i wish i could save my mother.
@/veniennes on tiktok // Elena Poniatowska, from "La Flor de Lis," published c. January 2011// love drought - beyonce // Athena Farrokhzad, "My Mother Said" // Oleander, by Janet Finch// Hannah Green from "Night Terrors" // Sharon Olds, “Holding To A Wall, Treading Saltwater” // Kyung-sook Shin, Please Look After Mom // take care: mothers, daughters, and inheriting self-hatred by Ella Wilson // tumblr user honeytuesday // Marge Piercy from "our neverending entanglement", Made In Detroit // Honey Girl, Morgan Rogers// supernatural season 12 ep 22 // Silas Denver Melvin, from Grit: Poems; “Twenty” // Hayan Charara, from Mother and Daughter
for @shestrying
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Meeting Bakugo when youre forced to sit next to him in an early modern romance poetry class☹️
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Fading
A shield to the rain,
oak leaf upturned on the street,
fading on asphalt.
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#fading #rain #oak #leaf #fading #asphalt #street #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #november #tuesday #111423 #2023
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Mosquito
You don't feel anything at first.
Maybe there's a passing whine but it's mostly quiet.
You absentmindedly brush your arm,
Notice how plains have turned into rolling hills bubbling up under your skin,
The building itch that burns you inside out.
Scratching brings temporary relief and prolongs your suffering,
While resisting still means a baptism of flames.
What is self-destruction when you suffer already?
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My mom just asked for a latin translation of "protect trans kids" to put on a sticker, which quickly devolved into me and my mom discussing ancient queer history, modern queer history, and latin grammar because we both are adhd
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mother, i have worn your name like a shield./ it has torn but protected me all these years
Lucille Clifton, "february 13, 1980" from How to Carry Water
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me when i realize she's reading crime and punishment and getting into dostoevsky so now i can't vaguepost about people ik in my discord bio using dostoevsky quotes
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Okay so I'm reading a pjo dark fic, Percy falls into tartarus without Annabeth, standard fare, it's really good, so I start to wonder about the spheres of power of each of his travelling companions (Bob and Damascus (+drakon)). Obviously both of them met percabeth in canon, else I wouldn't bring it up.
And I think there's something to be said for Percy Jackson, half blood, to befriend the titan of mortality and the giant of peace.
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Kindness in Love
when I feel the warmth only from your stare
insist on the body staying still
afraid to show the signal of the passionate
calm and soft tone of your voice
enough to give me the reassurance, word for word
the blinding light aura beside me
radiate the blissful atmosphere
no one dares to take a glance, not even my own eyes
the subtle solicitude of yours
stumble my shield into shambles
the kindness that I long for, fades away into the flowing wind
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it’s 2024 already? and here i’m still thinking about the people i met last year.
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#5581
Monstrous Medusa,
Priestess of Athena,
Become a shield
In the midst of battlefield
To petrify every enemy
Who harms civility.
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So many stories about ancient famous people have an "and then everybody clapped" aura about them because no way did a Greek lyric poet actually get rejected as a marriage prospect by a girls father and then proceed to write such mean poems that the girls whole family hung themselves
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You were a bridge. A momentary safe haven, a second of peace hiding me away from the rain. And then suddenly I made it to the other side and everything hit so much harder than before. I see now. I never needed a bridge. I needed an umbrella.
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Fitzsimmons Appreciation Week: Day 5 - Quotes/Poems
“I wish you could see yourself through my eyes
I always forget that you can't read my mind”
James TW - You & Me
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