#Spoken Words & Poetry

[jetleparti]

I made some poems about America; this one, recorded, is called Ramble.

[ourrace-sexraceandculture]

Cherlynne Theresa Thigpen (Dec 1948 - Mar 2003), American actress of stage and screen.

[biboomerangboi]

People will get upset about poetry being a dying art and then will ignore almost all modern music with complex rhythm and lyricism because of classism and racism.

Like to say poetry isn’t dead they’ll have to admit that the best modern American poets are black people speaking in perfect iambic pentameter and critiquing the government.

Like don’t let your school lie to you poetry is supposed to be a spoken art form.

Some of the most famous poems have instrumental pieces to accompany them but they will literally go out of the way to not study songwriting as poetry.

Because if they do discuss someone like Hozier with W. B. Yeats they would then have to discuss Kendrick Lamar and Robert Frost and that would let you all know that those guys have more in common than they want you to realise and erase the myth that intellectualism is something only for the privileged. 

[hauxicrook]

Someone said to me, you can live without love—

But then I went like—

Love is not just the love you see in the movies,

It’s the warmth of a mother’s embrace,

The pride in a father’s eyes,

The tiny hands that one day will call you "mine."

Love is not just candlelit dinners,

It’s the fire in your soul for what you do,

The rhythm in a song that feels like home,

The words in a book that understand you.

Love is in friendships that feel like family,

In late-night talks and laughter that never fades,

In a hand that holds yours when the world feels heavy,

In knowing someone, somewhere, always stays.

So tell me again, can you really live without love?

Or is it just that you forgot—

It’s everywhere, in everything,

And it’s been with you all along.

[haveyouheardthisband]

[dangerouslyfurrydragon]

I love people who are confident and highly aware of their worth, but highly humble too and don't look down on anyone.

[sxrgripp]

I said, "No"

and it was political

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[soulinkpoetry]

“Who was I before I cared what you think?”

Credit to the rightful owner.

A poem for people pleasers.

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[tiredsoundsofagnes]

LYDIA LUNCH / MICHAEL GIRA - HARD ROCK (1984)

[kzlatkova]

Write me secret codes, and notes, and pages.

In letters, and ramblings and doodles.

On a gold foiled card, or brown paper cardboard.

On a ketchup stained napkin, or rain soaked newspaper.

On a pamphlet corner, a calendar square, or an old shred of giftwrap.

On a receipt for onions, an invoice for tires, or a greasy burger king bag.

Write me anything.

And I will love every sentence, word, sylable and coma.

I will love them, because they are yours.

And because by your hand, all of it, becomes ours.

[cocoabuttavasa]

you are too full of life and love to be half loved by someone. you deserve a love that feels satiating for your spirit. you deserve a love that makes you feel seen. you deserve a love that makes you feel heard. you deserve a love that listens and a love that is patient. you deserve a love that is kind and a love that feels warm. you deserve a love that makes your heart explode and a love that sends shivers down your spine. you deserve a love that takes the time to study you, that takes the time to understand your mind. you deserve a love that is patient and compassionate. you deserve a love that grows old. you deserve a love that doesn’t judge but instead accepts you wholeheartedly; flaws and all. you deserve a love that sends tingles through your whole body and leaves butterflies swarming in your stomach. you deserve a love that gives you 80 on the days that you can only give 20. you deserve a love that sends you into overdrive at the slightest thought of their touch. you deserve a love that lasts. you see how you simply read this, you deserve a love that is simple and extraordinary all in one. you deserve to be felt, you deserve to be loved. you deserve love.

[mentalnote1]

Sculpting Tears ~Poetry

If I could sculpt myself a tear

I’d make it audible

Allowing even the deaf to hear

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If I could sculpt myself a tear

I’d paint it purple

Signifying royalty

And make all the blue disappear

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If I could sculpt myself a tear

I’d relinquish loneliness

And mix this liquid with a prayer

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If I could sculpt myself a tear

I’d give it an automatic reset

So that it would never be in need of repair

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If I could sculpt myself a tear

I would never create it

Cold

And salty

Like

This wicked world

[edmond-monet]

being trans is a bit like

running hands over yourself and thinking

“i cannot wait for there to be a scar there

in the place of something else”

to know that all that will be left is the mark

a tangible reminder of how the creator wronged you

and how you made it right

[spoiledsunflowers]

On Choosing to Recover

It's A Wonderful Life // Boy Meets World, Shawn Hunter, 6x13 // The Princess Diaries by Carrie Fisher // 3mjaethe4rtist on instagram // Songs A Siren Won't Sing by Cameron Beck // 28 by Zach Bryan // Popp Butterfly Conservatory, Oneonta, New York, Summer by Neil Hilborn.