Destructive Poetry

A blog about all things poetic and disturbing to the mind...

[ailbey]

[soracities]

("I exist in two places: here and where you are")

Suzanne Buffam, "Vanishing Interior"

Sufjan Stevens, "The Only Thing"

Rene Ricard, "And Then I Tried"

[soracities]

W.S. Merwin, "Separation"

Etel Adnan, "Five Sense for One Death"

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Paul Guest, from “1987.”

[cirkinkadininutopyasi]

[thehopefulquotes]

“This year taught me that my loneliness has more to do with myself than anyone else. The loneliest I will ever be is when I do not have the strength to love myself.”

— Marianna Paige

[odessas-odysseys]

I wish you could feel the hole you left in my heart. It's been so hard to fill the space your absence made.

[soracities]

“There’s something inside of me that hurts. Oh, how it hurts and how it screams for help. But tears aren’t there in the machine that is me. I’m an object without a destiny. I’m an object in whose hands? such is my human destiny. What saves me is the scream.”

— Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

[thoughtkick]

“May flowers grow in the saddest parts of you.”

— Zainab Aamir

[thehopefulquotes]

“I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else, waiting to be that person I always thought I was on the verge of becoming, waiting for that life I thought I would have. In my head, I was always one step away.”

— Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines (via thebookquotes)

[shisasan]

𝙽𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟷 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶 -𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

[sioltach]

Katie Kacvinsky, “First Comes Love”

[thehopefulquotes]

“For some moments in life there are simply no words to describe the pain within us.”

— Narin Grewal

[intactics-deactivated20211231]

I am asking you to endure it.

[intactics-deactivated20211231]

a lot of Gregory Berrycones in the notes missing the reference to my twelve note magnum opus from several hours prior in which the narrator silently begs an entity that isn't really God for death and the entity says no

[intactics-deactivated20211231]

the narrator is operating under the constraint that they can only use words "god" has already spoken, "god" is aware of this and says the 'Time flies' sentence on purpose in order to give the narrator the pieces they need to voice their complaint; "god" has constant access to the narrator's thoughts, and answers them as though they're having a conversation between equals, but clearly absolutely dictates the terms under which the narrator can speak. it becomes obvious as the scene continues that the narrator is silently screaming and that the request being denied may be a request for death, but is at minimum a request for some acute suffering to be stopped

this could be an interaction between a normal person and an evil telepath with some mind control ability pretending to be the voice of a benevolent god. or it could work as a demon lord speaking to a soul they've trapped in a mirror and keep at their side. or it could be an actual god trying to calm down their only believer because they're trapped in the same prison. the concept amused me so kindly forgive the ugliness of the execution

[zindabad]

you are asking me to endure it

[thebookquotes]

“People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering…”

— Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

[tristealven]

“i’m going to dream about another city inside us where our past blows between buildings in scraps of old newspaper and we jump from rooftop to rooftop like clouds pretending that anything could get in our way. you’re going to love yourself and i’m going to love myself and we will be the endlessness of two mirrors facing one another.”

—

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, from I’m Alive. It Hurts. I Love It.

(via bostonpoetryslam)

[heavensghost]

[thoughtkick]

“I loved you in a way I wished someone would love me.”

— Mahmdou Darwish