sah's musings & such

love

[sah05]

[vagabondedlife]

[wintryblight]

hey do you have any poems on falling in love but feeling scared/ hesitant?

hi anon! here are some poems for you. enjoy reading!

Mary Oliver, “Dogfish” | Also I wanted / to be able to love. And we all know / how that one goes, / don't we?

Richard Siken, “Self Portrait against Red Wallpaper” | The world doesn't know / what to do with my love. Because it isn't used to / being loved.

Chen Chen, “Race to the Tree” | Seeing you run so beautifully / on the track that afternoon, I wanted you / to suffocate, breath-starved from all the miles / you’d run away from me.

Hala Alyan, “Interactive :: House Saints” | It is not enough / to say love in Arabic. / You must say / be the thing that buries me

Louise Glück, “A Myth of Devotion” | He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you / but he thinks / this is a lie

Anne Carson, “Plainwater” (excerpt) | I: Do you dream of her / M: No I dream of headlights soaking through the fog on a cold spring night

Maggie Smith, “What I Carried” | I carried my fear of the world / and my love for the world. / I carried my terrible awe.

[weltenwellen]

Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

[weltenwellen]

Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

[silverystardustt]

I like the juxtaposition of the unnecessary extravagance of a ballroom and it’s intrigues with the absolute bareness that a single gaze from your beloved renders you

[heavensghost]

John Murillo

[nemfrog]

“Keep the bedroom windows open wide while sleeping.” Health habits, physiology and hygiene. 1925. 

[moonlitswims-deactivated2024010]

Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were.

It hasn't happened this morning either.

The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

[sah05]

a notes app poem for the gloomed and gleamed

[haleyincarnate]

Writing by Adelle Woods

[jamandbutterfly]

a list of poems that make me feel tender:

field bling by ada limón

for example by mary oliver

having a coke with you by frank o’hara

invitation by mary oliver

meanwhile by richard siken

on kindness by aracelis girmay

oranges by gary soto

small kindnesses by danusha laméris

still by marc alan di martino + listen to him read it here

the orange by wendy cope

the thing is by ellen bass

two-headed calf by laura gilpin

wild geese by mary oliver + listen to her read it here

variation on the word sleep by margaret atwood

[ourheartsareoldfriends]

joseph larusso jr. // sofia nielsen // hafiz // ron hicks // peter wever

[thunderstruck9]

Jan De Vliegher (Belgian, b. 1964), Garden 6, 2014. Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm.

[enamouredpoet-deactivated202205]

[enamouredpoet-deactivated202205]

You do not live; you are not allowed to die. You drift between earth and death which seem, finally, strangely alike.

Louise Glück

[ancientsstudies]

The world is quiet here.