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lucidloving · 1 month

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Girlpool—Before the World Was Big // memorial bench quoting Toni Morrison's Sula // @inanotherunivrse // Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You // Zadie Smith, Swing Time // Fall Out Boy—The Kids Aren't Alright // Audrey Emmett // Mikko Harvey, "For M" // Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi) // Langston Hughes, "Poem"

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lithium-poet · 1 month

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Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath // Lana Del Rey, hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it

𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒, 𝒶𝓇𝒶𝒷𝑒𝓁𝓁𝒶

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lxvenderjewel · 3 months

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stars

why do you look at me like i hung the stars?

it’s much more likely that it was you

sparkling even in smothering dark

even i could shine if i was next to you

we’re like the moon and sun

i’m only there because you are too

but you don’t need me to be yourself

and when i’m the moon, i rarely get to see you

we’re like light and a black hole

you glow in so many shades of blue

but of course, i suck it all up

and leave you without a clue

why do you look at me like i hung the stars?

don’t you know i hung them for you?

#good omens #anthony j crowley #aziracrow #poetry #do i even write about anythng else #vanny writes poems and songs for her own enjoyment #stars #moon #sun #space #my teacher read this one out loud today #i almost died of embarrassment #like 😭😭😭

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soracities · 11 months

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Summer arrives in a strawberry, sweet, juicy. As long as you feel its flesh on your tongue you’re unaware how. One minute inches into the next. But how could you observe awareness anyway? Or, for that matter, a thought? It grows in you, not as a sensation. (Nor like a baby or tumor.) An experience that you can’t hold on to. Any more than to the smell of lilac. Though it soothes emptiness.

Rosmarie Waldrop, from “Asymmetry (2)”, The Nick of Time: Poems

#q #lit #quotes #summer #poetry #rosmarie waldrop #asymmetry #the nick of time #glimpses #sing me a song of summer #life everlasting #reading #contemporary lit #m #x

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nighttime-thoughts · 2 months

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At least in this universe for a time, you were mine.

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torsamors · 9 days

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On Seatbelts and Sunsets - Hanif Abdurraqib

#hanif abdurraqib #julien baker #<- kinda #words #poetry #read this last night and cried the whole time <3 hanif youve done it again #but seriously i was thinking abt that exact julien baker song yesterday n listening to it when i came across this piece he wrote #around that very song....#anyway ms julien mr hanif thanks for writing those respectively but also maybe. be quiet #also i do feel a bit bad abt posting this part of it bc i think the full read that leads up to this makes it more beautiful #but well.

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sun1seeker · 2 years

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no fandom does band AUs better than the marauders fandom trust me on this one

#their entire dynamic is set up so perfectly for band AUs #like teenagers in the 70s???#yes #4 boys in a dorm room??#that’s the perfect number for a band #sirius mf black #that man just looks like he would be a guitarist like come on #all that poetry remus reads??#try and tell me he wouldn’t be amazing at writing songs #you can’t #sorry #argue with the wall #marauders #marauders fandom #band AU #wolfstar #jegulus

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the-ghost-king · 4 months

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Of Tender Death and Perpetual Care

markus zusak, the book thief // tweet by @petfurniture // gustav klimt, mother and child // jk. rowling, harry potter and the deathy hallows // andrew wyeth, perpetual care // ocean vuong, on earth we're briefly gorgeous // oscar wilde, the canterville ghost // henry scott holland, death the king of terrors // markus zusak, the book thief // hugo simberg, the garden of death // markus zusak, the book thief

#web weaving #paralells #death cw #death #dying #markus zusak #gustav klimt #harry potter #(sorry about that one)#andrew wyeth #ocean vuong #henry scott holland #hugo simberg #poetry #ive been so indecisive to this piece i kept trying to add a hozier song and i am just going to call it finished and post it <3 #there are things i should definitely fix that i am just going to leave and we are all going to be okay with it #like me just having a good reads screenshot lol

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imbleedingink-blog · 10 months

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a dark academia reading list

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Plays of Oscar Wilde

Gentlemen & Players by Joanne Harris

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Enola Holmes Books by Nancy Springer

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Circe by Madeline Miller

Mythology by Edith Hamilton

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries by Arthur Conan Doyle

People Like Us by Dana Moyle

The Ivies by Alexa Donne

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

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chickenstrangers · 8 months

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ONLY FRIENDS | EPISODE 4

YOUR EMERGENCY CONTACT HAS EXPERIENCED AN EMERGENCY by CHEN CHEN (2022)

#made this purely because i started reading Your Emergency Contact yesterday morning while waiting for only friends #and so part of me feels I predicted the episode title #book review so far really enjoying this very honest personal poetry collection about his experience as a queer asian american #and tackling themes of grief and immigration and decolonizing poetry as a field #it is stuck in my head like a song so needed to gif #but anyway really loved this episode and how firmly mew was setting up boundaries #i continue to be fascinated by mew #ofts #onlyfriendsedit #*mine #*mygifs

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lucidloving · 7 months

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Joan Didion, "On Keeping a Notebook" // Last Words of a Shooting Star— Mitski // Richard Siken, "Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light" // Julian Randall, "On the Night I Consider Coming Out to My Parents" // Helena Bonham Carter // @heavensghost

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the-eclectic-wonderer · 10 months

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I’ve been exposed to waaaay too much taylor swift lately, so I went for a walk on the anti tag to cleanse my mind. I’ve seen a lot of commentary about her racism / privilege / climate crimes etc, which is all extremely important ofc, but also, like…

She’s boring. SO boring. The music, the lyrics, the ideas, everything, it’s just the most basic stuff you can imagine, just beige all around.

I get being basic but, like… at least Starbucks drinks have some semblance of taste.

#like girl please #‘she’s the best lyricist of our time’ GIRL #i am BEGGING swifties to listen to other stuff because this ain’t it girlies!!!#like. i get loving basic songs. i am also an enjoyer of basic pop music. it’s made to resonate with people #that’s why it’s pop!#but you also don’t see me arguing that Coldplay are amazing lyricists!!!!!!!#please listen to other stuff. read poetry. read a book. and stop telling me about that monster/baby lyrics it’s literally the most boring #thing I’ve ever heard please god #anti taylor swift

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vilebird · 2 months

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YOU MAY HATE ME, BUT I CAN'T HATE YOU

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soracities · 1 year

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we carry this world with us wherever we go, Even into the next one

Charles Wright, from “December Journal”, The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990

#q #lit #quotes #poetry #charles wright #december journal #the world of the ten thousand things #a song for the divine #reading #m #x

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narashikamaru15 · 21 days

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I hate you

I hate you for making me feel

I hate you for making me wanting to be close to you

I hate you for taking care of me

I hate it when your eyes go soft when they see me

I hate our eye contacts

I hate you when you kiss me softly

I hate that staying in your arms gives me peace

I hate it when you hold me close

I hate it more when you don't hold me close

I hate it that I have to see you for another three years

because I know I will not find anyone else when you are in front of me everyday

there will be no one else better compared to you

I hate it that everyday I want to kiss you

I hate it when you give me forehead kiss

I hate this feeling of having to hold you close and never to let go

I hate it when I don't return your eye contact

I hate it when i don't look at you

I hate it when you listen to me

and

I hate it so much when you don't listen to me

I hate your arms so much

I miss sleeping on them

I hate it when I go to sleep I think of you

I hate it when I wake up I think you

I hate that thinking about you makes me cry

and I hate it more when thinking about you makes me happy

I hate you so much when you make me smile

I hate it when I talk to you

and I hate it more when i don't talk to you

I hate it when I miss the little things that we used to do

cheek kisses

hand holding

you keeping your hands on my waist

laughing together

me keeping my leg on your leg

your hand on my cheek

I hate it when I do something for you because it makes me happy

I hate you for doing everything right

I hate that I cannot be mad at you

I hate you so much for not staying

for doing this one thing that I was most afraid of

I hate you for making me suffer everyday

I hate it when i don't see you for days and it makes me anxious

I hate this gut feeling telling me everyday not to give up on you

I hate you for making me fall in love with you

oh how I wish I could hate you

but I know

I never would

never could

not even a little bit

RS<3

listen to these songs after reading

hope you will like them

RS<3

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sweatermuppet · 2 years

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[Text ID: Andrew Kozma.

Song of the insensible.

The world is an oyster, and I'm the grit. These are the boots my brother died in.

This city is a tongue, and I'm the bad taste. I'm the cicada inside the jaundiced pre-storm light.

Hello? You sent this to the wrong address. My brother is still alive. Still dead. Was brought back

with a lazarus shot and a slap to the face. I am the leaf litter, the headless roach.

I can walk between raindrops. I can be insensible. When visibility's poor, I am the blur on the horizon.

If my brother's dead, I am not alive. If I'm alive, my brother can't be dead.

No one owns the boots. The boots own no one. /End ID]

published in issue 72 of rogue agent journal

#close friends already saw this on ig but figured it should be shared for real #andrew kozma #poetry #song of the insensible #currently reading #(sort of fits that tag)#ID included

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