The Crying of Blog 49

Joe / 29 / UK All we gotta do is be brave and be kind

[half-a-corpse-half-a-poet]

when franz kafka wrote “i cannot make you understand. i cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me” and when sylvia plath wrote “can you understand? someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little?”

[luckystarinsky]

when mary oliver said ‘if you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. give in to it.’

and mahmoud darwish said ‘and if happiness should surprise you again, do not mention its previous betrayal.

enter into the happiness, and burst.’

[weltenwellen]

Anna Akhmatova, tr. by. D.M. Thomas, Selected Poems

[therisingfog]

Bumper sticker I saw on my walk today

[velartis]

Mostly, I want to be kind.

Mary Oliver, from New and Selected Poems.

[stlowens]

Anne Sexton, from “Poems 1971-73,” in The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton.

[falsenote]

Decision to Leave (2022)

[snowthunder]

What she says: I’m fine

What she means: In Howl’s Moving Castle Sophie goes back in time and witnesses Howl making his original deal with Calcifer thus discovering the way to break Howl’s curse and before she leaves she tells Howl to find her in the future and if you recall to the beginning of the movie Howl saves Sophie from some highly questionable and rapey soldiers and tells her “there you are sweetheart, sorry I’m late, I’ve been looking everywhere for you” because he took what she told him as a child to heart and has been looking for her ever since and if that’s not the tightest shit ever I don’t know what is

[weltenwellen]

Carl Phillips, from “Civilization”, Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

[weltenwellen]

Simone de Beauvoir, Letters to Sartre

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, from The Voice

[doitforadamparrish]

when kafka said ‘you wouldn’t believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it’ and when brontë said ‘if you ever looked at me with what I know is in you, I would be your slave’ and when Sartre said ‘if I’ve got to suffer it may as well be at your hands’

[geryone]

Have You Been Long Enough At Table, Leslie Sainz

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

[anditslove]

Andrea Gibson, Birthday

[soracities]

Ellen Bass, "The Thing Is"

[rhizobiums-deactivated20230217]

[paletrashier]

I want to get someone off so bad

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

I was directed to the future, but it is hard for me to part with experience. Before I reached the subway entrance, I turned for a last look.

– Grace Paley, from “The Floating Truth,” The Collected Stories (FSG, 2007)