Honey From Our Mouths

Bee 🐝, she/they, poetry side blog, the heart is a foreign country whose language none of us is good at (Jack Gilbert)

[greatestlittlegiant]

always thinking of that “i couldn’t stop wasting time” quote

[greatestlittlegiant]

song of the summer!!

[opossum-handz]

[wovi]

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jennifer willoughby, the sun is still a part of me

[beguines]

Leila Chatti, "Postcard from Gone"

[goldentangerines]

[ID: black serif font on white background, 18 short verses in 6 stanzas, reading:

When you left I walked / into the ocean. Not to / drown but to be held

by something / reluctant / to let go. Don't

make this bigger / than it is, which is big / enough to swallow

whales / and civilizations. / I joined

the blue, I was blue. / And when I looked / down, I shattered

and reformed / so many times, you know, I couldn't catch / a clear look at myself.

End ID.]

[firstfullmoon]

Ada Limón, from “The Hurting Kind,” in The Hurting Kind

[text ID: Before my grandfather died, I asked him what sort / of horse he had growing up. He said, / Just a horse. My horse, with such a tenderness it / rubbed the bones in the ribs all wrong. / I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers. / I am the hurting kind. I keep searching for proof.]

[intezaarlily]

the ache of nostalgia

[weltenwellen]

AE HEE LEE, from "Prelude"

[fearlastyear]

Henrietta Goodman, “Descent”

[kafk-a]

[orpheuslament]

is anyone else disgusted by the enormity of their desire or is it just me & richard siken

[how-to-devour-life]

This is me if you even care (not my original quote)

[deadpoetsmusings]

Has Self-Awareness Gone Too Far in Fiction? by Katy Waldman / Daniel Sloss: X /  Has Self-Awareness Gone Too Far in Fiction? by Katy Waldman / Bo Burnham: Inside

[saltair-and-webweaves]

Who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me?

you say you don’t want a boyfriend, but you know that’s not true - Charlotte Green/the voice - Anaïs Nin/the unabridged journals of Sylvia Plath - Sylvia Plath/tolerate it - Taylor Swift/the unabridged journals of sylvia plath - Sylvia Plath/the unexpurgated diary of anaïs nin - Anaïs Nin/ @treebloods/@lovebeing-a-girl/@ sanwtch on instagram/ @onlyanothermundane/@tullispink/I am an observer, but not by choice - @fatimaamerbilal/the prophecy - Taylor Swift/criss cross - Lynne Rae Perkins/Vladimir Mayakovsky in a letter to Lili Brik/what I could never confess without some bravado - Emily Palermo/little weirds - Jenny Slate

requested here

[darktalewhisperer]

Cathy Linh Che, from Go Forget your father//Friedrich Nietzsche// Richey Edwards// // Moss Angel, Girldirt Angelfog// Rainer Maria Rilke, Fragment of an Elegy,// Leila Miccolis, till death do us part.

[aleydal-deactivated20240727]

“You come to me at night, and walk through my dreams as if they belong to you.

They do.”

William C. Hannan

[broken-academia]

i read CS Lewis’ A Grief Observed one time years ago and i’m still not recovered from it

[broken-academia]

— A Grief Observed: part i-ii, C.S. Lewis x

[weltenwellen]

Devin Kelly, from "How to Drown"

[boykeats]

[ID: excerpt from a poem reading,

"(No one ever told me it would be like this, that the past could scream past until it inhabits a kind of present, the way the word weight holds the sound of wait until what you feel becomes a softened mantra binding you to night.)"

/end ID]

[lena-oleanderson]

love & friendship - collected writings from side wounds and other poems