Z Inspiration

Z Inspiration is an imprint of Z Publishing, an online magazine devoted to promoting the creative work of the world's youth (age 29 and younger). Z Inspiration is currently accepting submissions for both its Tumblr account and the soon-to-launch website, zpublishing.net

[zach-zimmerman]

What I wouldn’t give to return to my old problems.

@zach-zimmerman (via zach-zimmerman)

[z-poetry-blog]

Solo

Some nights

it’s just you

and the record player.

Some nights the black disc spins

silently, as your head rests

against the desk.

Some nights you turn it over

constantly, staring into the dark

your lamp shields you from.

Some nights

you cry

to hear the loneliness

of violin solos.

Written and submitted by @sketchythiings

[z-poetry-blog]

Saturday

Sleepy kisses and half smiles Croaky voices and messy hair The light brightens the room but we soften it with a hazy glow Dark enough to doze but light enough to know it’s still morning

A slow shuffle to find deeper comfort In the crook of your neck or breathing softly into your chest We’ll have to wake soon but the stillness is beautiful

Gazing up at your slightly parted lips and flickering eyelids You are so gorgeous yet so unaware of it I always silently think it but the rawness of the morning seems to cast shadows on your face that enchant me even further

There’s an intimacy about mornings The night can hide moments that dance about in the dark But the morning is made for exposure

Your hand reaches out slightly and I fit my fingers perfectly into the spaces in-between Gentle groans but for different reasons We’ll watch the seasons from our window and I’ll remember every detail And then after quiet and monotonous conversations it’s time to face the day

As I stand in the kitchen preparing breakfast You remind me of what we had barely an hour before The same warmth and sleepy love That I know I’ll be craving tomorrow

Mornings were made for moments like these

Written and submitted by @neptunes–baby

[z-poetry-blog]

your breath is my lullaby

i’ve never been an easy sleeper

i toss i turn i walk i talk

even at night my mind can’t sit still

and for years i’ve worried that no one would ever want to sleep next to me because i’m restless

i’ve been terrified that i would spend the rest of my life sleeping alone

but you sleep like a mountain unmoved by my midnight earthquakes

i don’t fidget as much when i’m sleeping beside you because i don’t have to try to get comfortable in your arms i just fit

and heaven knows we don’t get much sleep when we’re together but i swear i’ve never slept so well in my life

Written and submitted by @guyslifestuff

[z-philosophy-blog]

I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love (via z-philosophy)

[z-philosophy-blog]

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist (via z-philosophy)

[z-philosophy-blog]

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

Walt Whitman (via z-philosophy)

[z-inspiration]

Tears are words that need to be written.

Paulo Coelho

[z-inspiration]

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Marilyn Monroe

[z-inspiration]

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

[z-inspiration]

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Oprah Winfrey

[z-inspiration]

And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.

Paul McCartney, The Beatles

[z-inspiration]

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Martin Luther King Jr.

[z-inspiration]

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

Lloyd Alexander

[z-inspiration]

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell, 1984

[z-inspiration]

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

[z-inspiration]

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson