#topic: poetry

[tayfabe75]

Stevie: I wanna say one thing, because I have it here and I want to get it out of the way, I don't want to forget to do it before we hang up. I would've thought that you would've written more like me, and now I don't know if you or George wrote this part, but I'm just gonna read you something that makes me think that you would take your formal poems. But also there's a line in this that's one of the reasons that I totally fell in love with your lyrics, because… Anyway, I'm just gonna read this to you, okay? So it says, ​"She's inducing sleep to avoid pain/​And I think she's got a gun /​Divinely decreed and custom made /​She calls on the phone like the old days, expecting the world /​Don't fall in love with the moment and think you're in love with the girl". I think that ​"Don't fall in love with the moment and think you're in love with the girl," first of all, that's just like my life, right? Matty: Yeah, right? Stevie: That made me… The way that these words are, I would think that you actually started with words and that you didn't start with music. Between you and George, and I don't know where you begin and he ends because you know, I understand that symbiotic thing that you guys have. Unless you tell them, nobody's ever gonna know, but the fact is that your lyrics are – and I don't even wanna say lyrics, your poetry is like, so good and so seductive and so intriguing. I mean there's all kinds of great sexy words I could use, but it's like… I just love it.

May 5, 2020: Stevie Nicks gushes to Matty about his lyrics and poetry on The Face podcast. (source)

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[i-eat-mold]

I just realized if I apply anything I write or think of to skk I can post it here and it’s still not that dumb (lies)

[poems-of-the-anentomologist]

uhh this is the long awaited blahaj poem of myth :3

it is ofc dedicated to my blahaj

Poem For Jess

You’ve been there

Through rain and snow

Through my darkest moments

And the better ones

Holding you tight my chest in the dark of my room

It’s midnight once again

Your touch is soft

You are so soft

I can bury my face close to you and let it all out

My tears, my words

A thousand sorrys

Sorry that I was born in this ill-fitting skin

Sorry for hurting you

Sorry for what I’ve said and what I’ve done

and so much more

You are my friend,

My comfort and

The only thing worth living for sometimes

Even though you don’t say anything

I can hear your voice sometimes

Even though you were sewn in a factory

I feel as though I have made you with my own hands

Assigned a character,

Let you play the role

And you’ve played it fantastically my dear

[geopsych]

My therapist challenged me to write poetry this winter. I haven't been able to get out much. Today for example is dark gray with rain. So I hope you don't mind if I post a poem. It seems like it’s to someone specific but it isn't. Maybe it's to everybody. Hey, If you walk the path with me today I'll leave the phone in my pocket. Instead of taking pictures, When mist rolls across the lake When deer pause by the wood When swallows swoop Or a kingfisher rattles We could just behold it together Like the olds And the ancients. And, yeah, that's what I want to propose: Maybe you could be my companion, You know, On Behold Walks together? I know a place for migrating birds in spring, Flowers and hummingbirds in summer, For mushrooms in autumn, And intricate ice in the winter, Ponds for wood ducks and herons, Long trails through woods and ferns. Great places! I think you'd like them. Usually I go there with my camera And my phone. But I think I might like it more, you know, Like, With you? So, yeah, lmk

[thegentleintellectual]

Excerpt From: Terese Marie Mailhot. “Heart Berries.”

[babytoothbrain]

I Have Never Been Forgiven for not Understanding

You Shall Know our Velocity!, Dave Eggers// @heartmush // "Outbreaks", Kitchen McKeown// "Cures for Shame", Rookiemag// The Allure of Shame, John Dalton// "Outbound", Hieu Minh Nguyen// Visual Overdose//

[unfinishedrambles]

on devotion

two, sleeping at last / everything everywhere all at once (2022), dir. dan kwan & daniel scheinert / kill your darlings (2013), dir. john krokidas / the chapter closes, critical role / twitter: jenny slate / episode 4, fleabag (2019) / euripides, anne carson / make you feel my love, adele / h of h, anne carson / the judge, bojack horseman (2017) / coffee and cigarettes, sade andria zabala / the chaos of stars, kiersten white / wild geese, mary oliver / mary on a cross, ghost / the art of fuckery, our flag means death (2022) / @/gayassnatural / the seven husbands of evelyn hugo, taylor jenkins reid / i will, mitski

[shitty-proendo-blackout-posts]

(This post is a Pro Endo post, we posted it for the endos)

[asoftepiloguemylove]

hii if you can, could u pls make a webweave on solitude? like, not being lonely but loving being alone and purposely being alone yk

i hope this is what you were looking for !!

José Olivarez February & my love is in another state (via @girlfictions) / All About Lily Chou-Chou リリイ・シュシュのすべて (2001) dir. 岩井 俊二 Shunji Iwai / Henry Miller Topic of Cancer / Isabel Allende The House of the Spirits (via @fromdarzaitoleeza) / pinterest / Franz Kafka from a diary entry dated July 1, 1913 (via @dailykafka) / Michel de Montaigne The Complete Essays

[tayfabe75]

"The poetry aspect is the fact that the music does come first, but it's about, I suppose, that I write what I see and I write what I hear a lot. So I tend to be somewhere and voyeuristically overhear something and I'll write it down. I write down a lot of concepts, I write down a lot of stuff that doesn't rhyme. The biggest moment that I've had with that is, we have this song called Love It If We Made It, which has kind of become I suppose our biggest song, it's our big kind of political moment. It talks about everything that was kind of messed up in the world from 2018 onwards. There's kind of references to this and references to Trump. I remember having this moment in the song where the lyrics, the melody had to go bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah, 1 – 2‑3 – 4‑5 – 6‑7, and I needed seven syllables. So I was thinking, what are these powerful syllables? What are seven syllables that really reach the time? And then I found Donald Trump's quote of, ​'I moved on her like a bitch.' And I just screamed, I moved on her like a bitch! And that is the synthesis that I'm always searching, finding… It's like painting by numbers but not making it rudimentary, do you know what I mean? I need to let the music inspire the poetry and then make musical poetry around it. That's kind of what I do."

May 5, 2020: Matty explains his songwriting style and process. (source)

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[vividlyaro]

on sunflowers; a platonic love letter

i knew you then. i know you now. but how i wish i could have known you in that space between the two. how i wish we could have grown together.

we were sunflower seeds in the dirt, and even then i knew you were something special. you were good, so good. (for a week, i was convinced you were otherworldly, more than human. because i had no other concepts to explain how seen, how understood i felt when i was with you.) i was a child longing for connection, and when you entered my life, i almost didn't know what to do with all of the joy that followed.

we knew little of the world. we had so much growing to do. and in another lifetime, maybe we could have remained side by side throughout.

but the wind scattered us just out of reach. and i had a tendency to release my grasp on every good thing. it was chance that led to distance, but it was my own fear that led to silence. and i am sorry for the time we have lost.

and yet. we grew, reaching for the same sun. we grew in parallel arcs, turning to face the light, unfurling our leaves to touch the world with gentleness and courage.

and now i see you, here in the sunlight. we ended up here. we ended up okay. we cannot look into the past to see what made us who we are. but we can see who we were. and we can see who we are.

and i can say to you:

i knew you then. i know you now. i am sorry for the time between. thank you for not giving up on me. i love the person you are. i am proud of us both. you are someone i always want in my life.

i hope the future is kind to you. i hope your best days are ahead of you. i hope you know how loved you are. and i hope we see each other soon.

with this letter, i am sending you hugs and smiles and candy and music and legos and cool rocks and funny videos of baby animals and all of the happiness in the world.

your friend,

vivid.

[fictionadventurer]

August: Day 23

Adventures

Bought gift for my sister and new niece

Met new niece for the first time

Got asked to be godmother (and accepted)

Accomplishments

Attempted poem for niece's baptism (because apparently my inner sentimental Victorian demands an outlet)

[geopsych]

I'm going to start putting my poetry on a new blog at @farmersmarketpoetry because I wrote one today that has a rude word in it and I thought maybe it shouldn't be on geopsych. I'll post that poem later. For now I just reblogged a couple old ones.

[thegentleintellectual]

I met you and now I am kind to myself in my sleep and how do you explain that?

TELL ME GENTLY by Laura Marris