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self-titled-poet · 4 months

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I have my mother’s curse

Of reliability and kindness

My whole childhood

I watched

As people took

Small parts of her

Although it was all things

She was more than

Willing to give,

They were never returned

Or equally repaid

And I vowed

That I would break

The chain,

Except the problem is

Curses are not designed

To be broken

So I sit and wittle off

Tiny pieces of myself

Mothering in ways

I should not have to,

At least not yet,

To people who expect

But so rarely give

I guess I am destined

To be more like her,

The mother I cried for

Hoping the universe

Could promise her more

-k.l

#poetry #poem #poet #poems of tumblr #poems #my poem #poet of tumblr #poem about my mum #poetry on mothers #mum #mothers

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dancingthroughourlifes · 2 years

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Quick question: What is the correct way to respond to your mother telling you:

“I do not understand you.

I do not understand how you think.”

Asking for a friend.

#mother #poetry #lonely #poets of tumblr #mothers #poetry on mothers #my writing #dark academia

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ivynightshade · 5 months

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fatima aamer bilal, from i mother it the absence of her, iii. i am not a person that can be loved for a very long time excerpt from moony moonless sky.

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somberous · 5 months

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Ocean Vuong, from “Reasons for Staying.” [ID in alt text]

#ocean vuong #time is a mother #poetry #***

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mazzystarjpg · 7 months

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- on mothers

lady bird/ @death-born-aphrodite/ everything, everywhere, all at once/ rupi kaur/ unknown/ maia baia/ your best american girl- mitski/ lady bird/ unknown/ @inkskinned

#on mothers #mothers and daughters #mother and daughters trauma #parent trauma #lady bird #everything everywhere all at once #eeaao #mitski #webweave #web weaving #web weave #webweaving #poetry

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lucidloving · 7 months

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In the Blood— John Mayer // @lucidloving // @chaosinline on Instagram // Édouard Levé, Suicide // @futngina // @lucidloving

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mysterieuxclairdelune · 1 year

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{Hannah Green, from "Are you still hungry, Mother?"/ Anne Carson/Sam Gordon, "A Mother's Hate"/ Ella Wilson/ Joan Tierney/ Ella Wilson/ Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous/ Unknown/ Nayyirah Waheed/ Sharon Olds, “Holding To A Wall, Treading Saltwater”/ John Green, Turtles All the Way Down/ Safia Elhillo, "an inheritance," published in Narrative Northeast/ Annie Ernaux, from I Remain in Darkness/ Poplar Street by Chen Chen/ Unknown/ Tumblr User: @inkskinned/ Elena Poniatowska, from "La Flor de Lis," published c. January 2011/ Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom}

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nijaded · 1 year

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Poetry in Motion — the phenomenal Florence Welch

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anouchan-jpg · 7 months

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asoftepiloguemylove · 4 months

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I HAVE MY MOTHER'S FACE AND HER GRIEF

Janet Fitch // Lady Bird (2017) dir. Greta Gerwig // Chen Chen // Youadan Teddy // Ocean Vuong Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong // Mitski Class of 2013 // 誰も知らない Nobody Knows (2004) dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda // Fatima Aamer Bilal days where my whole world is my bed. // death-born-aphrodite (tumblr) // Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // Hieu Minh Nguyen Buffet Etiquette

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lomlompurim · 5 months

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respost separated from the og post bc I really liked this silly little thing I made

And a little extra of my own

little binghe has a goal in this life and it only gets worse once he mets sqq, no one dares to threaten his position as sqq's future wife, he literally was born to be his spouse!!

#scum villain's self saving system #svsss #sillies #bingqiu #人渣反派自救系统 #svsss fanart #luo binghe #shen qingqiu #tianlang jun #I like to think little bunhe asked his father to let him write letters to his misterious future husband #to get to know him more before their wedding #and tlj hopeless romantic that he is of course says yes #zzl! go for a reliable mailman of the court!#so one day sqq still is on the way to become peak lord and start recieving letters apparently from tlj's child???#so weird but eeh its okay its a way to check on how the protagonist is doing!#so he displays his full autistic caring mother rizz on those letters #and binghe swoons everytime he reads his poetry #and his tales about monsters and artifacts and some weird stories sqq makes up for him #(he is telling him about anime)#idiots in love #binghe thinks they are courting from distance #sy thinks he has a very adorable pen pal #sxy is in the corner probably keeping an eye on everthing to be sure her son is safe #tlj is living this arranged marriage like a telenovela

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lovely-abeille · 1 year

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on being the daughter of the family

if my body could speak, blythe baird // i put the coffin out to sea, lisa marie basile // @/belovedbi // ? // been a son, nirvana // elektra, sophokles; translated by anne carson // ? // churching, kristin chang

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soracities · 8 days

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Czesław Miłosz, from “It Was Winter” (tr. Czesław Miłosz, Renata Gorczynski, Robert Hass, & Robert Pinsky), New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 [ID'd]

#q #lit #quotes #poetry #typography #id included #czeslaw milosz #it was winter #new and collected poems 1931-2001 #mother of otherness eat me #reading #polish lit #m #x

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ivynightshade · 25 days

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fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i mother it, the absence of her ii. i was hard to bear from the very start.’

[text id: my sadness is a fire that i built to keep my hands warm on lonely nights. // art by sivan roshianu // i keep my misery bared between my teeth. i refuse to let her leave. / i am nothing without this obsession of mine.]

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mournfulroses · 5 months

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Alfonsina Storni, tr. by Dorothy Scott Loos, from Selected Poems; "Words to My Mother,"

#lit #alfonsina storni #poetry #quote #words #words to my mother #dorothy scott loos #selections #poetry in translation #p

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dollsgaze · 2 years

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there's something about having a mother when you're a girl.

black swan //Buffet Etiquette, Hieu Minh Nguyen // Nayyirah Waheed//turtles all the way down// the cradell, berthe morisot// ??// the witch// Kyung-sook Shin, Please Look After Mom// lady bird// Take Care: Mothers, Daughters, and Inheriting Self-Hatred, Ella Wilson

#web weaving #parallels #motherhood #mommy issues #lady bird #on mothers #compilation #mother #mother's rage #toxic mom #words #poetry

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