#sharon olds

[flowerytale]

Sharon Olds, from "Little Things"; Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002

#sharon olds #poetry #poem #typo #typography #little things #* #this is so me coded

[havingapoemwithyou]

true love by Sharon Olds

#Sharon Olds #poetry #poem

[firstfullmoon]

Sharon Olds, “Late Poem to My Father”

#and something was not given to you or something was taken from you that you were born with #I always thought the point was what you did to us as a grown man but then I remembered that child........ #w #poetry #sharon olds

[llovelymoonn]

patrick white the vivisector \\ sharon olds one secret thing: poems: "something is happening" (via @flowerytale)

kofi

#on identity #on girlhood #on self #on life #patrick white #the vivisector #sharon olds #one secret thing #one secret thing: poems #something is happening #mine #my webweaving #webweaving #web weaving #webweave #web weave #web #webs #ww #parallel #parallels #parallelism #compilation #compilations #intertext #intertextuality #comparative #comparatives

[apoemaday]

Sex Without Love

by Sharon Olds

How do they do it, the ones who make love without love? Beautiful as dancers, gliding over each other like ice-skaters over the ice, fingers hooked inside each other’s bodies, faces red as steak, wine, wet as the children at birth whose mothers are going to give them away. How do they come to the come to the come to the God come to the still waters, and not love the one who came there with them, light rising slowly as steam off their joined skin? These are the true religious, the purists, the pros, the ones who will not accept a false Messiah, love the priest instead of the God. They do not mistake the lover for their own pleasure, they are like great runners: they know they are alone with the road surface, the cold, the wind, the fit of their shoes, their over-all cardio- vascular health — just factors, like the partner in the bed, and not the truth, which is the single body alone in the universe against its own best time.

#poetry #sharon olds #sex without love

[derangedrhythms]

I know where you are / with my eyes closed, we are bound to each other / with huge invisible threads,

Sharon Olds, Strike Sparks: Selected Poems 1980-2002; from ‘True Love’

#sharon olds #strike sparks #true love #poetry #excerpts #the pull of you #o

[thoughtkick]

Once you lose someone, it is never exactly the same person who comes back.

Sharon Olds

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[iphisesque]

I Go Back to May 1937, Sharon Olds

#sharon olds #oh miss olds we're really in it now...

[loveakii]

“Nice and neat, tragedy. Restful, too. In a drama, with its traitors, its desperate villains, its innocent victims, avengers, devoted followers and glimmers of hope, death becomes something terrible, a kind of accident. You might have arrived in time with the police. But tragedy's so peaceful! For one thing, everybody's on a par. All innocent! It doesn't matter if one person kills and the other is killed - it's just a matter of casting. And above all, tragedy's restful, because you know there's no lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat in a trap, with all heaven against you. And the only thing left to do is shout - not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you didn't even know till now… And to no purpose - just so as to tell it to yourself... to learn it, yourself. In drama you struggle, because you hope you're going to survive. It's utilitarian - sordid. But tragedy is gratuitous. Pointless, irremediable. Fit for a king!” —Jean Anouilh, Antigone

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[flowerytale]

Sharon Olds, from "Something Is Happening", One Secret Thing: Poems

#sharon olds #one secret thing #poetry #poem #poems #typo #typography #fragments #words #*

[sunsetquotes]

Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back

Sharon Olds; Satan Says

#sharon olds #satan says #text #quote #quotes #love #love quotes #life #life quotes #relationship #relationship quotes #beautiful #aesthetic #art

[firstfullmoon]

Sharon Olds, “The Chute”

#INSANEEEE #we thought it was such an honor to be chosen and like all honors it was mostly terror #how could you trust him? and then if you were his half him how could you trust yourself? #so although it’s a story with some cruelty in it finally it’s a story of love #w #poetry #sharon olds

[sorrydetka]

desire, love, godliness

fleabag 2.06 // hippolytus by euripides (trans. anne carson) // munich, winter 1973 (for y.s.) by james baldwin // the meeting in a dream by jorge luis borges // hannibal, ‘secondo’ 3.03 // epipsychidion by percy bysshe shelley // les misérables by victor hugo // know-nothing by sharon olds // eros, the bittersweet by anne carson

#hannibal #fleabag #anne carson #web weaving #web weave #desire #love #god #percy shelley #james baldwin #sharon olds #pheobe waller bridge #euripides #parallels #dark acamedia #jorge luis borges #holy #holiness #victor hugo #les miserables #hugh dancy #mads mikkelsen #hannibal lecter #will graham #eros the bittersweet #euripedes #greek tragedy #hannigram #hannibal x will #intertextuality

[apoemaday]

Little Things

by Sharon Olds

After she’s gone to camp, in the early evening I clear our girl’s breakfast dishes from the rosewood table, and find a dinky crystallized pool of maple syrup, the grains standing there, round, in the night, I rub it with my fingertip as if I could read it, this raised dot of amber sugar, and this time, when I think of my father, I wonder why I think of my father, of the Vulcan blood-red glass in his hand, or his black hair gleaming like a broken-open coal. I think I learned to love the little things about him because of all the big things I could not love, no one could, it would be wrong to. So when I fix on this image of resin or sweep together with the heel of my hand a pile of my son’s sunburn peels like insect wings, where I peeled his back the night before camp, I am doing something I learned early to do, I am paying attention to small beauties, whatever I have -- as if it were our duty to find things to love, to bind ourselves to this world.

#poetry #sharon olds #little things

[lifeinpoetry]

How sorely I wanted to be sane. What a life we are given! Sudden, and cold, with blood on it.

— Sharon Olds, from "Paper Doll Ballad, for Fats," Balladz

#quote #sharon olds #poetry #balladz #out of my collection #Paper Doll Ballad for Fats

[agelesswomen]

SHARON OLDS for The New York Times Magazine photographed by Ruven Afanador (2022)

#sharon olds #beauty #dailywomen #flawlessbeautyqueens