#YouTube poetry

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

y'ever get haunted by the fear you will never write anything as beautiful as the US Steel Pipe Works Slag Dump Youtube Comment cuz hoo boy i sure do:

shoutout to you, youtube user mrc109, wherever you may be today

[liriostigre]

Brian Cox reads “If I Must Die” by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer.

Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike. This was the last poem he published.

[nasa]

Hurry! You Can Catch a Ride to Jupiter with NASA

Well, at least your name can.  

One of the planet Jupiter’s largest and most intriguing moons is called Europa. Evidence hints that beneath its icy shell, Europa hides an ocean of liquid water – more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined. In 2024, our Europa Clipper robotic spacecraft sets sail to take a closer look…and when it launches, your name can physically be aboard! Here’s how: 

NASA’s Message in a Bottle campaign invites people around the world to sign their names to a poem written by the U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. The poem connects the two water worlds — Earth, yearning to reach out and understand what makes a world habitable, and Europa, waiting with secrets yet to be explored.

The poem will be engraved on Europa Clipper, along with participants' names that will be physically etched onto microchips mounted on the spacecraft. Together, the poem and names will travel 1.8 billion miles to the Jupiter system.

Signing up is easy! Just go to this site to sign your name to the poem and get on board. You can send your name en español, too. Envía tu nombre aquí.

The Europa Clipper launch window opens in October 2024, but don’t wait – everyone’s names need to be received this year so they can be loaded onto the spacecraft in time. Sign up by Dec. 31, 2023.

We hope you’ll be riding along with us! Follow the mission at europa.nasa.gov.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space!

[irfanullashariff]

Sanctuaries Of Love By Irfanulla Shariff

[flum3n]

the universal experience of beginning 'pride and prejudice' (2005) with the opinion that matthew macfadyen as mr darcy is perfectly tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt you and ending it bewitched, body and soul.

[fixing-bad-posts]

some very real tweets from pierre poilievre 😌

[borninwinter81]

William Blake - an introduction for Good Omens fans

I have sent @neil-gaiman an ask regarding his feelings toward the poet/artist William Blake a couple of times, but no doubt due to the size of the poor man's inbox I haven't received a response. So I did a Google search to see if he's spoken about Blake before, and it did indeed come up with a fair few hits. I think you might enjoy seeing this Twitter post if you haven't already, the painting is from William Blake's illustrations to Paradise Lost.

It's not surprising that an author like Neil Gaiman might have an interest in Blake. A visionary from a young age, his imagination was such that he was surrounded by angels made visible in his mind's eye, and he interpreted these visions through poetry, painting and engraving, and self-printed and published many of his own works. This gave him complete freedom to say exactly what he wanted.

Though he had a passionate faith in God, he also had a deep distrust of the church as an institution, and disliked the use of religion as a means of control. This poem from "Songs of Experience" perhaps summarises his feelings best:

"I went to the Garden of Love,

And saw what I never had seen:

A Chapel was built in the midst,

Where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this Chapel were shut,

And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door;

So I turn'd to the Garden of Love,

That so many sweet flowers bore. 

And I saw it was filled with graves,

And tomb-stones where flowers should be:

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,

And binding with briars, my joys & desires."

In his poetry there is often an incongruity with the generally accepted religious ideas of what is good and evil, Angel and Demon. In The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (there's a title that should make any GO fan sit up and pay attention) he tells us that "in the book of Job, Milton's Messiah is called Satan", signifying that he feels it is Lucifer/the devil who is the true Messiah of Paradise Lost.

He gives us The Voice of the Devil and Proverbs of Hell, and has Angels being transformed into Demons through enlightenment. He tells us that Jesus broke all of the 10 commandments, yet was still virtuous because he acted according to his own morality rather than rules.

The god-figure of his later works, Urizen, generally comes across as malevolent, seeking to bind and control, whilst Los, the Satan/Messiah figure represents freedom, imagination and creativity.

"Restraining desire" and acting contrary to your own nature seem to be the only real evils for Blake.

He expressed his faith through a love of the world and the beauty in it, summed up in this quote:

"When the Sun rises do you not see a round Disk of fire somewhat like a Guinea? O no no I see an innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty".

He saw "God" in everything, in all the wonders we have around us, and considered writers/poets and religious prophets as essentially the same, since they both have a connection to the divine, and express it through stories.

It's quite ironic that probably his most famous poem, Jerusalem (the one that starts "and did those feet in ancient times walk upon England's mountains green"), was made into a very popular church hymn, yet it is supposed to be satirical in nature. The poem recounts the myth that Jesus may have visited England in his boyhood, and Blake is expressing his disbelief at that notion and the unworthiness of England.

Did I have a point to all this? Mostly to show my hand as a massive Blake nerd, but also to hopefully demonstrate that there's a lot of common ground between his ideas and those expressed in a show/book like Good Omens, and hopefully to inspire some of you who may not be familiar with Blake to seek him out. In particular I'd recommend The Marriage of Heaven and Hell to any and all.

EDIT: I should have thought to include this, here's Michael Sheen reading a Blake poem. I have the CD this is from, he reads several by Blake, as well as other poets I love ❤️ 😍

[canisalbus]

That is absolutely WILD that you mentioned pomegranates!! goodness gracious I don't know if you have already you need to watch Sergei parajanovs 1969 film The Color of Pomegranates (it's on yt). Not only is it stellar but it is really aesthetically similar to your work and guess what? You could see a little machete vasco, as one of the themes is young love being choked out through separation because the main character Sayat Nova leaves for a secluded monastery!!

I love The Color of Pomegranates! It's been one of my favorite films for years, it's so hypnotic, textured and visually rich, I always come back from it feeling nourished. If my work manages to remind you of it even in some minute way I'm beyond happy.

[imogen-fae]

The Velvet Season

You masquerade as Autumn

Sneaking kisses into the mild

Damp air

Fondling the fine hairs on fading

Farmer's tanned arms

You are the Velvet Season

A silk wrapping

of intricate design

You are the time

When leaves don finer vestments

Gilded in gold & flushed crimson

You are a sweet concoction of burning cedar

& gooey marshmallows during bonfire nights

While cold toes find refuge in the clumpy sand

I have harvested your ripened fruit

Bit deep into its fleshy goodness

Lapped up the sticky juice

Dribbling down my chin

I wave my blue & red stained fingertips

Proudly in the air

in honor of your sumptuous gifts

Hoping you will stay forever in season

Please stop by @aplushperspective and read some of his beartastic posts! If not he will put me in the corner.

[mohamedbenjamaa]

أكتبك

في ثنايا السّطور..

لتهدأ حربُ لغةٍ أخرى لا نتكلّمها..

ينزلُ ساعتَها سلامٌ

في حجم وطنٍ واحد !..

محمد بن جماعة

[pembebirkrizantem]

Bir Palyaçonun Aforizmaları

Palyaçolar da ölür mü?

Bunu henüz palyaçoda bilmiyordu.

Fakat çocular ölebiliyorsa eğer

Bir palyaçonun ömrü de pek uzun olmasa gerekti.

Sonuçta çocuklar için vardı palyaçolar

Ve çocuk yoksa palyaço da yoktu.

Bu aynı zamanda,

Neşeli kahkahaların,

Gır gır ve şamatanın,

Şarkıların ve şiirlerin de

Olmadığı bir dünya anlamına gelirdi.

Kulağa ne kadar da sıkıcı geliyor değil mi?

Yetişkinlerin telaşı,

Saman alevi öfkesi,

Ve kör hevesleriyle dolu,

Anlamsız bir dünya...

Aman Allahım!

Duy da inanma!

Bak da şaşırma şu işe!

İyi ki Palyaçolar hala yaşıyordu öyleyse!

Aksi halde yetişkinlere kalsak,

Mutsuzluktan can verirdik herhalde...

Bizler gülümseyen yüzümüz

Ve portakal burunlarımızla,

Her gün biraz daha

inandırıyorduk insanları,

Dünyanın gerçekten

yaşanmaya değer

Bir yer olduğuna...

Özellikle de çocukları.

Aslında onlar da bizi inandırıyordu;

Hala mutlu bir geleceğimiz olacağına...

Çocukların ve palyaçoların

El ele yaşadığı bir zaman dilimi gibi mesela...

Türlü türlü şakalar,

Nice sakarlıklar ve

Şen şakrak kahkahalarımızla...

Bazen oburca yemek yiyeyerek

Bazen de bir çiçeği saatlerce izleyerek

Arka fonda ise hep neşeli bir müzik,

Bazen bhrams bazense Fuçik...

Sonra ise duyduğumuz her şarkı da

Neşeyle dans etmeliydik.

Ve yetişkinler buna izin verir miydi acaba?

diye artık düşünmemeliydik

Ama olacak şey değildi işte

Bir fikir de olsa

bunu duymamalıydı kimse

Yalnızca çocuklara anlatırıdım belki

O da benimle hayaller kurabilirler diye

Yetişkinler asla bilmemeliydi bunu

Olur da öğrenirlerse eğer

Palyaçolar gerçekten ölebilirdi.

Tıpkı çocukların da öldürülebilirdiği gibi...

[nasa]

Send Your Name to Jupiter

You’re invited to sign your name to a poem written by the U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. The poem connects two water worlds — Earth, yearning to reach out and understand what makes a world habitable, and Europa, waiting with secrets yet to be explored.

The poem will be engraved on Europa Clipper, along with participants' names that will be physically etched onto microchips mounted on the spacecraft. Together, the poem and names will travel 1.8 billion miles to the Jupiter system.

Signing up is easy! Just go to this site to sign your name to the poem and get on board. We also have a Spanish-language site where you can send your name en español: Envía tu nombre aquí.

The Europa Clipper launch window opens in October 2024, but don’t wait – everyone’s names need to be received by December 31 this year so they can be loaded onto the spacecraft in time. We hope you’ll be riding along with us! Follow the mission at europa.nasa.gov.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space!

[ek-ranjhaan]

BUCKLE UP ALL YOU BITCHES!

THE QUEEEN IS BACK!

[unfortunately-lilith]

if you only watched the dps movie and you didn’t read the book you missed out sm on Todd’s other poem omggg

y’all were robbed of this, they literally recorded it but it didn’t make it in