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Theodore Roethke, from "In a Dark Time", The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]
#q#lit#quotes#poetry#typography#id included#theodore roethke#in a dark time#collected poems of theodore roethke#sing me down into the dark#reading#m#x
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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. We think by feeling. What is there to know?
— Theodore Roethke, from "The Walking" in “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”. (Doubleday, 1961) (via Thoughts)
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I cried, and the birds came down and made my song their own.
Theodore Roethke, from "Words for the Wind", The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]
#aesthetic#dark academia#coffee#art#books#academia#college#light academia#literature#studyblr#poems#poetry#poetry quotes
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“Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.”
-Theodore Roethke, from The Collected Poems; “In A Dark Time”
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❤️ POÂMES :)
POÂ #007 ▪︎ the waking by Kurt Elling & @0paline
• VILLANELLE & @klaudiamimi
#kurt elling#the waking#nightmoves#2007#music#href=#meewee sounds#poâmes#klau#0pa#theodore roethke#collected poems#1953
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On Breath, On Change.
A Close Call, Jack Gilbert | Words for the Wind, Theodore Roethke | Today Today, Jack Stauber | Desire Paths | Breath, Rainer Maria Rilke | @/jupiter-suggestion on Tumblr | "Here I Am", Songs from Under the River: A Collection of Poetry, Anis Mojgani | Pen And Paper And A Breath Of Air, Mary Oliver | Painting via Iris Scott, Lyrics from The Record Player Song, Daisy the Great | War Photo 2, Margaret Atwood | Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration, David Wojnarowicz | I wandered lonely as a Cloud, William Wordsworth | Erosion, Jamie Oliveira | Eventide Oil, Chris Long | A Poem About Change, Ms Moem | Brave as a Noun, AJJ
#poetry#web weaving#web weave#web weaving poetry#prose#literature#poemblr#parallels#webweaving#happy pride. this is a little about the Transgender. to get terfs OFF my blog. git.#༺✿ web weaves by basil ✿༻
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Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
Theodore Roethke - 'The Collected Poems;' “In A Dark Time,”
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So I had to drag my ass off the couch and to my desk to share this. I know most of y'all won't give a damn. I don't care. This excerpt of a piece of Beauty and The Beast fanfic was written by my mentor, Nan Dibble. Look her up sometime. Her book "Plot" (under the pen name Ansen Dibell) is still a standard in writing classes all over the world. She also wrote two pro BATB novels, as well as several others in the sci-fi genre. She dabbled in the Buffyverse, too.
Nan could write Vincent like no other BATB writer in the fandom. Hers is the one I compare all others to, most especially my own. And she took a character we all-season fans had caught only wonderful glimpses of in S3 and expertly filled in all the missing pieces of Diana Bennett, Vincent's second love, an NYPD detective. This is from the story Inside Out from her Acquainted With the Night series. (Drop me a message if you want a link to it).
All you need to know is that Vincent is a fully functioning empath, the half-lion warrior-scholar heir apparent of a community living in the tunnels below New York City. As he and Diana grow closer, he unconsciously awakens that same latent gift in her (with a kiss, naturally) and it almost kills her. After a three month separation enforced by Vincent, he's taken her down to the deepest levels of the tunnels to keep her out of danger and teach her how to build the barriers she'll need to keep her empathetic abilities from overwhelming her in the world Above. Diana starts us out here:
"What I'm getting at is, we're different. You and me. And things are gonna get real mixed up if you're doing what you think I want when I really don't care, and I'm doing what I think you want when you'd really like something else but you're too polite to say so. What I mean is, we gotta say what we mean here. Be who we are. Agree that different is OK, no apologies, no empty politeness.”
He met her eyes then, his own grave and very still. After a long minute, he returned his attention to his mug. “You ask something... very difficult.”
“So it'll be difficult, then. I'll try. Will you?”
Medium silence. Then, with a judicious finality, he set his mug back on the tray. “Yes.”
A small word, but one with implications she suspected they'd never be fully done exploring. A word that committed them both, but especially him, to an honesty she'd enforced against all comers and he'd spent his life publicly ducking for the sake of peace. For the sake of acceptance. And stuffing the hard truths away for the Other to gnaw at.
Softly, he added, “One of the things I love about you is that you force me beyond myself.”
The comment startled her worse than the one about time. She felt the blush rising in her cheeks. She wasn't used to blunt compliments, matter-of-fact avowals of love. They caught her flat-footed, not knowing what to say.
Smiling slightly, eyes downcast, he said, “And your honesty. Forthrightness. And that you are lovely in your bones, so that there is a grace in your least movement, arising as it does out of such stillness. And that even in fear and uncertainty, you are endlessly brave, endlessly kind... May I say such things to you sometimes, Diana? Even though you would rather I did not? For they are true. And I like to say them.”
Her burning face felt about the same shade as her hair. But fair was fair. Couldn't open that door and then gripe about what came through. “Then I'll try to get used to it. `Lovely bones': my God!”
“An image from a poem,” he admitted. “By Theodore Roethke. `She moved in circles, and those circles moved...' I have thought of it often. And was sad to know I might never say it to you. You do not like love spoken, as I do. Keeping the silence is sometimes difficult. And a sadness to me.”
Now it was she who had to take a couple of minutes to collect herself. Then she said, “After that, `You smell real nice' comes out sounding pretty dumb.”
He glanced up, surprised. “You like that? About me?”
“Crazy about it. Especially when you'd come through the skylight, been rained on a little. Wonderful, the smell of it in your hair. Or after the bathing pool. It was things like that I missed. So much, sometimes, I didn't think I could stand it. And your voice. Your being there. Everything. Dammit.” She knuckled her eyes.
The prickly moonlight feeling had started up again, firefly sparks glimmering delicately between them.
He said, “I have found that one does not love in general, but in the particulars. Moments. As now. I am accustomed... to having only words. But there are other eloquences.”
I mean, c'mon! This is so romantic it makes me want to curl up in a ball and weep. I'm such a sap. 🥹
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I heard that my dear Lu-est of Lus @swinging-stars-from-satellites wanted some poetry about the grief of growing older and dealing with the unbearable changing of time, so I made a little anthology/collection for that purpose! Links below for anyone else who might need some poet's comfort:
At Your Age, I Wore A Darkness, by Maggie Smith
Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower, Rainer Maria Rilke
Everyday Life, by Olav. H. Hauge
The Letter, by Linda Gregg
Most Days I Want to Live, by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Heavy, by Mary Oliver
Grief, by Louise Erdrich
Untitled, by Xin Qiji
The Thing Is, by Ellen Bass
October, An Elegy, by Sue Goyette
The Waking, by Theodore Roethke
One Art, by Elizabeth Bishop (Gracie's poem! <3)
What the Living Do, by Marie Howe
and because at times I process things best using my own work, four of my own: The Grief of Growing Older, Answer, Room, and The Loss of One's Wings.
#poetry#friends tag#teehee also the october an elegy poem is mainly there because she talks about opening the book to the last page first#and my brain was like!!!! OH THAT'S LU RIGHT THERE#<3#also this exercise made me realize that most of the poems i read are kind of...very cheery so i hope this is okay!#these have all comforted me in some way or other though so i am offering them anyway like respite along the road!
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Books read and movies watched in 2023 (July to December):
Bolded verdicts (Yes!/Yes/Eh/No/NO) are links to more in-depth reviews! Should you watch/read them?
Books (fiction):
The Starless Sea (Erin Morgenstern): No
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina (Zoraida Córdova): Yes
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley): No
The Association of Small Bombs (Karan Mahajan): No
Pond (Claire-Louise Bennett): NO
Heaven (Mieko Kawakami): No
The Verifiers (Jane Pek): No
The Old Capital (Yasunari Kawabata): No
Falling Man (Don DeLillo): No
A Free Life (Ha Jin): Yes
People of the Book (Geraldine Brooks): No
The Spectacular (Fiona Davis): No
Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro): Yes
Children of the Jacaranda Tree (Sahar Delijani): No
This Place: 150 Years Retold (anthology): Yes
Books (nonfiction):
The Forgetting River (Doreen Carvajal): Eh
Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II (Lena S. Andrews): Yes
Mozart's Starling (Lyanda Lynn Haupt): Yes
Poetic Form & Poetic Meter (Paul Fussell): No
Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry (David Mason & John Frederick Nims): No
A Poetry Handbook (Mary Oliver): Yes
We Should Not Be Friends (Will Schwalbe): No
Seen from All Sides (Sydney Lea): No
Books (poetry):
Afterworlds (Gwendolyn MacEwen): Eh
Sailing Alone Around the Room (Billy Collins): Yes
Be With (Forrest Gander): No
Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (William Carlos Williams): Yes
Horoscopes For the Dead (Billy Collins): No
The Wild Iris (Louise Gluck): Eh
Moon Crossing Bridge (Tess Gallagher): Yes
Who Shall Know Them? (Faye Kicknosway): Yes
Great Blue (Brendan Galvin): No
Collected Poems (Basil Bunting): Eh
Paterson (William Carlos Williams): No
Selected Poems (Donald Justice): No
Dear Ghosts, (Tess Gallagher): No
The Death of Sitting Bear (N. Scott Momaday): No
Evidence (Mary Oliver): No
What Have I Ever Lost by Dying? (Robert Bly): Yes
Blessing the Boats (Lucille Clifton): Yes
Source (Mark Doty): No
Tell Me (Kim Addonizio): Eh
Zoo (Ogden Nash): No
Alive Together: New and Selected Poems (Lisel Mueller): No
“A” (Louis Zukovsky): NO
Flying at Night (Ted Kooser): Yes
The Man in the Black Coat Turns (Robert Bly): Yes
This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years (Robert Bly): No
Nine Horses (Billy Collins): Yes
Arabian Love Poems (Nizar Kabbani): Yes
Delights & Shadows (Ted Kooser): Yes
This Great Unknowing (Denise Levertov): Yes
Young of the Year (Sydney Lea): No
Pursuit of a Wound (Sydney Lea): No
The Life Around Us (Denise Levertov): No
Red List Blue (Lizzy Fox): No
It Seems Like A Mighty Long Time (Angela Jackson): No
Some Ether (Nick Flynn): Yes
Divide These (Saskia Hamilton): No
The Simple Truth (Philip Levine): No
Saving Daylight (Jim Harrison): Eh
Midnight Salvage (Adrienne Rich): No
The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (Billy Collins): Eh
My Brother Running (Wesley McNair): Eh
Whale Day (Billy Collins): Eh
Talking Dirty to the Gods (Yusek Komunyakaa): No
A New Selected Poems (Galway Kinnell): No
The Dolphin (Robert Lowell): No
Star Route (George Longenecker): No
Brute (Emily Skaja): Eh
No Witnesses (Paul Monette): Yes!
Blood, Tin, Straw (Sharon Olds): No
Town Life (Jay Parini): No
Dead Men's Praise (Jacqueline Osherow): No
Stag's Leap (Sharon Olds): No
Sleeping with the Dictionary (Harryette Mullen): No
Looking for the Parade (Joan Murray): No
Sparrow (Carol Muske-Dukes): Yes
You can't Get There from Here (Ogden Nash): No
Carver: a Life in Poems (Marilyn Nelson): Yes
The House of Blue Light (David Kirby): No
Ariel (Sylvia Plath): No
Caribou (Charles Wright): No
The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke: No
Letters from Maine (Mary Sarton): No
Diasporic (Patty Seyburn): Eh
The Five Stages of Grief (Linda Pastan): Yes!
Not One Man’s Work (Leland Kinsey): Yes
Wise Poison (David Rivard): Yes
The Continuous Life (Mark Strand): Eh
On the Bus with Rosa Parks (Rita Dove): Yes
Fuel (Naomi Shihab Nye): Yes
Ludie’s Life (Cyntha Rylant): Yes
Wise Poison (David Rivard): Yes
My Name on His Tongue (Laila Halaby): Yes
Messenger (Ellen Bryant Voigt): Yes!
Unfortunately, it was Paradise: Selected Poems (Mahmoud Darwish): Eh
The Collected Poetry of James Wright: No
The Unlovely Child (Norman Williams): No
The New Young American Poets (anthology, 2000): Yes
The Black Maria (Aracelis Girmay): Yes!
Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Ocean Vuong): Yes!
Thoughts of Her. (Casey Conte): NO
Standing Female Nude (Carol Ann Duffy): Yes!
The Tradition (Jericho Brown): Yes
Girls That Never Die (Safia Elhillo): No
Repair (C. K. Williams): No
The Big Smoke (Adrian Matejka): Yes
American Wake (Kerrin McCadden): Eh
Collected Poems (Jane Kenyon): No
E-mails from Scheherazad (Mohja Kahf): Yes!
I Had a Brother Once (Adam Mansbach): No
Holding Company (Major Jackson): No
Hunting Down the Monk (Adrie Kusserow): No
Happy Life (David Budbill): No
Prelude to Bruise (Saeed Jones): No
Wade in the Water (Tracy K. Smith): Eh
Penury (Myung Me Kim): Yes!
Commons (Myung Mi Kim): Yes!
The Final Voicemails (Max Ritvo): No
Pieces of Air in the Epic (Brenda Hillman): No
Gone (Fanny Howe): No
A Vermonter's Heritage: Listening to the Trees (Rick Bessette): No!
Roget's Illusion (Linda Bierds): No
First Hand (Linda Bierds): No
The Other Side (Julia Alvarez): No
Pig Dreams: Scenes from the life of Sylvia (Denise Levertov): Yes
Movies:
Winter Evening in Gagra (1985, Karen Shakhnazarov): Yes
My Tender and Affectionate Beast (A Hunting Accident) [1978, Emil Loteanu]: No
Fate of a Man (1959, Sergei Bondarchuk): Eh
Ordinary Fascism (aka Triumph Over Violence) (1965, Mikhail Romm): Yes
The Most Charming and Attractive (1985, Gerald Bezhanov): Yes
Gals/The Girls (1961, Boris Bednyj): Yes
Drunken Angel (1948, Akira Kurosawa): Yes
Stray Dog (1949, Akira Kurosawa): No
Viy (1967, Konstantin Yershov/Georgi Kropachyov): No
Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein): Yes
Amarcord (1973, Federico Fellini): Yes!
Charade (1963, Stanley Donen): No
Dreams (1990, Akira Kurosawa): Yes!
Barton Fink (1991, Coen Brothers): No
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967, Leonid Gaidai): No
Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974, Eldar Ryazanov & Franco Prosperi): Yes
By the White Sea (2022, Aleksandr Zachinyayev): Yes
Ivan’s Childhood (1962, Andrei Tarkovsky): Yes!
The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed): Yes!
The Kitchen in Paris (2014, Dmitriy Dyachenko): No
Optimistic Tragedy (1963, Samson Samsonov): Eh
White Moss (2014, Vladimir Tumayev): Yes
Oppenheimer (2023, Christopher Nolan): Yes!
Scarlet Sails (1961, Alexandr Ptushko): Yes
We'll Live Till Monday (1968, Stanislav Rostotsky): Yes
Vladivostok (2021, Anton Bormatov): No
Ballad of a Soldier (1959, Grigory Chukhray): Yes
The Theme (1979, Gleb Panfilov): Yes
A Haunting in Venice (2023, Kenneth Branagh): Yes
Barbie (2023, Greta Gerwig): Yes
Is It Easy To Be Young? (1986, Juris Podnieks): Yes
Badlands (1973), Terrence Malick: Yes
Satyricon (1969, Federico Fellini): No
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog): Yes
Fitzcarraldo (1982, Werner Herzog): No
The Illusionist (2006, Neil Burger): Yes
The Duchess (2008, Saul Dibb): Yes
Pride & Prejudice (2005, Joe Wright): Yes!
Emma (1996, Douglas McGrath): No
And here’s Part 1 of my 2023 list!
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Can you show us some of your tats?!
how does it feel to ask my favorite question of all time lmao (these are most of mine, but there's still more lol
from left to right, top to bottom: neo-trad fox (inspired by in a week by hozier and the violets in the background are bc the wisconsin state flower is a wood violet); a neo-trad raven with red and orange ribbons behind it and an orange orb thing (i love ravens and spooky shit and edgar allan poe); a neo-trad plague doctor in muted colors that my artist referred to as a sad rainbow (got this in january 2020 right before the pandy and felt like i summoned something lol); a sticker-like stylized version of joey king's character in the movie wish i was here and below that is a purple and blue watercolor/paint background with "we think by feeling" in a handwritten script (wiwh is one of my all-time favorite movies and her wig is pretty recognizable + we think by feeling is a line from one of my favorite poems, the waking by theodore roethke, which was also translated into one of my favorite songs of the same name by kurt elling); a black and grey ribcage with splashes of green and blue paint around it (what i refer to as my obscure scrubs tattoo [rib cage bc of the xray in the opening credits and the colors are medical and surgical's scrubs colors]); a collection of leaves from varying plants (monstera deliciosa, homalomena selby, calathea orbifolia, raphidaphora tetrasperma, calathea makoyana, and alocasia frydek) and the first 2 sessions of my sleeve, which is made up of houseplant leaves
send me more tattoo asks!
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Theodore Roethke, from "In a Dark Time", The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]
#q#lit#quotes#poetry#typography#id included#theodore roethke#in a dark time#collected poems of theodore roethke#reading#sing me down into the dark#personal#m#x
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TAG 9 PEOPLE YOU WANT TO KNOW BETTER
i was tagged by @niwara <3 tysm jo!
3 ships: some dynamics i'm currently interested in are eugene/tatyana (eugene onegin), dan/amy (veep) and jonah/amy (superstore)
1st ever ship: gosh i don't know...i feel like it was probably from some middle school fantasy book though
last song: 'isn't it a pity' by george harrison
last movie: 'loving vincent' w/ a dear friend!
currently reading: right now i'm slowly making my way through 'the myth of sisyphus' by albert camus, and i finished 'the collected poems of theodore roethke' this morning!
currently watching: severance s1 (FINALLY, i've been meaning to watch it for ages)
currently consuming: soup <3
currently craving: some kind of little treat (trademarked)...maybe i'll buy a chocolate bar on the way home tomorrow
tagging anyone who wants to do this! <3
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O who can be both moth and flame?
Theodore Roethke, from "The Sequel", The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
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on darkness
theodore roethke collected poems of theodore roethke: in a dark time \\ ?? \\ li bai the solitude of night (tr. shigeyoshi obata) \\ christopher lee donovan kaetii, faces xix (2009) \\ ?? \\ ?? \\ gerard manley hopkins i wake and feel the fell of dark, not day \\ ?? \\ linda pastan why are your poems so dark? \\ ?? \\ christian wiman hard night: “darkness starts” \\
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#on darkness#darkness#dark#webweaving#web weaving#webweave#web weave#webs#parallels#parallelism#compilations#intertextuality#mine#my webweaving#theodore roethke#collected poems of theodore roethke#in a dark time#shigeyoshi obata#li bai#the solitude of night#christopher lee donovan#gerard manley hopkins#linda pastan#why are your poems so dark?#hard night#darkness starts#christian wiman
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“My Papa's Waltz”, from Collected Poems by Theodore Roethke
#this poem makes me go insane every single time#'but i hung on like death such waltzing was not easy' comE ON#theodore roethke#the collected poems of theodore roethke#exit wound#m
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