#nearly poetry
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Anna Quindlen
Franz Kafka
Shannon Wiersbitzky, What Flowers Remember
Anna de Noailles, tr. By Norman R. Sharpiro, from “Your Hidden Fleshly Grace"
Shirley Jackson, “Raising Demons"
Katherine Paterson
#February#February is nearly always melancholy.#literature#poetry#dark academia#dark academia aesthetic#poets and writers#parallels#classic literature#romantic academia#web weaving#February parallels#sorry for the bony elbows#franz kafka#Anna Quindlen#Shannon Wiersbitzky#What Flowers Remember#Shirley Jackson#“Raising Demons"#Katherine Paterson
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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
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If you ever think, "This book is so horrible. How was it ever published?"
Just remember:
Commercial publishers do not pick books because they're good. They pick books they think they can sell.
And those are, unfortunately, sometimes two very different things.
#sorry bae that tiktok star's crappy poetry is not nearly as good as yours#yours deserves a wide audience bc it's really good#i hope the stars align someday
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Nearly a Valediction
by Marilyn Hacker
You happened to me. I was happened to
like an abandoned building by a bull-
dozer, like the van that missed my skull
happened a two-inch gash across my chin.
You were as deep down as I’ve ever been.
You were inside me like my pulse. A new-
born flailing toward maternal heartbeat through
the shock of cold and glare: when you were gone,
swaddled in strange air I was that alone
again, inventing life left after you.
I don’t want to remember you as that
four o’clock in the morning eight months long
after you happened to me like a wrong
number at midnight that blew up the phone
bill to an astronomical unknown
quantity in a foreign currency.
The U.S. dollar dived since you happened to me.
You’ve grown into your skin since then; you’ve grown
into the space you measure with someone
you can love back without a caveat.
While I love somebody I learn to live
with through the downpulled winter days’ routine
wakings and sleepings, half-and-half caffeine-
assisted mornings, laundry, stock-pots, dust-
balls in the hallway, lists instead of longing, trust
that what comes next comes after what came first.
She’ll never be a story I make up.
You were the one I didn’t know where to stop.
If I had blamed you, now I could forgive
you, but what made my cold hand, back in prox-
imity to your hair, your mouth, your mind,
want where it no way ought to be, defined
by where it was, and was and was until
the whole globed swelling liquefied and spilled
through one cheek’s nap, a syllable, a tear,
was never blame, whatever I wished it were.
You were the weather in my neighborhood.
You were the epic in the episode.
You were the year poised on the equinox.
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WHO IS TO BLAME? ARE FISH AT FAULT FOR DYING? AM I AT FAULT FOR DREAMING?
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how to stay blameless and docile, become a body of water
(A5 zine created by me for a local 24hr zine making challenge)
#my art#zine#original zine#collage#not quite poetry but nearly there#I didn’t really proofread anything so it’s kind of janky and confusing but I liked it so I kept it
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On one level the book is about the life of a woman who is hardly more than a token in a great epic poem, on another it’s about how history and context shape how we are seen, and the brief moment there is to act between the inescapable past and the unknowable future.
Perhaps to write Lavinia Le Guin had to live long enough to see her own early books read in a different context from the one where they were written, and to think about what that means.
-Jo Walton
#thinking of how her last four novels between 2004 and 2008 show a progressive blossoming of interest in classical literary traditions#following nearly half a century's worth of a career where she seems to actively avoid the influence of classical or medieval europe#idk. but i think this explains annals of the western shore as much as lavinia.#she gets so interested in what it means to share the same stories across space and time (and class and gender and nationality)#to be united in a community by having the same poetry#and in such an obvious way thinking about classics as a discipline is an incredible way to work through that#and i do think its an interest that must come out of having witnessed her own work unite people in community across time#if you're talking about the way stories and poems bring people together across time...#i read the texts passed on to me by renaissance humanists and 19th century philologists and byzantine monks and late antique scribes...#and they're the same across time and space but they're also not#and to have seen her own work reach people across space and time and be the same but also not... that must have been incredible#so: did living long enough to see her own early books read in a different context and to think about what that means#drive her to think about classical literature as she clearly was for the better part of a decade?#mine#reception#anyway i gotta think about this and email [redacted] tomorrow
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got carried away with a warm-up doodle because I was thinking too hard about minekata, as one does
#crime boys#my art#can't believe ishin made me like him#did you know that hijikata wrote a bunch of poetry#some of it was about plum blossoms#this may or may not be relevant to the currently-running fic B)#I meant to illustrate the 2(!) new chapters I have up but you know how it goes#I need to get back into drawing I miss colouring things :')#also can't believe it's been nearly 2 years since I finished ishin and i still have absolutely terminal brainrot about it
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april 7 2024 // portraiture
#prompt: portrait#oh hey look it's another lie date dksjfghs#it's okay! it's fine! haha#companion piece to 'taxidermy' from escapril 2022#reblogging her right after i post this <3#anyway! delighted with these images. shout out personal growth and self-love#and not being NEARLY as mentally ill as i was in the spring of 2022 🫡#poems about life#poems about beauty#poetry#poem#poems#poets on tumblr#napowrimo#poems and poetry#escapril#poetsandwriters#escapril 2024
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the applicant, sylvia plath // revolutionary girl utena
#rgu#revolutionary girl utena#himemiya anthy#utena tenjou#utenanthy#utena x anthy#akio ohtori#kyouichi saionji#mamiya chida#souji mikage#hi *drops this after nearly 6 months of silence and then runs back into the shadows*#this edit has been in my mind forever#i dont usually make anything but i read this poem by sylvia plath and was struck by a very specific vision#the poem itself is so reminiscent of the dueling system and AUGH THE OBJECTIFICATION OF BOTH SIDES#it is my personal headcanon that anthy has read every single poem of sylvia plath's and she feels very very deeply about them#go and read the full poem if you can it is so insightful as all of her works are#my first edit so feedback is appreciated! i couldnt figure out how to export the images without killing the quality bc my laptop is shit ;-;#poetry#edit#utena edit#web weaving
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12yro me obsessed with eroticism in poetry after Portuguese classes about poetry: *writes an erotic poem about women for my Portuguese homework*
My teacher:
My mum seeing it after: Me:
#neurodivergent#asd#poetry#school stories#but tbf#my teacher absolutely supported the heck out of me and pushed me to keep writing it#gay kids#its the neurodivergency#i had no clue#lgbtq#my mum nearly slapped the gay out of me lol#tumblr memes#meme
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Happy birthday TS Elliot. I never liked your poetry
#my AP lit teacher in high school was obsessed with him and so we read just bucketfulls of his work for that class#and i disliked it so much that it almost convinced me that i disliked poetry as a medium altogether#he is. unnecessarily obtuse and not nearly as clever as he thinks he is#just my two cents#sorry for putting more negativity out into the world#i saw that it was his birthday and couldn't resist#we're not quite at Hardy levels of loathing but we're at least in the same county#pontifications and creations
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i miss my husband <- guy who has to go to the store before he can sit on the computer and kiss elliott sdv
#he's so. augh 🥺💘#i am so fucking easy any poetry person can say one nice thing about me and i will fall in love#idk there's just something about words as a form of art. can i expose myself. i nearly started crying last week when my friend played a song#her soundcloud rapper bf wrote about her. that's like. oh my god. he loves her.#anyways i love most sdv spouses (esoecially harvey) but elliott just has such a special place in my heart#i know sdv characters dont have much going on but i am so in love with all his few pixels and lines its embarrassing#leevi liveblogs
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on bpd & splitting
#citruart#personal#comic#poetry#bpd#actually borderline#as always: dont treat this as vent art treat it as artistic expression. interact if you wish etc etc#honestly wasnt sure if to post this but like#there is not NEARLY enough art about bpd from our pov#(at least not that i could find and i want to see it expressed more) (please show it to me if you know where it is)#i really really really hope i was able to capture that internal conflict. that any of you can feel this too. even if you dont have bpd#i saw some art that made me feel so much and i want to do that too
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snippet from my translation of du fu's 'song of the army carts' (兵車行)
(original: 君不見青海頭，古來白骨無人收， 新鬼煩冤舊鬼哭，天陰雨濕聲啾啾)
#my translations#du fu#chinese poetry#translated this baby while watching gmmtv commit crimes against women in the background lmao#love it when du fu starts talking about ghosts 🤩#love it slightly less when he writes a poem nearly 40 lines long full of complaints about the overgrown borders between farmers’ fields 🤔#but we persevere!#杜甫
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Far Too Sweet
A sickening something lives in my throat
It makes my neck bulge, and I start to choke
I pray that it goes, though I know it won’t
It has been there ever since I first woke
A gap in reason, and in my insides
They are what it causes, and where it hides
Hard to breathe, yet even harder to think
Choking on my blood – thick and black, like ink
Always comes back, after I swallow it
Teeth rotten black, for it’s all sickly sweet
Can’t find a way, to stop feeling like it
Tongue burnt away, for it’s all far too sweet
A sickening something squirms in my throat
I claw at my neck, so that I won’t choke
It evades my fingers, will not be caught
My collar turns red, as it starts to soak
A billowing smoke, caused by doubts and fears
Spews up and out my throat, then disappears
Wipes the slate clean, gone is thought and worry
Erases the sight, that was once blurry
Without regard for myself, or for it
My lips are scarred, for it’s all sickly sweet
I hear words hushed, which I fear to repeat
My jaw is crushed, for it’s all far too sweet
A sickening something feasts in my throat
It constantly grows, and it makes me choke
My neck follows suit, as it starts to bloat
Airway blocked up by all the ink and smoke
A pit yawns open, awaiting my fall
If I were to beg, would that help at all?
My wounds yawn open, at touch of my own
My body sags – cold and heavy like stone
I am untouched, and yet, I have been hit
My gums, all cut, for it’s all sickly sweet
Lost on this street, though I grew up on it
Now, I can’t eat, for it’s all far too sweet
#what's this? sequel poem????#not (nearly) as good as the original tbh#none the matter#tried being very visceral with this one#more than I usually do#oh I wonder what being far too sweet compared to the previous one could mean ah hmm#i really do love the idea of ink being blood and i don't think I explored that in this poem well#but pretend that I did. thanks#inner rhyme my beloved#used (here) sparingly but still. it's one of my favourite things in poetry ever#poetry on tumblr#poetry#writing#poem#original poem#aspiring writer#poemblr#poets on tumblr#signed; fa
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while we’re all talking about the z-lib takedown -- I thought I’d share my go-to spot for cheaper books: BookOutlet.
it’s definitely not the same as having thousands of books and your fingertips for free, but it’s a good alternative to traditional bookstore prices. I’ve had carts of 20+ books for under $200CAD -- and they’re having a black friday sale right now! They sell minor misprints/excess prints at super discounted prices.
I know that right now, it’s only available in Canada and the US, but there’s probably a similar site for folks from other areas?
#this isn't an ad (i don't have nearly enough followers for that lol)#i just wanted to share something that might be helpful for folks#the zlibrary takedown is so devastating tho. how am i going to read the contemporary poetry i crave at 3am now#anyways#zlibrary
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