I like licking the ink off my books

amatuer poetry read at your own will

[salome-silentlightning]

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[marielism]

My one and only. My one and only. My one and only. (Poem, by Langston Hughes)

[fencescape-deactivated20230617]

your name tastes like poetry on the tongue. the letters slip through my lips like warm honey that soothes the throat.

[imdatingurdad]

Wtf is hook up culture? write me poems then die in a war

[imaginingfromtheblock]

[salome-silentlightning]

Tiktok Tarot

[quotemadness]

“Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when nothing changes a speck, when you don’t go anywhere or do anything or think one new thought. And then you can get hit with a day, or an hour, or a half a second when so much happens it’s almost like you got born all over again into some brand-new person you for damn sure never expected to meet.”

— E.R. Frank

[quotemadness]

“I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.”

— Henry Rollins

[quotemadness]

“Okay is just a word I use so I won’t have to talk about what’s inside. Okay is a word that means I am going to keep my secrets.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

[quotemadness]

“Loving someone who unquestionably isn’t in love with you is a whole new level of self-destruction.”

— Rida Aamina

[tjnightpoet]

luna

[storybookprincess]

suddenly remembered this poem as i was making breakfast this morning & frantically googled “poem remembered to buy eggs?????????” & somehow managed to find it & it utterly knocked the wind out of me just as much as when i first read it

[salome-silentlightning]

Anyone can be a poet

[exmilitarydeathgrips]

thinking about vento aureo and that "stay gold" poem

[exmilitarydeathgrips]

Nature’s first green is gold, 

Her hardest hue to hold. 

Her early leaf's a flower; 

But only so an hour. 

Then leaf subsides to leaf. 

So Eden sank to grief, 

So dawn goes down to day. 

Nothing gold can stay.

[quotemadness]

“Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.”

— E.E. Cummings

[i-wrotethisforme]

You’re in the words I say everyday and you’re in the way I say them. You’re in the shows I watch and the music I listen to. Even though we haven’t spoken in months, you’re the voice in the back of my head telling me I can do it. And then some days I hear you saying I’m not good enough. So tell me how I’m supposed to forget about you if it’s like you’re always with me, even when you’re not.

[quotemadness]

“It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.”

— Sylvia Plath (via quotemadness)