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fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s all the blood in my mouth screams devastatingly desperate, miserable girl.
[text id: the skin of the girl i could have been rests under my nails. / she hurts me. / i hurt her back.]
#fatima aamer bilal#all the blood in my mouth screams devastatingly desperate miserable girl#poetry#literature#poeticstories#poem#yearning#longing#poetry collective#web weaving#girlhood#daughterhood#writing#words words words#typography#literary#lit#art#book quotations#book quotes#sad thoughts#taylor swift#bts#franz kafka#sylvia plath#lana del rey#mitski#pheobe bridgers#mahmoud darwish#self loathing
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Frida Kahlo, from a letter wr. c. November 1933, featured in The Letters of Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas
#dark academia#quotes#spilled words#spilled thoughts#dark aesthetic#text#book quotes#words#words words words#dark acadamia aesthetic#poet#poetry#dark academia aesthetic#academia aesthetic#chaotic academia#classic academia#light academia aesthetic#soft academia#romantic academia#excerpts#writings#literature#prose#fragments#selections#typography#prose collection
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Kim Addonizio, from Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; “You Were”
#kim addonizio#flowers#love#excerpts#writings#literature#poetry#fragments#selections#words#quotes#poetry collection#typography
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Eat Clean
#quotes#tumblr quotes#words#tumblrians#quoteoftheday#literary quotes#inspirational quotes#writing#motivational quotes#poetry#quote#sayings#words of wisdom#life quotes#prose#meaningful quotes#daily quotes#thoughts#aesthetic quotes#quote collection
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Natalie Wee, Least of all
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Happy Book-a-versary to Ellis Elliott!
It’s just about one year since Ellis’ book, the first Old Scratch Press book, was released. Here are a few poems for you to dip your toes into: Gosh, this is such a lovely collection. And right now it is FREE for the month of July, 2024! Get your free copy (eBook, or audiobook) HERE. Congratulations Ellis on one year! And thanks for all your contributions to Old Scratch Press. Follow Ellis
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#bookaversary#Break in the Field#Ellis Elliott#free audiobook#free book#free eBook#Old Scratch Press#poetry#Poetry Collective
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Sylvia Plath, from Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices [ID in alt text]
#sylvia plath#poetry#sylvia plath: the collected poems#***#not me tagging this wrong - at least it's all correct now
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not sure if anyone is interested in this but here is a list of the most joyfully vital poems I know :)
You're the Top by Ellen Bass
Grand Fugue by Peter E. Murphy
Our Beautiful Life When It's Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro
Everything Is Waiting For You by David Whyte
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Is Alive! by Emily Sernaker
Instructions for Assembling the Miracle by Peter Cooley
Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
Barton Springs by Tony Hoagland
Footnote to Howl by Allen Ginsberg
Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman
Tomorrow, No, Tomorrower by Bradley Trumpfheller
At Last the New Arriving by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
To a Self-Proclaimed Manic Depressive Ex-Stripper Poet, After a Reading by Jeannine Hall Gailey
In the Presence of Absence by Richard Widerkehr
Chillary Clinton Said 'We Have to Bring Them to Heal' by Cortney Lamar Charleston
Midsummer by Charles Simic
Today by Frank O'Hara
Naturally by Stephen Dunn
Life is Slightly Different Than You Think It Is by Arthur Vogelsang
Ode to My Husband, Who Brings the Music by Zeina Hashem Beck
The Imaginal Stage by D.A. Powell
Lucky Life by Gerald Stern
Beginner's Lesson by Malcolm Alexander
Presidential Poetry Briefing by Albert Haley
A Poem for Uncertainties by Mark Terrill
On Coming Home by Lisa Summe
G-9 by Tim Dlugos
Five Haiku by Billy Collins
The Fates by David Kirby
Upon Receiving My Inheritance by William Fargason
Variation on a Theme by W. S. Merwin
Easy as Falling Down Stairs by Dean Young
Psalm 150 by Jericho Brown
Pantoum for Sabbouha by Zeina Hashem Beck
ASMR by Corey Van Landingham
A Welcome by Joanna Klink
From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee
At Church, I Tell My Mom She’s Singing Off-Key and She Says, by Michael Frazier
Hammond B3 Organ Cistern by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Sorrow Is Not My Name by Ross Gay
You Can't Have It All by Barbara Ras
We Were Emergencies by Buddy Wakefield
To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably In the Next Stall by Kim Addonizio
Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller
#ill probs add to this later#this is mostly for me bc sometimes i just want a collection of happy poems#poetry
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does anyone else love stickers but never use them because you're too afraid to waste them.
#autistic things#actually autistic#neurodivergent#spilled thoughts#spilled words#lesbian#spilled ink#spilled writing#spilled feelings#wlw longing#sapphic love#wlw post#spilled poetry#kidcore#sfw agere#word post#text post#stickers#sticker collection#words#dark academia#light academia#literature#inner child#writers on tumblr#poets on tumblr#wlw op#femme lesbian#attachment issues#feelings
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Sometimes, I cry so hard I can feel it in my ribs. / I feel like the real me is backed into a corner inside me
— Ama Asantewa Diaka, from "Saturday Evening WhatsApp Message," Woman, Eat Me Whole
#quote#ama asantewa diaka#poetry#woman eat me whole#out of my collection#saturday evening whatsapp message
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God, that’s so bohemian.
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fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice.’
[text id: my fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase. / i am always ready to leave. / there is not a single room in this world where i belong.]
#fatima aamer bilal#i am an observer but not by choice#poetry#literature#poeticstories#poetry collection#typography#words words words#yearning#longing#parent issues#girlhood#dark academia#web weaving#art#bts#franz kafka#sylvia plath#book quotations#lana del rey#mitski#hozier#pheobe bridgers#poem#prose#anne carson#jane austen#mahmoud darwish#fiction#fantasy
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Bilal Al-Shams, Sacrifice
#excerpts#writings#literature#prose#fragments#selections#words#quotes#typography#prose collection#dark academia#spilled words#spilled thoughts#dark aesthetic#text#book quotes#words words words#dark acadamia aesthetic#poet#poetry#dark academia aesthetic#academia aesthetic#chaotic academia#classic academia#light academia aesthetic#soft academia#romantic academia
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Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Instructions for Traveling West”
#joy sullivan#homesick#life#longing#excerpts#writings#literature#poetry#fragments#selections#words#quotes#poetry collection#typography
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#quotes#tumblr quotes#words#tumblrians#quoteoftheday#literary quotes#inspirational quotes#writing#motivational quotes#poetry#quote#sayings#words of wisdom#life quotes#prose#meaningful quotes#daily quotes#thoughts#aesthetic quotes#quote collection
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Ritual Is Journey, Chris Abani
#suuuuch a good collection tbh im fucking devouring it#words#chris abani#smoking the bible#poetry#nr#dante.jpg
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