nostalgic nights

dark academia ? poetry bi

[serenites]

richard siken / salma deera / jen mazza / joy ladin

[pristinemp4-deactivated20201230]

[ID: A compilation of texts and paintings.

Image 1: Text that reads “because you want to die for love, you always have.” Image 2: Text that reads “what was it like to love? oh, it was like burning. where did it burn? everywhere. it burned everywhere.” Image 3: A painting of a hand slightly twisted to the side. The hand is shown close-up and from the wrist down. It grasps tightly onto something and all the fingers are soaked in red. Image 4: Text that reads “but I never forget. I’ve engraved your name on the palms of my hands.”

End ID.]

[holycalf]

when fiona apple asked “how can i ask anyone to love me when all i do is beg to be left alone”. well i have not found an answer but if anyone else has lmk

[rubypomegranates]

“I was so scared of being hurt that I'd done nothing. I was so scared of failing, of being hurt, that I choose nothing. I did nothing."

Mieko Kawakami “All the Lovers in the Night”

[evilhipstervampire]

when mieko kawakami wrote—

“mottled with shadows, my face stared back at me with the most uncertain expression. if only those parted lips would tell me something, i knew that i would listen to them, whatever they might have to say, but no matter how i waited, no words came from anywhere.”

—in referral to gazing at yourself in the mirror, i had never felt more seen.

[uwillneverknowwho]

[zero drinks in on a Wednesday night] Do you think the shame and fear ever go away . Would yuo like to kill me

[ragesingoddess]

on tragic heroes and the people who'd follow them anywhere.

tumblr textpost// Anne Carson, An Oresteia// Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles// Victor Hugo, Les Miserables// William Shakespeare, Hamlet// Anne Carson, An Oresteia

[derangedrhythms]

I think she wants to eat me. I think she would inhale me if she could. I think she’d crawl herself inside of me if she thought that’s where she’d find something that I’ve kept hidden from her. God help me. Would I let her? I would let her. God help me she looks at me. God help me I don’t want her to look away.

Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

[weltenwellen]

I Do Know Some Things Richard Siken

[admitier]

[ID: A quote by Richard Siken.

It reads, "We rise into language for only so long before we fall back down into silence. It's a small window, the span of time in which we get to say what we know." End ID.]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Franz Kafka // Richard Siken

[lunamonchtuna]

— Richard Siken, I Had a Dream About You from Crush (via lunamonchtuna)

[habaebiti]

the way this is genuinely life changing stuff for me

[kommetz]

reading a textbook for class and i’m going insane. why is this just poetry. what. this is a STEM class what’s going on.

[kommetz]

HELLO????? HELLO?????

[dancingthroughourlifes]

What do you like ?

Like ? I don’t think I like anything.

Not really.

But love?

There are many things i love. And if I don’t love them

…

Well then I have to force myself to think about them. Remind myself to think about them.

It’s a curse I’ve been born with.

Everything that I don’t love seems like a task,

a chore,

a duty.

[poempoetryandmore]

i think i‘ll always love you

even if its just a little bit

ten years from now a piece of my heart will still beat for you

maybe its the curiosity of ,what if‘

or maybe its the emptiness speaking

but nomatter why,

i‘ll always love you

[mistressaccost]

Helena Eagan + Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

[softhe4rted]

self-compassion: an antidote to shame mb

[lucidloving]

Fleabag (2016) // @symbiocene // Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts // Nikki Giovanni, Mirrors // cave painting // 肉包不吃肉, The Husky and His White Cat Shizun // thethingswesay.com // Brian Kershiznik // Neal A. Maxwell // Audre Lorde, "Equinox"