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wheatfieldspoet · 1 year

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House Snake

after Mary Oliver

You need to be free to decide. You need to have the choice to lie on your back, unmoving and frozen and unashamed. You do not need to deny yourself the humanity of resenting what has hurt you. You can withhold your mercy as they withheld theirs. Somewhere the void has closed in on itself. Somewhere the moon and the sudden storm of drought have stilled the once-flowing water, beneath the mountains and cityscapes, the rice fields and the sand. Somewhere the house snake, low in the dirt of its cage, seeks to escape at every opportunity. You may have been nobody, but because you are loved, let the void no longer ground you to despair, hiss to you like the house snake, subtle yet unnerving— here, a private milestone of your liberation from the confines of abandonment.

— jade a.

escapril day 3: a bit of advice

napowrimo day 3: Find a shortish poem that you like, and rewrite each line, replacing each word (or as many words as you can) with words that mean the opposite. — Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

#escapril #escapril 2023 #napowrimo #napowrimo 2023 #glopowrimo #glopowrimo 2023 #poetry #poem #spilled ink #mine #mine: poem #mary oliver #mary oliver inspired #adventurerswrite

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leonardospoetry · 10 months

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"And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life."

Mary Oliver

#quote #writer #mary oliver #words #literature #inspiration

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oxytocxins · 1 year

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I thought the earth remembered me,

she took me back so tenderly.

#art #illustration #mary oliver #poetry #nature #body horror #botany #plants #artists on tumblr #moss #wlw #or can be interpreted however you like #also inspired by the last of us show #and partly by the oliver poem #might add some more stuff so this is a wip #but could pass as finished #lgbtq art #lgbtq

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thehopefulquotes · 2 months

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Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver

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thoughtkick · 4 months

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Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver

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quietlotus · 10 months

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“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”

— Mary Oliver

#quotes #mary oliver #heart #wonder #happiness #inspiration #dailyinspiration

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thespilledquotes · 15 days

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Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver

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perfectfeelings · 7 months

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Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver

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yellowlabyrinth · 8 months

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Mary Oliver

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surqrised · 2 days

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Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver

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synechd0che · 4 months

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I think something important to remember is that just because somebody on here has appointed themselves king of … early medieval lit … or cold weather composting … or Joan Didion think pieces … or whatever, that doesn’t mean they’re nice - or even correct. It takes a while to figure out who actually knows more than you, versus who just likes to act like they do.

The follow up to this being that occasionally someone is quite knowledgeable - which does nothing to sweeten how sour they are at heart. I promise you can find the same pearls of wisdom on the lips of a nicer person, and spare yourself an ulcer.

#from the Mary-Oliver-hating halls comes another volley:#*you’re obviously inspired by my poem a month challenge and you’ve decided to memorize a Fiona Apple song -#-which I’m going to ridicule you for so I can roleplay the lit teacher that tore up my papers and spit on my dog*#girl this is a cartoonish response to the tumblr equivalent of showing your rock collection to your older brother

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perfectquote · 10 months

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Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver

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leonardospoetry · 1 year

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Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver

#poetry #quote #inspiration #darkness #mary oliver #poet #writer #words #thoughts

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quotefeeling · 2 months

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Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.

Mary Oliver

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aquietplacetostudy · 1 year

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last days of exam session and a reminder

17/02/23

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thoughtkick · 2 years

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Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver

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