Octopurr

[octopurr]

Of all the poems written on the subject of unrequited love there are so few on the pain of being the object of that affection.

Klaus Mikaelson

The originals.

2x10 ( 26:40)

[feral-ballad]

Kim Addonizio, from Wild Nights: New & Selected Poems; “One-Night Stands”

[feral-ballad]

Kim Addonizio, from Wild Nights: New & Selected Poems; “For You”

[saintfelina]

women in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)

[havingapoemwithyou]

The extinguished star by Parnia Abbasi tr. Ghazal Mosadeq

A poem by the Iranian poet Parnia Abbasi who, along with her family, all civilians, was killed one year ago today in a brutal and unlawful Israeli attack in the Sattarkhan neighborhood of Tehran.

[ilovekissinggirls]

[verytruly-yours]

[geryone]

Smoking the Bible, Chris Abani

[girlfictions]

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, from Baked Goods

[firstfullmoon]

this 🤝 vievee francis saying the poem won’t be ruined if you let us in

[boykeats]

[ID: tweet from Brian Tierney @/BTTierney85 reading,

"tracy k smith once told me i should strive to end poems by opening a door outward not closing one and now it happily haunts every poem i try to write"

/end ID]

[petaltexturedskies]

Angela Carter, from "The Lady of the House of Love" in The Collected Stories

[quotespile]

“Love is the kind of thing that’s already happening by the time you notice it, that’s how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn’t change.”

— Banana Yoshimoto, Goodbye Tsugumi

[romanceyourdemons]

horror concept: you are a woman and you are getting married

[yms1]

what doesn't kill you makes you stay on tumblr for 13 years and counting

[maymemoria]

Does the flowering plant loathe the seed it blooms from? Does it detest the dirt that surrounds it? When gloomy clouds loom over it, does it curse the rain and yearn for the sun instead?

— Ana May (maymemoria)

[ashstfu]

25 things i learned in 2025

[diaryyun]

I want to rise above everything, but guilt holds my wings the moment they start to open.