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recommendations for @mail-me-a-snail & honestly everyone who follows me bc y'all know i give out recommendations like candy. i think especially you may like I think love is something that happens to other people and HOW TO BE A DOG (the latter is similar to Your Faithful Servant).
#zoneposting#poetry#some recommendations#my followers know ive never been normal or calm about poetry ever#oh god i forgot to update you guys that i recently won a 2k grant to establish a 3 year program to teach poetry to kids thru my poetry org#i wanna post some of the poems im gonna use esp since lots are in spanish/by latino authors#reminder to do that#n e ways i have so much more but im showing restraint (rattles the bars of my cage)#how to be a dog is rly similar to your faithful servant in structure and theme and actually i fear im composing a small essay abt it.#ALSO it is absolutely okay if none of these vibe with you--poetry is incredibly subjective & i passed over some of my favs to rec these#sometimes what rewrites one person is just words to another and that is more than alright#but i wanted to try to return the favor bc im adding your faithful servant to my poetry doc bc it honestly hit me spectacularly hard#& im very glad you decided to post it
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how did u choose your username?
oh, this is a fun one!! i think i considered being swordtold at first, for that very ancient myth vibe of the sword being this narrative tool for adventure and structure and physical time, the parable being passed down through the centuries until it meddles into modern day rhetoric and ideology – a kind of fantastical tool, a spark of magic, of possibility.
i like the arc of the story of a place being physical / having it be held by time and hand alike, wearing with the years and having it become something different to each holder, each reader, each experience fantastical and individual.
having that kind of physicality to it; swordheld is the action of taking up and holding the sword yourself, choosing your own narrative, leading your own story. self-identity has always been something i struggle with (a novel concept i know, i know), so it felt right for this blog, since most of my older blogs before this one have been just me silently reblogging and never really posting anything myself, and i wanted this to be the change to that.
i've always had trouble wranging my social anxiety, esp. on the internet, and previously thought that keeping my words to myself helped keep the timeline cleaner, in a way, no messy thoughts for others to sort through, especially ones i believed no one would want to read anyway? but it never felt right, keeping myself apart from it all, esp. not in the way i so avidly enjoyed reading others' posts and additions, keeping their words close to my heart.
i wanted it to reflect that this was a space i was holding for myself? and i'm a little slow on the uptake sometimes, but this - this i think i got right. i love being here, on this blog, and the joy that it brings me. everyone else enjoying it too has been a wild ride that i never expected, and still surprises me, one that brings a little extra thrill to my heart whenever i think about it.
i had other urls that i liked, but i didn't want this blog to be tied directly to any of my fandom/story interests, since i wanted it to really just be a sort of archive of artistic inspiration and resource, like a little library or museum. i use them now as lil sideblogs of more niche interests now, which is rather lovely.
it hasn't always felt like it fit perfectly, the way that i'd like, but for some reason i can't think of really wanting to change it anytime soon. it feels mythic yet modern in a way that feels like puzzle pieces finally slotting into their place, something my own and inspirational to me, like a lantern i'm holding to make my way by. my own kind of light, if that makes sense – a star i know by name.
#q&a.#birdsong.#all of this is truly just a way to say: it's your blog! it's your party! do what you like if it makes you happy!! (and doesn't hurt anyone!#live your dreams!!!!!! do your own thing truly it is worth it. which feels silly and cheesy inspirational talk vibes but u kno. it's right#thank u for ur question tho !!! it's been so long that i don't really remember exactly what the beginning of it all was?#it wasn't always my url for this blog esp. in the beginning but i've forgotten what that was ghjk so sorry dear anon !#like little flashes of a story in my memory i have to make out / like steam or fog on a window pane. blurry and unclear?#but now it feels more intentional / almost like watercolor! something that mixes itself into a new thing; bright and bursting w/ it all.#i hope this answers ur question nicely all the same tho <3#i always on habit write out lantern as lanturn so this is an unintentional shout out to one of my fav pokemon love u lanturn !!#some of these things i truly do just write out bc i know it'll make me laugh later if i ever come back to it. lil joys for ur future self !#and that IS a reference to the dickinson poem ' i am out with lanterns looking for myself ' it is in my brain always ! ! thank u ! !
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The void calls your name, she says,
And to you, the universe is beautiful
And the universe, calls you their beloved.
And the world, It cradles you like an absence that crushes your soul. Can you, Can you call the world beautiful like it calls you?
i can <3
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really gotta sleep but just accidentally wrote a lil poem¿ for main yipee this poem is exactly how I feel about my entire existence but more specifically I was lying on my bed just now and visualising falling into a real life deep dark black hole that I couldn’t get myself out of which prompt this piece LMao
#it’s posted now !#acting as if all my poems aren’t accidents#the bitches who get it will get it#midnight poems my fav kind#I’m probs gon read tomorrow like gurl wtf but when do I not do that#actually I never do that if I ever read it I’m like damn that’s so shit but so real#also fyi the shit I write vs my personality irl is polar opposite most of the time lmao keep em guessin
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sometimes I take Millennium from my shelf and thumb through it and just. take in how amazing everyone involved with that zine did. and how lucky I am to be doing Night Divining with so many of those talented people. fandom is great yall
#just...... it is such a nice project. i love everything about it.#the past-present-future sections....... the little poems in the beginning of chapters...........#the project palette that originated in a silly joke...... THE LITTLE PIECES OF WRITING AND DRAWING THAT PPL WHO PREORDERED GOT TO SUBMIT...#just. what a zine. my fav zine i ever participated in and i feel like narcissus saying that but understand it's bc EVERYONE who worked on i#did so well i will never forget it#it's still up on our shop and every now and then ppl buy it even years after it has been done and i am like YESSSS PEOPLE OF TASTE#eernatalk
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HIIII DAVID MITCHELL HIIIIII
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i’ll always understand
by: me <3
take my heart into your hands,
hold it with all the gentleness in the world.
take my heart into your hands,
caress it with the delicacy of a shiny pearl.
take my heart into your hands,
crush it with the vice of a million men.
take my heart into your hands,
purge it from this world again and again.
take my heart into your hands,
watch the scars stretch with every beat.
take my heart into your hands,
watch the blood drip down onto the street.
take my heart into your hands,
i promise i'll always understand.
#one of my fav poems I’ve ever written#my poetry#Poetry#love poem#vent poem#sad love poem#sad poem#kaz shut the up
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I saw a man this morning Who did not wish to die I ask, and cannot answer, If otherwise wish I. Fair broke the day this morning Against the Dardanelles; The breeze blew soft, the morn's cheeks Were cold as cold sea-shells. But other shells are waiting Across the Aegean sea, Shrapnel and high explosive, Shells and hells for me. O hell of ships and cities, Hell of men like me, Fatal second Helen, Why must I follow thee? Achilles came to Troyland And I to Chersonese: He turned from wrath to battle, And I from three days' peace. Was it so hard, Achilles, So very hard to die? Thou knewest and I know not— So much the happier I. I will go back this morning From Imbros over the sea; Stand in the trench, Achilles, Flame-capped, and shout for me.
I Saw A Man This Morning – Patrick Shaw-Stewart
#this is one of my fav poems#it just makes me so insane#‘stand in the trench#i scream every time#for context he wrote this in a period of rest before fighting at gallipolli (wwi) and it was the only poem he ever wrote#crazy#maybe he’d have written more if he hadn’t died in 1917 :(#tw war#poetry#achilles#the trojan war
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me, blogging every day: #loveeeee #❣️❣️❣️ #love is stored in the kitchen #mwah <3 #this is what love is alllllll about
me, tasked with finding poetry about love: …
#if you tell me your fav love poems i’ll love you forever and ever#I can’t time loop southern gothic toxic codependent my way outta this one.
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8 and 12 (please!)
I'm not from the US asks
8. do you get confused with other nationalities? if so, which ones and by whom?
Kinda yes and kinda no.
It's never happened that someone thought I was from another nationality (aside from a few Swiss people assuming I'm Swiss, but then again I live in Switzerland so I'm not sure it counts). What does happen quite frequently is Americans speaking of someone saying they're French and when I look them up online, they're either Belgian or Swiss. This happens a lot about people and food x)
12. what do you think about English translations of your favourite native prose/poem?
To be honest... I don't read any translation of French stuff, considering I can just read them in French x) So no opinion on it, except it's nice if it gets people to learn more about other countries' art. I do feel about the translators, however xD
On a tangentially related note, I get the impression that our sense of humor doesn't translate well, though. Might be just anecdotal but the French stuff known in foreign countries rarely seem to be our funniest pieces of art.
Thanks for the ask, @anpansblog!
#The More You Know#answered; OOC#if anyone wonder what my fav is#it's 'Demain dès l'aube...' by Victor Hugo#no idea why this specific poem stuck with me but I learned it in school when I was like 9 and it's been close to my heart ever since
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also!!!! @thegarlicbreads tagged me to share my most recent, current & next read!!! ty lett that's a v fun game! 🍃
tagging @mothvhs @pherelpis @pinknoisemp3 @quillsand @catboyparrish @librarybi @byrons and everyone else who wants to do it!!!
#i loved braiding sweethrass! the earthsea book ive been reading since October and loving too#it's 4 books in 1 volume so im halfway through book 3 niw and just 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥#my MOST beloved n favorite#brothers Karamazov greek translation i had already started but THEN realized the copy i owned had been transalated to greek from an ENGLISH#translation n i almost lit the book on fite like no bestie we're not doing that!!! i got emis to get me the#aris alexiou translation ty emi!!!! mvp#so yah the brothers n earthsea i figure ill stay reading on and off for the foreseeable future. on yhe side ill read other books too#for example im listening to the audiobook smoke gets in your eyes n its a rly good perspective on the culture around death#i rly appreciate the authors work n pov. hm what else. crush by richard siken i prommy one day I'll read you in your entirety#as soon as i figure how to break the circle of opening the book rereading schecherazad losting my mind n closing it#must be my fav poem ever or sth maybe!!! shut up#for fun#tag game
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tamiko beyer, february
#🤍#poetry#tamiko beyer#scheduling this for feb so i don’t forget bc it’s one of my most fav poems ever
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UGH i love lang leav so much RAHHH
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somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose
or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility: whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
-- e. e. cummings
#im reading my fav poems as an act of self soothing after an anxious day#but look at this look at this#here we have a poem about *checks notes* the act of love touching a part of the beloved that nobody else has ever managed to reach#and so obviously we all know im going to tag this:#ELRIEL#E L R I E L#ALL DAY ERRRRYY DAAAAAY#words#poems
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LITERATURE CLASS RN!!!! IM SO GIDDY
#🌙.rambles#hflsjflsjfalj line from poem/song.. IT WAS SO HARD TO PICK ONE BUT#i did. smth from to the edge in ffxiv wahhh 🥹#i was thinking of doing like dream within a dream bcs that's. a very. 😭#it means a lot to me !#n now i'm thinking of doing smth w greek mythology or idk mythology in general like#ARGHHHH SMTH FROM JOHN MILTON !!!??!?!?#n now i want to do so many more songs. i'm#goddamn i would ramble on forever. i really would#ffs i want to live in the past or future n present n. ARGH OMNI WTVRS THE WORD OMNIPRESENT?#UHUH. i don't know#I JUST WANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING LEARN EVERYTHING LIVE THROUGH IT ALLLLL#i want to both take in n create so much#it's just. so much. life. filled with life. science n like yk arts r my fav after all yk#all sorts of arts just HGLSHFKSJFLA 🥹🫶🏼#i want to learn so much more#i Really really really do#the more. intimate or intricate idk wtvr parts of life r my strength n my passion#even if it's painful n lonely or wtvr at times i love this world with its depth#yeah it hurts a bit too much far too often still but i wldn't trade this ever nah#this made me so happy i'm so happy IM SO HAPPY MY ENERGY HAS BEEN REVIVED I WANT TO DO SO MUCH#i want to. share as much of myself with the world before i leave too#hfksfhakfjalhfal <33
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certified nic silver/cameron ellis shipper
#actually i ship everyone with everyone#all this ships#im a multishipper#but nic/cam is my fav#only 9 fics on ao3#some of the best fanfic i've ever read#and i've read them like 10000000000 times#i wrote a poem about them#i love those 9 fics so much#tanis central#tanis pod#tanis podcast#nic/cam#nic silver/cameron ellis#nic/ellis
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