[soracities]

I looked at my mother because I was a version of my mother. I looked away from my mother because I was a version of my mother. I was me, but I was also her—my mother, and I understood this all too well.

— Nora Lange, "Dog Star", pub. The Rupture (#120)

[a-a19]

أما الآن فإنَّي أجهلك، كل الذي أعرفه أنه كان لك وجه قبل هذا.. وكان يعرفني ويُحبّني.

[ahmed33k]

[الأرض المنخفضة - جومبا لاهيري]

[as-maa]

"نعانق أنفسنا ونجلس في الأركان حتى نُشفى"

[core-bands]

If I could turn back time would you still be there?

Of Mice & Men — Would you still be there.

[abalsh]

"مرة واحدة في العمر يندفع المرء بغزارة، من بعدها يُصاب بالبرود نحو كل شيء وللأبد"

‏— محمود درويش.*

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

From Two poems by Mahmoud Darwish

[arylleth]

i have a longing that's killing me.

mahmoud darwish, memory for forgetfulness

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice.’

[text id: my fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase. / i am always ready to leave. / there is not a single room in this world where i belong.]

[nooralzedjali]

وَماذا يَشْكُوا المَرء عَنْدَما تَغرَقُ الأذَانِ فِ مُحيطِِ لا تَرتادُه الملائِكة او القَراصِنة؟.

[panic-point-blank]

In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political I must listen to the birds And in order to hear the birds The warplanes must be silent - Marwan Makhoul

🎨 : Nuri Lyem

لكي أكتب شعراً غير سياسي يجب أن أصغي الى العصافير ولكي أسمع العصافير يجب أن تصمت الطائرات - مروان مخول

[yusufaltalli]

[lolwa16]

أيشفعُ لي بأنّي كنت أُبحِر

‏وبوصلتي لوصلكَ حُسن ظنّي؟

_حنظلة*

[noirbeduzz]

الشِعْرَ يُدَاوي أكثَرَ مِنَ المُوسِيقَى. والثُنَائيّ مُكَمّلانِ لِبَعضِهمَا ... مِثْلَ النُجوم والليّلِ.

— مُذَكَّرات فِيتزْجيرَالد، ودَاعيّةُ الشِتَاء، ٣ مارَس ٢٠٢٣

[ny-p]

إنّي لأنظر في الوجودِ بأَسرهِ

لأرى الوجوهَ، فلا أرى إلاّك

جميل بثينة -

[unboundprompts]

The Oh Hellos Prompts

➣ writing prompts from The Oh Hellos songs. feel free to edit as you see fit.

"The terrible fire of old regret is honey on my tongue." - Bitter Water

"There is beauty in the way of things." - There Beneath

"I am not the fool I was when I was younger." - Exeunt

"I am not afraid to die." - This Will End

"They were quick to recognize the devil in me." - Second Child, Restless Child

"I can't shake this feeling that I was only pushing the spear into your side again." - Passerine

"We have lived in fear, and our fear has betrayed us." - I Have Made Mistakes

"I want to be more than this devil inside of me." - Dear Wormwood

"I know I shouldn't love you." Bitter Water

"Leave the ruins where they fall." - Grow

"You can't take any gold or rings further than the grave." - Eurus

"I can see how this will end in all its bitter tragedy." - This Will End

"You'll bury me beneath the tree I climbed when I was a child." - Bitter Water

"The heavens can be both sacred and dust." - Hieroglyphs

"I cannot trust what you say when you're grieving." - Exeunt

"When I saw my reflection it was a stranger beneath my face." - The Lament of Eustace Scrubb

"Suffering is all there is to gain in life." - This Will End

"The sight held me fixed like a bayonet against my throat." - Pale White Horse

"We were born in the shadow of the crimes of our fathers." - The Valley

"My palms and fingers still reek of gasoline from throwing fuel to the fire." - Passerine

"You were the brightest shade of sun I had ever seen." - Like the Dawn

"I know that wicked shape to your smile." - Where Is Your Rider

"You have always been there in my mind." - Dear Wormwood

"I am coming home to you." - Thus Always To Tyrants

"I wanna give it all I've got, and I want nothing back." - Theseus

"I want to spin something out of nothing." - Zephyrus

"Blood was our inheritance." - The Valley

"I think that you're worth keeping around." - Soap

"I've got holes in my pockets burned by liar's gold." - In Memoriam

"You were the light that the fire would bring." - Passerine

"All the memories come flooding fast." - Grow

"Like the wind it slips again out of my fingers." - Eurus

"You've been too busy thinking ahead of where we're all going after we're dead to maybe consider our bodies are worth more than the dust that we can return to the ground again." - Hieroglyphs

"You were the song that I'd always sing." - Passerine

"We were born in the valley of the dead and the wicked." - The Valley

"Like the dawn you broke the dark and my whole earth shook." - Like the Dawn

"Death, she is cunning and clever as hell." - Eat You Alive

"They saw trouble in my eyes." - Second Child, Restless Child

"I stole from my father all I thought I could sell." - Wishing Well

"When I saw my demons I knew them well and welcomed them." - The Lament of Eustace Scrubb

"I was torn between my god and my Father." - I Was Wrong

"The rain will strengthen your soul." - I Have Made Mistakes

"If there's two things I know, it's that the sky looked white and then the water like wine when I first met you." - Lapis Lazuli

[barklyvanish]

“Love Is A Sweet Tyranny, Because The Lover Endureth His Torments Willingly.”

— English Proverb