akleyiahar

writer, poet, learning to love life, taking you with me

[akleyiaha]

—an excerpt from ‘Early Lessons’ by Akleyiaha Renaud

[mournfulroses]

Trista Mateer, from "Aphrodite Made Me Do It," originally published in 2024

[feral-ballad]

Kim Addonizio, from Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; “You Were”

[shisasan]

August 13, 1926 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

[metamorphesque]

musings on July

"NW" Zadie Smith, "the Hands of Friendship" in Yerevan (@metamorphesque). "Jane Eyre" Charlotte Brontë (@flowerytale), Franz Kafka’s Diaries (@hungryfictions), "Summer night by the beach" Edvard Munch, "A Magic Mountain" Czeslaw Milosz (tr by Czeslaw Milosz and Lillian Vallee), "Answer July" Emily Dickinson, "Four Sunflowers Gone to Seed" Vincent van Gogh, The Diaries of Franz Kafka (@shisasan)

[cottaegecore]

- Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka

[stay-close]

“With every act of self care your authentic self gets stronger, and the critical, fearful mind gets weaker. Every act of self care is a powerful declaration: I am on my side; each day I am more and more on my side.”

— Susan Weiss Berry

[maybe-itsforthebest]

- j (x)

[soracities]

Theodore Roethke, from "Love's Progress", The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]

[havingapoemwithyou]

on earth by Franz Wright

[perfectfeelings]

“You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.”

— Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

[perfectquote]

“I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”

— Andy Warhol

[akleyiaha]

I learnt that I’ve been giving my power away. When I run myself thin for things that do not serve me. When I look outward for answers, doubting the validity of what’s within.

akleyiahar

[brok3np4radise-deactivated20250]

You cannot make everyone think and feel as deeply as you do. This is your tragedy … because you understand them, and they do not understand you.

Daniel Saint

[louisegluck]

Anne Carson, from Red Doc> [ID in alt text]

[fatimazainab]

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath