature #jazz #Sarah Vaughan #Artie Shaw #Frank Sinatra #Harry James

[whisperthatruns]

Beyond Pleasure

Gradually we realize what is felt is not so important (however lovely or cruel) as what the feeling contains. Not what happens to us in childhood, but what was inside what happened. Ken Kesey sitting in the woods, beyond his fence of whitewashed motorcycles, said when he was writing on acid he was not writing about it. He used what he wrote as blazes to find his way back to what he knew then. Poetry registers feelings, delights and passion, but the best searches out what is beyond pleasure, is outside process. Not the passion so much as what the fervor can be an ingress to. Poetry fishes us to find a world part by part, as the photograph interrupts the flux to give us time to see each thing separate and enough. The poem chooses part of our endless flowing forward to know its merit with attention.

Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005)

#jack gilbert #beyond pleasure #refusing heaven #refusing heaven: poems #poetry

[aguacerotropical]

-Jack Gilbert - Failing and Flying

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Failing and Flying

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It's the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails and people say they knew it was a mistake, that everybody said it would never work. That she was old enough to know better. But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island while love was fading out of her, the stars burning so extravagantly those nights that anyone could tell you they would never last. Every morning she was asleep in my bed like a visitation, the gentleness in her like antelope standing in the dawn mist. Each afternoon I watched her coming back through the hot stony field after swimming, the sea light behind her and the huge sky on the other side of that. Listened to her while we ate lunch. How can they say the marriage failed? Like the people who came back from Provence (when it was Provence) and said it was pretty but the food was greasy. I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.

#poetry #jack gilbert #refusing heaven #this poem lives rent free in my head #anything worth doing is worth doing badly!!!!!!! #<-- such a good line to battle perfectionism

[tea-cat-arts]

More doodles (but this time, they're mostly beefleaf flavored)

#heaven official's blessing #heaven official's blessing fanart #beefleaf #shi qingxuan #he xuan #xie lian #hualian #hua cheng #i like to think that the thing Hua Cheng is reading is that smut novel about him and Xie Lian that they found in the post canon oneshots #anyways: gender fluid Shi Qingxuan. agender He Xuan. i refuse to elaborate

[kenneduck]

Riju has the comfiest bed in Hyrule. With the blankets and seals, it’s the softest, comfiest, most calming bed to sleep in. During BOTW years, Link knocked out on it unbeknownst to Riju. He experienced the true luxury of a comfortable bed. He slept in longer than he ever had before. (not including the 100 year sleep) When Riju headed to bed herself, she was surprised to see the chaotic wild gremlin hero snoring and cuddling her stuffed seals. Looking so peaceful. It made her happy to know he could rest and feel so safe. She didn’t dare to wake him. Even though that meant him sleeping for a solid 14 hours straight.

Whenever Riju notices Link looking sore or beaten up, she asks if he’d be interested in a sleepover. Sure, she has fun trying on Link’s clothes as he tries on hers. Or doing each other’s makeup. That, and he’s basically her older brother at this point. But, what she enjoys most is knowing he’s getting some of the best sleep in his life. Also, there’s the added bonus of sneaking pictures of Link cuddling her stuffed seals to tease him about when he’s awake.

#Riju #chief riju #botw zelda #botw riju #botw #Zelda #zelda headcannon #sidon definitely has some of those photos #sidon is also trying to bribe Riju for her bed since he knows Link loves it so much. #Riju refuses. #sidon and Riju have an ongoing beef over it. #link also has stolen a plush seal in the past #he cried when a bokoblin burnt it #he didn’t dare tell Riju it was destroyed #Riju believes the stolen seal plush is at link’s house #but no it’s gone to plushie seal heaven.

[rowenas-megacoven]

Fellow Hange fans we CAN heal. Just remember our bad mf is in Scout Heaven with the gang and they’re all playing a drinking game called “take a shot for each day Levi survives” they’re all cheering him on and getting absolutely plastered bc he refuses to die. he WILL live in the better world they gave their lives to help create. HE WILL

#I swear Levi better beat the beasts ass or ELSE #just a guy who refuses to die #honestly scout heaven looks like great craic #See you Hange #aot #snk #attack on titan #shingeki no kyojin #Hange Zoe #Hange Zoe my beloved #Levi ackerman #erwin smith #Sasha blouse #moblit berner #miche zacharius #Nanaba #Petra Ral #oluo bozado #eld jinn #gunther schultz #mwah.txt

[webshood]

Imagine doing everything by the book, living a lawful and faithful life, 24/7 every single year of your life just so you can go to heaven, and when you get there you find famous criminal Red Hood, the guy who has a crime list so big it could be printed on 1k pages double-sided font arial 12 and it would still lack paper, and he's not only on heaven, but on the premium version of it

#red hood #jason todd #dc comics #batfam #crack post #jason has a fast pass to heaven bc he has already been deemed worthy of the pearly gates #and it would look bad on them to simply refuse a soul that was already approved #and nobody wanted to search the archives to exclude his entry like it was years ago #it was a whole thing

[happypeachsludgeflower]

XIE LIAN PETS E-MING.

HE PETS HUA CHENG’S SWORD.

A SWORD WITH ONE EYE.

WAS THAT A DICK JOKE??!

#I’m pretty sure it’s a dick joke guys #mxtx absotluly would but idk if that’s a dick reference in China as well #mxtx does like her dick jokes or at least she did in svsss with cucumber bro and airplane bro #I’m not well versed in Chinese dick puns unfortunately tho so while it’s absolutely a dick joke here I have no clue if it is there #I feel like it should be because it feels like such an obvious joke #and yea I did notice it the first time I watched but I didn’t think to make a post about it til now #it’s kinda a double pun dick joke too #one eyed (snake) AND the sword!! #it’s absolutely a dick joke #i refuse to believe otherwise #hua cheng #hualian #xie lian #hua cheng x xie lian #mtxt #mxtx tgcf #tgcf donghua #tgcf #tgcf novel #tgcf xie lian #tgcf hua cheng #tgcf spoilers #tgcf season 2 #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing

[thefiresofpompeii]

i have a maybe lukewarm maybe hot take about this godforsaken show that some people could find mean, but i stand behind it, no elaboration (okay, some elaboration in the tags below… a lot of elaboration)

opinion: if you claim to like clara’s dynamic with the doctor and her character development in series 8 and 9, but simultaneously say you hate the impossible girl arc/elevenclara, you don’t actually understand anything about their relationship and what makes it the way that it is

#elaboration: it’s about the parallels. it’s about clara being the object of a mystery; the subject of a story VS writing her own story from #the name of the doctor onwards: refusing to become a puzzle box but taking it a step further and seeking to become the author of the #puzzles. it’s about her being chosen by missy all that time ago; because she was; among everything else; an avatar/projection of her #complicated feelings for the doctor in a way. a proxy that doesn’t know they’re a proxy #it’s about the mirroring of the impossible girl arc and heaven sent/hell bent! clara choosing of her own free will to splinter her identity #into millions upon millions of shards; dying over and over in every reality to save the doctor. compare to: the doctor choosing to spend #millions upon millions of years killing himself; dying over and over for the chance to save his clara. #the intertwined devotion! the complexity of their codependency! none of that would have developed the way it had if not for #clara being eleven’s impossible girl. she had to be a ghost story before she became a love story; and aren’t those two one in the same; as #stated in hide? #clara oswald #the impossible girl #twelveclara #whouffle #whouffaldi #doctor who #dw #peter capaldi #matt smith #jenna coleman #twelfth doctor #twelve #eleventh doctor #eleven #jamie catches up #jamie.txt #elevenclara

[abellinthecupboard]

The Thirty Favorite Lives: Amager

I woke up every morning on the fourth floor, in the two-hundred-year-old walls made of plaster and river grass. I would leave the woman and walk across beautiful København to the island of Amager. To my small room in the leftover Nazi barracks that looked out on a swamp. Most of the time it was winter. I would light my hydrant-size iron stove and set a pot on top, putting in hamburger and vegetables while the water was getting hot. Starting to type with numb hands. The book I planned to write in two weeks for a thousand dollars already a week behind (and threatening to get beyond a month). Out of money and no prospects. Then the lovely smell of soup and the room snug. I would type all day and late into the night. Until the soup was finished. Then I would start back across the frozen city, crunching over the moats, loud in the silence. The stars brilliant. Focused on her waiting for me, ready to fry sausages at two in the morning. Me thinking idly of the ancient Chinese poet writing in his poverty, "Ah, is this not happiness."

— Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven (2005)

#The Thirty Favorite Lives: Amager #Jack Gilbert #Refusing Heaven #poetry #writing #literature

[simplyavatrice]

beatrice + never letting go

#avatrice #avatriceedit #warrior nun #warriornunedit #ava silva #sister beatrice #this whole sequence is so beautiful #like the glow of the halo #the exhaustion in ava's face #the fear and concern in bea's face #the way beatrice flat out refuses to let her go in any way #both hands on ava the entire time #no concern for adriel or what he might do #she's not leaving ava's side again #then the way bea looks at ava when the halo lights up #not once caring about the light of heaven literally shooting out of her #no #the most beautiful thing she sees is ava #that's what matters to her #she's pushed aside heaven and god #and found her salvation in ava #this scene #it hurts so much but it's so beautiful #save warrior nun #please #myedits

[illuminatedferret]

sometimes i think about how mount tonglu just 'happened' to open when xie lian was with hua cheng and i want to punch jun wu in the face for being a FUCKING CREEP

#i hate him so much #tgcf #xie lian #hua cheng #jun wu #tian guan ci fu #heaven officials blessing #illuspeaks #im not saying jw knew what happened that night #im just saying mt tonglu opening when it did was totally intentional #and i refuse to believe otherwise

[m1raka]

YEAH YEAH YEAH!!!!!!!!! *fucking dies*

#rhythm heaven #rhythm tengoku #rhythm heaven ds #sketch #pop singer #i remember seeing a video of someone shouting the lyrics to fan club while the instrumentals were guitars and this came to mind LMFAO #fun fact the guitar is from an old deshi drawing (and when i say old i mean back in january) and i just copied and traced it onto this #drawing and it’s the same guitar used in my other deshi drawing (the one similar to this) el oh el #i refuse to draw another guitar🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️ #fan club

[atierrorian]

Okay, so, I have another writing concept!!

So if any of you guys know about Wish, the 100th anniversary for Disney then that's great! If you don't, then liked mentioned, it is the 100th anniversary for Disney. Anyways, I was a bit disappointed when I first watched it because I was kinda expecting more from Disney and I was more disappointed when I saw and heard about the early concepts it had before.

Like, we could have had a love story between Star boy and Asha?? A couple Villain? And so much more! Plus, the characters were bland...

But let's move that aside for now since I'm getting out of topic. My idea is for Twisted Wonderland! (Wow! Shocker!) Wish x Twst where Mc is Asha and the one of the Twst character is Star boy! I haven't thought of who just yet but you guys can help me pick out a character for that!

The plot for Wish was also pretty boring so my idea was to freshen it up a bit and make a little bit more unique from the original plot! (Disney had so many opportunities to make it original and special for their anniversary) And by the way I'm no professional at this! I'm merely stating my opinion!

But what do you guys think? I think this is an interesting concept and I have so much more ideas! But I do want to know your opinion on the matter as well!

#Atier's random rambles #Twst x reader #Twisted Wonderland x reader #Starboy!Character refusing to go back to the heavens cause he wants to be with Mc instead<3 #What if Crowley and Crewel were the Evil Couple?/j Or just the original is fine too #I got this idea while watching a video of someone's fanmade animation of Starboy and Asha #I already have a plot in mind for this #Just not characters and casts... #So many ideas one right after the other fr