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rule 1: begin with a thought (as if it’s some kind of law)
rule 2: merge all of the ‘you’-s (as if only one did the hurt)
rule 3: make sure it’s short (as if you’ve said all you came here to say)
rule 4: don’t say who it’s for (hope that will tempt them to stay)
#rules for writing#rules for writing poetry#on poetry#spilled poetry#writing#writerscreed#poetic stories#twcpoetry#poetry#poets on tumblr#on self reflection#how to write#how to write poetry
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#words#it#literature#quotes#poetry#writing#quote#prose#poems#poetic#spilled words#poems on tumblr#poems and poetry#original poem#love poem#lovers#lover#about him#quote of the day#quoteoftheday#love quotes#love quotes tumblr#love quote for him#inspiring quotes#feelings#life advice#advice#rules to live by#writers on tumblr#writer stuff
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I consider it my sacred duty to break the rules. A broken rule is the open gate to a wilder meadow. I smoked an Arturo Fuentes cheroot with the Buddha. Forgive me. Asked if he had any rules. He said, just one. Vow to be healed by your tears. Then he opened up to me about his sadness, admitted he had to come back because he was lonely. Maybe as Anthony Bourdain. Maybe Dolly Parton. I made a bourbon smoothie and shared it with Jesus. Asked if he had any rules. He said, just one. Call me brother, not Lord. Cucumber, mint, and kale with a shot of Wild Turkey, forgive me, it was delicious. A broken rule is the open gate to a deeper rule, unwritten and harder to disobey. The rules of the body lead to the rules of the soul. Like the one that says, love for no reason. The one that says, make friends with the brokenhearted. The one that says, forgive yourself again and again. So I discover the rules I cannot break by breaking the ones I can.
~ Fred LaMotte
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mike wheeler aced the figurative language and poetry modules in elementary school by writing limericks and ballads about the party and their campaigns, but you better believe the only assignment that he never lost nor threw away, now buried somewhere in his desk drawer, crumpled and yellow, is a B minus-marked cinquain about magic and courage that will said was nice. thing is, once mike remembered who and what events ended up inspiring him while he was writing it, he thought it'd feel weird (too much, too little) to say 'you can have it if you want' -so he didn't. it wasn't good enough to be a gift for will, anyway.
idk something like that would be right up mike's alley and it'd be a bittersweet parallel to how will has given him several drawings across the years (with varying levels of skill! even scribbles at earliest, probably!) since they met, which he keeps in pristine conditions inside a waterproof binder, may i add, whereas mike didn't (or is yet to) offer Will his most personal art for keepsakes.
#will would frame that ruled paper lbfr#byler#mike wheeler#will byers#just a headcanon inspired by >#lettergate#also inspired by a book from middle school i found in my attic in which a boy used his poetry assignments to write to his crush#shh dont think about mike thinking *he* is not good enough for will either#dont think about will's irl shows of courage at such young age#or do and cry w me#byler headcanon#stranger things#wiseheart
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can i participate in the WIP wednesday game even tho its for my masters thesis on science stuff….? i really need to write
you can do whatever you want forever
#anon asks#asks#wip wednesday game#I'm supposed to be asleep but here we are#really though it doesn't matter WHAT you write#the game rules specify filename and write in that file#doesn't specify what the file has to be#fanfic ogfic homework poetry journal entries#whatever your work in progress is#if it's a text document with a filename you can work on it
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“I am completely normal about Danny Phantom, it’s been too many years since I’ve watched it to be obsessed!” I say, adding hundreds of posts to my queue, opening fanfic to read later, and daydreaming about AUs
#Danny Phantom#I'm planning on rewatching it and writing poetry for each episode#Gotta finish my current long-fic first that's my RULE#But who am I kidding I'm absolutely in the outskirts of the fandom of this point
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dean would write cas a love song, and cas would write dean a love poem
#I don’t make the rules#that’s just how it is#deans love language is through music#and cas’ love langauge through words#they’d write each other love stories in music and poetry#destiel#dean winchester#castiel#spn#supernatural#deancas#dcsnapshots
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Hey, hey! RnR not requested! (Patreon)
#Doodles#SCII#DAX#ZEX#Does anyone still use RnR lol#I think I was a little too late for that but in my brief stint on FF.net I did get a couple reviews so *shruggles*#ANYway lol#The topic of VUX poetry came up and it would not leave me alone#But at the same time it is so hard to English-phoneticize VUK ZIX into my preferred poetry method!#So I gave up and went with a playground chant lol#I also wasn't sure which direction it would be read in apart from bottom-up :0#Japanese is top-down right-to-left so maybe it's inverse?? I don't know!#That's what I went with this time anyhow lol#Also making up rules on the spot lol - ''a'' is always contextually inferred by its surroundings#Have I thought about the implications of inferred subject/singular vs. plural phrasing? No! Give me some time tho ♪#Lol#I have also pretty firmly come to the conclusion that -ing sounds just aren't a thing lol#At least not written and not comfortably spoken#You could force the sound but it's exactly what it says on the tin - forced#So the rhyme-scheme is a bit funny haha - that rhyme doesn't translate at all! But it is still fun to write a little ship-poem hehe#ZEX does not approve but it's not his poem is it! Tentacles to yourself! Don't stick your trunk where it's not wanted!#I do love when DAX is silly and lovestruck haha
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WHEN WE’RE OLD AND HAVE TO LEAVE THE EARTH, I’LL STILL REMEMBER ALL I’VE LEARNED FROM YOU.
cassie howard & maddy perez — euphoria (gif credit: bakerolivia) / old friends — freya manfred / flood — eliza griswold / no children — the mountain goats / catalog of unabashed gratitude — ross gay / the crucible — arthur miller / i don’t know you anymore — eric nam / the chronology of water: a memoir — lidia yuknavitch / jules vaughn & rue bennet — euphoria / what would i do? — andrew rannells and christian borle / robert goolrick / euripedes, orestes — ian johnston / the last days of judas iscariot — stephen adly guirgis / thirteen — catherine hardwicke / olivia benson & elliot stabler — law and order, svu / the frost — mitski
#periphery#web weaving#on friendship#old friends#compilation#ex bestfriend#bestfriend#childhood friends#web weave#euphoria#writing#poetry#jesus and judas#love#grief#rules#euphoriaedit#jules and rue#cassie and maddy#cassie howard#maddy perez#jules vaughn#rue bennet#law and order#bensler#motif#mitski#broken friendship#toxic friendship#the frost
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NaPoWriMo #12
I glanced at a few how-to-write-poetry books and got a bit frustrated by their assumptions that poetry needs to be this deep and laborious artistic endeavor.
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Song of an Amateur
I am a simple poetess I take my pen in hand While others long for lasting fame My dreams aren't near so grand
All I want's a little ink A peaceful touch of time To gather up my humble thoughts And scribble out a rhyme
While others labor to create Immortal artistry I play with words as children play With sand beside the sea
Delighting in their shapes and forms In meter’s playful joys I let the words fall to create New literary toys
Capturing a simple sight A pithy turn of phrase To give my friends a bit of joy To brighten up their days
It’s not for me to take a place ‘mong lit’rature’s elite I’d rather gaze up at their heights And play beside their feet
So tell me not to labor long O'er words meant to impress I’d rather live quite happy as A simple poetess
#napowrimo 2024#poetry#i glanced at a bunch of kindle previews#and most of my thoughts boiled down to#'bold of you to assume that i want to publish'#everyone talking about how poetry isn't easy#it's work! you have to suffer over it!#you have to learn all the rules so you don't write *gasp* bad poetry#and meanwhile i'm like 'ok cool but what about having fun?'
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The Abstract in Poetry
Someone asked me how I do it How I'm constantly retching up write offs Little paragraphs with a thousand hidden meanings With a thousand sentence fragments How to drag out the same story again and again describing the same scene from different viewpoints
How do I continue to play with letters With the same enthusiasm as I did when I wasn't paying attention and honestly I think how is the wrong question here And that 'why' should take more precedent. I mean, isn't the meaning the most important part of art?
Anybody can slap paint on to a canvas but only the tortured soul can find the peace within the chaos Can poetry be part of the abstract? I like things better when there is no rules so why do I continue to do this?
Inside my head are all kinds of ideas I'm plucking them out of the air to swallow down If the words are good or bad it doesn't matter they go out into the world no matter what
Tell me I'm wrong when I know that I'm write
#writers and poets#poems on tumblr#original poem#poem#poetry#spilled thoughts#spilled feelings#spilled writing#writing#my writing#spilled poetry#spilled emotions#spilled words#writers on tumblr#poets and writers#creative writing#writerscommunity#writer#abstract#freeform#no rules
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sometimes she says something
she says something small, innocuous, innocent. it shouldn't matter. it shouldn't. but i think about it for a second and think, "...does she still have feelings for me?"
last night she sent me one of her poems
it was amazing, and i told her so
she responded "i don't think other people have thought about my writing as deeply and reflectively as u"
oh.
the last time she came out to my apartment, she messaged me from the road using her voice to text
she said "the universe must know i started talking to you because suddenly i saw a rainbow"
oh...
is the longing in her words hers or mine?
one i hope, the other i fear
both are sides of the same coin
without one there is only the other
#196#lesbian#sapphic#wlw#196 rule#lgbtq#sapphic yearning#wlw post#writing#rule#poetry#sapphic longing#wlw yearning#lesbianism#fayth and alex saga
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#napowrimo 2024#my handwriting is super bad#also I haven’t written a poem in. uh. well it’s been a while#this is about little house in the big woods btw#fwiw my rule for napowrimo is rough drafts only#when I copied it a second time I only adjusted a bit of wording for meter#my life#my writing#April is national poetry month
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TITHING
But you are a compassionate
And gracious God,
And I, your humble lamb.
So when I turn 10 months old
And start to defy,
Take me to the slaughterhouse
And I will comply.
Let me be stunned and sticked
And let me bleed as a reminder of your tenderness.
Let all that you do to me
Be done in love.
#i write sometimes#woe poem upon ye#i took a poetry class and i know all the rules about it but i dont care so have a rhymeless and meterless poem#god what do i even tag this as#tw toxic relationship#tw blood#tw religious themes#tw religious imagery#tw religious mention#tw religion#tw animal death#tw animal injury#tw toxic friendship#tw death#oc#ocs#original poem#poems and poetry#poem#poetry#poets on tumblr#doai#doai au#dreams of an insomniac#pastra#pastraspec#doai oc#megan#abaddon
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𝙄 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚.
𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙖 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨.
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i find it extremely funny that my (work!! laptop!!!) version of microsoft word just. arbitrarily decides to switch back to english in the middle of a documence sometimes. we are not so different you and i..........................
#it's my WORK LAPTOP so not my PERSONAL computer (which i use libre office on anyway)#because i mean. it would be slightly more normal since i usually write in english on my personal computer (poetry etc)#but my work laptop is only ever used for typing french memos. and shit. so. ?????#it's so funny like randomly. in the middle of a sentence. i'll start getting a bunch of words underlined in red & blue#and word is like. trying to correct them based on english grammar/spelling rules??#out of nowhere. like me too buddy. me too#<- keeps opening wordreference to find basic french words because i can only remember the english ones when i'm tired#between that and my years-long conflict with libre office which still refuses to recognize US english#and instead assumes that i write in faeroese or quechuan (??)............#i have a masterpost of these cases on my main blog i'll try to see if i can find it again
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