[exhaustedwerewolf]

this is so rogue but does anyone have the poetry template that went semi-viral on twitter a while back? it was designed for kids but someone gave it to their mother who has dementia and she wrote a really moving poem about her experience.

[exhaustedwerewolf]

the minute I posted this I remembered enough of the prompt itself to find it and now I’m trying not to cry at work

on a totally different note is this response from a kid, which is also beautiful and imo no less profound. and shows how the prompt can be interpreted so differently.

[youwrotethisforme]

TEMPLATE:

My name is ...

Today I feel like ...*

Sometimes I am ...

And sometimes I am ...

But always I am ...

I ask the world, "...

And the answer is ... (repeat * words)

[lifeinpoetry]

I can’t undo all I have done to myself, what I have let an appetite for love do to me.

I have wanted all the world, its beauties and its injuries; some days, I think that is punishment enough.

— Maya C. Popa, from "Dear Life," Wound Is the Origin of Wonder

[oresti-s]

Bright Dead Things, Ada Limón.

[oresti-s]

Bright Dead Things, Ada Limón.

[oresti-s]

The Nightfields, The Devotions, Joanna Klink.

[oresti-s]

Don't Call Us Dead, Bare, Danez Smith.

[oresti-s]

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenides, Aeschylus, tr. and foreword by Robert Fagles.

[oresti-s]

Erotism: Death and Sensuality, Georges Bataille.

[gaysie]

headline from the nature briefing today / Map of the World, seperis

[oresti-s]

Don't Call Us Dead, 1 in 2, Danez Smith.

[primulaceas]

Mary Oliver, “1945–1985: Poem For The Anniversary.” Dream Work

[funeral]

Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

[lifeinpoetry]

I hope you won’t need pills like I do. I think I get so scared because I’m greedy — I want to hold onto everything, the world wants to take it away.

— Mikko Harvey, from "For M," Let the World Have You

[stlowens]

Anne Carson, from Autobiography of Red

[oresti-s]

Grief Lessons: four plays by Euripides, tr. Anne Carson.

[geryone]

Good Girl and Other Yearnings, Isabelle Correa

[aridante]

Jean Anouilh (trans. Lewis Galantière), Antigone