#recovery poem

[amalgamationink]

I knew it when your house bloomed. When the front step shifted from a held breath to a threshold.

The stasis had settled in, years-deep, sprawling through each room until the air went brittle, until (oops) it gnawed upon the bones.

And yet from day to day I watched you push it back. The rooms began to breathe again.

In the low light, you went shadow-kissed, the hollows of you retreating— but when I squinted to see, you rolled up your sleeves to replace the bulbs. The lightning in my chest could’ve lit the room itself.

I could cry for all your quiet concessions: a softer chair, a proper bed, the kitchen cracking an eye when I stirred a coffee at the counter.

On the last visit (before they stopped being visits, before the admitted defeat and the mutual resignation to the rest of our lives together) I slipped you a handful of buttercups that had begun to cautiously regain footing in the yard.

What’s this? you said, and you hadn’t quite resurrected the house enough for vases, so I tucked one into your lapel as you pushed another behind my ear.

A housewarming present, and I kissed your teeth as the home you’d built with me in mind heaved a contented sigh. Someone finally lives here.

#prompt: write a love poem that names at least 1 flower + contains a parenthetical statement + has lines break in unusual places. #napowrimo #napowrimo 2023 #love poem #love poetry #poem #poetry #recovery poem #recovery poetry #spilled ink #spilled poetry #writeblr #poets on tumblr #poetry on tumblr #writers on tumblr #writing on tumblr #also a fun little secret fandom tag here at the end that I added after posting the poem so hopefully it won't actually show UP in the tag: #valduggery #damien.txt #napowrimo day 25

[queen-of-empathy]

Waffles After the Movie Theatre

I’ll take double

whipped cream please

because I feel like

a kid again, briefly

I’m blinded by

fluorescent lights

pleather booths

and actual youths

making smarter nutritional

choices than me

I guess I’ll take

the strawberries

I used to take pride

in being hungry

now I take life and

dip it in honey

oh and the movie we saw

was kind of funny

my friends said it

was just about fine

we slipped in the

rain on the cobbles

and after our waffles

we went out for fries

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[burnbitebleed]

Poem 3 "The Difference" Today, I am naked underneath a blue johnny shirt At least I took a shower, I shaved my legs... I don't feel clean on the inside But I scrub my skin under too-hot water to Make up the difference Sometimes, I am resentful, But today, I am willing, I will do my part, To exorcise this demon And all of the scar tissue That has grown into the fabric of me My new hero, Marsha, preaches adaptive denial, And I think this can help me We'll see, though, if the bones of me are good Maybe I can make up the difference

#personality disorder #ptsd #recovery #poem #poetry #recovery poem

[veryluckyclovers]

having a moment. That is lasting a long time

💧🍯☕️

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[desultory-suggestions]

The things you create don’t have to make sense! They can be messy and wild! They can be confusing and strange! They can be ugly and weird! Stop tethering your sense of creativity to what other people will accept. You deserve to create without inhibition.

#suggestions #reminders #creativity #art #mental health #self love #anxiety #depression #ed recovery #story telling #writing #writer #spilled ink #author #poem #poet #spilled poetry #journaling #studyblr

[haleyincarnate]

Quote by Ari Cofer

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[throughtheeyesofmeblog]

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[softdedue]

what if you just keep getting worse?

well, you learn to stop hoping for certain kinds of things, but you also learn to look forward to others. you learn to be flexible about the future but you also learn to find joy in the simplest of moments. you discover how much love and support you can receive from total strangers, and how good some parts of the world are, and there will be parts that are bad and people who will fall through, but you learn how to pick yourself up and keep crawling anyway. You find ways to encourage yourself to do things that others would consider no effort at all, and you take pride in the tiniest of accomplishments

I am starting to cook for myself again after years of avoiding it because I found some advice that actually works for neurodivergent disabled people. I got married last month. I have four cats and a dog and a balcony full of plants I keep forgetting to water, and I am sicker than I have ever been—but I’m so much happier too.

You spend your whole life thinking “if this thing fails on me the world will end” and then one day the thing fails and you wake up the next morning anyway. You keep waking up every morning anyway, no matter how many things fail, and you learn how to ask for kinds of help you didn’t even know a person could offer, and some days you realize you’re not just putting one inevitable foot in front of the other but you’re living your life.

You’re alive. People may tease you for being proud of having made it to thirty but it’s the biggest accomplishment of your life. You could have died or given up or allowed the misery to take you a hundred times, but you kept putting that foot in front of the other one. You kept waking up.

So yes, you are worse. You’re never going to get better. But at the same time, you are better than you have ever been in your life.

#my poetry #poetry #it has been a v long time since I posted any kind of poem on here but yk #I do write #mine #recovery

[robertjw4688]

Growth is not

a straight line

nor is it a

fault line.

Growth is

a semicolon

placed where an

ellipsis

once slept.

Robert J. W.

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[lena-oleanderson]

i talk about god a lot.

#web weaving #god #religious imagery #religious themes #poetry #poem #lena's bad poetry archives #on recovery #on love #on friendship #on god #on faith #on grief #etc #this post isn't nearly complete #queer poets #lena's poetry archives

[slowfalter]

I tried to write a love letter to my body

For therapeutic purposes

But I wasn’t ready

I cannot see the beauty

In all the things you do for me

I would be lying if I said

Your thighs don’t kind of scare me

But I don’t have hate for you

More just unfair expectations

I wish I could feel differently

Dear body,

I’m afraid I still don’t love you

But truly, I am sorry.

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[amalgamationink]

#prompt: write a portrait poem that plays with the meaning of the subject's name. #kind of skirting the concept of a portrait poem here. but when the prompt said ''write a poem abt names'' all i could think of #was writing acrostic poetry in grade school. ''spell ur name using adjectives.'' mine were always showing off my vocabulary lmao #so anyway here's my little acrostic name poem. barely on prompt but as i said: i take my little victories. #(damien means ''to tame'' btw) #napowrimo #napowrimo 2023 #spilled poetry #spilled ink #acrostic poetry #acrostic poem #poetry #poem #recovery poem #recovery poetry #writeblr #prose poem #damien.txt #napowrimo day 26 #image description in alt

[snarlingteeth]

Breakfast For Dinner, 2023

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[burnbitebleed]

CW: ED topic/numbers/behaviours

BITE

Ask me to acknowledge comprehension

Of insider lingo

Like it’s nothing

Like everybody knows their lowest weight

To the gram

Like I’m going to tell you

Bulimia is a really ugly word

For self-emptying

“I have nothing to hide, I showed you”

As if I’ve no secrets, no dark tumours

Inside my thoughts

They pulse

It’s no wonder that they burst

And burst they did

Although I won’t forgive myself

Not yet

Not ever

Anyway, I’ve recovered

I did that for you

I stopped counting

I stopped puking

I smoked pot instead

As the numbers crept up

I told myself I’d end my life

If I ever got to 130 lbs

The thing is

That’s half my weight now

So I’m carrying another person

Inside me

One fourteen

It should have been lower

But I wouldn’t have stopped!

So I recovered

I made myself drink bleach

Drink paint thinner

Swallow knives

Smoke crack

The thing is, I’m not sure it

Worked out better

Only differently

Differently dying

Making an offering

Of my stomach lining

But God wouldn’t take it

She said there’s no room for hypocrisy

I said oh you of little faith

But the thing is

I know she’s right

I take one more bite

Just this, one more

Bite.

(A poem I wrote, in honesty.)

Embroidery by A Zaza, on denim dress (2018)

#kills #recovery #poetry #mental health #recovery poem #musings #disordered eating cw

[emirrart]

20,10,2023

You'll go through a million-and-one things, dear girl,

And I will not tell you one.

To scare you away, to make you fearful of the life you were so looking forward to living,

Would be a crime.

To tear away the time you have, to fill it with worry instead of play,

Would be a sin.

I will carry your burdens, dear baby.

All you must do,

Is stay You.

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[timberfigure]

Eventually, your roots grew into my spine. They found water and they became strong. I became your lifeblood and I hadn't asked for that. You put me here. You put me beneath you and as your source.

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