#worm poems

[haystackpancake]

Worm: a thing that exists

There's an astronomical aberration, unknowable is its name. So, for Irony's sake, say worm (not snake; we'll keep the imagery lame). This worm has an end, an inside and out, rippley skin and leathery snout. This worm is quite plump, but shrively too— which happens to rhyme with point of view. This worm consumes This worm gestates This worm emmits This worm pulsates

yet

The cruelest lesson we learn from worm comes from question most kind. 'Fyou're something like me ya'ask what she seeks, but wormy, my dear, is blind. x'( This poor omnipotent presence pitifully slithers through dirt— dirt of the mind, of space and of time —unbothered by ideas of worth.

So next time the the sidewalk is dry next time the coiled lay died turn to the worm, his palace of sky and all's left will be all right. alternative title, God is a worman

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[justthesauce]

Wrote some 3am worm poems last night this morning

Or as I like to call them:

Woems

#poetry #worms #worm poems #one is sort of 'what if the conquerer worm didnt see human life as futile and the universe as a singular event?' #the other is titled 'behold the worm' and I like it very much

[luthienne]

jack gilbert, “islands and figs” / richard siken, “the worm king’s lullaby”

#jack gilbert #collected poems of jack gilbert #islands and figs #richard siken #war of the foxes #the worm king’s lullaby #words #poetry #typography #parallels

[sanguineterrain]

You see it online, and you think it'll be silly. A question that'll crack Jason up. One he'll ask his siblings to fuck with them. So you slide in next to him on the couch, lay your head on his shoulder, and ask.

Jay, would you love me if I was a worm?

Jason looks at you. You smile, teeth holding your lip to keep the laugh in. You expect him to tickle your side, plaster you to the cushion. Is that one of those internet trends? I swear...

Jason doesn't smile, though. Jason looks at you, his eyes serious.

You love a worm now, he says. Of course I'd love you if you were a worm.

You blink. What is he talking about?

Jay, what do you mean?

Only worms come outta the dirt. Robin was light, but Hood is mud. And you love me. You make sure I eat and drink and sleep. You love me when I'm shriveled up. When I miss the dirt. When I feel cut in half. You hold a worm in your hands and kiss me goodnight.

And here is where he draws you close. Brands your cheek with his breath. You shudder.

I would love you if you slept in the dirt. I would love you if you couldn't work or make spaghetti or change the channel. I'd buy you everything you needed and I make a damn good marinara and I'd build you a little worm-sized remote. I would love you if you were split in half. I'd love both halves of you equally. You do that every day and make it look damn easy when I know it's not. I'd love you no matter what shape you took.

You'll spend the rest of your life convincing Jason he isn't a worm. That loving him isn't loving mud.

Tonight, you hold him tightly, kiss his chest, and take solace in the fact that if you were a worm, Jason Todd would kiss you on all five of your hearts every night.

#jason todd x reader #jason todd x you #jason todd fanfiction #red hood x reader #red hood x you #red hood fanfiction #*i was thinking about the worm poem from tiktok and how jason would respond. i think he feels rather wormy.

[alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry]

If I had Three Lives by Sarah Russel

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[ghost-in-a-cup]

Would you love me if I was a worm

Coming in third

Doing my best

Praying to not get eaten by a bird

I joined this race

And others may be ahead

But I'll do my best

And leave the rest

#bug race #would you love me if i was a worm #poem #poetry #spilled ink #spilled prose #spilled thoughts #writeblr #writing #polls #poll #worm #snail #caterpillar #i personally voted for snail

[its-a-beautful-day]

It's been awhile since I made another digital collage!

thank you @soul-of-a-w0rm for the inspiration

And thank you @goobersplat and @oceantoyz for the transparent stickers to add charm to the piece

#star's art #my art #artist on tumblr #bug art #Digital collage #Crab #Worms #Frog #Bugs #Collage #collage poem #Poem #Ocean #Sea #Dirt #Hope #No clowning on this post like yall did on my first digital collage #I don't want to have to mute this one too

[penlopon]

a love letter to caterpillars (and the things that they become)

poem and version without words beneath the cut :)

#penlopon art #digital art #digital artist #art #insects #moth #caterpillar #tomato horn worm #white lined sphinx moth #tomato #poetry #poems #penlopoems #this was fun! very new and took a while but i’m fairly proud of it :) #i have a weird connection with insects #these caterpillars specifically #so it was just so fun to draw it

[boxoftheskyking]

Ok I really liked that Eliza Cook worm poem and so I unexpectedly spent my evening making a song. Sorry for my not warmed up voice

#me singing #run away #the worm poem

[ghost-inacup]

Would you love me if I was a worm?

You say yes without a thought

I bite my tongue and stop from asking if you would love me as myself

Would you love me tarnished and blemished

With flaws and sins abound

With difficulties and insecurities

And days with madness wrought

Will you love me as myself

Difficult to handle and oh so human in my existence

Or would you like me to be a worm, uncomplicated

#worm #would you love me if i was a worm #poem #poetry #poetblr #emilia writes #writing #spilled ink #spilled quotes #writeblr #verse #free verse #freestyle #please rb its good for the soul and the hole

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

My modest collection of vintage poets and poetry.

#earthworm #worm #poem #vintage yearbook #vintage illustration #yearbook #illustration

[eileensdress]

A rare gift I’ve given you. But you didn’t want it.

The Knife, Mary Oliver/Hannibal NBC

#i know i posted something a long time ago that’s the knife and hannibal but I like this one better and it’s been a brain worm #so here have my worm #idk something about this poem and them does something to me i cannot explain #its the faggotry of it all #hannibal #nbc hannibal #hannibal nbc #mizumono #web weaving #<3

[petaltexturedskies]

How happy I am, daisies, to love you. How happy you are to be loved and found magical, like a secret.

Anne Sexton, from The Furies (The Fury Of Flowers And Worms) in " The Complete Poems Of Anne Sexton'

#anne sexton #the furies #the fury of flowers and worms #the complete poems of anne sexton #txt #poetry #poems

[ghost-infestation]

I Love You Anyway, a romantic poem by famous 17th century eccentric poet Mein

Once, beneath a bridge that's brittle there lived a guy who's very little so little was he, it turns out nobody heard his panicked shout when on the step of his abode, rather than his wife, the toad, a squirming worm wriggled inside into the hole in which they'd hide away from all the mean large things whose heavy boots them danger brings. The little guy beheld the worm which was snow-white, just like his s_____, and, trembling like a dry leaf he asked it what it did beneath this bridge, which was a private space, well-hidden from each other race. The worm, it squirmed, and in its face (or lack thereof, as was the case) the little guy, to his surprise, he saw a pair of toady eyes! For, in a bizarre twist of fate, his wife into a worm was made! He kissed the worm, and shouted "Hey! Don't fret, I love you anyway :)”

#poem #I lied I wrote this #worms #I love worms #worms love me #worm love <3

[burningvelvet]

“Lines to ⸻.” also known as “Sonnet to Byron” written by Percy Shelley (1821, fair-copied in 1822) and published posthumously. Shelley had threatened to give up writing due to his lack of success. Byron’s fame and Shelley’s great admiration for his recent works often frustrated Shelley and worsened his depression, despite Byron generally encouraging him. In an early draft below, Shelley began with the line “I am afraid these verses will not please you, but” before seemingly drawing over it with trees.

“If I esteemed you less, Envy would kill

Pleasure, and leave to Wonder and Despair

The ministration of the thoughts that fill

My mind, which, like a worm whose life may share

A portion of the unapproachable,

Marks your creations rise as fast and fair

As perfect worlds at the creator’s will,

And bows itself before the godhead there.

But such is my regard, that, nor your fame

Cast on the present by the coming hour

Nor your well-worn prosperity and power

Move one regret for his unhonoured name

Who dares these words. — the worm beneath the sod

May lift itself in worship to the God.”

The fair-copy was made about six months before Shelley, Edward Williams, and their boatman Charles Vivien all died in a sailing wreck during a storm while returning from visiting Lord Byron and Leigh Hunt. Thomas Medwin said that Byron never saw the poem, and it’s likely, given that it was never shared or published until long after Byron died (about two years after Shelley).

Sources: Percy’s handwritten draft from the Digital Bodleian Library, MS. Shelley adds. e. 17 p. 94 https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/0f0cba27-6264-4c4e-8b03-3a83c700c1f5/surfaces/1d16ddc7-3cf9-4c96-b435-36f2077168d1/ - Percy’s handwritten fair copy from the British Library Digitized Manuscripts Collection, Zweig MS 188 https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_188&index=16 - Transcriptions from The Manuscripts of the Young Romantics: Percy Shelley, vol. 8 (Garland, 1997) https://archive.org/details/faircopymanuscri0008shel/page/249/mode/1up?q=Sonnet+

#im just fascinated by the odd dynamics of their social group #my favorite depressed & insecure writers #he literally called byron a god and himself a worm #oddly enough this is not the first time shelley calls himself a worm compared to byron - see: ‘the sun has extinguished the glow worm’ #poetry #english literature #literature #percy shelley #lord byron #the romantics #romanticism #dark academia #writing #history #1800s #poems #romantics #bookblr #reading #english #lit #geneva squad #the geneva squad #books #poets #regency #19th century #english studyblr #english poetry #romantic poets

[alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry]

Ada Limon ~ Joint Custody

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