[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

[anotherheartmurmur]

[mumintroll]

u survive literally every single event in your life & still every time a new event happens you feel like this is the event that will kill you and that you will never move on from but actually you will continue to survive like you always have bc u have a 100% win rate of surviving events. btw

[sofubis]

抱きしめ鯛 (kitan club)

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“I wish for a season that does not begin with quick tides of ache.”

— Meg Day, from “Last Psalm at Sea Level,” Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street Books, 2018)

[llleighsmith]

going for long walks while an album plays through feels good, so does walking along the river, waking up without looking at your phone first thing, keeping your water cool so you remember to drink it, taking it one step at a time, accepting things as they are, meditating, doing inner child work, having follow through, trying a new hobby and finding out it’s not for you, trying a new hobby and finding out you love it, skipping rocks, getting to know the flowers that grow in your neighborhood, healing so well that there’s a new you to learn to recognize

[narcoticvenus]

Homesickness

1. Louise Glück

2. Franz Kafka

3. limer3nce

4. Miriam Adeney

[sweatermuppet]

my favorite poetry books (free PDF or epub)

the complete maya angelou

don't call us dead by danez smith

all the flowers kneeling by paul tran

time is a mother by ocean vuong

madness by sam sax

mayakovsky's revolver by matthew dickman

soft science by franny choi

thief in the interior by phillip b williams

ariel by sylvia plath

calling a wolf a wolf by kaveh akbar

together and by ourselves by alex dimitrov

not here by hieu minh nguyen

brute by emily skaja

post colonial love poem by natalie diaz

unaccompanied by javier zamora

prelude to bruise by saeed jones

howl & other poems by allen ginsberg

the big book of exit strategies by jamaal may

look by solmaz sharif

the crown ain't worth much by hanif abdurraqib

eyes bottle dark with a mouthful of flowers by jake skeets

finna by nate marshall

autopsy by donte collins

a place called no homeland by kai cheng thom

lunch poems by frank o'hara

lessons on expulsion by erika l sanchez

the new testament by jericho brown

said the manic to the muse by jeanann verlee

space struck by paige lewis

safe houses i have known by steve healey

the wound is a world by billy-ray belcourt

nature poem by tommy pico

owed by josua bennett

felon by reginald dwayne betts

come on all you ghosts by matthew zapruder

bluets by maggie nelson

life of the poetry by olivia gatwood

perennial by kelly forsythe

contradictions in the design by matthew olzmann

the big smoke by adrian matejka

peluda by melissa lozada-oliva

american sonnets for my past & future assassins by terrance hayes

king me by roger reeves

in a dream you saw a way to survive by clementine von radics

[metamorphesque]

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

[highassi]

the introverted urge to find 1 person you feel comfortable with and do literally everything with them

[dark-sappho]

"defend your thesis" why are you attacking my thesis

[metamorphesque]

  ― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

[text ID: To love someone is firstly to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.]

[metamorphesque]

  ― Pablo Neruda, One Hundred Love Sonnets

[text ID: I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, / in secret, between the shadow and the soul.]

[colinarmistead]

toro doodles, he’s so fun to draw

[ashberrrry]

The hopeless romantic urge to look at the moon forever

[allthingseurope]

Lausanne, Switzerland (by matthieu valentin)

[luthienne]

Elena Ferrante, from Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein)

[Text ID: maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.]