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it is in your self-interest to be very tender

[vonhagen]

chichai. (21+.)

byf: unfiltered blog, no tws. -16 / ageless and blank blogs dni. skz atz piwon kpop etc genshin hsr zzz haikyuu a3

[soracities]

Charles Wright, from "A Journal of One Significant Landscape", The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990 [ID'd]

[primulaceas]

Alejandro Zambra, Ways of Going Home (translated by Megan McDowell)

[primulaceas]

Natalie Diaz, “Snake-Light.” Postcolonial Love Poem

[thecollectibles]

Cats by Kateryna Korol

[weltenwellen]

Victoria Chang, Obit

[vonhagen]

soul heals me

[exhaustedwerewolf]

this is so rogue but does anyone have the poetry template that went semi-viral on twitter a while back? it was designed for kids but someone gave it to their mother who has dementia and she wrote a really moving poem about her experience.

[exhaustedwerewolf]

the minute I posted this I remembered enough of the prompt itself to find it and now I’m trying not to cry at work

on a totally different note is this response from a kid, which is also beautiful and imo no less profound. and shows how the prompt can be interpreted so differently.

[youwrotethisforme]

TEMPLATE:

My name is ...

Today I feel like ...*

Sometimes I am ...

And sometimes I am ...

But always I am ...

I ask the world, "...

And the answer is ... (repeat * words)

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, "State of Emergency", Instructions for Traveling West

[boykeats]

[ID: poem text reading,

"We never guessed how much we'd miss the hot and sticky hugs and standing close enough to whisper. Glory of reach and grasp, nudge, nuzzle, spoon and squeeze.

I've heard the phenomenon is called skin starvation and it's the reason infants are laid naked on their mothers' breast the moment after birth. Because touch is how we greet one another in almost every language and say: you are here and I am with you and we are not alone.

I confess I've not yet learned how to translate the gorgeous shock of seeing you. Even from 6 feet, I wonder if you can feel the electricity of my skin, pining in its sweat song, so helpless and hungry: hello hello hello."

/end poem text.]

[sailermoon]

huge shout out to this little kid for writing my favorite poem

[titreuse]

Francis Bacon - Blood on Pavement (1988) Oil on canvas 198 x 147.5 cm Courtesy private collection @tate / tategalleries

[heavensghost]

from Autopsy by Donte Collins

[thecollectibles]

Art by jinglin Xu

[thecollectibles]

Art by Pavel Oleinik

[kaybzzart]

A pinterest study that turned into a Harvey self-indulgent art <3

[firstfullmoon]

anne boyer “the harm will come: it never doesn’t” / julia armfield “to watch a horror movie is to know that something bad is going to happen. to have a body is really the same thing” / hilary mantel “we don’t have to invite pain in, it’s waiting for us: sooner rather than later” / marie howe “you know how we’ve been waiting for the big pain to come? I think it’s here. I think this is it. I think it’s been here all along” / gregory orr “I want to go back to the beginning. we all do. I think: hurt won’t be there. but I’m wrong” / toni morrison “the hurt was always there” / torrey peters “pain that had to be endured, withstood, pain that was the same as being alive, and so without end”

[firstfullmoon]

#that one line from sharp objects … #do you ever feel like bad things are going to happen and you can’t stop them? you can’t do anything you just have to wait?

[firstfullmoon]

#THE lake mungo quote #I feel like something bad is going to happen to me. I feel like something bad has happened. it hasn’t reached me yet but it’s on its way

[firstfullmoon]

jenny holzer : THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU HAVE GONE WRONG BUT YOU CONTINUE. SOMETIMES THERE IS A LUXURIOUS AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS.

[firstfullmoon]

#/ hanya yanagihara ‘‘you know one day that it will happen and then that day comes and you never have to feel afraid again’’

[clarisinne]

Companion piece to this one

Also

[thememedaddy]