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twenty something; trying, writing. musings | muses tell her

[weltenwellen]

The Echo Sounder Ada Limón

[poppyseedxoxo]

[rhinco]

i love you semicolon. no one look at my 80 word sentence

[ryebreadgf]

so it’s a wednesday night in july and you’re at home and you’ve showered and you’ve masturbated and you’ve gnawed at the inside of your mouth and you’ve eaten and washed the dishes and fixed a corner of the fitted sheet on your bed and texted your grandmother and thought positive thoughts and still the feeling comes. what then

[malefixium]

the trees you grew up with have not forgotten you. their branches still whisper your name in the breeze and their roots remember the paths your feet once traced through their shade.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Everything seems to have a soul – wood, stones, the wine we drink and the earth we tread on. Everything, do you hear me, absolutely everything.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, tr. by Carl Wildman, from “Zorba the Greek,” wr. c. 1946

[thebestwordsforyoursoul]

''I was lonely in a way that I imagine the stars to be, observed by everyone yet too far to truly be seen.''

― Lauren Roberts, 'Powerless'

Powerless Quotes by Lauren Roberts

[lucidloving]

Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence // Ada Limón, "Lies About Sea Creatures" // Sherita Walker // @itsbaditsgood // Richard Siken, "I Had a Dream About You" // Richard Siken, "You Are Jeff" (8) // Richard Siken, "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out" // @_demarmol on Instagram // Anne Sexton, "The Touch"

[fromthetearsandtheteeth]

Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

Richard Siken – You Are Jeff

http://richardsiken-poet.tumblr.com/post/114914035323/hi-i-was-wondering-what-is-your-favourite

Richard Siken – I Had a Dream About You

All the cows were falling out of the sky and landing in the mud. You were drinking sangria and I was throwing oranges at you, / but it didn’

[sailermoon]

james baldwin was so right when he said “the children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

[sentientsky]

i'm reading a book for class, and uh. i'm getting a little emotional at points

if anyone is interested, the book is I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism (1996[1988]) by Lee Maracle, and it's really really good so far!

[eymurn]

Oh! The intimacy of adopting each other’s vocabulary.

[decembrghost]

Oh! the violence of unlearning it!

[decembrghost]

Cynicism is an art

I have memorized the geometry of shadows cast by a stack of unread giants, waiting for a spine to crack and bleed a gospel I can actually use. But the ink is dry. The paper, just dead wood mottled with the ego of men long buried. Cynicism is an art, and I am its naive expert, practicing the habit of preempting the bruise, sharpening my tongue into a scalpel to peel back my own chest and laugh at the wet, thumping mess of it. “Look,” I tell the dark, “how pathetic to want." "How embarrassing to be made of glass in a room full of stones.” Craving the honest as winter something to strip the skin and leave the bone, because truth is softer than I admit, a suffocating thing. I am a failure of a cynic because I still have the nerve to be haunted. I am a poet only because I don’t know how to bleed without checking the light, to see if the red looks pretty on the floor.

[crittizen]

this is a poem

[wa-u-moved]

i couldn’t not draw this

[i-say-ok]

ok…!

[luxury-nightmare]

babe are you okay, your reblogging the subway rat poem again

[marvelmaniac715]

It’s been a long week

[havingapoemwithyou]

Middle age by Jason Shinder

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

I love having a beautiful interaction with a stranger and being like yeah I may be forever changed bc of this one simple and sweet moment

[loveridden1999]

[marxism-leninism-utenaism]

theres definitely a line of thought ive noticed in liberal circles and in media and stuff where they think that bad stuff works and is true but is just bad for some moral reason.

but the thing is that this stuff is just factually wrong. eugenics doesnt work. race science isnt true. theyre morally wrong, yes, but theyre also factually incorrect, ideas that are deployed in service of monstrous ideology despite the fact that they simply arent true.

and its a major impediment to effectively combating these ideas, because if you concede their premises, you have already given ground to your enemies.

[natoapologistblocker]

I think it fundamentally stems from the fact that the hegemony of capitalism relies on constant concessions to "lesser evilism" (this of course serves to maintain the necessity of capitalism as the ultimate lesser evil), making people default to assuming that bad things work and good things are naive and useless