memento vivere

[buttonpoetry]

The words ‘I am’ are slowly transforming into ‘I used to be’ because every year, the past tense finds a larger house inside the neighborhood of my everyday vernacular.

Rudy Francisco, “Ouch” (via buttonpoetry)

[buttonpoetry]

If you’ve never had a panic attack, there’s a good chance you’ve been an ass to someone who has.

Andrea Gibson, “Ode to the Public Panic Attack” (via buttonpoetry)

[buttonpoetry]

We are only here today not because what does not kill us makes us stronger, but because what does not kill us does not kill us.

Sam Sax, “Miracles" (via buttonpoetry)

[buttonpoetry]

There is no blame here. None of us have ever been loved right.

Cecily Schuler, “Close Enough” (via buttonpoetry)

[aikaleegrave]

[bracketed = from translation by anne carson] // expansions on sappho’s fragments

[r-siken-deactivated20210531]

i had a dream about you, richard siken

[buttonpoetry]

You want to grab the past and tear it from your body even if it takes your organs with it.

Andrea Gibson, from Lord of the Butterflies (via buttonpoetry)

[buttonpoetry]

I say I matter and a ghost white hand appears over my mouth.

Donte Collins, from Autopsy (via buttonpoetry)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Gentleness is so important. Gentleness of the heart. Gentleness of the spirit. Gentleness in one’s aura. Gentleness in one’s own motivations and actions. Gentleness that is both embodied and practiced.

[mashamorevna]

“Nothing’s worse than saying goodbye. It’s a little like dying.”

— Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis (via soracities)

[tofuvi]

ascending by aurora.

[buttonpoetry]

I got a mason jar full of water lilies and a kettle full of sea, and my whole life is a boomerang valentine coming right back at me.

Andrea Gibson, from Lord of the Butterflies  (via buttonpoetry)

[sosuperawesome]

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[buttonpoetry]

Imagine, when a human dies, the soul misses the body, actually grieves the loss of its hands and all they could hold.

Andrea Gibson, from Lord of the Butterflies  (via buttonpoetry)

[atavus-blog]

Geraldine Pilgrim - Dreams of a Winter Night

Photographed by Susan McKeon.

[lifeinpoetry]

i killed a plant once because i gave it too much water. lord, i worry that love is violence.

— José Olivarez, from “Getting Ready to Say I Love You to My Dad, It Rains,” Citizen Illegal

[ghostboicam]

me: fuck me up. just do it. work for your money.

therapist: everything [redacted] said about you became a core belief you hold about who you are as a human being

me: ...shit.