#short lines

[april-is]

April 15, 2026: Tulips, Kevin Young

Tulips Kevin Young

What the dead want— shelter—opposable thumbs—to quit being

compared to taxes, as if they can be evaded. Each April

sadly      sadly wiser, & alone

they push up      like tulips from the earth, perennial as pain.

Trouble me again.

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Kevin Young is incredible at making his poems so, so spare, yet stuffed full of meaning. Every word brimming over. Some others:

+ Gutbucket + Boogaloo + Expecting

Pluck a poem from the overgrown garden of today in:

2025: Tree, Jane Hirshfield 2024: Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation, Natalie Diaz 2023: Dutch Elm Disease, Valencia Robin 2022: More Bang for Your Buck Running Scared, Brennan Bestwick 2021: Rain, Peter Everwine 2020: Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale, Dan Albergotti 2019: Prayer, Galway Kinnell 2018: Egg, C.G. Hanzlicek 2017: Well Water, Randall Jarrell 2016: For Desire, Kim Addonizio 2015: The Coming of Light, Mark Strand 2014: Flying Low, Stephen Dunn 2013: The Envoy, Jane Hirshfield 2012: Red Wand, Sandra Simonds 2011: Trying to Raise the Dead, Dorianne Laux 2010: Asking for Directions, Linda Gregg 2009: A Blessing, James Wright 2008: New York, New York, David Berman 2007: Waste Land Limericks, Wendy Cope 2006: There Are Two Worlds, Larry Levis 2005: America, Allen Ginsberg

[chiaranaomii]

Quote by me (www.poemsivewritten.tumblr.com)

art via pinterest (artist unknown)

[rainingyesterdays]

A kiss can say a thousand words; yours say " I care", and it's always heard

At times they say " I'll miss you too", and that's as clear as it can be

You know so many different ways to express that you love me

- (I love how you love me)

jm.

[milkgirlblog]

Peanut Butter

(new favorite poem!)

by Eileen Myles

I am always hungry & wanting to have sex. This is a fact. If you get right down to it the new unprocessed peanut butter is no damn good & you should buy it in a jar as always in the largest supermarket you know. And I am an enemy of change, as you know. All the things I embrace as new are in fact old things, re-released: swimming, the sensation of being dirty in body and mind summer as a time to do nothing and make no money. Prayer as a last re- sort. Pleasure as a means, and then a means again with no ends in sight. I am absolutely in opposition to all kinds of goals. I have no desire to know           where this, anything is getting me. When the water boils I get a cup of tea. Accidentally I read all the works of Proust. It was summer I was there so was he. I write because I would like to be used for years after my death. Not only my body will be compost but the thoughts I left during my life. During my life I was a woman with hazel eyes. Out the window is a crooked silo. Parts of your body I think of as stripes which I have learned to love along. We swim naked in ponds & I write be- hind your back. My thoughts about you are not exactly forbidden, but exalted because they are useless, not intended to get you because I have you & you love me. It’s more like a playground where I play with my reflection of you until you come back and into the real you I get to sink my teeth. With you I know how to relax. & so I work behind your back. Which is lovely. Nature is out of control you tell me & that’s what’s so good about it. I’m immoderately in love with you, knocked out by all your new white hair why shouldn’t something I have always known be the very best there is. I love you from my childhood, starting back there when one day was just like the rest, random growth and breezes, constant love, a sand- wich in the middle of day, a tiny step in the vastly conventional path of the Sun. I squint. I wink. I take the ride.

[generationintrovert]

Technology working in my favor

[marmarinou]

(via CWP&S caboose 207, Chicago, IL | The Chicago, West Pullman, … | Flickr)

Caption: “The Chicago, West Pullman, and Southern was a short industrial railroad that barely strayed from its home on Chicago's East Side and South Deering. But it was sure neat to see. EMD switchers in a nice red and cream paint scheme, then blue and white paint, made up the roster, also including a sharp Bi-Cen switcher. I would say that this fresh caboose was done in the railroad's ‘Blue Period’.”

Chicago

January 20, 1980

Photo by Bill Johnson

[foundpoetree]

You are so strong and brave; Dreaming in a world that offers only nightmares.

Strong & Brave

[dismyfandomblog-blog]

Your vengeance isn't you being a monster. It isn't you being like them. It is just a show of being human In a place that never deserved you.

Things Yao Fei Didn’t Tell Oliver, But Damn Well Should Have.