Humble_Luminary

[georgianadesign]

[heteroglossia]

“I can’t tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other. The reason I can’t tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognized by burning.”

— A.R. Ammons, “A Poem is a Walk”

[overclassy]

[niebowplucach]

ocean vuong you're the only one writer ever

[larapaulussen]

[overclassy]

[signedthemoon]

— isa b. this survival hasn't been soft

[loubis-and-champagne]

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[firstfullmoon]

hi!! if you could only read 10 poems again, which would those poems be? I just went through all of my collected poetry and created a top 10 list of poems that mean the most to me, and i thought it was a really fun and challenging exercise! i'm curious if we have any poems in common <3

OUGH. okay hardest question ever. keeping in mind those would be the only 10 poems I could ever read, I picked ones that are seminal to me & my relationship with poetry

“The Same City” by Terrance Hayes

“Magdalene—The Seven Devils” by Marie Howe

“October” by Louise Glück

“Having a Coke with You” by Frank O’Hara

“Intifada Incantation: Poem #8 for b.b.L.” by June Jordan

“[I aborted two daughters]” by Diane Seuss

“Snow and Dirty Rain” by Richard Siken

“Late Poem to My Father” by Sharon Olds

“The Colonel” by Carolyn Forché

“Turtle, Swan” by Mark Doty

[ruthiepenn]

Thanks @_ibatullin_ildar_.

[icaseybaybee]

[phuckindope]

♡.

[aestum]

(by bellamiebels)

[04k96]

[petaltexturedskies]

Janet Fitch, White Oleander

[tsunflowers]

when I see something dated 2019 I think “oh that’s not too long ago” and then I remember that 2019 was not only five years ago but those five years have somehow contained several lifetimes

[soracities]

Theodore Roethke, from "The Dream", The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]

[amilkyway]

I think about how hayao miyazaki said that love is two people inspiring each other to live. and to live doesn’t just mean to be alive. living involves finding beauty in the simple moments of being. so to inspire someone to be in awe of the simplicity of living? that’s special

[redrola]

Amalfi Coast