mutual okay-ness

this is a collection of poems and short writings that I and others have created

[thehopefulquotes]

“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”

— Eckhart Tolle

[feral-ballad]

Nayyirah Waheed, from Nejma

[Text ID: “here is my heart to place under yours.”]

[feral-ballad]

Ntozake Shange, from For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

[Text ID: “i found god in myself / & i loved her/ i loved her fiercely”]

[feral-ballad]

When I looked at her I wanted both to touch her and watch her from a distance, to hold her and hide from her, to kiss her and ask her to forgive me—

Amal El-Mohtar, from The Honey Month; “Day 1: Fireweed Honey”

[feral-ballad]

You were suspicious of their feelings because you had no reason to love yourself—not your body, not your mind. You rejected so much gentleness. What were you looking for?

Carmen Maria Machado, from In the Dream House: A Memoir

[remanence-of-love]

[perrfectly]

“Sometimes people come into your life and you are never the same. Whether they stay or not. Love is not about staying. Sometimes it’s about walking away. Sometimes it is knowing the absolute best for a person, an individual, and knowing where they need to grow. This world is gigantic and breathless, and far too often we box ourselves in, suffocate ourselves by not wandering and not seeing all the truth and beauty in different dimensions, different plains, countries, people. I think once you find yourself, and you must, you then are ready, a perfumed, blossomed heart, for love.”

— (via crax)

[thebookquotes]

It is better to lose someone with your entire self than to hold on to him with just a fraction of yourself.

— Marina Tsvetaeva, Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922

[tylerknott]

For months, I feel like I have done nothing but watch the time pass, watch the day turn into another that looks precisely like the one before it. Still I’ll seek. Still I’ll hope.

Morning and soft light,

wind still slow and wandering.

I will rise and search.

— Haiku on Life by Tyler Knott Gregson

[weed-and-poetry]

[thehopefulquotes]

In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.

— Haruki Murakami, After Dark

[stay-close]

I think you lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you're living a different kind of life there. In a world inside you.

— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

[scholasticbabe]

“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done”

— Thomas Jefferson 

[distancebetweenpages]

[alicenotley]

“…the moon is hanging over the earth, meaningless but full of messages. It’s dead, it’s always been dead, but it pretends to be something else, burning like a star, and convincingly, so that you feel sometimes it could actually make something grow on earth. If there’s an image of the soul, I think that’s what it is.”

— Louise Glück, from A Village Life (via 89words)

[coral]

“Real relationship goal is trusting and understanding your partner”

— (via ignorance)

[juansendizon]