#tragic poems

[thefugitivesaint]

Alberto Martini (1876-1954), ''Il Castello del sogno, poema tragico'' by Enrico Annibale Butti, 1919 Source

[sinbadalexandros]

Feeling it so I'm going to post about it

[macaulaytwins]

“A Primer for the Small Weird Loves”, Richard Siken // The Sunshine Court, Nora Sakavic

[aanon04]

“Se que yo no voy a volver, pero está bien, estoy tranquilo. Estoy preparado para lo que viene. Los dos lo estamos. Y me pone muy feliz saber que ustedes si lo van a lograr. Eso me pone contento, Nando.”

“I know I'm not coming back, but it's okay, I'm calm. I'm ready for what's coming. We both are. And it makes me very happy to know that you are all going to make it. That makes me happy, Nando.”

society of the snow (2023)

numa turcatti: on tragic heroes.

the gods show up - michael kinnucan | the truth about grief - fortesa latifi | the invisible life of addie larue - v.e. schwab | strangers - ethel cain | dear layal - hala alyan | ??? | o’death - frances molina | icarus - the crane wives

[asoftepiloguemylove]

THINK I'LL MISS YOU FOREVER // SATORU & SUGURU

Anton Chekhov Complete Works of Anton Chekhov, excerpt from "The Doctor" // 劇場版 呪術廻戦 0 Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021) dir. Sunghoo Park // unknown // Lemony Snicket The Beatrice Letters // Iain Thomas The City Rises and Falls // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2020-) dir. Sunghoo Park; Shota Goshozono // Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot // Emily Brontë The Collected Novels, excerpt from "Wuthering Heights" // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2020-) cr. Gege Akutami // Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles // Langston Hughes // Mitski Francis Forever // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2020-) dir. Sunghoo Park; Shota Goshozono // Silas Denver Melvin (@sweatermuppet) 1.15.22 // Marina Tsvetaeva from a letter to Boris Pasternak // 呪術廻戦 (2020-) cr. Gege Akutami // H.D. Loss // Mo Xiang Tong Xiu Heaven Official's Blessing Vol. 3

[jojo-the-bird]

[katerinaaqu]

The one that tried to heal him and the one that tried to protect him...

Okay a small collage again from two of the most tragic figures in Epic Cycle that are arguably connected to one other tragic figure of the Epic Cycle and arguably two of the most underrated figures or less explored properly 😢

So here we have Antilochus and Patroclus (using my artwork for them) the two young men so important to the narrative and their undoubtedly important connection to Achilles in Epic Cycle!

Both figures I think are RIDICULOUSLY UNDERRATED because of modern retelling craze of the last couple of decades! Patroclus reduced to just a gentle side character without exploring his power and ferocity in war and he plays the role only as "Achilles's partner" while Antilochus even if he has countless references in the Iliad and his strength at war he rarely ever is mentioned.

Their important role in the poem touches me; Patroclus who has shown he is a very empathic and supportive to everyone character, someone who tries his best to bend Achilles's iron stubbornness and pride and begs him to go to war and save the Greeks and ends up taking over that responsibility while Antilochus a man that was just a boy himself and who decided by his own accord to enter the war midway and ended up dying protecting his father and also ender up becoming an important figure in the broken heart of Achilles! We so need more of these two!

So again for their artwork I am inspired by Greek and Roman artworks (Greek attic pottery for Antilochus and Roman frescoes of Pompeii for Patroclus) based also on some classical Greek appearances for the characters as well as mycenaean time dress code.

Antilochus is a protagonist in two one-shots of mine:

The Lament for a Life

What makes the Heart Beat

while Patroclus is mentioned there although I want to experiment more on him as well. Either way the two of them seen together in the underworld in the Odyssey strikes deep!

And once again why do I feel like this song fits them perfectly?!

Also my other collage with Penelope and Calypso can be found here

[xlcovo]

it seeps,

the color, stark and cruel,

a white shroud,

draping the raw.

inhuman, unholy,

to inflict this upon oneself.

yet the pull, irresistible,

the feeling, a sweet venom.

for when it oozes,

slow and sure,

your inner anguish

flows with it,

trickling into silence.

[poemwithoutwords]

"Please, I beg you to leave my deathbed.

I die every time you look at me with more hurt than love in your eyes."

[minwritings]

lie amore, lie

he caresses my arm, going gently over my moles and sketching over the outline of my tattoos. his fingertips slowly reach my lips as he brushes over them with such adoration in his eyes. the incandescent glisten in his eyes is so compelling, so persuasive, sort of like he's asking me to love him in his entirety. his love is sinful, he's aware of this, yet i wake up every morning, conceding every inch of my soul to him. lie amore, lie, tell me your love won't be painful anymore and i'll stay put, always.

[colleybri]

A sonnet for Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor

Your fight this day is done with this harsh dawn

So rest, dear Pilgrims, be at peace at last.

Your weary flesh and all you’ve left to mourn

Will fade now; there’s no future, present past -

Nor is there pain. Prepare for dreamless flight

Between the stars; be crystal and bright dust.

Let others take your Torch of hope and light,

Brave Captain, ‘Little Sister’, in the glass find trust.

Pass into light with love. You’ve earned your rest,

Your parents’ pride and love and faith you knew,

Hand in hand, find strength to pass this final test.

Heart in heart, you’ll find your “Welcome home” here too.

You burned your futures for another future’s morn.

From hearts like yours the strongest stars are born.

[sinbadalexandros]

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[oasisofataraxy]

sing, o muse, of the rage of achilles, son of peleus, that brought countless ills upon the achaeans

achilles, when you bore heart to loving 

and was loved by a man

did you display bearing splendor?

when your tongue twisted 

with a man’s,

when you uncorked olive oil

in comfort and privacy,

when you killed in rage

all for a man,

did agony pierce you?

when phthia was your place, you mingled with a man

when pelion was your place, you possessed undeniable lust

did you feel misery in your heart?

did you rage,

when anatolia was your place?

did you ever think we would honor you?

did you ever think men could love men freely?

did you ever think they would name something in your and patroclus's honor?

[artifex-nb-2000]

I can call you an ex

I can call you a mistake

I can call you a situationship

but I can't call you a Almost

our relationship was doomed from the start..and we both knew it..we just used each other and that was time not well wasted.

you waited for someone else

and I wanted a tragic love

never an almost

not even a wrong time

or another universe

wasted arguments

wasted pretty lies

wasted promises

you are my ex

you were a mistake in dating

and you were definitely a situation

a disaster actually

but it was over when it was over

we were never an almost

just wasted words

N.B

🌻

[virgininorbit]

“I’ll go”

“And I’ll stay”

“And we’ll be okay”

Normal People

[dive-nire]

I don’t feel like fighting it any longer. 

We consume and are consumed, but emptiness is manmade.

And yet whatever you and I were made to be, we are not.

Dive Nire, Metanoia