poetry and stone

galileo // they // i write poetry sometimes // taking requests

[archiveofyearning]

Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place // Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities // Warsan Shire, Conversations About Home // Fatimah Asghar, Partition // Aysha, Diaspora Defiance // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous // Kaveh Akbar, Do You Speak Persian? // Safia Elhillo, Date Night With Abdelhalim Hafez // Gustavo Perez Firmat, Bilingual Blues // Scherezade Siobhan, How to Welcome the Dead

[idkinsertfanreferencehere]

“in a bright room / on a bright screen / i watched every mouth / duck duck roll / i learned to speak / from puppets & smoke / orange worms twisted / into the army’s alphabet / i caught the letters / as they fell from my mother’s lips / whirlpool / sword / wolf / i circled countable nouns / in my father’s papers / sodium bicarbonate / NBCn1 / hippocampus / we stayed up / practicing / girl / girl / girl / until our gums softened / yes / i can speak / your language / i broke that horse / myself”

Soft Science

Franny Choi

[veraynes-blog]

~

Doctor Who, 10x11 World Enough and Time // Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights // Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles // Lana Del Rey, Off to the Races // William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet // Richard Siken, Little Beast //Marshmello, Silence // Azra T., via thelovejournals // Killing Eve, 3x08 Are You Leading or Am I? // Fortesa Latifi, We Want To Be Ruined // Richard Siken, A Primer of the Small Weird Loves // David Levitan, The Lover’s Dictionary // Doctor Who, 12x10 The Timeless Children // The Mountain Goats, No Children // Mary Shelley, Frankenstein // Matchbox Twenty, Downfall // Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights // Halsey, Trouble // Doctor Who, 4x18 The End of Time 

[gaycommunist]

losing more than a friend (the one that got away) 2/3

part 1, part 3

sandra cisneros “one last poem for richard” excerpt // pinterest // david levithan // wislawa szymborska “nothing twice” // pinterest // flatsound “you wrote ‘don’t forget’ on your arm” // pinterest // richard siken // @meerkuesse // lillian hellman // @bestdressed on instagram // pinterest

[gaycommunist]

you’re missing from me (the one that got away) 3/3

part 1, part 2

@storyexcerpts // phoebe bridgers “motion sickness” // la belle personne (2008) // @suqarcoater on ig // frank ocean “white ferrari” // danielle schuster “bitter candytuft” // sex and the city (1998-2004) // unknown // @im-sad-lets-have-sex // zinaida nikolaievna gippius // one day (2011) // ella mclamb “pontiac” // f. scott fitzgerald // daria m.

[pasifik]

Normal People, Jane Austen, and the Romance of Walking Around by @snoopysfriendwoodstock

[luntfontanne]

annihilation (2018) dir. alex garland + annihilation by jeff vandermeer // hozier, “in a week (ft. karen cowley)” // taylor swift, “the lakes” // fiona apple, “heavy balloon” // littlestpersimmon - “reclamation” // meganluddyillustration - “So long, we’d become the flowers” // hermann hesse, “farm,” from wanderings // czeslaw milosz, “longing” // ada limón, “mowing,” from bright dead things // mary oliver, “sleeping in the forest” // conceptualsolitude

[idmakeitbehave]

as fire loves innocence

100 love sonnets - pablo neruda // like real people do - hozier // the beatrice letters - lemony snicket // orpheus - sara bareilles // kafka on the shore - haruki murakami

[moon1ike]

The Waves by Virginia Woolf | art by Holly Warburton | Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh | art by Holly Warburton

[natalieweepoetry]

you are on fire and he’s breathing in the smoke, hauling it through his teeth like a limp body from wreckage: desperately, uncaring about scars, his skin blooming red like emergency exits. he holds not without you and a prayer in the same mouth. don’t you understand? this is is his body saying: i need you more than i need to breathe. this is is his body saying: i will love you out of hell or i will join you in it.

before the fall // natalie wee (via wondersmithinc)

[smilesbag]

on love and monsters

caitlyn siehl - start here // the umbrella academy 2020 // rainbow rowell - carry on // omar rayyan 2015 // crimson peak 2015 // mary shelley // kristen cashore - graceling // beauty and the beast 2017 // topaz winters - 'it was something monstrous, this want for you'

[sultanah]

Velimir Khlebnikov, Collected Works, Vol. 3: Selected Poems, tr. by Paul Schmidt // Richard Siken, Snow and Dirty Rain // Lisel Mueller, “Necessities” // Cowboy Like Me, Taylor Swift // Vincent Van Gogh // Starry Night, Vincent Van Gogh // Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three // Cosmic Love // W. B. Yeats, Where My Books Go

[aceobiwan]

women + breathing fire

jessica kirkland // sozin’s comet part four: avatar aang (03x21), avatar the last airbender // midnight sky, miley cyrus // maleficent’s daughter, nikita gill // laura j novak // mad woman, taylor swift // funke olotu // venom of the red lotus (03x13), the legend of korra // dragon girl, n.r. hart

[luthienne]

Richard Hugo, Essay on Poetic Theory: The Triggering Town

[typodescript]

[text ID: If you are a private poet, then your vocabulary is limited by uour obsessions. It doesn’t bother me that the word “stone” appears more than thirty times in my third book, or that “wind” and “gray” appear over and over in my poems to the disdain of some reviewers. If I didn’t use then that often I’d be lying about my feelings, and I consider that unforgivable. In fact, most poets write the same poem over and over. Wallace Stevens was honest enough not to try to hide it. Frost’s statement that he tried to make every poem as different as possible from the last one is a way of saying that he knew it couldn’t be.

So you are after those words you can own and ways of putting them in phrases and lines that are yours by right of obsessive musical deed. You are trying to find and develop a way of writing that will be yours and will, as Stafford puts it, generate things to say. Your triggering subjects are those that ignite your need for words. When you are honest to your feelings, that triggering town chooses you. Your words used your way will generate your meanings. Your obsessions lead you to your vocabulary. Your way of writing locates, even creates, your inner life. The relations of you to your language gains power. The relations of you to the triggering subject weakens. end ID]

[wolfer-aid]

anglerfish 

[gonzoguy]

father, the front bottoms / the evening chronicle, north carolina / class of 2013, mitski / vyache, excerpt / last day of summer, the lightning thief / the wicked king, holly black

[rotmance-deactivated20210324]

—reasons to keep a diary/written record of existence.

credits: 1. anais nin; 2. sophocles; 3. fanny howe; 4. @pigmenting ; 5. louise erdrich; 6. tristine rainer; 7. clarice lispector; 8. sei shonagon; 9. elaine feinstein; 10. susan goldsmith wooldridge.

[bisexist-deactivated20210809]

[ID: Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me - the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every of art.

Elektra: Tell it anyway. / Little words can mean / death or life sometimes.

Proof that you lived is that you kept notebooks.

writing as therapy. writing as healing. writing as discovery. writing as self-love. writing as making sense of the dark. writing as rebirth.

Louise Erdrich / I approach the work as though, in truth, I’m nothing and the words are everything. Then I write to save my life. If you are a writer, that will be true. Writing has saved my life.

Paul Gauguin, the painter, began his intimate journal with the phrase, “This is not a book.” He repeated the line frequently throughout the journal to remind himself that writing a diary is not like writing a book or any other form of literature. Gauguin wanted to write his diary as he painted his pictures, dabbing a few experimental colors at first, adding more as his intuition told him, following his fancy, “following the moon,” discovering the pattern from what had occurred by chance.

Write with no strings attached. Sometimes writing a single line is enough to save your own heart.

If writing did not exist, what terrible depressions we should suffer from. 

‘Write something every day,’ she said, ‘even if it’s only a line, it will protect you.’

A useful daily practice is to sit (or walk) with a notebook and focus on what’s happening right now, in minute detail. “Inside a moment,” Emily Dickinson wrote, “centuries of June.” End ID]

[theyovngveins]

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alrie Saenz// The Raven King - Maggie Stiefvater// The Beartice Letters - Lemony Snickett// The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller// I Will - Mitski

[typodescript]

[text ID: 1: I wanted us to laugh forever. We listened to the downpour. God, it was really raining. Like that night. 2: It was him. It was always going to be him. 3: I will love you if I never see you again. and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. 4: A surety rose in me, lodged in my throat. I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me. 5: Cause all I ever wanted is here / All I ever wanted / All I want is / Always you / It’s always you /end ID]