#great poem

[hopelessvalentines]

“didn’t you have to promise, a hundred times not to die?”

[ancientgoddessofegypt]

My ocean is a lair

A portal of mysteries

Hidden motions

You can’t see

Dark in the morning

And petrifying in the night

I do not abide

I make love with my own tides

I will drown him

And these waves

So make sure you don’t

Misbehave

Craving for my affection

Mama is coming

Don’t forget to give me

My praise

[followcb]

This original goes back many, many years now! Wowed that someone found it somehow, and decided to repost it! Thank you 😊

I'm grateful for these words coming through me....

Chris

“The Courage to Follow Your Heart”

Daring to listen

To the voice within

Against all odds

Avoiding logic and

Reason, saying yes

Walking boldly into

Fear and the unknown

When the heart says

Yes, your pulse quickens

Deep down inside

Digging for a strength

You have yet to know

Heartbeats like a drum

So you opt to let go

And find the courage

To follow your heart

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

©️ @followcb ☆ August 15, 2024

[luthienne]

Natasha Trethewey, from Thrall: Poems; "Miracle of the Black Leg"

[Text ID: —what knowledge haunts each body, / what history, what phantom ache?]

[hopelessfandomfreak]

kathryn hahn said in an interview that she and aubrey plaza would send each other MUSIC AND POEMS while they were shooting agatha all along and if that’s not the most sapphic way of getting into character ever I don’t know what is

[two-bees-poetry]

antigone was right

[dinosaurwithablog]

This is a masterpiece. It spoke to the very depths of my soul. It made me cry and filled me with hope all at the same time. It took my breath away. I must admit that I had to look up a couple of words because I have not mastered the English language to this extent. 😁 It's a wonderful poem. I'm so happy that I can reblog this and share it with you all!! 😊😍 Thank you for writing this poem and sharing it with us!! 😍

Girl Among The Stars

With a silvery flicker, her effulgent glint pierced through the darkness

Vanquishing the tenebrosity within

Fluorescent butterflies scattered everywhere, and they fluttered throughout

Brightened the tenebrous emanation

Observing the once-glorious terrace becoming a shattered and fragmented shell of its former self

Wandered through the intergalactic ruins, accompanied by some of the butterflies

Being fascinated by its gradual transition from glorious to fractured in a matter of seconds

She situated herself on one of the fragmented pillars and looked up at the sparkly skies

Gazed up at the twinkling stars above

Softly illumined in its starlit glint

Pondered about her legacy and how she would be remembered by future generations

She knew that she was immortal, yet she wondered if and only if

When her time came, she slowly turned into dust

Her legacy will live on through the stars and their brilliant flicker

A fluorescent butterfly landed on her fingertips and delicately illuminated

Starlight softly whispered as the butterfly irradiates

Exquisitely illumined her delicate porcelain features

The pure white glint softened her piercing brilliant blue orbs

The opalescent glow still smoldered, softly drifting overhead the galactic sky

The effulgence heals her wounds

She succumbs to its blazing coruscate

Her eyes are slowly closing

Her body relaxes to the warmth gleam

Falling into an astral slumber, and engulfing her in its refulgence

With a silvery scintillate, she was awakened by its effulgence

She knows that she's not familiar with this cosmic atmosphere

She asked herself how she got here

By an effulgent flicker? Or By a refulgent gleam?

Who knows...

She's here in the cosmos, being caught by the lustrous light, glistering brightly

Her porcelain white skin illuminated in its cosmic luminesce

Seeing quintillion stars brightly twinkling

Nestling in the Orion's belt

She notices a bright light coming toward her

That light was very familiar

The warmth gives her a sense of comfort

Although it was faint, it remaining

A fluorescent butterfly appears once again, and its phosphorescence keeps her company

With a silvery wink, she basks in its ethereal shimmer

The Milky Way brilliantly resonates in the cosmos

Shine glary brilliant

The cosmos and its thrilling wonders

A sanctuary away from the constant battles

Allows her to decompress and unwind

At Last, she feels at home, In a macrocosm so far away

The cosmos welcomed her with open arms

Its astral gleam warmly embraced her

She was so heartened to be truly embosomed

Then she knew that she belonged among the stars

[huaenrose]

⚠️ TGCF SPOILERS.

Crimson rules the land, Black rules the waters, White rules the heavens, and green rules a territory larger than land, water, and heavens combined: the heart of a child.

[welcometogrouchland]

I understand that literature nerd Jason Todd is kind of overblown in fanon compared to it's actual presence in canon (a few issues during his pre (and post?)crisis Robin tenure that highlight it) BUT consider that I think it's hilarious if the unhinged gun toting criminal has strong opinions on poetry

[thoughtkick]

It takes two to make an accident.

F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Great Gatsby

[katerinaaqu]

Odysseus Everywhere! (literally! XD) - A small humorous analysis on how Odysseus basically is the protagonist of the entire Epic Cycle

Don't you love it how Odysseus basically lifts on his shoulders the entire Epic Cycle? And I am not even exaggerating! XD

He is the one who came up with the Oath of Tyndareus (literally gave the tools for the start of war without wanting to.

He was responsible to fetch Achilles from Skyros and the one to uncover his disguise.

By etruscan accounts he was the one to lead Iphigenia to the altar for the sacrifice

By some accounts he was the first to lay foot at the beach of Troy (basically again starting the war XD) and dodged the prophecy that the first who lay foot to Troy would die first by throwing his shield on the beach and step on it so Protesilaus (former Iolaus) thought he would die and jumped second, thus becoming the first to actually lay foot on Trojan ground!

He is the one to accompany Menelaus during the negotiations with the elders of Troy trying to get Helen back without war.

He is the one to lead Chriseis back to her father and perform a sacrifice to appease Apollo with him.

He tries to keep the Achaeans in line (well...he also beats up Thersites that no one likes!)

He is part of the embassy that goes to Achilles to beg him to come back and try to negotiate with him

He is present to most battles during the Iliad actively taking part on the field

He and Diomedes are sent as spies to the Trojan side in the night

He is one of the volunteers that are to be chosen to fight Hector

He is the one to take Achilles to Lemnos and Cleanse him for the murder of Thersites when the latter makes fun of Achilles's mourning over dead Penthiselia, noting his crush on her.

On later, post-homeric and roman accounts he is the one to come and go with Philoctetes

He is the one along with Aias to retrieve and protect the body of Achilles

He wins the armor of Achilles and by some greek play writers negotiates the burial of Aias after his suicide.

He and Diomedes bring Philoctetes from Lemnos

He captures Helenus and abstracts the prophecies from them

He brings Neoptolemous from Skyros and gives him his father's armor

He and Diomedes infiltrate the city dressed as beggars and steal the Palladum of Athena

He comes up with the Trojan Horse and with the help of Athena's Epeius makes it

He is of course one of the first choices to be inside the horse

He stops the greeks from blowing their cover by holding their mouths.

He is the first to step out of the horse and scan the perimeter

He is either present or personally responsible for the death of Astyanax/Scamandrius depending on the source

He is the one to bring Polyxena to the tomb of Achilles to be offered to him as his concubine after death

He is the protagonist of the longest and only surviving of the Nostoi, the Odyssey in which he is the sole survivor after a huge arduous trip which includes the blinding of a cyclops, the meeting and facing of two goddesses, a trip to the underworld and many more including being one of the few male SA victims so clearly depicted in ancient literature

Odysseus being one of the few mortals (and probably the only one who is not a demigod directly) to get to hedes while being alive

He kills the suitors that threatened his wife and son with the help of his son and a few loyal servants.

He once more travels according to the prophecy to the mainland Greece to appease Poseidon and creates a temple in his honor.

Like without the slightest trace of exaggeration, Odysseus carries on his back the entire Epic Cycle! He is both the creator of the war indirectly plus the first one to lay foot in the land of Troy, the first to lay foot inside Troy itself not once but TWICE during the raging war and he is the last of the kings to arrive home! Without an exaggeration he starts and finishes the epic cycle if combined with all the sources from around the myths! He is also the character mostly involved in the things no one else would dare to!

He dares to be the first to lay foot on Troy

He is the one usually sent to do what others don't want to such as leading people to sacrifices or the opposite, purifying people (because no one gets their hands fucking dirty but poor Odysseus! Hahaha!)

He personally excecutes his own plans

He is the one to dare and come out first of the horse and the one to hold the others

He is the one sent to be a diplomat

etc.

Dunno about you guys but I think the true length of his contributions and involvement to the events is not talked nearly enough!

[fairydrowning]

Stargazing while eating noodles gotta be my favorite thing in summers to ever exist.

[liorlen]

Pyr y’n gwna ni byrhoedled? / Digawn llawryded, / kywestwch a bed.

[followcb]

(You Are) My Blue

I feel you, all of . . . .

your dynamic presence,

art that paints my eyes,

stories that light my fire

sculptures of desire

your open expressiveness

pierces my fierce spirit

I anticipate each new arrow,

alchemy of your poetry

from honesty to integrity

I get you - you awaken me

myriad reflections on deep sea

infinite mirrors in the sky

see you, I see right through;

my poets, you are my blue,

my clouds and rainbows

I soak in everything you do

all my favorites, all of . . . .

you, I feel you . . . . your

. . . celestial magic, it's true

☆☆☆☆☆

©️ @followcb ☆ October 29, 2024

[snonkerdoodledreams]

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING POEM AND THE ART OMG!!!

Give Way to the Pain

A bed of roses Seduction and destruction  No matter how I move  The thorns cut me deep 

One might say To trim the risks away Temptation is there,  Breathing down my Spine 

Hedge my bets and play it cool,  Never quite letting anyone  Close enough to pierce a protective Wall Let alone myself 

I once savored the resolve  Told myself it’d be worth it all  To never Hurt so sharply again 

What I’d do 

What I’d give 

While I fear the pain,

Without it where do I get? 

Not much growth happens  When I stay inside my comfort zones  Sticking to what I’ve always known 

The greatest joys in this life  Come at a price  No amount of funding or bartering  Would ever let you in 

Be willing to lay on the bed of roses  Soak in the beauty

Risk the pain 

Give it your all 

And do it again 

Nothing follows stagnation and fear  No matter whether  We trim the thorns, afraid of pain Or open up and succumb to the rain 

The world goes on  Wondrous and Horrific 

Magnificent and Dying 

Teeming with life 

Exploding with laughter 

I’d die of boredom if I never  Gave way to the Pain 

So I’ll Leap 

--- NRM 04/06/23

Poem and art by me, Digital work originally shared on my IG

[thatsbelievable]