#cynical poems

[quaranmine]

i think the whole cringe is dead, radical sincerity, depth of genuine emotion, earnest effort, and unironic love thing that tumblr has going on the past few years has transformed my outlook on things and changed me for the better. but it does mean that now the people i know irl will give me strange looks for being too sappy or too poetic or too dedicated or too excited about about something because they're still stuck in their "well i only like this ironically" phase. guess that's their problem tho not mine <3

#like on here i could spontaneously decide to write a poem about life & love & death & the dying peace lily on my parent's porch #and everybody would be like omg love it #or i could write essays analyzing mcrp. or dig up documents from 1910 and 1956 for fanfic research #and everyone is like 🤩 #and in real life there's like a 90% chance anybody would just be like. that's good for you....you're a little weird though..... #or i will say something i was thinking about and people will get all cynic on me or something #SORRY for having a writer's/artist's/photographer's brain i guess and seeing the beauty in the world #idk idk so many people i meet irl are allergic to genuine expressions of emotion or artistry #there was a lady i saw on the train once who was reading a densely-written pocket sized planner...from 2013 #i think about her sometimes. was that her planner? were those good memories? was she trying to remember something? has it been a kind decade #and when i told my dad he couldn't at all see anything i saw in the moment. he just made jokes about her being crazy #but i liked the moment

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

poems for Grac(i)e - (for @imissthembutitwasntadisaster on her birthday)

Maggie Smith, Good Bones // Gerard Way, How It's Going To Be // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // Griff, Vertigo // Elizabeth Bishop, One Art // Taylor Swift, You're On Your Own, Kid // Kim Stafford, At The Student Poetry Reading // Fall Out Boy, Baby Annihilation // @/daisies-on-a-cup // Stephen King, It

#yes this is just a revised and expanded edition of that post I made a while back. I found more poems that stuck with me #you're my escaping the narrative beloved. that narrative will never catch you. we're learning from the ones who've already made it out #which is why baby annihilation is on there even though it's kinda cynical and a bit angsty. it's the fact that it's even on the album #every time I read the student poetry reading poem I think of you gracie. just btw. I love you. happy birthday #<3 #web weaving #oh also one more thing: actually higtb and yoyok are very similar songs to me and I'm emotional about it

[thesorcererpoet]

Hustle Culture

Stuck, transitioned out of reason

and bit the feeding hand

for a drop of feeble nourishment.

He said, “I’ve spent my head

on the world and there isn’t

much left that suits my

shrinking pallet.”

These paupers paused

in the action,

eyes glazed with anticipation

of another falling coin.

They dressed in famous names

but were naked in the midday sun.

They shrieked aimlessly

for the attention of the masses

hoping to influence the motion

of a tidal wave of cattle.

The cows shrieked back,

“Just another click and it

can all be yours”.

I scrolled by aimlessly,

not even registering their plight.

#spilled thoughts #poets on tumblr #original poem #poetry #poems on tumblr #poem #spilled ink #spilled poetry #writing #hustle culture #cynicism #cynical

[cynicism-and-idealism]

We love hungrily consuming poetry.

Someone said the quiet part out loud.

What we're devouring is vicarious vulnerability.

We're starving to express ourselves safely.

I love

I desire

I need

I hurt

I grieve

I feel...

#cynicism #on life #on love #on longing #on being human #poetry #poem #living

[agnesmontague]

this is the most amazing """critique""" of a poem i have ever read in my entire life. i literally cannot even be angry. this is the cinemasins sensibility taken to its logical endpoint. the crystalized essence of anti-metaphor anti-imagery brainpoisoning. the walking embodiment of the reddit persona. please, GoodIntroduction6344, lend me your brain. i too would like to see the world sometime as a rock does

#rambles #the poem is called ''please read'' by mary ruefle #the thing about poetry is that you don't have to understand it. some poems will not vibe with you. that's how it is #but bringing your shambling little remnants of 5th grader ''i just found out santa claus isn't real'' cynicism #and applying to-the-letter ''suspension of disbelief'' as if it's not patently obvious what poetic suspension demands of you... #incredible. this is the kind of remark wild horses couldn't drag out of me. god grant me the serenity to sound this stupid in public

[thecynical-idealist]

Winter is coming and

I'm counting all the chances that I let go.

There are dead stars on the kitchen table.

All of them are mine.

- "Disenchanted", The Cynical Idealist.

#lit #literature #quote #poetry #the cynical idealist #cinema #artists on tumblr #art #poets on tumblr #love #stars #writers on tumblr #writing #creative writing #writing community #poetry community #spilled ink #little poems forgotten in my scrapbook

[lionofchaeronea]

Diogenes the Cynic Speaks His Piece

Anthologia Palatina 7.66=Honestus A staff, a wallet, a two-ply cloak: While wise Diogenes lived These were his burden so very light. To the ferryman I bring all, For I’ve left nothing up on Earth; But, Cerberus dog, fawn on me, Mr. Dog. βάκτρον καὶ πήρη καὶ διπλόον εἷμα σοφοῖο Διογένευς βιότου φόρτος ὁ κουφότατος. πάντα φέρω πορθμῆι: λέλοιπα γὰρ οὐδὲν ὑπὲρ γῆς: ἀλλὰ κύον σαίνοις Κέρβερε τόν με κύνα.

Diogenes, Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1873

#classics #tagamemnon #Greek #Ancient Greek #Greek language #Ancient Greek language #translation #Greek translation #Ancient Greek translation #poem #poetry #poetry in translation #Greek poetry #Ancient Greek poetry #epigram #epitaph #Diogenes #ancient philosophy #Cynicism #Honestus #Anthologia Palatina #Palatine Anthology #Anthologia Graeca #Greek Anthology #quatrain #elegiac couplets #Jules Bastien-Lepage

[thisismydomian]

I don’t blame the cynic, the same way I don’t blame Medusa for turning men to stone, an addict for using coke, a dog for biting someone they don’t know. When the world gives you hope and in fear that turns caution, you turn mad at the bars you set by a positive assumption. Only knowing exhaustion.

The brave endure, while the hurt weep.

The hopeful ones prevail, the cautious ones want to sleep.

I don’t blame the cynic.

When it gets dark out almost all creatures want to fall asleep.

#idk what this is #poem #thinking out loud #gonna get rid of #writing #I don’t blame the cynic

[imaginemirage]

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

George Carlin

#george carlin #quote #quotes #poetry #poem #poet #cynical #cynic #idealist

[i-want-to-be-a-poet]

#poet #writer #poem #poetry #original poem #poems on tumblr #poets on tumblr #writing #poetic #short poem #cynicism #death #dead #grief #dark academism #dark academia #dark acadamia quotes #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark acamedia #oil painting #oil on canvas #painting #impressionism #painter #lana del ray #coquette #coquette dollete #girlblogger #coqeutte #coquette girl

[thebooknurse]

I fear that my job is ruining me

I can see my compassion falling

Slike grains of sand slipping through my fingers

I cannot hold onto it much longer

When you watch someone die

Or break your own back to keep them alive

You start to crumble

So when your friend calls you upset

Because the boy that she likes

Does not like her back

Your world does not feel like it is ending

Even though hers stops spinning

You do not wrap her in your arms like you once did

Telling her it will all be okay

You tell her it is not a big deal

Forgetting to her that it is

-TB Nurse

#I was told that I started acting different since working in the hospital. that im more cynical #but in reality I feel more grounded than ever. I just don’t let the small things bother me #I appreciate the life I have and things don’t seem like a big deal when they go wrong #I mean i do feel bad that I’m not the friend to her I used to be #I forget the tragedies I see would crush some people but to me it’s a normal day at work #but for the first time I’m becoming who I’m meant to be #dark academia #light academia #poetry #original poem #chaotic academia #poets on tumblr #writers and poets

[oddish-prose]

I think I'd rather fall on my very own sword than be a cynic.

That blade edge is near and my sadness feels so deep. God, I'm so tired.

- a haiku, duh

#poetry #haiku #literature #poem #artists on tumblr #cynicism #cynical

[chronically-introverted]

there is something off.

my eyes are teary and i look at my shattered reflection, confused.

i don’t recognise the girl staring back at me.

what is wrong with me? i don’t understand myself anymore.

#alice oseman #cynical #introvert #pessimism #pessimistic #radio silence #solitaire #tori spring #shattered skies #black and white #depressing poem #twisted wonderland #what the heck #what is the point #falling apart #mental wellbeing #mental problems #depressing post #not rly #cats #Spotify

[writingandmybrain]

11.26.2023

1/100 days of productivity

- Clear off desk ✅

- Tidy room ✅

- Work on u6a1 ✅

Body/Self care

-Exercise 20 minutes ✅

-Shower ✅

🎧: Cynic by Noah Kahan

📖: Home by Whitney Hanson

Today I started the 100 days of productivity. I worked in short bursts on an essay I have been putting off for over a week. I did a quick house reset - I can finally see the laundry room floors, dishes are done, my bedroom is organized. Made sure to practice self care with my body - exercised for about 25 minutes and made sure to eat three meals. Though, I probably drank too much soda. Little things, little things. I have to go back to work tomorrow, but I will definitely be doing more of these little study sessions. The first two went so well, no distractions. I used the forest app to lock out my phone. Will need to move to a private space when family members are home, but that’s the cost of living at home.

#100 days of productivity #100 dop #studyblr #study motivation #studyinspo #studying #graduate school #student #forest app #focus #little bit of advice #advice #home #poemblr #poem #whitney hanson #cynic #noah kahan #music #book

[nameless-poet]

I AM

I am a far gone optimist A hopeless hoping optimist Blistering bruised bloody fingers optimist A dirt under her fingernails And blue-black in his face Kind of optimist An unholy holy child A heretic and a blasphemer against the doctrines that hurt A broken and golden kind of optimist I am a god damned fucking optimist And damn me And damn this world If we can't be better And live live live Blistering and dirty and bloody and bruised Broken and haunted and holy and whole

#poetry #words words words #My writing teacher once told me that all my poems were to sad #I don't think that's true #optimism and cynicism are two sides of the same coin #so many of us give up #the world is so cruel #and it's dying too #but we can't give up #we have to keep fighting #optimism isn't pretty #it isn't bright #and it isn't being #positive all the time #but in the end #it is looking at the world #and saying #this could be better #and then fighting for it

[mimimurmurs]

my father has earned his cynicism, he wears it proudly. i don't know much about the way he furnishes his thoughts. only that i wish he would open the curtains. i wish he would let some light in.

#mimimurmurs #poetry #prose #poems #cynicism #poetic #virgina woolf #sylvia plath #poems and fragments #original poem #spilled poem #thoughts #emotions #love #family #art #literature #english literature #lit #jane austen #writing #creative works