#LifeinPoetry

[the-haiku-bot]

— Ollie Schminkey, from

“he yells for me, and i go

to him,” Dead Dad Jokes

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

my father is a dying man. dying, meaning, helpless. man, meaning, violent. and what do you do with a helpless violence except fetch it its glasses?

— Ollie Schminkey, from "he yells for me, and i go to him," Dead Dad Jokes

[azurecake16]

on healing and humanity

twitter (@.stardripiv)-via @.sarakleijn // untitled (ciøta) // I Sat in the Sun (Jane Hirshfield)- via poets.org // untitled (Lu) // You are not Just Anything (Kevin Kantor) -via @.lifeinpoetry// Central Park (unknown) // tumblr post (@.daisies-on-a-cup)

A treat for @deityoftherain as a part of the @mcytblrholidayexchange :D

Based on star’s traffic supperpowers AU (and specifically Gem) which you can read here! Happy Holidays!

[anxious-witch]

— Rachel Mennies, from “April 18, 2017,” The Naomi Letters (via lifeinpoetry)

[mysecretdsmpblog]

MCYT Halloween Webweave for @ultra-raging-ghost

Part One of Three Sources Below Cut:

BBH Doodle by @starscollide0 Inktober Day 04 by @jmfenner91 (Patreon) Spin Cycle by @dsamuelsonart (Website) Fear No Evil by Superphazed posted by @ex0skeletal-undead teef by me Close-ups by @wipormont (Inprnt) chaw var by @sloppjockey (Etsy) Insomnia by Vincenzo Lamolinara posted by @ex0skeletal-undead pov: you're about to be eaten by your revived self by @otterward Parca XXXV by Álvaro Fernández González posted by @ex0skeletal-undead Untitled by Sebastian Smarowski posted by @ex0skeletal-undead bruh, just give him back his kids by @winter-mornings (Redbubble) skins posted by @bigboobyhalo you know how it is with spaghetti by @whydoihavetoart Untitled Painting by A Bearded Artist posed by @ex0skeletal-undead

I was unable to find the source for the fanart of Badboyhalo with a halo and a blue flower in his hair. I lost where I had the source saved somewhere in-between drafts. I have looked far and wide for a couple of weeks now, but odds are it's easily findable and I am just stupid. If you know or are the artist of the fanart please feel free to message or reply to this and I will give you/them credit.

I just found this really, really old picture of you posted by @sainthel Edge of Darkness by Ben J posted by @ex0skeletal-undead Untitled by @snopiah you can't make homes out of human beings by Warsan Shire posted by @blocky-tides I take out my throat / but the grief remains by Alessandra Lynch posted by @lifeinpoetry reblogged by pocketevil (...No, I don't know why I saved the post like this. Honestly, I don't even know how I saved it like it is.) Hunter's Poem written by Hunter Hancock posted by @situationlately You forgot something by @syn4k Think of me as a guide by Margaret Atwood posted by @quotespile

Notes: If I fucked up the credits lmk. There is no brain in my brain. It's Halloween. Odds are high.

((Also, lowkey there are two more webweaves for this exchange that are done. I just need to collect the credits for them. Watcher Grian Webweave 1 and 2 already exist I just need to have a minute to organize and post them.))

Why do I @ the creators? I think creators might like directly knowing where and when their works are transformed, if only because it's really cool to know someone liked your art that much. It also gives the creators an easy way to ask that I remove the art since they are directly notified. If you are a creator and for any reason want your picture or your @ removed, please send me an ask or message, and I'll try to respond in a timely manner.

@mcyt-halloween

[asoftepiloguemylove]

i will do as devils do. fall.

Sylvia Plath The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath / S. Osborn Blasphemies at the 5th Street Station / Kate Cayley Lent / retirementfund (on etsy) BEGOTTN HORROR PATCH / Ethel Cain Sun Bleached Files / Nicola Yoon The Sun is Also a Star / unknown

i. Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[ "I need a father. I need a mother. I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty." ]

ii. S. Osborn, Blasphemies at the 5th Street Station

[ " 'if there is a light then i am going to swallow it. if there is a god then i'm going to make him cry.' / - s. osborn, from 'blasphemies at the 5th street station,' published in The Rising Phoenix Review (via lifeinpoetry)" ]

iii. Kate Cayley, Lent

[ "When I think of God, I think of hiding. The way a child hides. In hope of being found." ]

iv. retirementfund, BEGOTTN HORROR PATCH

[ Black patch with a screenshot form the horror movie Begotten. A grainy black and white image of a woman standing as she looks down at something. "GOD IS DEAD / ALL HAIL NATURE" ]

v. Ethel Cain, Sun Bleached Files

[ "What I wouldn't give to be in Church this Sunday / Listening to the choir, so heartfelt, all singing / God loves you, but not enough to save you" ]

vii. Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star

[ "I wish I still felt that way. Growing up and seeing your parents flaws is like losing your religion. I don't believe in God anymore. I don't believe in my father either." ]

vii. unknown

[ Black and white drawing of a statue of a man looking upwards into the distance. "GOD ONLY LISTENS TO ME WHEN I SPEAK THROUGH SIN / IN TRANSLATION MY PRAYERS FALL FROM GRACE BUT I AM HEARD" ]

[librarycards]

tagged by @petesdragon to do my '6 favorite books of 2023,' but since it's Me, with more book recs than i know what to do with, i've switched it up a bit. these 6 books are favorites that have somehow gone unmentioned in my quarterly book rec posts from this year (1/2/3/4).

in selecting these, I prioritized (but didn't exclusively pick) books that i also feel haven't gotten sufficient acclaim/recognition in general. imo they're amazing reads, as my linked reviews suggest, but for some reason or another (in the case of perdido street station, this was legit an accident/oversight on my part lmao) didn't end up among my 36 total favorites.

the books:

Poupeh Missaghi, trans(re)lating house one

China Miéville, Perdido Street Station

Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

McKenzie Wark, Reverse Cowgirl

Gloria Susana Esquivel, tr. Robin Meyers, Animals at the End of the World

Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin

tagging some people below - because of this spin i put on the tag (which you're free to follow or ignore) i'm tagging ppl i know Do Book Things and may have extras to share, but everyone is welcome to do this tag and share it with me!!

@heavenlyyshecomes @aldieb @lifeinpoetry @fatehbaz @bioethicists @flameswallower @discworldwitches @r-ob-yn @girl-chunks @trans-axolotl @ghostzvne @boykeats

[laylaslibrary]

It is August: the true ending of a year. I’ve grown sick from trying to love who I am.

Carlie Hoffman, from “High Bridge Park,” published in Gulf Stream

(via lifeinpoetry)

[zeraf0]

i am the shape you made me. filth teaches filth.

sophokles, from elektra, an orestria: agamemnon by aiskhylos; elektra by sophokles; orestes by euriphides (tr. anne carson) [ from this post by lifeinpoetry ]

arthur & dutch on their way to the swamp to send a message to angelo bronte. (my favorite part of these shots is hosea's faint silhouette on the shady belle balcony, watching arthur and dutch leave camp)

[kacievvbbbb]

It is August: the true ending of a year. I’ve grown sick from trying to love who I am.

Carlie Hoffman, from “High Bridge Park,” published in Gulf Stream (via lifeinpoetry) Change August to October and watch me die trying to explain how this is Yuuji.

This is Yuuji walking around the ruins of Shibuya after the singularly worst night of his life, with an older brother he just found that tried to kill him but would now die for him;

trying to reconcile everything he has lost and become with the fact that there are so many people that love him and he doesn't deserve it

[lifeinpoetry]

Free Palestine Reading List

Haymarket Books: Free Ebooks for a Free Palestine!

Verso Books: Solidarity with Palestine: Free Resources and Further Reading

OR Books: THE FREE PALESTINE READING LIST

City Lights Books: Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha

[geryone]

‘y’all just have to read those posts’ i did a lot major with a concentration in poetry and have been so burnt out by the day job that i haven’t picked up a poetry collection in literal years. your fragments are the closest i get and i cherish them

I’ve been there!! I barely touched any books while in college & I had no time when I did my masters + teaching burnt me out so much!! I used to obsessively look through lifeinpoetry for quotes that touched me & it makes me so glad that what I post is helping you in a similar way!! Thank you so much!! It means a lot to me ❤️

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Solar eclipse from Chiapas, Mexico. Photo: Antonio Turok (1991). [Robert Scott Horton]

* * * *

"is trying this place, which feels like nowhere,

which is how the creation myth always begins, with emptiness waiting to be broken."

Adrienne Su, from “Ancestors,” published in 32 Poems 

(via lifeinpoetry)

[alive on all channels]

[neverneverland]

I leave, I leave— At the end of this story, I walk into the sea and it chooses not to drown me.

— Jihyun Yun (lifeinpoetry)

[anxious-witch]

— Gwen Benaway, from “Boys,” Holy Wild (via lifeinpoetry)

[wordsbysaraa]

There is a fate worse than death / and it's living to hear eulogies / for the person you could have been

—from Chorus, eds. Saul Williams, Dufflyn Lammers & Aja Monet (via lifeinpoetry)

@wordsbysaraa

[asoftepiloguemylove]

give me back my girlhood, it was mine first

unknown / @/apocryphics (on tumblr) / @/heartlikegold (on tumblr) / unknown / Ashe Vernon excerpt from Buried, "Not a Girl" / The Virgin Suicides (1999) dir. Sofia Coppola / unknown / Serge Ivanoff / Sally Wen Mao excerpt from Drop-kick Aria, "Mad Honey Symposium"

i. unknown

[ "A girl in the shape of a monster / A monster in the shape of a girl" ]

ii. @/apocryphics

[ Screenshot of a tumblr post by @/apocryphics. "girls will carry unimaginable primordial rage but still go about their day as if nothing is wrong and that is very sexy of us I think" ]

iii. @/heartlikegold

[ Screenshot of a tumblr post by @/heartlikegold. " 'girlhood rots between my teeth, a sickness so sweet it aches' / - SUGAR, SPICE & EVERYTHING NICE // d.s" ]

iv. unknown

[ Painting of a young girl in the process of braiding her blonde hair. She looks away from the viewer towards the right as she braids her hair towards the audience. ]

v. Ashe Vernon, Buried

[ "Isn't all that rage so ugly? And isn't it mine, still? Good god, isn't it mine?" ]

vi. Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides

[ Movie screencap of The Virgin Suicides. Hanna Hall (playing Cecilia Lisbon) las on a hospital bed wearing a blue gown. The subtitles read, "Obviously, doctor, you've never been a 13-year-old girl." ]

vii. unknown

[ "girlhood / 1. ripped stockings, smeared red lipstick, stolen lilac branches in our hands, scrapes from tree-climbing stinging our knees. a laughing moon to guide us home. the wild, wicked stars. the crimson fires of our heartbeats burning. so many secrets we keep like knives between our teeth. / 2. i'm made of fairydust and that moment of silence right before the thunderstruck sky breaks open with rain. i'm a breathing, bleeding body. i'm a breathing, bleeding soul. / 3. what prayers do we say when we think god isn't listening?" ]

viii. Serge Ivanoff

[ Cropped image of a painting by Serge Ivanoff . A woman stands in a room wearing a light pink dress. She folds her hands in front of her as she poses. ]

ix. Sally Wen Mao, Drop-kick Aria

[ Screenshot of a tumblr post by @/lifeinpoetry. "If i could do girlhood again, I'd ask / to be scarier. Less whimpering-more pyromanic / urges, more flirting with kerosene." ]