#it’s not even technically poetry

[failbrothers]

Jandy Nelson, “The Sky is Everywhere”

#succession #web weaving #shiv roy #siobhan roy #kendall roy #roman roy #connor roy #kenshiv #kenshivrome #poetry #grief #i absolutely adore using shiv’s faces for these shes so unbelievably expressive #just her face says a thousand words in every situation #to me the ending of this can be interpreted as the fact that even though theyre technically free from waystar they will remain emotionally #stuck #to their father and his ways and His company #theres no getting out for them #in my opinion #its a maze with no exit

[lena-oleanderson]

god - collected writings

from: side wounds | precious wound | stay away | against such things there is no law | shooting star

#web weaving #god #poetry #religious imagery #religious themes #on faith #queer poets #poems #prose #quotes #words words words #lena's poetry archives #also technically #lena's fanfic archives #good omens #somehow this isn't even close to a conclusive list

[catominor]

oh mygof. what if l. furius wrote an epic poem too

#itd be like . epic whwre its only the part where they just list stuff. itd be so good (bad) #idk what itd be abour but. i lovethis idea #<girl who knows nothinfg about epic poetry btw #it probably would only survive in fragments like the rest of his work (perhaps a blessing in disguise) #or maybe more of it survived jusy to torment scholars. hmm #ficposting #i do think hed write poetry definitely. maybe even other stuff like plays or w/e since a lot of authors dabbled in it #but i think itd be quite boring literature. even if it were technically very well put together

[nagichi-boop]

It Wasn’t A Joke

February 14th 2024

This sucks sm lol

(Plain text under cut)

He asked me how I view my brother 

I told him we were practically roommates  

He laughed, he found it funny

But it wasn’t a joke. 

She listened as I talked 

I brought up the scarring things I’d seen

I laughed and played it off as silly

But it wasn’t a joke. 

Mother spoke to me in a café

In a moment of spontaneity, she jested;

“You don’t like me”

I smiled…

But it wasn’t a joke. 

I smile for peace,

I smile to be polite,

I smile to make it easier for them,

But it is never a joke. 

I treat my life as a joke. 

It’s easier that way. 

Isn’t that funny?

#trying to properly get into poetry #even if it’s not technical or anything #I guess I just want an outlet #trauma #emotional neglect #poetry #vent #nagichi writes

[amalgamationink]

NAPOWRIMO24 #15: Occultation

#prompt: become inspired by the stamps collected on the stampbot twitter. #so i also needed to write a poem for class that was technically overdue (i have been neglecting my academic prompts for napowrimo ones) #and this week we were assigned to write NATURE POEMS. which i was not a fan of as i am an indoors person lmao #anyway i wanted to write about the eclipse and so i scoured the stampsbot twitter til i found an eclipse stamp. #obeying the letter of the law if not the spirit... but hey killing two birds with one stone! #anyway fuck yeah everyone else wrote about the eclipse a week ago when it happened but here i am a week late w/ dunkin' :) #i don't even really like this piece but gahhh i am really not a nature poetry guy okay. and there were limits with the class prompt- #that i didn't even TELL y'all about. i was supposed to LIMIT METAPHORS. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT DID TO ME #anyway whatever it's a poem i wrote it today it counts #napowrimo 2024 #napowrimo #spilled ink #poetry on tumblr #poets on tumblr #poems on tumblr #great north american eclipse #solar eclipse 2024 #solar eclipse #poetry #poem #writeblr #damien.txt #img desc in alt text

[nonsensical-insanity]

What scares you? What makes you uncomfortable?

The dark? Heights? Uncanny behaviors? Water?

What about movie theaters? Skating rinks? Playgrounds at night? The town you grew up in? Your own room?

Do you constantly feel cold concrete on your skin, scraping away at a few layers?

Do you know how painfully hot another’s hands can be on your cold bare skin–

A burn that feels like a branding?

Does carpet burn still vividly sting for you even years later?

Have you ever felt a fear so primal you no longer felt human?

Have you felt like prey before?

Like it didn’t matter if you fought, ran, or even played dead?

No matter what, you are doomed to be devoured?

Can you imagine how terrifying it is to be prey?

#I don’t know how the hell to really use tumblr tags help #my writing is prolly dog water anyways #is this even a poem technically? #idk I just be saying shit #vent poetry #vent post #writing #tw sa implied #tw sa vent #ptsd vent #tw trauma #original writing #original poem #vent writing #sad writing #female poet #shitty poetry

[somewhat-very-insane]

kitty on my lap

my legs have long since fallen asleep

but so has she

#wasn't even meant to be poetry but woah #poetry #technically? #//god's words

[muslimintp-1999-girl]

I think that love is fragile

And maybe that's why the fate that connects us

Is represented by a thread

Is it worth it to weave a daydream out of it

I have only worn armours of steel

Before the day you gifted me these gloves you had knitted out of a yarn ball

I love how no matter how strong steel is it can never be as warm as these gloves you gave me on that winter morning

#poem #poetry #i think i should post my poems here more often #ofc this one is very coai coded coz they're my otp #coai #idk if this is even poetry or just words (like does this fit the definition of poetry? idk about the technicalities of such stuff) #writings

[the-busy-ghost]

“Ok so the other bookshelf hasn’t arrived yet but why don’t I start organising my books, it will be a fun activity and useful!”

What nobody tells you about said fun activity is that you have to make Choices about how to organise and it’s all very confusing

#I run into this problem EVERY DAMN TIME and I still hate it #I like my history books arranged a certain way so that tends to fuck up the Dewey Decimal or any other system I attempt to impose #Ok so for example what to do with primary historical sources like chronicles and collections of letters #Do I put them with the mediaeval literature section (some of which also functions as a primary historical source- i.e. the Brus) #Or do I put them with my history books (ordered by time period and country) #Or do I put them in their own tiny little category of their own- an extremely confusing and apparently irrational category #Or biographies of authors of which I only have two or three #Do I put them with my other history books or next to the literary works they wrote or on their own little section again #But since I only own maybe three it would be a weird little section just Aphra Behn James Herriot and Robert Henryson by themselves #And then what on earth do I do with C.S. Lewis' Allegory of Love #It's technically literary criticism but I don't own many books in that vein #Never mind the question of whether I should separate novels poetry and plays even if it breaks up an author's output #I don't really want to have to look for Violet Jacob or Oscar Wilde in two or three different places #And then sometimes a book doesn't fall into either of those three categories- should split Nan Shepherd's novels from the Living Mountain? #And what if it's a 'Collected Works' by an author which contains a bunch of non-fiction historical essays as well as a novel? #And don't even get me started on what I'm supposed to do with the Road to Wigan Pier #And then THEN we come to Wodehouse #Do I put Leave it to Psmith with the other Psmith books or in the midst of the Blandings books? #I want all the Psmith series together but what if some hypothetical person new to Wodehouse wandered in #And wanted to start either series at random- would they be confused at the introduction of Blandings too early? #Wouldn't they miss out on some of the best bits that come with knowing Blandings BEFORE Psmith? #I don't know who this hypothetical person is by the way #Nobody's wandering into my house and browsing my bookshelves except me so I don't know who I'm curating this for #I suppose in the back of my mind I always thought I would have kids who would one day be pulling randomly at the family bookshelves #And so that's why I've saved some of the fiction books but I'm not likely to have or even want children so what is the point #I'm not even the kind of person who regularly rereads my childhood favourites but somehow I can't bring myself to throw the kids' books out #It's an immense waste of space and a bit pretentious to have lots of books that nobody else will ever read #Honestly I'd have been happier running a public library or a bookshop I think or even having a flatmate to share books with #Ah well if this is a problem at least it's quite a nice one to have; first world problems only this evening I'll count my blessings #Earth & Stone

[fuckingwhateverdude]

july 24, 2022

#accidentally posted to the main first..... #but im soyyy hungover #been drankin for 2 days now i have to go to work #even tho ive technically quit #my writing #my writing tag #poetry #poetryblr #poetry on tumblr #mental illness #prose #bipolar disorder #vent art #substance abuse #substance use #spilled ink

[inbetweenimperfectmusings]

And I can bear it all,

I can turn my back on it all,

His anger,

His pride,

His torrential rage,

Even his apathy,

All the while admitting it hurts, but

Mama,

Oh, mama

I cannot bear his tears.

No one told me acceptance came with tears.

So when they slipped out of his eyes,

So gently he didn’t even blink,

I had no rehearsed response to protect me from myself.

Medicine taught me compassion, it did not

Teach me how to love.

Pulling the fingers of my hand away from his cheek

My past is screaming for her overturned sacrifices.

His shoulders,

His broad back, unshakable

Racked with tremors,

Convulsing sobs,

I’ll haunt myself until the day I die.

Rocking back and forth as if stifling madness,

And when I couldn’t anymore,

Tightly covered my mouth and screamed into my hands.

It might have felt better to cut my chest out.

Short of breath I used what I had to beg over and over

The only way I knew

Allahumma inni as’aluka al’afiyah,

O Allah I ask you for afiyah,

Please make this easy for me.

I beg of you make this easy for me.

#part 2 of 2 #i actually split this part into 2 poems because i realised they had two different vibes #so technically part 2 of 3? #the issue with writing the same poem weeks apart #even the same piece of text #i don't have time to write for hours so i write for hours over days #then every day has a different feeling #but it's all good #we're imperfect #inbetweenimperfectmusings #i can bear anything not his tears #men cry #ouch #emotional #romantic poetry #love poem #i heard my dad crying for the first time yesterday #i can never forget #it makes my heart hurt #poetry #spilled poem #how to let go of love #spilled ink

[katierosefun]

i just saw this tweet and my brain obviously thought about juwon kissing dongsik's scar on his thigh reverently, eyes closed at first then looking up at him with adoring eyes while dongsik keeps his eyes on him and strokes juwon's hair gently, a smile on his face that rivals the one he gave during the arrest scene ಥ_ಥ

anon you have no idea how much this is one of my favorite images in the whole world, i could write circles around the image about joo won and dong sik's scars and also dong sik just being . . . quietly happy and also in awe/love of this silly fool who's attached himself to dong sik's entire personhood . . .

also not to plug, but i think i loved this image for so long that this was actually one of my first beyond evil fics

#answered #anon #beyond evil #yeah . . . . . scars + etc #the scar on dong sik's thigh is actually so very . . . . personal to me #is there anything more intimate than someone kissing your literal scars and the fact that it's on his THIGH #also the sheer poetry behind the fact that the scar left behind on dong sik's thigh #is a trauma wound + even though it's technically healed how it still hurts whenever dong sik's stressed/sad/etc #the sheer poetry behind a wound on the night his first partner passed . . . and joo won just kissing it makes me a very SPECIFIC #kind of insane insane insane

[thelurk3r]

I made some blackout poetry (:

#fnaf shitpost #I mean. it's technically blackout poetry. it's just also a shitpost. #should I even tag this with FNAF? idk

[astrxealis]

the mix of EVERY SINGLE LINE (a bit of an exaggeration but you get the point) in the drk quests, the whole aesthetic of it, the writing, the storytelling, and the writings in the journal—dark knight quests are so good and so beautiful. goddamn.

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #⋯ ꒰ა ffxiv ໒꒱ *·˚ #the quests flow like poetry to me. i love them so goddamn much. they are beautifully dark and so full of. love. #and they have best babygirl sidurgu! i don't take criticism /j eebjhbjghba and god idk. ejhajgjejh it's so good #imo it's on par with whole ass stories of some games out there! and this is just a side story quest of a class that is optional to level! #maybe i'm exaggerating but that is. how it feels to me but idk how much i find that statement truthful even if i'm the one who said it rn #it's. just so good. the way it's all written the way it builds up the way it gives so much CHARACTER to a character that #is so difficult to give character to but in general ffxiv so amazingly gives character to the warrior of light. the character you play as. #and it's so wonderful because you see through the expansions how it changes! even if you don't give your character proper lore #the CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT of a character that technically everyone plays as is there in the story of the game itself and that is #remarkable. i remember someone saying something about that before but i can't fully remember but yes! #i don't know ehbgabjh i'm just so in love w the story of ffxiv (in general) and drk quests. but i'm not yet finished ... need lvl 80 #tbh it may seen like an exaggeration to say 'every single line' and ofc i don't mean literally every single one but #in one cutscene there is so much. there is so much #i watched that cutscene after the fight and while reading the dialogue it was like hey! i've literally heard all these quotes separately #and they are all so good with and without context. gosh. drk quests my beloved sorry (not) i'm such a nerd for them

[tragedykery]

the day I post my poems on here is the day it’ll be over for y’all

#and by that I mean help I want to post them so badly but I’m too scared #elli rambles #it’s like. I enjoy writing poetry and I feel like I’m getting better at it!! but also I’m very much still inexperienced #and everything that comes with sharing work you’re afraid isn’t like Technically Good (tm) even though you like it y’know?

[wizard0rbs]

love studying oe bc you come across words at are really fucking cool like 'uhta' as a word for 'the last part of night' or 'the time just before daybreak' hello??

#there is probably lots of modern languages which have specific words for this but still #also the nerve of translators to just say 'dawn' like??? #ig youre technically right and dawn is short/works well for the metrics in poetry but it also does not bring across the vibes #this makes me so glad i get to dive into the language a lot deeper than just reading a translation #genuinely cannot understand people who read a beowulf translation without looking at the oe even once #yeah i get that you wont understand it but still #can you tell im procrastinating writing my paper again #to be fair i did just come across uhtan in the text #and i will write about it now but yeah still procrastinating #aca #OE studies