#it’s like one specific poem

[always-coffee]

To a Drowning Man

Here is the weight of a heart:

            dreams gone ragged at the edges,

faded and frayed, the ghost of hope

rather than her full splendour,

            and yet,

it’s enough, isn’t it? She sings

still, not siren but lullaby,

a reminder of strength

in darker times,

            a hand offered

without expectation, just steady

and steady on—

            the constant promise

of softness, breath

to a drowning man

who has ignored his own drowning—

sometimes, love is this

potential:

            glimmer unexpected,

            gentleness unasked for,

a silhouette standing in shadow,

            imperfect heart

shining, a torch song

                        burning

against the dark.

#poem #poetry #poet #been trying to write a specific poem for days #this is not that #so you get it tumblr #sorry not sorry #ali trotta #writer #not sure I even like this one #but here we are

[welcometogrouchland]

I understand that literature nerd Jason Todd is kind of overblown in fanon compared to it's actual presence in canon (a few issues during his pre (and post?)crisis Robin tenure that highlight it) BUT consider that I think it's hilarious if the unhinged gun toting criminal has strong opinions on poetry

#ramblings of a lunatic #dc comics #Jason Todd #batfamily #it's just a fun quirk! it's a fun lil detail and I simply cannot slight ppl for enjoying and incorporating it into works #like obviously jason isn't the only one. I'm a big believer in the batfam having over lapping interests they refuse to bond over #i know dick canonically used the robin hood stories (which are pretty flowery in their language far as i can tell) as inspo for Robin #and i know babs was a librarian and even tho her area of nerddom is characterized as more computery she probably knows quite a lot- #-about literature as well #duke is a hobbyist writer i believe? i saw a fan mention that- which if so is great and I hope he's also a nerd #(i mean he is canonically. i remember him being a puzzle nerd in his introduction. but i mean specifically a lit nerd) #damian called Shakespeare boring but also took acting classes so i think he's more of a theatre kid. #Tim's a dropout and i don't think he's ever shown distinct interest in english lit and i can't remember for Steph? #I'm ngl my brain hyperfocused on musician Steph i forget some of her other interests I'm sorry (minus softball and gymnastics!) #and then Cass had her whole (non linear but it's whatevs) arc about literacy and learning to read #went from struggling to read in batgirl 00 to memorizing Shakespeare in 'tec and is now an avid read in batgirls! #she's shown reading edgar allen poe but we don't know if it's his short stories or his poems #point to all of the above being: i know Jason's not the only lit nerd in the batfam #but also i do need him to be writing poetry in his spare time and reading and reviewing it #jason at the next dead robins society meeting: evening folks today I'll be assigning all of us poems based on laika the space dog #damian and steph who have been kidnapped and brought to jasons warehouse to hangout: LET US GO BITCH #speaking of^ random poem i think jason would like: space dog by alan shapiro #wake up one morning in an unfamiliar more mature body with a profound sense of abandonment. the last four lines. mmm tasty

[stardotnet]

yes, there will be singing

#art is truly the epitome of the human soul in my opinion #what a beautiful way to connect to one another #do you think van gogh knew that mothers and children would see themselves in his painting all these years later? #theres a specific low quality image probably from the 2000s of a little girl posing in front of a painting in a museum #and i REALLY wanted to include it i love the pure joy in that image but i cant find it for the life of me #if anyone is reading this and can find the image PLEASE HELP. PLEAAASEEEE. #she looks like shes dancing and her hair is tossing around its so full of life #stardotnet #webweaving #web weaving #corecore #webweave #poem #art #artwork #museum #human connection #human experience #hopecore #aesthetic #making art #viewing art #the mountain goats lyrics #the mountain goats #dance music #mitski #mitski lyrics #van gogh #life #music

[fagdykepearlescentmoon]

there is something so terrifying about wanting to be held, a years deep ache in my bones, like a child sobbing pleading for someone to notice, to care.

come here darling, I swear I will not bite, come here please, smooth away the cracks in my skin, piece me back together with the gold of your love, like the japanese would repair their pottery.

there is something so vulnerable about wanting to be touched, undoing me with a mere brush of the fingers, peeling back my layers like the skin of an orange, and each golden segment of my soul, is an offering (i love you).

oh, do you think you could hold me? just this once? kiss the backs of my knees when they ache? trace the divots of my spine like exploring a foreign land? memorize the shape of my nose, my jaw, my eyes, turning the terrain of my body into something familiar.

Perhaps it is selfish of me to ask for such a thing, I have always been a rather demanding creature, a dog, scratching at the door, begging to be let in.

I will be gentle I swear, curl up in your chest, your ribcage can be a temple, your heart the god I bow before, praying you might hold me, if only for a little while.

#this can be interpreted as platonic or romantic #it probably sounds more romantic #but i didnt really intend for it to come across any specific way #i am kinda proud of this one tho #considering i wrote it in my notebook in like 20 minutes #and then rewrote it here with only a little editing #it doesnt have much of a flow but i still like it #poetry #poems #physical touch #touch starved #skin hunger #physical affection #physical love #having a normal one tonight boys #shitty poetry hours/pos

[husband]

I am sick to bastard death of that two headed calf poem at this point I can't take it anymore

#prattle #its so nice #but the way that tiktok and twitter users specifically will learn about something #and then beat it to absolute death socially #like that rat hole situation of everyone leaving trash on the sidewalk and partying around it and being a nuisance #that two headed calf was born in Louisiana yesterday and if i see that poem one more time ohhh my godd #every comment every reply

[obstinatecondolement]

I have a lot of fondness for clunky Hallmark Christmas romance movies with rock bottom production values, vaguely established and extremely contrived plots, dodgy dialgoue, often questionable line readings, and child actors playing a kid who seems either three years younger or older than themselves. Hallmark have not undermined themselves with glib, self aware irony or attempted to "elevate" the delightful low artform that they excel in. Refreshing, honestly.

#netflix could never #they are incapable of that level of earnest storytelling #for this specific kind of story at least #because they think they're better than it #hallmark knows that none of us are too good for a movie about an autistic marine biologist #who thinks her best friend's brother ghosted her after they hit it off at the friend/sister's wedding #and *tells him* that repeatedly to his face instead of not addressing it #and he's like 'I definitely replied ot your email! you ghosted me! but let's let bygones be bygones. It's The Holidays' for the whole movie #and the resolution is that it got saved in his drafts #amazing #what other studios are delivering this level of banal miscommunication #what other movies have b-plots about learning how to be good at talking to interns as well as seals? #where little kids read poems they wrote at a christmas parties that sound *exactly* like a little kid wrote them? #and not in the 'kids who haven't internalised cliche yet can write some beautiful lines' way #mystic christmas: would recommend to a friend #there are no supernatural elements btw #that's the name of the town #which literally could have been named anything because it doesn't seem to be important to the plot at all #and no one makes any plays on 'mystic' that relate to its literal meaning

[queenlucythevaliant]

The Star Market

Marie Howe

The people Jesus loved were shopping at the Star Market yesterday. An old lead-colored man standing next to me at the checkout breathed so heavily I had to step back a few steps.

Even after his bags were packed he still stood, breathing hard and hawking into his hand. The feeble, the lame, I could hardly look at them: shuffling through the aisles, they smelled of decay, as if the Star Market

had declared a day off for the able-bodied, and I had wandered in with the rest of them—sour milk, bad meat— looking for cereal and spring water.

Jesus must have been a saint, I said to myself, looking for my lost car in the parking lot later, stumbling among the people who would have been lowered into rooms by ropes, who would have crept

out of caves or crawled from the corners of public baths on their hands and knees begging for mercy.

If I touch only the hem of his garment, one woman thought, could I bear the look on his face when he wheels around?

#I posted an excerpt of this poem yesterday but it felt necessary to post the whole thing today #because this poem #this darn poem #knows exactly where i live #'the feeble the lame i could hardly look at them' #i (like many of you) grew up around Christians like 85% of the time #i chose not to go to a Christian college specifically so that i could try to mitigate this part of my heart #that feels almost viscerally uncomfortable around certain types of people #i want to learn to love all my neighbors with Christ's abounding love #i know that I am no less sinful than my neighbor #but sometimes it's like there's a bee in the room and i don't know where it is #i'm set on edge by certain kinds of sin #in a way that i'm not by others #i'm sure this is true in degrees for many of us raised in the church #and this poem. this darn poem calls us out directly #it calls /me/ out directly #'The people Jesus loved were shopping at the Star Market yesterday. I could hardly look at them.' #'Jesus must have been a saint (that's the one bit i don't like-- Jesus must have been GOD) to be able to love these people' #'these people who came stumbling towards him crawling towards him lowered through the ceiling towards him' #'begging for mercy. begging with more humility than I manage on any but my best day' #'the people Jesus loved-- and i could hardly look at them' #and that last line hits you right in the solar plexus #'if I could only touch the hem of his garment could I bear the look on his face when he wheels around?' #no. no i don't think i could #and yet #i imagine that look would be so so beautiful #and by the grace of God i know i CAN bear it #i and all the other people Jesus loves #Bible humans #literature makes us more human

[eff-plays]

So now that I've figured out why Hira might go for Astarion ... I am now struggling to figure out why Astarion would go for them in the long run. Like, because he's barely his own person at this point, what are his preferences? Ya know? Beyond how they treat him, beyond the obvious, what about them is it that he likes? Ya know? "You were kind and patient and trusted me" is all well and good but that's still 1) related to him and 2) doesn't quite tap into the sense that he also wants them for himself for other reasons aside from wanting more of what they're doing for him. Ya know? Ya fucking know?

#bg3 #worsties to lovers #this isn't me complaining btw this is just my process #but it is kinda difficult in this case ngl #cuz the poor guy hasn't figured himself out yet #i headcanon him as like ... demi or graysexual so he wouldn't be immediately attracted to them #which he basically confirms in game that he's not so #but basically i can't just say that he thinks they look hot and diesel even though they absolutely do #i do have some ideas mind you #the fact that they're a bard and clearly in love with music and poetry and the arts #like in a genuine way #i think he finds that attractive cuz he envies it on some level #to love a part of the shitty world he lives in and thus make it slightly less shitty in the process #i think he also likes that they can make him feel things without like ... touching him or really doing anything *for* him specifically #like by just performing something with their whole heart they are able to evoke emotion #and it's not pretentious or forced like the poetry his victims would read at him #in my head i think their first genuine kiss is right after hira reads him one of their fave poems and it makes astarion feel so weird #that his only response is 'hmm. i should kiss them on the mouth i think' #and it absolutely obliterates the nice platonic vibe and hira leaves and astairon can't figure out why tf he just did that for #god they're so cringefail

[simmyfrobby]

that last flower poem moved me to tears. wow. WOW.

that entire poem makes me feel so !!!!!!!

#you know how poetry often isn't that interested in telling the full story but instead #picks one specific moment and focuses on what it feels like to inhabit that moment #with such. precision. that you have to carefully read every word #unlike with fiction where the brush strokes are coarser #and you can skim-read. or skip a word or a sentence or even an entire page and the story will still make sense #I think this poem is so incredible for the way it forces you to slow down your reading #to take in this moment together with the poet #I read it and it slows my breathing down #slows my heart down. fills my lungs. #it is a beautiful beautiful poem #and there is so much room left on the page #for the person reading it #like. yea. same boat. moves me to tears

[boycritter]

conversations with a young girl

what is it like to rot? she asks me

i do not know what it is like to rot

this is because all i know is the rot

i cannot remember a time before

the decay that never gets worse

rotting is not an action i tell her

the corruption of my being is not an activity i partake in

it is something i am

there is no separation between myself

and the unceasing decay

rotting is not gradual i tell her

the rot does not slowly take over

one day you are fine and the next you are fungal

i think

it hurts to remember

i don’t think i get it she tells me

i think that is a good thing

the decay is horrific and unknowable

how do you even describe being the unwilling spectator

of your self-inflicted destruction

#more poems about disability . live laugh love #this one isnt specifically about being physically disabled like some of my other poems are. just. disabled #oscars art #poetry

[pickled-flowers]

Working on an emotional comic but the art is so bleh.. I think I'll have to rework the visual for sure, especially the colors, but I'm still glad I'm drawing something and putting thoughts into words

#yay art! #i generally have one google doc per year with thoughts poems story etc #and 2024 is at 3000+ words so far 👍 #most of my comics come from these google doc #like the how to make winter clothes one :3 #btw the comic is about trans rights and stuff #mostly aimed at cis people tbh #specifically also about the government of Quebec and their recent decisions regarding trans and non binary people

[britneyshakespeare]

Much Ado About Nothing, II.i

#much ado about nothing #i am finally reading this play #the 29th shakespeare play ive read and im just finally getting to this extremely popular comedy #u can question my choices if u want im ok w that #shakespeare #beatrice #elizabethan literature #english renaissance #comedy #also i bought another edition of the shakespeare simply bc. i wanted tah. #this one has different supplementary material and it's not as chunky and unwieldy as the riverside (even tho the riverside is my beloved) #it was only like 14 bucks or so where i bought it #shakespeare: 23 plays and the sonnets revised edition edited by thomas marc parrott #it sparked joy #it's also so beautiful and has so many plated illustrations of performances over the years #it makes me soooo happy i have no regrets #as im getting closer to finishing the plays i haven't yet read im realizing that im going to want to reread them all my life #like i just have an inexhaustible love of shakespeare. unfortunately #so rich in magic and wonder and meaning. he really is one of The Greats #i like a lot of old dead people who wrote poems very specific to their time and place #and shakespeare belongs very firmly to his own time and place but the complexity and richness of his work really is so eternal #his stories and characters are fundamentally human and i do think upon a proper acquaintance just abt anyone can find smth to love in them. #the praise of shakespeare is not hollow. he's Really That Good #ive read so much literature in my life from various times places and cultures. only a drop in the bucket are Really That Good

[smol-blue-bird]

I really don't like this writing class I'm taking

#we had to write a poem as part of an exercise #and post it publicly on a discussion board #we couldn't see anyone else's poems until we posted our own #so I didn't know what the vibe of the group was #anyway I wrote a poem about an industrial disaster that occurred in my hometown #and it turns out everyone else wrote normal poems about spring and nature and stuff #so now I'm definitely going to get side-eyed tomorrow #why do I do these things to myself #we also had to ask three questions we want feedback on and I was the only one who posted specific questions about word choice #now I'm worried I'm going to sound like a pretentious asshole for being so nitpicky and specific #I feel like everyone in this place already judges me constantly and I Just Keep Giving Them Ammunition #delete later

[crossbackpoke-check]

Hello, im wehaveagathering from my main blog, im kind of obsessed with your hockey poetry edits and I think your blog is great! I guess I kind of have a dumb question, where do you find the images you use for your edits? Did you say Getty in your tags?? I’ve gotten into making icons recently (and i have ideas for poetry edits hrrrghhh) but it’s hard to find high res images. Thanks for your time and I hope you have a nice day :)

first of all thank you so much 🥹 and second that’s absolutely not a dumb question!! i do pull a lot of images from getty and i’ll also download pictures from sports articles (i got a lot of the hugheses pictures from online access articles, for example), or sometimes from instagram/facebook/twitter if an account is public. freely admitting that i am not technologically advanced? inclined? in the slightest here, but the image editing software that you use and how you import/export photos with it makes a difference in the quality of them as well!

if you haven’t seen them yet, i would also recommend checking out @simmyfrobby @national-hockey-lesbian @hauntedppgpaints @tapedsleeves @starscelly and @captainbradmarchand’s blogs just off the top of my head!!! they might know more places to get high res images and also i love their work 💕🫶

#sorry can’t type hands all butterfly hearts i’m just out here like 🥰🥰🥰🥹🥹🥹😭😭😭💕💕💕 #@ everyone i tagged ty i love you i hope you don’t mind the tag 😘 also i KNOW i am unintentionally forgetting people so tag them at will #forgive me i am eepy. we are running on <4 hours of sleep and over 18 hours awake 🫡 #liv in the replies #join the club!!! join the club!!!!! we love the hockey poetry edits!!!!!! i’m so excited to see what you create!!!!! :))))) #the process of me finding images is very much like. either i have a vision in my head and i troll getty looking for it or my screenshots #if i know i have one l m a o but either way i am always 68 pages deep in a hyper specific search labeling my photos like ‘ohHHH buddy’ #‘menace 1 abd 2’ ‘but he’s not a cup winner’ ‘ohhhh the nolpat media scrums are rich earth’ #‘because WILLY WON’T CUT HIS HAIR’ ‘deJA FUCKIN MILK BAYBE’ ‘is it truly sn edit if u don’t find a devastating baby pic’ ‘yes MF last line’ #and so forth. like. glad it’s comprehensible to ME but if anyone else ever tried to use these photos based on file name alone i am so sorry #also i forget that y’all can’t see all of the metadata notes on photos to know where they’re from :/ i gotta be better abt making it clear #also on the note about image quality i just need to state for the record i am so photoshop whatever illiterate. #i learn one (1) new trick on GIMP a year maybe two if i am lucky & no i have never figured out consistent sizing 🫡 but the one hack for res #i HAVE figured out is that when i do edits i usually make a whole doc w/the poem lined up on it (helps me keep somewhat consistent sizing) #and then i export that document as a pdf and edit the pdf in the software instead of trying to screencap or jpeg or anything. PDF quality > #that is probably so convoluted lol if anyone has tips please lmk i am always learning #ANYWAY. rambling u did not ask for but is inherent to Me. #have a great day too!!!!! you literally made mine so 💕😭 #wehaveagathering #indecisor

[bl00dylavender]

sometimes.

most of the time i’m okay when i’m around you. most of the time i’m me and i’m myself. most of the time we are just two friends laughing together. but there are sometimes. sometimes my dysphoria takes over. and i become a different person. and it makes me hate you. it makes me hate your voice and your muscles and your jokes and your laugh and everything else in between. it makes me angry. it makes me feel robbed. because that should be me. that should be me. i should have the flat chest and the deep voice and the boyish charm and the strong muscles. i should be roughhousing with our other roommates. i should be making sex jokes at you all too. but instead it isn’t. and instead i’m me. sometimes i get enraged. and i want to scream and cry. i want to throw myself at the cold hard ground until i look bloodied and beat up and you can’t tell if it’s a boy or a girl you’re looking at. i want to rip the guitar out of your hands and smash it over your head. i want to punch you and scream and yell because you have everything i want. and it isn’t fair. and when these sometimes happen, i feel so guilty afterwards that i can barely look you in the eye. it isn’t your fault. it’s not your fault i was born wrong. but during these sometimes it sure does feel like it.

#trans vent #tw vent #this one is specifically about my one cisman roommate #he brought back his guitar after his trip home and he’s been playing it and it makes me so sad and so mad #because i used to play guitar and i feel like a failure and my dysphoria makes it 100 times worse #is this poetry? #poetry maybe #trans poem #tw dysphoria #dysphoria vent #dysphoria poem #sighhhhh #dysphoria makes me feel silly #i hate being like this #trans #trans ftm #trans ftm vent

[trashcreatyre]

Maybe one day far in the future

Archeologists will dig our graves

They will find our bones so intertwined

That none can tell us apart

They will reconstruct us as one bizarre thing

And say;

“Look what we found

Isn’t it magnificent?”

And they will smile with pride.

It will be decades before they realize

That we were ever separate

But how beautiful will it be

To be displayed in awe

As one wonderful creature

#it’s been a while since I’ve written a poem lol #i forget that it’s a thing i like to do #anyway #i was thinking about dinosaurs #specifically the stegosaurus and how they were kinda fucked up reconstrution wise for a while because they reconstructed like #a juvenile and adult as one specimen? #and it fucked with how they were reconstructed for a while #idk i might be misremembering but yea #poem #poetry #trash rambles #dinosaurs #stegosaurus #archeology