The Neoterist

Undisciplined poets welcome. 

[beautyandtheuniverse]

[staff]

Two icons were lost this week to suicide, but their contributions to the world will never be forgotten. Kate Spade made the fashionably unattainable attainable and @anthonybourdain’s exploration of culture through food opened our eyes to the world. Both will be sorely missed.

Remember, no matter what you are going through, you don’t have to go through it alone. There are resources available to help you.

Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you need it, Tumblr.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: Available 24/7 at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

NAMI (@namiorg): Dedicated to improving the lives of anyone living with mental illness. Free to chat at 1-800-950-6264. Free support 24/7 Text NAMI to 741741

The Trevor Project (@thetrevorproject): Confidential suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ young people. Available 24/7 at 1-866-488-7386.

[neoterist]

Everyone is mad already. . . It is merely that the times have brought it out in them.

Cardrach in The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams

[neoterist]

Victor Hugo, “Vianden Fortress and Castle in the Moonlight” (1871)

Read more about the forgotten art of the author who wrote Les Miserables on 1843. 

[neoterist]

“Flock of birds hovering above, just a flock of birds; that's how you think of love.   And I always look up to the sky, pray before the dawn cause they fly always. Sometimes they arrive. Sometimes they are gone.”

[sarahmariepardy-deactivated2018]

2018 Poetry Blog Train!

Eh! It’s time for the 2018 Poetry Blog Train! If you’re a blog that shares or reblogs poetry, give this post a like and check out the notes to find other writers! This is a way for us writers to find each other, because sometimes the tumblr tags don’t work very well ;)

To keep the train alive, give this post a reblog so more writers can see it and share it!

[neoterist]

Hit me up, y’all.

[neoterist]

"So I guess I'll go home Into the arms of the girl that I love The only love I haven't screwed up She's so hard to please But she's a forest fire I do my best to meet her demands Play at romance, we slow dance In the living room, but all that a stranger would see Is one girl swaying alone Stroking her cheek They say, "You're a little much for me You're a liability You're a little much for me" So they pull back, make other plans I understand, I'm a liability Get you wild, make you leave I'm a little much for E-a-na-na-na, everyone The truth is I am a toy that people enjoy 'Til all of the tricks don't work anymore"

[neoterist]

Follow me on Instagram @vain_glories :)

[lsleofskye]

Pragser Wildsee | aronsche

[freeselfdefense]

Rape Escape

Easy and very effective

Requires nothing but your body

Includes attack

[kny111]

Very useful to know, pass and share please.

[blog-archive-111189]

Worth watching

[heylookitseli-archives]

I don’t mean to impose a personal favour on you guys, but I really would like to ask that everyone who follows me reblog this. 

I don’t think I made it very clear but last month I was sexually assaulted by someone who I thought was my friend (I don’t want to talk about it don’t ask), and it’s… really fucked with my head. 

Had I known this a month ago I would have been able to get away. 

So, essentially, I’m really pleading with you to reblog this so everyone who follows you doesn’t get stuck in the same position I was with no way out. 

I mean again I don’t want the point of this to be my sob story or whatever but if you could reblog this it would seriously mean a lot 

[leo-bish]

and im asking to all of my followers who see this post in your dashboard to please press play to this video, you never know when this is gonna be

useful, PLEASE DON’T IGNORE IT.

[appropriately-inappropriate]

This is one of the first moves I was taught in Krav Maga, and it is one of the most effective.

It took me about a half hour to get down with practice, but once you get it, it’s an intuitive movement.

Please pass this along, it will save lives.

[sprouting-colours-deactivated20]

Important

[hayei]

Please reblog this.

[madiithepand0rk-blog]

Please, if you see this, Reblog it. 

[nailtipflips]

If you see this, reblog please.

[sigilcrafter]

not witchy but definitely worth watching, stay safe

[doctorstrangeaskblog]

REBLOGGINGGG

[hanatamagosgooglehistory-blog]

please reblog!

[pinkforesttrail-deactivated2023]

Watched it and comitted it to memory, and I suggest you watch and learn as well as reblogging it for any person on your blog to watch and so on.

[neoterist]

Follow me on Instagram @vain_glories :)

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[neoterist]

Circular Logic

Imagine, a great black sphere surrounds us

and outside it, a light that would blind us

and pinpricks in the sphere. Let’s call them stars.

Or maybe, imagine that the universe loves symmetry,

and remember that the only perfect symmetry is a globe

and know, in a moment of epiphany, that our earth and sun and stars,

all that is best and bright, from which all the good in our lives flows,

circles a singular, spherical obsession.

What does our smallness mean

as we flicker to life, then disburse into darkness

our minds sending waves of awareness into a black void

large enough to catch them and endless enough to ensure

that they fly in an arch, never colliding with any thing.

And we are perfect for this place,

peculiar and self-destructive, our thoughts

orbiting around truths we never reach the center of.

[neoterist]

Datr, even when i swipe right i’m wrong

Every morning ends the same:

Another load of laundry,

Vague shame.

Hand me my phone

Swipe the pain away

Messages, left at the tone

Fall on deaf ears.

Texts only, please.

Sexts, if you must. Polite digital leers.

Track my crowd-sourced dramedy with an age old song:

I don’t know what I want.

Everyone I’ve tried is wrong.

Another couple trips to the clinic.

We’re all sick, these days,

With inauthenticity, a generation of mimics.

We ride recklessly, protected by layers of latex.

We connect endlessly, isolated by insecurity.

We share prolifically, hidden in a webbed vortex.

We are loud.

No one hears

The cacophony, its senseless sound

Echoing down through the software of yet unwritten ages.

Will my granddaughter take a journey with Miss Frizzle on the Wayback Machine?

See my swipes, read this poem, my life as a reviewable web history on a scrolling page.

Or all of it, and me, left suspended on an old cloud drive,

Not quite real, a dream in an AI’s cortex,

As someone, something, no longer quite alive.

[f-u-g-i-t-i-v-o]

[aseaofquotes]

Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

[neoterist]

"Why we fight to get on loving I've been wondering How your mind will leave you hanging your heart lingering Stay lost Then found by whoever stays around, forgetting There is a way to be yourself, I assure you this There's a way to catch your dreams without falling asleep You might as well get it while you can, babe 'Cause you know you ain't getting any Younger, younger, younger, are you?"