an aesthetic aesthete

been here a decade i guess i’m never leaving

[labeatz]

You deserve people in your life who think you are a big deal. No competition, no backhanded comments, no jealously, no comparison, no hate just simply “I love you and there is nobody like you and there will only ever be one of you” type energy

[qiornono]

it’s that time of year again where i reread tsh for the bajillionth time so here is the greek class!!!

[terramythos]

Windmills and lighthouses are cousins

[fish-with-a-knife]

Towers with jobs

[the-evil-clergyman]

The Morning Stars by Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson (1887)

[rosieandthemoon]

devour me (via)

[peachghosts]

⊹ ࣪ ˖

[kosmogrl]

sorry, I'm busy looking for love in everything. yes it's gonna take all day.

[monsteranxiety]

🌙

[wetheurban]

I hope December is good to you.

[incognito-melancholia]

A House Of My Own

Not a flat. Not an apartment in back. Not a man's house. Not a daddy's. A house all my own. With my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple petunias. My books and my stories. My two shoes waiting beside the bed. Nobody to shake a stick at. Nobody's garbage to pick up after. Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem.

[jo-mxrches]

'Strong female lead' this 'strong female lead' that. what about my WEAK female leads??? What about the girls who are clinically tired?? Who don't speak up for themselves?? Who get taken advantage of in society??? Who get pushed to the side??? Who are naive??? Who let opportunities and happiness slip through their fingers?? What about girls that listen to their aunts advice to not marry a gentleman?? What about girls who meet that gentleman years later and have to be polite even though they're dying inside??? Who have to pine weeks on end believing he hates them only to find out through a letter that he's been in half agony half hope??? What about them????

[daily-spooky]

[lesb0]

if you're a human adult you physically need to eat actual vegetables, read real books, work, exercise, be outdoors, have sex, and have other real adult humans to talk to all on at LEAST a weekly basis or else you go will literally go completely insane and the problem is too many people choose to skip all those basic needs on purpose

[lesb0]

"I'm depressed and always tired and my body is in mysterious pain all the time for no reason" yeah you've spent a whole month isolated except for talking to online people and coworkers and eating convenience store snacks for half your meals with 0 physical activity like that isn't passive self harm. of course your body doesn't like that, it's exhausting

[manincaffeine]

yea sex is cool but have you ever been treated like a priority instead of just an option

[sapphling]

there should be more semi-maintained abandoned catholic churches for gay people to have weird violent blasphemous imbalanced-power-dynamic sex in

[fangorn-forest]

not enough secret gardens and hidden passageways and bookshelves that open to a mysterious library these days. get working on that girls.

[creepish]

i’ve died alone in my room 3000 times nothing you can say can hurt me.

[burningmuses]

RUINS

because isn’t there a beauty in ruins? isn’t that why people came all the way to rome, to stare at the crumbling pillars melting into ivy, letting that living vine lift where stones could not? isn’t there something breath-taking about a burial ground, filled with moss-covered headstones you dig your nails into, pulling away with palms full of green and rust and the shadow of a ghost? because ruins are like a wounded mother, bleeding but still fighting, teeth bared. because ruins mean someone, ages ago, isn’t forgotten. here is where she walked, here is where she ran. here is where she laid under the sky and let herself feel small, feel infinitely unknown beneath a sky full of things she couldn’t name. because i am a ruin—did you see the marble of my throat, where he chipped away at it? did you see the vines that are crawling across my chest? it’s been so long since something touched my heart. did you see the cobwebs in the corners of my eyes? i’ve kept them shut for so long.

give me a reason to open them.

–by @falteringperceptions

***Kevin’s Note: This was from 2013 and from when I was a BLUE TAG POETRY EDITOR here on tumblr. Yes, there used to be editors here on tumblr that were "supposed" to sift through mountains of poetry and "TAG" them for others to read without having to search. This was also when I started the Recognizing The Voiceless (RTV) reblog blog and was deep-diving into the lesser known poetry of the day. Back then it was before Yahoo! bought tumblr and added all the BS ads you see now. There were many more writers and poets here and created the Tumblr Writing Community (TWC). It would take me hours to TAG the ten best poems IMHO…we only were allowed 10 tags and there were only ten of us I believe. All this is to say…the above piece is STUNNING to me…it was back then, and it still is today! There are stunning pieces on tumblr today, but there were sooooo many more back in the day. Doesn’t have anything to do with you poets, it’s just a numbers game really. More writers to read and more time to read them. I LOVE you all…mean it!***