#poetic writings

[the-fire-bubble]

I hoped for a hate crime

I hoped you died in a hate crime

During an election year, in a town that once was

A sundown town....

I had hoped it was a hate crime.

I had hoped to catch tea with you.

I had hoped that you always found the adventure you were looking for.

I had hoped you died at the hands of a drunk driver.

Some douchey good ol' boy, hitting your car and running you off the road.

I had even considered you being a drunk driver....

But nothing could have prepared me for that word:

Suicide.

I don't know exactly how.

I don't envy your roommate finding you,

Pulse less.

You who would suck the marrow out of life

Every single day?!?

You who would seize every moment with life,

With love,

With chaos,

With mischief,

With warmth.

I had hoped we would reconnect,

And now these hopes die with you.

Buried next to you like your dog and other lover...

May you find the adventures you seek

in the next realm.

Until we meet again, honey....

[sleeplessv0id]

what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy

[flowrrs4u]

I am good. I am loved.

[jaggedjawjosh]

[lenainwonderland]

- Vladimir Nabokov

[peaceishim]

[janacademia]

a melt into each other type of love

[existingillusion]

[speedyphilosopherpanda]

I don't think I have any more "it is what it is" left.

[inkskinned]

i love when words fit right. seize was always supposed to be that word, and so was jester. tuesday isn't quite right but thursday should be thursday, that's a good word for it. daisy has the perfect shape to it, almost like you're laughing when you say it; and tulip is correct most of the time. while keynote is fun to say, it's super wrong - i think they have to change the label for that one. but fox is spot-on.

most words are just, like, good enough, even if what they are describing is lovely. the night sky is a fine term for it but it isn't perfect the way november is the correct term for that month.

it's not just in english because in spanish the phrase eso si que es is correct, it should be that. sometimes other languages are also better than the english words, like how blue is sloped too far downwards but azul is perfect and hangs in the air like glitter. while butterfly is sweet, i think probably papillion is more correct, although for some butterflies féileacán is much better. year is fine but bliain is better. sometimes multiple languages got it right though, like how jueves and Πέμπτη are also the right names for thursday. maybe we as a species are just really good at naming thursdays.

and if we were really bored and had a moment and a picnic to split we could all sit down for a moment and sort out all the words that exist and find all the perfect words in every language. i would show you that while i like the word tree (it makes you smile to say it), i think arbor is correct. you could teach me from your language what words fit the right way, and that would be very exciting (exciting is not correct, it's just fine).

i think probably this is what was happening at the tower of babel, before the languages all got shifted across the world and smudged by the hand of god. by the way, hand isn't quite right, but i do like that the word god is only 3 letters, and that it is shaped like it is reflecting into itself, and that it kind of makes your mouth move into an echoing chapel when you cluck it. but the word god could also fit really well with a coathanger, and i can't explain that. i think donut has (weirdly) the same shape as a toothbrush, but we really got bagel right and i am really grateful for that.

grateful is close, but not like thunder. hopefully one day i am going to figure out how to shape the way i love my friends into a little ceramic (ceramic is very good, almost perfect) pot and when they hold it they can feel the weight of my care for them. they can put a plant in there. maybe a daisy.

[echoesoftheinfinite]

I’m made of poetry, but no one reads me.

[the-fire-bubble]

Beautiful black excellence

handsome high class fashion taste

but those eyes, those sweet eyes,

full of curiosity and wonder

star filled eyes that somehow found me

just as fascinating as the stars above

I can't tell you how but I can tell you when I fell in love

and it wasn't in a library or the bathroom

but beneath the breath that said Cassiopeia

I don't know if fate brought you to me

but I know for now that you're mine

and I shall treasure this. Completely.

[y2kaee]

"I was looked at,

but I wasn't seen."

Albert Camus, The misunderstanding.

[nightmareevara]

That urge to turn your giggles into moans

[lenainwonderland]

- Sylvia Plath

[mysticpolin]