a little romance of my own

in the heavy heat I ask myself, how could we go wrong with loving?

[thehauntedself]

Christine Garren, “First Love,” Among the Monarchs

Text ID: I took everything off. Sometime in February. For him. For myself. / Snow was on the cement border around the pool / and on the tennis court that was one caged square of dust. / But he, he was like a dense jetty / with a silver east wall of air. Then, he was like / a concussion that I woke up from / but woke up differently. Smaller, a little ruined. For years / unable to speak.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Mary Lambert, Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across

[seekingstars]

Søren Kierkegaard

[fairiesandstarlight]

if skinny jeans come back im done

[weltenwellen]

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “Of Love”, Red Bird

[feelingsoftheday]

The streets not for me I like to be in love real bad

[fairiesandstarlight]

[castrotophic]

not sure if anyone is interested in this but here is a list of the most joyfully vital poems I know :)

You're the Top by Ellen Bass

Grand Fugue by Peter E. Murphy

Our Beautiful Life When It's Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro

Everything Is Waiting For You by David Whyte

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Is Alive! by Emily Sernaker

Instructions for Assembling the Miracle by Peter Cooley

Barton Springs by Tony Hoagland

Footnote to Howl by Allen Ginsberg

Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman

Tomorrow, No, Tomorrower by Bradley Trumpfheller

At Last the New Arriving by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

To a Self-Proclaimed Manic Depressive Ex-Stripper Poet, After a Reading by Jeannine Hall Gailey

In the Presence of Absence by Richard Widerkehr

Chillary Clinton Said 'We Have to Bring Them to Heal' by Cortney Lamar Charleston

Midsummer by Charles Simic

Today by Frank O'Hara

Naturally by Stephen Dunn

Life is Slightly Different Than You Think It Is by Arthur Vogelsang

Ode to My Husband, Who Brings the Music by Zeina Hashem Beck

The Imaginal Stage by D.A. Powell

Lucky Life by Gerald Stern

Beginner's Lesson by Malcolm Alexander

Presidential Poetry Briefing by Albert Haley

A Poem for Uncertainties by Mark Terrill

On Coming Home by Lisa Summe

G-9 by Tim Dlugos

Five Haiku by Billy Collins

The Fates by David Kirby

Upon Receiving My Inheritance by William Fargason

Variation on a Theme by W. S. Merwin

Easy as Falling Down Stairs by Dean Young

Psalm 150 by Jericho Brown

Pantoum for Sabbouha by Zeina Hashem Beck

ASMR by Corey Van Landingham

A Welcome by Joanna Klink

From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee

At Church, I Tell My Mom She’s Singing Off-Key and She Says, by Michael Frazier

[waitingforthesunrise]

— when i am old I’ll remember this as the spring i fell in love with breathing, and i’ll never forget

[weltenwellen]

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to Benvenuta

[fairiesandstarlight]

[atthebell-moved]

the lack of a pomegranate emoji speaks volumes

[weltenwellen]

Leila Chatti, from "Postcard from Gone"

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

[fairiesandstarlight]

[firstfullmoon]

when susan sontag wrote “I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it”

[kosmogrl]

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