#lyrical poems

[think-through-pen]

Sleep-keeping

I have been meaning to keep

the dark and desolate sleep

from the crafty claws of dreams,

but sleep flows away in streams.

Again I woke up in my bed,

gasping, tired, agony led,

darkness is my only domain

where all the happy thoughts are slain.

Staring at something I know,

I spend the night buried in snow—

snow of melancholic muse

hued in red and grey: abstruse!

Occasional tapping of the window,

the tap's continual orchestra,

shuffling of feet, fast and slow,

the cicada's anaphora.

Sleep then comes to me, slow

until I crumble like snow.

Insomniac (probably) List: @most-ment @jordynhaiku @universetalkz @twisted0limbs @sweetwarmcookies16 @somebodyssongbird @vixen1012 @fordothepoet @hauntedandwholesome @distilledmelancholies @yumiraaa

[gallantdoll]

thine for moments; and of thine for many moments more.

collar me with soft-taloned pale hands,

thine eyes paled when sun doth skyward stand;

whence angels gaze down upon their wingless peers

moving upon each other as the Mother steers;

together fulfilling a long-standing astral decree

that only stood by thee am i content to be seen.

26 . 06 . 2024

[lucidloving]

Girlpool—Before the World Was Big // memorial bench quoting Toni Morrison's Sula // @inanotherunivrse // Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You // Zadie Smith, Swing Time // Fall Out Boy—The Kids Aren't Alright // Audrey Emmett // Mikko Harvey, "For M" // Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi) // Langston Hughes, "Poem"

[whendidmythoughtsgocrazy]

One day I will stop falling in love with you. Until I do, I'll be thinking of you.

k.b. // laufey, philharmonia orchestra - let you break my heart again

[oof-i-did-it-agaaiiin]

Beautiful from Ordinary Days

[p0nur4k]

[cowboylikesubai]

👍💗💗

pamper me to hell and back by hera lindsay bird / @ /bipdf / @/ manincaffeine / close to you by gracie abrams / love will find a way, by alivia horsley / @/tacobort on twt / fallingforyou by the 1975 / alfonsina storni / pinterest

[missinyouiskillingme]

maybe you weren’t the one for me but deep down I wanted you to be

[ptimepoet]

[europasage]

on being alive.

@delepiphany on pinterest // lucy dacus, please stay // @arthoesunshine // @leaf.guy_ on tiktok // bo burnham, that funny feeling // @peepuddle

[peaceishim]

And when the seasons change

Will you stand by me?

[think-through-pen]

Hating Hatred

Dread and terror will be rising

from the bottom of my heart,

hate, and hate will start devising;

all your schemes shall fall apart.

Not one inch of my hatred then

will fill the emptiness you feel,

and love will only count to ten

before your heart can wholely heal.

You stabbed me with a smile so bright

that all remorse was swallowed in.

But I will not give in to spite

and that shall teach you how to win.

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[gallantdoll]

conversation without a kiss

our faces and body are hallowed and sickly,

corpses sat across from each other

when once we were ready to grow to be ugly

besides children we'd raise and mother

time marched forward

what feels so much faster and faster

and we die now across a table

rather than at bed-rest besides each other.

24 . 06 . 2024

[lucidloving]

Emily L., Marguerite Duras // Bertrand Russell, What Desires are Politically Important? // Octavio Paz, "The House of Glances" // Mitski—Francis Forever // Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities // VIVINOS and QMENG, Alien Stage (Round 6) // Bryan Fuller, Hannibal (2013) // Richard Siken, "Little Monster" // Christa Wolf, Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays // Mitski—I Bet on Losing Dogs

[whendidmythoughtsgocrazy]

You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy.

k.b. // r.i.p. jane nightbird

[arunneronthird]

tell 'em all they'll love in my shadow