excelsior

reader | writer | dreamer | teacher

[soft-lovely]

they will never stop me from appreciating the little things in life

[corneliaavenue]

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[professor-winter]

ꜰɪɴᴅ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʟɪɢʜᴛ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴀʀᴋ

[professor-winter]

ᴀᴄᴀᴅᴇᴍɪᴄ ᴘʟᴇᴀꜱᴜʀᴇ

[onechippedcup]

[pinkfairiesteaparty]

[pnglove]

pie pngs ♡

[oldpaintings]

George Hyde Pownall (English, 1876–1932)

[oldpaintings]

Walter Linsley Meegan (English, 1859–1944)

[foundpoet]

Above. Between. Below.

This is a found poem with all the lines taken from The Raven Cycle series by Maggie Stiefvater.

ABOVE

Secrets—

Admitting you had secrets

Was not the same as

Telling them.

Edge of a truth,

A landscape with no map.

The light extinguished

There it goes.

The end of the world

Came and went without note.

Inky black ahead,

Inky black behind.

There was nothing left.

Monotony

Kept going

No one dug down past that.

BETWEEN

She was not lost,

Find me.

From the smoke,

Into the fire.

She didn’t look away.

That feeling of being known

Instead of hiding

That was a losing game.

Given this secret:

It was a weapon,

It was a crisis,

It couldn’t exist.

Facing the thing I was afraid of

Here in the test of mettle:

He who flinched first

Died first.

This was why it was secret.

BELOW

Remind me of what I am:

Something more.

Hoped for something more

Deeper and Truer

Doubly known,

Familiar.

Heart remembered.

Was he supposed to be remembering?

Breathe.

The recorder was stuck,  

Playing only this moment.

Thought-wished-longed-dreamt.

I’m overfull on secrets

And underfed on friends.

The loneliness.

It could be something beautiful instead.

She tried.

If you cannot be unafraid

Be afraid and happy.

[vida-imensa]

Frances  

[pinkfairiesteaparty]

[academia-lucifer]

@academia-lucifer

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[vida-imensa]

Ravikant Pandey

[silvermoonshinesilknight-deacti]

I read. Obsessively. Because, when I read, there is purpose to my loneliness.

[happyheidi]