TERRIFIED CHILD

HORRIBLE BELLS CHIME/BUT IT IS STILL MUSIC ✶ 22 ✶ can be found lurking ✰here✰

[dognamedgrief]

I haven’t introduced myself properly on my main blog, so, here it is!

My name is Megan(she/her), I am 22 and this blog is dedicated to my adoration and admiration for poetry! I often only reblog my favorite excerpts on here, but I do post more about my interests and get more personal on my vampish side blog;

(check out @megofwands if interested! cw: mature themes.)

DNI: terfs, swerfs, transphobes, homophobes, misogynists, racists, ableists, generally horrible people, you get the idea.

[pmamtraveller]

Michael Malm, 'The Light is Coming'

[oldpaintings]

The Nun, c.1866 by William Quiller Orchardson (Scottish, 1832-1910)

[primulaceas]

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath; entry no. 104

[pollen]

Kaveh Akbar, from "Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Inpatient)”

[beguines]

Kaveh Akbar, from "Forfeiting My Mystique", Pilgrim Bell

[mournfulroses]

Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter featured in The Complete Poetry & Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

[signedthemoon]

— isa b. excerpt from my journal

[literaryvein]

L. V., life after the aftermath

[signedthemoon]

— isa b. it never came

[seraphinesaintclair]

“A Circle of Storms” by Seraphine Saintclair

[theoptia]

Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

[theoptia]

Clarice Lispector, from A Breath of Life

[mournfulroses]

Tove Ditlevsen, from a poem featured in There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems

[signedthemoon]

— isa b. was accepting absence ever enough?

[theoptia]

Clarice Lispector, from A Breath of Life

[brightdeadthing]

Come. And Be My Baby, Maya Angelou