#lifeinpoetry

[moonbythebeach]

On novembers we welcome grief and numbness. On decembers, we celebrate them.

#november #good grief #quotes #journal #lifeinpoetry #classic academia #changemakers

[resurgances]

Prickling stillness. The same bed. Flattened pillows. It’s colder lately, despite the arrival of spring. I talk to God, but the sky is empty.

I’m kinder to myself nowadays. I tell myself you’d be proud. A gentle affirmation here and there. My tongue remembers the pattern of certain words, imprinted and engraved upon red flesh. Familiar arms wrapping across chests. Teeth chattering in the cold. Long fingers smoothening down dripping wet strands of hair.

I no longer question everything, no longer tormented by internal riot. Perhaps I have given up, the defeat slumping my shoulders, posture hunched. Silent defiance ignites me occasionally, but the smoldering coals remain ignored.

I linger in the sunshine for longer. Deep breaths instead of hastened gulps of air. Flavoured lattes. Untouched magazines. I read literature on the way home, chasing cascading raindrops on train windows with a calloused fingertip.

It’s almost September. It feels easier to breathe somehow.

[lifeinpoetry]

Free Palestine Reading List

Haymarket Books: Free Ebooks for a Free Palestine!

Verso Books: Solidarity with Palestine: Free Resources and Further Reading

OR Books: THE FREE PALESTINE READING LIST

City Lights Books: Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha

#free palestine #free ebooks #free books #out of my collection #lifeinpoetry books

[she-her-pov]

The world is a pretty messed up place, by world I don’t certainly mean the nature, animals, rain, sunset and sunrise. They are magnificent, it’s the people who are messy as a whole. But there are some who are a little less messy or maybe some whose mess we don’t mind putting up with.

#poetry #life is a mess #worthtobewith #lifeinpoetry #explore #love quote life quotes #life quotes #lovequote #for him #for her #her world #beautiful world #writing #girls icons #poetryisnotdead

[firstfullmoon]

i hope i am not just a girl blogger to you but also in your top 5 blogs you rbed the most from in 2022

#for real am i in your tumblr wrapped <3 #i have merle mim & tiya in mine :-) #also lifeinpoetry & myself for some reason

[metamorphesque]

why do all the words sound heavier in my native language?

—  @metamorphesque, Yoojin Grace Wuertz (Mother Tongue), Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky (by Garth Greenwell), Jhumpa Lahiri (Translating Myself and Others), @lifeinpoetry

˗ˏˋ☕ˎˊ˗        

#language #parallels #web weavings #i can never speak of how i feel in my native language #the words are too heavy to roll of my tongue #quotes #literature #ilya kaminsky #poetry #translated literature #jhumpa lahiri #dark academia

[apoetsloft]

Words

Looks like I’ll be posting poetry here for a few days. Here’s a poem for your Saturday...

When I write I want it to mimic the 90s

No cell phones in place of what the heart wants to say  

Nights midst muddy Philly Cheesesteaks as the air sings tunes clamorous  

Bodies dressed in black hide      hair swoops aligning with the orbits  

Words caressed by truth leaving fabrication no room to settle  

Ears sealed to the expressions of the core

Words of substance  

Making room for dim light downward the airspace  

Words of kisses joined by mocha aromas  

Words meant to settle in tier creeks to be discovered in the latter  

Then and now words facing future elegies  

Words like raindrops during Texas springs

Them “mama can I get a popsicle” words

Words that move the parts of us we tucked in our inner child’s essence  

Feels of red candied apples that stick like the sentence was meant for your art’s remedy

Words that stick to the tongue like warm butter  

Meanings of nothingness wrapped in a strawberry kiss  

Words that evoke song and dance  

Words that read calmly, freely         effortless bliss midst May showers  

Words induced backwards depictions only eyes of soul’s version expounding consequence  

Welcoming Mayhem like anxiety on a Church-Hill

Freeing self in pain’s bosom  

Words that spark unease til God’s name becomes habit  

#poetry femalepoets poems womanpoets lifeinpoetry

[asoftepiloguemylove]

i will do as devils do. fall.

Sylvia Plath The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath / S. Osborn Blasphemies at the 5th Street Station / Kate Cayley Lent / retirementfund (on etsy) BEGOTTN HORROR PATCH / Ethel Cain Sun Bleached Files / Nicola Yoon The Sun is Also a Star / unknown

i. Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[ "I need a father. I need a mother. I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty." ]

ii. S. Osborn, Blasphemies at the 5th Street Station

[ " 'if there is a light then i am going to swallow it. if there is a god then i'm going to make him cry.' / - s. osborn, from 'blasphemies at the 5th street station,' published in The Rising Phoenix Review (via lifeinpoetry)" ]

iii. Kate Cayley, Lent

[ "When I think of God, I think of hiding. The way a child hides. In hope of being found." ]

iv. retirementfund, BEGOTTN HORROR PATCH

[ Black patch with a screenshot form the horror movie Begotten. A grainy black and white image of a woman standing as she looks down at something. "GOD IS DEAD / ALL HAIL NATURE" ]

v. Ethel Cain, Sun Bleached Files

[ "What I wouldn't give to be in Church this Sunday / Listening to the choir, so heartfelt, all singing / God loves you, but not enough to save you" ]

vii. Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star

[ "I wish I still felt that way. Growing up and seeing your parents flaws is like losing your religion. I don't believe in God anymore. I don't believe in my father either." ]

vii. unknown

[ Black and white drawing of a statue of a man looking upwards into the distance. "GOD ONLY LISTENS TO ME WHEN I SPEAK THROUGH SIN / IN TRANSLATION MY PRAYERS FALL FROM GRACE BUT I AM HEARD" ]

#poetry #poem #words #web weave #quote #text #poetry web weave #web weaving #on religion #on god #on trauma #on religious trauma #on loneliness #sylvia plath #the unabridged journals of sylvia plath #s osborn #blasphemies at the 5th street station #kate cayley #lent #ethel cain #sun bleached files #nicola yoon #the sun is also a star

[geryone]

What are some of your favorite poetry accounts here on tumblr? If you don’t have any, what are your favorite accounts in general to follow? You’re honestly one of mine right now—i just adore how thoughtfully curated all your posts are, and it feels like we have really similar taste in poetry 😙 I’m more of a prose gal myself, but I just bought Bianca by Eugenia Leigh because of your blog, and I am planning to get something from CT Salazar ehehe. All my love <33

Hello!!! I hope you love Bianca!! I adored that collection. ❤️

Some of my personal favorite blogs are:

@tonybalerdi @orpheuslament @soracities @weltenwellen @iloveyoumorethangod @emiliosandozsequence @macbethwitches @boymartyr @mothprincess @firstfullmoon @calvinandhobbes @verberation @lifeinpoetry @cithaerons @chateauofmymind @saintmelangell @sweatermuppet @discopoem @swear2g-d @saunguine @auesten @thedearidiot @godlyrot @godsopenwound @bloedkoraal @icaroid @typewriter-worries @iccaruus @briarhips @shirleyjacksons @woundthatswallows @vjecitiapril @tybalts @devouringheart

#this is by no means a comprehensive list and I’m definitely forgetting some blogs that I love but it’s a good list!!!

[librarycards]

tagged by @petesdragon to do my '6 favorite books of 2023,' but since it's Me, with more book recs than i know what to do with, i've switched it up a bit. these 6 books are favorites that have somehow gone unmentioned in my quarterly book rec posts from this year (1/2/3/4).

in selecting these, I prioritized (but didn't exclusively pick) books that i also feel haven't gotten sufficient acclaim/recognition in general. imo they're amazing reads, as my linked reviews suggest, but for some reason or another (in the case of perdido street station, this was legit an accident/oversight on my part lmao) didn't end up among my 36 total favorites.

the books:

Poupeh Missaghi, trans(re)lating house one

China Miéville, Perdido Street Station

Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

McKenzie Wark, Reverse Cowgirl

Gloria Susana Esquivel, tr. Robin Meyers, Animals at the End of the World

Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin

tagging some people below - because of this spin i put on the tag (which you're free to follow or ignore) i'm tagging ppl i know Do Book Things and may have extras to share, but everyone is welcome to do this tag and share it with me!!

@heavenlyyshecomes @aldieb @lifeinpoetry @fatehbaz @bioethicists @flameswallower @discworldwitches @r-ob-yn @girl-chunks @trans-axolotl @ghostzvne @boykeats

#book rec #mine #id in alt text #described #my description

[moonbythebeach]

so you must remember

you had once dated a writer,

now don't complain

if they've immortalised you forever.

#writers #wreckers #lifeinpoetry #dating #remember

[laylaslibrary]

It is August: the true ending of a year. I’ve grown sick from trying to love who I am.

Carlie Hoffman, from “High Bridge Park,” published in Gulf Stream

(via lifeinpoetry)

#august #quotes #literature #poetry #aesthetic #books #dark acadamia quotes #lit #dark acamedia

[lifeinpoetry]

I couldn't find the old post I had on this so I could reblog so here's a new reminder of the Internet Archive account I use to list poetry collections and poetry-related nonfiction available on the Internet Archive for free.

I favorited another bunch of poetry collections today.

There are 3,559 books listed as of this morning.

#free poetry books #free poetry collections #free poetry #free books #lifeinpoetry books

[derangedrhythms]

Do you know of blogs that are similar to yours/have some of the same motifs? Preferably who use text id. i hope your day is well!

Hello! This isn't exactly what you asked for (because I'm not sure about blogs that are similar to mine or have the same motifs), but I've been meaning to do a recommendation list of blogs that post mainly literature. I've put an asterisk next to the blogs that use Text ID or post mainly in text format. I'm sure to have missed some blogs I wanted to include so I'll keep this updated and reblog when I add to it. By the way, I've recently discovered the Text ID function so I'll be adding it to my posts from now on.

@adrasteiax

@andrumedus *

@antigonick *

@a-quiet-green-agreement *

@beljar *

@bergmans-ghost *

@blackmoonmusings

@deformititties

@elizabethanism

@feral-ballad *

@firstfullmoon *

@funeral

@lifeinpoetry *

@liriostigre

@lispectorisms

@louisegluck

@luthienne *

@megairea

@memoryslandscape *

@metamorphesque *

@metaphorformetaphor *

@mysticomancy *

@serratedpens

@soracities *

@tamsoj

@theoptia *

@voirlvmer *

@weltenwellen

@weusedtobegiants *

#asks

[tenderbittersweet]

Image ID: A screencap of Fanny with a textbox that reads “a ghost like mine doesn’t come cheap.” Textbox comes from @lifeinpoetry.

#bbc ghosts #ghosts uk #fanny button #op

[simply-eno]

15 Questions

I was tagged by the wonderful @secretnerdghost (sorry it's late, but I am busyyyyyyy)

1. Are you named after anyone? Yes, I'm named after my great uncle, Victor-Renee. A truly great man that served in the Air Force for 15 years, and is still working for civil service.

2. When was the last time you cried? Ahh, last week. When all my writing disappeared.

3. Do you have kids? No, but I have a step daughter.

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot? If I were to write a sarcastic response to this question, I would be too on the nose.

5. What's the first thing you notice about people? Eyes

6. What's your eye color? Blue

7. Scary movies or happy endings? Scary movies, anytime, anywhere.

8. Any special talents? I can scream. I do that a lot.

9. Where were you born? A small blip of a town in the north eastern part of Oregon.

10. What are your hobbies? Writing. Studying. Listening to music.

11. Do you have any pets? They live with my mother.

12. What sports do you play/have you played? I used to play volleyball. I broke my foot jump roping though, and I wasn't able to play the last game of the season.

13. How tall are you? 69 inches (noice) (5'9")

14. Favourite subject in school? I really enjoyed wood shop.

15. Dream job? Anything not in the medical field at this point.

I am tagging my usual little posse: @the-original-b @jonaswpoetry @lifeinpoetry @alex-a-roman @writteninjoy2

#i was tagged