#poem excerpt

[lucidloving]

Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence // Ada Limón, "Lies About Sea Creatures" // Sherita Walker // @itsbaditsgood // Richard Siken, "I Had a Dream About You" // Richard Siken, "You Are Jeff" (8) // Richard Siken, "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out" // @_demarmol on Instagram // Anne Sexton, "The Touch"

[die-rosastrasse]

~ Margaret Atwood, from "Variation on the World Sleep"

[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, from "Soliloquy of The Solipsist"

[words-and-coffee]

too much to love. too much to handle. i am too much. i am too much. and somehow i will still never be enough.

Trista Mateer, Persephone Made Me Do It: Fear

[iamktb206]

“All Thats’s Left To Tell” by Clementine Von Radics, from Mouthful of Forevers.

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"Summer is growing old and everything is flowing into a single melancholy murmur"

~ Tomas Tranströmer, from "The Cuckoo"

[feral-harvest]

— Carolina Outcrop

[eananoor]

Eana Noor, The Sacred Hour.

[fatimaamerbilal]

fatima aamer bilal, except from all hunger is, is love.

[text id: it was inevitable. // you could have marched towards me, parading your teeth like hands, tearing all the meaningless flesh apart, turning my ribs inside, and taking a bite out of my heart—// and i would have done nothing, not when i couldn’t look past your eyes. // so warm. even the sun yearns to bask in them. // sick. sick. sick. how i would have waited for you to take another bite. then another. another. devour me whole. all hunger is, is love.]

[yun-yunera]

I Am a Poet

I am a poet

I am a poet

I am a poet

Arrogance not in my name

Humility not a virtue

I am a poet

I am a poet

I am a poet

Soul poured into poem

Heart etched into words

I am a poet

I am a poet

I am a-

Mirror shows my reflection.

Is that image me?

Or am I that image.

I am a poet,

Am I not?

[lucidloving]

Richard Siken, "The Torn-up Road" // Lora Mathis, "If There's A Way Out I'll Take It"

[die-rosastrasse]

- Pablo Neruda, from Sonnet XVII

[words-and-coffee]

This tree has been here all this time, and I didn’t notice.  I swear, I’ll try harder not to miss as much: The tree, or how your fingers under still sleep-stunned sheets coaxed all my colors back. I swear, I won’t forget how the fire feels, or all the care you took to light it.

Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things: The Tree of Fire

[thegentleintellectual]

-Kaveh Akbar

[paperouroboros]

Excerpt from Paper Ouroboros (Poem)

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"And even now in the gathering dark of a late afternoon in December, of one more year stretching between us, I think of you. I remember."

~ Tom Hansen, from "December Monologue"