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write high, edit drunk or whatever Hemingway said idk

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so I don't think I've ever mentioned this on this blog but I have read between 30 and 40 books of poetry. So if anyone who sees this are fans of the genre/looking for recommendations/want to get into the genre but don't know where to start...hit me up! I've read poetry from ancient times (Sappho/The Poetic Edda) to the "classics" (Walt Whitman/Shakespeare/Emily Dickenson) to modern poetry (Rupi Kaur/Amanda Lovelace/etc.) I am always down to talk about it so send me an ask if poetry is something you're interested in :)

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Reblog if

It’s 104% okay to come to your DM and just say, “Hi, can we be friends?” And then start asking you random questions.

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let your imagery be a little violent let your imagery be a little weird let your imagery be a little sexual and by god let it be sacrilegious. at this point if someone looks at it weird im just going to assume theyve got the art-consuming palette of a four year old. stop making artistic chicken nuggets when you could be cooking an actual meal just because some people cant handle the flavor doesnt mean it shouldnt exist. damn

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I am so tired

but my heart still pounds

pounds away

maybe if I keep on walking

I'll arrive home

one of these days

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mutuals. c'mere. this is a checkpoint. i am checking in. i am wrapping you in a blanket and giving you a nice warm drink. also some pretty flowers. it will be ok.

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you have all this sadness inside of you and you don't know where to put it

you try to bottle it in your tears

then run away from them in dreams but sleep evades you until the small hours of the night

you're afraid of tomorrow afraid of carrying the pain for yet another day

so you try to talk to your friends eat dinner and laugh and forget about the demons in the shadows

you try to spend time alone and listen to your heart be kind and not pick yourself apart

but no matter how hard you try

it's a never drying well and even though you attempt to brush it off and scatter it in the corners around you

in the end

you still have all this sadness inside of you and nowhere to put it

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atrophy

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I do not know where I'm standing

if I close my eyes

I almost feel like I'm falling

threading through your lies

where there is no place for me to land

safely, I wish you would hold me

tightly, is that not what you want

even if I try I cannot see

where am I standing

in relation to you, my darling

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Reblog if it's okay to start talking to you.

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I can't with the sex bots anymore for fuck sake does anyone know some trick to get rid of them?

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Constancy

Even if long bygone May my lowly words At least devotedly Linger in your heart Every now and then

wpm

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waterborn, natasha trethewey | nietzsche | archbudzar on instagram | a great hope fell, emilio dickinson | the third hour of the night, frank bidart

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morning！

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a self-portrait in letter by anne sexton // “fare”, devotions by mary oliver // letters from tove by tove jansson // eightbitstories on twitter //the magical year of thinking by joan didion // wrong side of a fistfight by ashe vernon // on earth we’re briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong // little women (2019) // unknown

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—love as religion

litany in which certain things are crossed out by richard siken // psyche revived by cupid's kiss by antonio canova // jorge luis borges // take me to church by hozier // kültür kava on twitter // katherine phillips // you are jeff by richard siken // victor hugo // nickie zimov // love is my religon by ziggy marley

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Sedated

I am sedated by your touch;

Moved to lethargy by your kisses.

For what more could I want in this life

But you by my side?

Your closeness

No matter what else comes?

This drug in my veins

Lulls me from all insecurities

Into your sweet embrace.

I could stay here forever

Under the spell of your love.

-D.H.