#poetics

[pencap]

put down the world, soldier mine. your body is strong, i know, but you are not granite. your shoulders were not made to bend so steep. your knees were not made to buckle so low. your bones were not made to hold so much. Atlas was a condemnation, not a guidebook on how to bear the weight of the world.

rest your wings, soldier mine. you were made to fly, i know, but not like this. the sun above is not meant to be your seduction. the ocean below is not meant to be your enemy. the jetstream is not meant to be your companion. Icarus was a warning, not a challenge to see how high you can soar.

lay down your weapons, soldier mine. you fight so well, i know, but not every battle is yours. your fists are not damned to be perpetual weapons. your scars are not damned to mark you in disgrace. your blood is not damned to spill upon a sword. Achilles was a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual on how to fight to your death.

soldier mine, you are not Atlas nor Icarus nor Achilles.

you are only you, soldier mine, and i am only yours, and we are only this here now.

- by sylvie (j.p.)

#spilled ink #poets on tumblr #poems on tumblr #writeblr #writers on tumblr #poetics #valiantly resisting the urge to post a poem i literally just wrote #by posting a draft a few months old #i would title this soldier mine but honestly i dislike the look of the title on this #so no titles!!! #put down the world #put down the world soldier mine #soldier mine

[librarycards]

For those who engage w/ poetry and poetics in the face of injustice, a new issue of Exceptional Poetry, which I write as associate editor of Frontier Poetry, is out, with some space for Palestinian poetics and other entries related to power, violence, and epistemic in/justice.

#mine #words #George Abraham #sarah cavar #[sarah] cavar #readings #palestine #poetics

[bardofavon]

thinking a lot about how fatal flaws are misconstrued as being moral failings when actually hamartia is a moral neutral.

the best kind of fatal flaw, in my opinion, is one that’s both a character’s greatest strength and biggest weakness at the same time. it needs to be their biggest weakness intertwined like vines with what makes them admirable. it’s their very virtues that bring them to ruin!!! it’s something they can be lauded for that spells their death!!

it’s macbeth’s ambition. it’s oedipus’s loyalty to his state and unending thirst for truth and justice. it’s hamlet’s obsessive contemplation and wish to make sure his every decision is the right one. it’s being loyal to the point of blindness or confident to the point of hubris.

in any other story they could succeed because of these traits, but they aren’t in any other story, and in theirs it’s exactly what damns them.

#IN THIS ESSAY I WILL— #the thoughts I have while writing fanfiction. anyway. #classics #Greek literature #Shakespeare #poetics #look I know this idea is debated but I still think I am correct #me talking about Aristotle’s poetics in 2024 like it’s anime discourse #LOOK ITS DRIVEN EVERY WRITING CHOICE IVE MADE SINCE 2014 OF COURSE I HAVE THOUGHTS

[getcareless]

Triolet Poem #62

Some will still bite the hand that feeds, yet they will still beg you for more. More flames are all a fire needs. Some will still bite the hand that feeds. Follow the light, see where it leads, we don't need reasons to lie for. Some will still bite the hand that feeds, yet they will still beg you for more.

"The Hand That Feeds", JEP

#writerscreed #smittenbypoetry #poeticstories #spilled ink #poetry #rejectscorner #twcpoetry #quotes #poeticsoul #love #writing #words #triolet #poem #poetic #poetics #prose #prose poetry #short poem #art #anime #aesthetic #aesthetic vibes #dreamy #cottagecore #lit #literature #alt #alt lit #creative writing

[nathanielthecurious]

i love those lines where ancient poets were like "i wonder how much alliteration i can put in before it starts sounding like nonsense"

ἔσωσά σ᾿, ὡς ἴσασιν Ἑλλήνων ὅσοι (Euripides, Medea line 476)

Ō Tite tūte Tatī, tibi tanta tyranne tulistī (Ennius, Annales frag. 104)

#tagamemnon #poetics

[julianerui]

Alejandra Pizarnik on gardens and desire:

"One of the sentences I'm most haunted by is spoken by the little girl Alice in Wonderland: "I only came to see the garden". For Alice, and for myself, the garden is the space of encounter, or as Mircea Eliade put it, "the center of the world". The garden is green in the brain. A sentence of my own, which brings me to another one by Gaston Bachelard, which I hope I remember correctly: "The garden of dream-memory, lost in an after-life of the true past". [...] Proust analyzing desire, says that desire doesn't want to be analyzed but satisfied. In other words, I don't want to talk about the garden, I want to see it. Of course, what I'm saying is still puerile since, in this life, we never do what we want to. Which is another reason to want to see the garden, even if it is impossible, especially if it is impossible." 

#alejandra pizarnik #poetry #poetics #gaston bachelard #alice in wonderland

[love-nadrah]

And so I read everything that brought me agony, and then I called them all my comfort books.

#poetry #poetics #quotes #aesthetics #love #writer #book aesthetic #excerpts #poem #healing #booklr #bookish #booklover

[abandoned-myselfff]

:-!

#literature quotes #dark acadamia quotes #dark academia aesthetics #darkest academia #dead academia #poetry #poetics #melanchaholic

[osipopz]

I have cute pride poetics tomestones as stickers! Just don't give them to Rowena. 💖✨ You can get them here!

#osipopz #osipopz art #stickers #ffxiv #ffxiv art #ffxiv meme #ffxiv wol #final fantasy xiv #final fantasy 14 #wol #ffxiv oc #ff14 #ffxiv artist #ffxiv fanart #ff14 art #ff14 memes #ff14 artist #poetics #tomestone of poetics #ffxiv pride #ff14 pride #pride stickers

[the-biggest-fox]

I buried that little girl I used to be in my garden

beside Jesus and my mother

She laid under marigolds

They salted the ground above them

I don’t think I’ll plant there anymore

When spring comes

#poemas #dead poets society #poetics #sad poem #love poem #poetic #poems on tumblr #poems and quotes #poems and poetry #my poem #short poem #original poem #poem #young poets #poetblr #poetsandwriters #poets corner #poets on tumblr #poetry #trans artist #trans man #transmasc #mtf trans #trans poetry #trans poets on tumblr #trans poem #a fox’s poetry

[pencap]

someone once told me there is no demon more frightening     than a good man     who has gone to war.

someone once told me      the only things we get to choose      are a hero's death      or a villain's life.

so they said. so they said. so they say.

but no one ever told me      what happens when a good man       goes to war      and becomes the demon.

but no one ever told me      you can die a hero     and be resurrected     to a villain's afterlife.

- by sylvie (j.p.)

#spilled ink #poems on tumblr #poets on tumblr #writers on tumblr #writeblr #poetics #so the answer to #does this format still work????????? #is unfortunately a no #alas here it is again #this one i'm spitting out almost unedited #it's short and mostly a complete thought #this is pretty un-subtly bucky barnes right?? #pencap drafts

[mmmmalo]

Not a haiku, but fun nonetheless. "Always, ALWAYS up at 6. I can't stand this woman."

#according to the compiler #it was originally about a newlywed and her mother-in-law #mutsu mutsu okite #moteamashi baba #poetics #my edits #rose #roxy

[ashtrayfloors]

All poetry is goth, but some poems are more goth than others. And by “goth,” I mean totally unsparing of the twin wildnesses of love and death.

—Anne Boyer, from her description of the Diane Seuss poem “[All things now remind me]”

#quotations #anne boyer #diane seuss #poetry #poetics #goth #yesss

[getcareless]

Triolet Poem # 61

Looks like I'm off the hook, scott-free. Who will notice when I am gone? In the night, I will gladly flee. Looks like I'm off the hook, scott-free. You'll lose me the way you got me, With all that brain and all that brawn. Looks like I'm off the hook, scott-free. Who will notice when I am gone?

"Off The Hook", JEP

#writerscreed #poeticstories #smittenbypoetry #poetryriot #poetryportal #love #writing #words #savagewords #aesthetic #rejectscorner #spilled ink #poetry #triolet #lit #alt lit #literature #poetics #prose poetry #prose #motivational #inspiration #literary quotes #quotes #art #anime #poetry writing #my poems #poets on tumblr

[nathanielthecurious]

new kind of found poetry where you pretend that a series of unconnected lines in a linguistics book are all part of the same poem

#he's the most character ever: he comes from troy in swift ships. he gave the cattle of the sun to his gf. #he's the strongest guest. he's dead #and he only exists in between the caesura and the verse boundary #linguistics #poetics #this found poetry literally has ring composition #indoeuropean

[rustbeltjessie]

It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against...everything. One must remain somehow, though how, open to any subject or form in principle, open to the possibility of liking, open to the possibility of using. I try to maintain no continuous restrictions in my poetics except with regard to particular works, since writing at all means making some sort of choices. But NO DOCTRINES. Rather I tend to maintain a sense that a particular form or set of rules at a certain point might serve me for a while. Like many writers I feel ambivalent about words, I know they don't work, I know they aren't it. I don't in the least feel that everything is language. I have a sense that there has been language from the beginning, that it isn't fundamentally an invention. These are contradictory positions but positions are just words. I don't believe that the best poems are just words, I think they're the same as reality; I tend to think reality is poetry, and that it isn't words. But words are one way to get at reality/poetry, what we're in all the time. I think words are among us and everywhere else, mingling, fusing with, backing off from us and everything else.

Alice Notley, from “The Poetics of Disobedience”

#quotations #alice notley #poetry #poetics #disobedience #language #reality #the first rule of poetry is honesty #the second is fuck you