poetryard

previously @/autopicvision here

[iced-coffee-chronicles]

can someone recommend some beginner normal behaviors for someone looking to become normal

[feral-ballad]

Sandra Cisneros, from Loose Woman: Poems; "Little Clown, My Heart,"

[paper-fairy]

Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

[poetryard]

I want to not be reduced to one i.

I want to be as many i as I can be.

But can this world allow so?

Can an i be plural?

Can it be followed by a full stop?

– Sneha Soni

[poetryard]

Today in a nightmare,

I was haunted by ghosts.

And I had someone who loved me,

someone with crooked teeth

and warmth in his eyes.

I went to the ghosts;

I accepted their invitation

to haunt me,

and you came along with me.

You followed me despite knowing

these ghosts are mine.

They haunt me because i cower,

yet you held my hand.

But you were getting scared.

These ghosts started mocking you

the way they do with me,

and i wanted to protect you.

So I let you vanish,

for you were another ghost

who loved me.

– Sneha Soni

[disintegrationinsilence]

[poetryard]

[poetryard]

Grief births rage. Rage contaminates everything it touches. Walls turn mould-infested. Hearts are drained of red. The air is heavier to breathe in. Yet it is a home.

Grief's home.

And love is blue in grief's home.

– Sneha Soni

[poetryard]

Some dreams are not born out of hope;

they are painted as the sun in the darkness of nights.

They are created to know that there is an alternate reality,

even if it is distant,

even if it is the sea kissing the sky on the horizon.

– Sneha Soni

[fcirfolk]

Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

[sleeping-jo]

I can’t sleep, I have to torture myself psychologically

[drill-teeth]

Something I really struggle to get people to understand is that like. Sometimes there was no intentional homoerotic subtext, the author was just extremely misogynistic. Sometimes the author wasn't "secretly shipping" those two men, the author literally just hates women so much that they see them as being literally incapable of relationships with depth. Like this is kind of a big thing with misogyny actually. A lot of extremely misogynistic people truly believe that a man can only have meaningful and complex relationships with other men because they literally just think women are so inferior they only exist to birth children and clean the house. It's like when people say along the lines of "no one worships exclusively men quite like straight men do". It's just that phenomenon actually. That happens to be manifesting in a raging misogynist's writing. Writing a man character who literally only puts effort into his friendships with other men while completely ignoring his literal girlfriend or wife is actually an extremely straight thing to write. And that doesn't mean you can't ship those men or that there are no stories with actual intentional homoerotic subtext. I just think it's important to be able to recognize extreme misogyny in writing and acknowledge it without brushing it off and assuming good intentions when literally all evidence is screaming that this was a misogynistic writing choice and not a representing gay men choice.

[dateamonster]

maybe i am normal just in a new and marvelous sort of way

[whyenn-reader]

good art doesnt exist. you can't make it.

[whyenn-reader]

you're free now.

[thoughtkick]

“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch.”

— E.E. Cummings

[thylogale-procavia]

The Paradoxical Commandments People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway. - Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

[poetryard]

A voice is lost within yourself if it's not attempted to be materialised.

– Sneha Soni