#Poetry about success

[writersbeware]

Discovery

Coins tumble, tumble out of hand a mixture of polished metal silver and copper jumbled, jumbled deep into the recesses of comfy couch mistakes made buried deep lie in wait amid cushions covered in brawny plaids speak of treasures locked in fertile sand surprises in the soil awake, awake thanks to spring’s sprinkled bath wash away layered dirt open panes for light to…

[trickstersaint]

fr though you have to write bad poetry. poems are not handed down to you fully formed by god they are things that you have to work on and practice your skill at creating. nobody would expect you to sit down at a pottery wheel and end up with a perfect vase with no practice. it's a skill! art is a learned thing!! you have to make the shitty little pots with dents and marks and your fingerprints all over them in order to get better. and you're allowed to be proud of those first little pots you made too

[elsaqueenofstress]

LAST ONE BORN IS NORMAL IS HAPPY IS FREE WINS

hasan minhaj, homecoming king / sing street (2016 + 2022) / little women (2019) / @/feefal_ on twitter / ferris bueller's day off (1986) / beef (2023) / the banshees of inisherin (2022) / jackie kay, "got you" / beth ann fennelly, "two sisters, one thinner, one better dressed" / michael torres, "my brother is asking for stamps" / the king of staten island (2020) / maggie stiefvater, the dream thieves / chelsea martin, "mcdonalds is impossible" / jonathan goldstein, ladies and gentlemen, the Bible!

[failbrothers]

“The Encounter” by Louise Glück

From The Triumph of Achilles (1985)

[makzimaal]

I get mean when i'm nervous, like a bad dog.

[home-for-artists]

If it didn't happen as you had hoped it would, why not just let it go for a few moments? Try to be content with where you are right now. What could be so wrong about not rushing all the stuff every once in a while?

[shivvy-roy]

succession 4x03/cause of death: fox news by tony hoagland

[fictionadventurer]

NaPoWriMo #30: A triolet and a quatern

The prompt was "a poem that starts at the ending of something and works backward to the beginning". I really wanted to write about a story with a tragic ending and the beauty along the way, but instead all I could come up with were refrains about the subject that I worked into these poetry forms.

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Is the story not worth telling If there's sorrow at the ending? If the journey is compelling Is the story not worth telling? Those whose days with life were swelling Could not know the doom impending Is the story not worth telling If there's sorrow at the ending?

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If at the end the hero fails Does it destroy the other tales? Are there not moments of glory Though a failure ends the story?

We still care for those first details If at the end the hero fails. The sorrow, striving, hope and love Before the doom falls from above

Worth much more than the final win Or failure from his fatal sin (If at the end the hero fails From following forbidden trails)

Are all the virtues so hard-won That linger when the tale is done What's beautiful and true prevails If at the end the hero fails

[oliviaemiley444]

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer

[squwhims]

YOU'RE JOKING!!!!

This is the girl again!!! Now that her exams, her concussion, and Christmas is over I have decided to stir the pot with her again, and I just very gently reminded her that, "hey, you flirted with me a couple months ago...do you remember that?" (she did not) (I have AGAIN been bolder than I meant to) but anyway, she was like, "I'll get back on that!"

BOULDER TO THE HEAD PERHAPS?!?!

So far she has only tried the English songs, but she'll get there. If I don't get a girlfriend out of this, I'll be fine. If I don't get a Joker Out fan out of this— what was all this for?!

[writersbeware]

Success isn’t Just a Dream

Success is an uneasy journey It depends upon hard work and determination.Passion supported by the willingness to take risks,But more than anything, it means standing tall When others are waiting for you to fail.Success must be rooted firmly in the soilSo that its branches can reach for the sky,And its Leaves can rustle in the wind, Reminding us that it is not a destination,But a guided…

[anxsity]

you are doing this to yourself

Heather Havrilesky, "Ask Polly: Help, I'm the Loneliest Person in the World!" // @.romanfuckingroy, "succession 'x-coded y-girl' diagnosis uquiz", roman-coded roman-girl result // Franny Choi, "Unlove Poem" // Silas Denver Melvin, "Love as an Act of Merciful Conquer"

[whoblewboobear]

I know it doesn’t pan out but good for Claudia for being like “we should just kill him.” Like yeah girl kill him PLEASE. If Lestat gets to be a little bitch, Claudia and Louis can and should be allowed to wanna kill him about it as a treat 🥰 also I am cheering every time Lestat shows up in a new robe. So far I’ve counted three. They’re all very cute he looks so cozy.

Time for the finale~

[nostalgia-tblr]

loki/william rufus fic, where bill explains that as the second son he has inherited england while big brother bob only got the duchy of normandy, ha ha ha.

[equalperson]

I do not deserve love or support from others / no worthiness or lovability / in anticipation of rejection / detach from others / they are untrustworthy

(base text: "fear of intimacy" on wikipedia)

[rise-my-angel]

Curious about your thoughts on the way marriage is handled in Westeros...highborn marriage that is...it's not very dissimilar to how it worked in historical Europe..but how do you feel about it...it's very foreign to today obviously...but say your father or other respected male family member negotiates a marriage for you, to man you either have never met or met only briefly...and you live in the North...something along the lines of House Tallhart or Cerwyn...but you end up being married to someone from say The Reach...something similar to House Tarly...clearly love, marriage, it's a massive component of the ASOIAF story and certainly your own writings...but I'm curious if you had personal thoughts you'd consider sharing.

I do have thoughts, because I'm sort of sick of seeing posts in this fandom treating the women in asoiaf like they are nothing helpless victims with no agency. Its infantilizing.

There's sort of no one way to look at it. I think there sometimes is a tendency to try and gauge your feelings about it on a level of how relatable it is to you as someone in the modern world. To us, people who've never lived in a society where arranged marriages are prominent in the way relationships work now, it can seem archaic from the outside.

That's typically where you get the side of things where people say women in asoiaf are only treated as broodmares and have no agency and are at the pure mercy of their husbands, and on one hand yes, of course a women can be married and abused at the hands of a bad husband and in that world there is no getting out of that.

But, like in history, the world of asoiaf has functioned on this system for thousands of years. It's a stable system for the world that they live in. And asoiaf shows us a lot of examples of how this sort of dynamic can play out.

Yes, Ned as the husband and Lord is in a higher position of power then Catelyn, but when we actually see the day to day functions of Winterfell, it's seen through Cat. She's walking around in charge, she is in an incredibly important position of power to the point she even has a say in what happens to Jon to a degree. Or you have Stannis and Selyse, two people where no love has been found but they still respect each other and support the other and by the fact that Shireen has grown to be a well adjusted and normal child shows that they clearly have done this right despite that. Or you mentioned the Tarlys, which Melessa seems to be a polar opposite to Randyl in their demeanors but when dinner goes sour in the way Randyl speaks to Sam, it clearly is important to Randyl that she got upset and left the table. Saying that he'd keep Gilly and the baby here specifically because it would make her happy.

It's just hard to say how I feel beacause theres no reason to look at it in a modern perspective. It's so incompatiable to compare them. I think I've made it clear in my writing that I tend not to critically judge the system in place in Westeros, but prefer exploring how one would navigate that system when its all theyve ever known. If I'm from a Northern house marrying into a house from the Reach, there's really only two things I'd have in my mind. Will my husband mistreat me, and will I come to love him?

Westeros couldn't function if all lords mistreated their wives, which means that a lot of these highborns were raised to understand that love might not be something you get to choose, but its something that can still happen. They know this is how their life in marriage will come to pass, and I think most characters in asoiaf arent critical of it because they have no reason to be. Which really means I would have no reason to be.

I've written two marriages, one both parties chose and one that was arranged. And some of my most fun was writing reader's marriage to Robb because even though they have a friendship established before hand, its fun to explore two people who have always known this arrangment would be how they get married and not be afraid to dive right into what that marriage would involve when it does happen.

Thats sort of how I see it, putting myself into this marriage, it's something I've always known and expected. Like a lot of women we see in asoiaf, I'd be eager to get to know the man I just married because the reality is that the duty comes first and then we have a lifetime to figure out how to fall in love. Sometimes it doesn't work like Stannis and Selyse, and sometimes it works out like Ned and Cat.

Obviously if you pick me up now and stick me into an arranged marriage in Westeros with no say, that's different. I've never been raised to think prepare for that sort of arrangment, but highborn women in asoiaf have been raised to prepare for it. So a lot of these people in the fandom treating them like perpetual victims are sort of babying them for something most of these women don't even think is an issue, let alone abnormal.

Maybe its because marriage is such a strong throughline of hotgw, but I just have a lot of thoughts about the way people infantilize women in this series as if they have zero agency in their lives.