#with poetry

[coldfeetonthekitchenfloor]

The composition of butterfly wings, how if you hold me too tightly you’ll break the flutters in my flight pattern. You handle me too much and I’ll crumble into powder. I don’t like being in peoples fists, it’s hard to breathe through the gaps of grip. Don’t smother the flames of me by holding too tight. I thrive off freedom and floating air currents and enough space in the sky to hear my own voice. Let me be quiet, there’s a million whirling thoughts in here that I need to decipher before I put sound to. Let me be, let me be, and all that I am will fall like music around you.

[roxybirdie]

【 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 】 Some screenshots from the event. I love these two 𝐒𝐎 much. (♡°▽°♡) Psst ... 𝙎𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢 𝙞𝙨 𝙓𝙞𝙖𝙤'𝙨 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙝. ᴸᵉᵗ'ˢ ᵖʳᵉᵗᵉⁿᵈ ᴵ ᵗᵒᵒᵏ ᵗʰᵉ ˢᶜʳᵉᵉⁿˢʰᵒᵗ ᵒᶠ ˣᶦᵃᵒ ˢᵐᶦˡᶦⁿᵍ ᵃⁿᵈ ᴰᴵᴰᴺ'ᵀ ᶠᵒʳᵍᵉᵗ ᵗᵒ ᵗᵃᵏᵉ ᵒⁿᵉ. ⁽ᴵ ᵗᵒᵗᵃˡˡʸ ᵈᶦᵈⁿ'ᵗ ˢᶜʳᵒˡˡ ᵗʰʳᵒᵘᵍʰ ᴳᵒᵒᵍˡᵉ ᶦᵐᵃᵍᵉˢ ᵘⁿᵗᶦˡ ᴵ ᶠᵒᵘⁿᵈ ᵃ ᵖᶦᶜᵗᵘʳᵉ, ˡᵐᵃᵒ.⁾

[two-bees-poetry]

so soft it hurts

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.

[golden-letters]

bitch this is all you’re gonna get. this life, this face, this body. you better not ‘maybe in another universe’ your way out of everything. sit your ass down and face this. go make tea and have a picnic and read a goddamn book. kiss your loved ones, send that damn text, and hug your siblings. this is all you’re gonna get.

[jordanbolton]

To The Person Who Was Sitting Near Me On The Train - Jordan Bolton

My first book ‘Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car’ is out Nov 7th and is available to pre-order here - https://smarturl.it/BlueSky

[sin-ophelia]

[sleeplessv0id]

what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Nitya Prakash

[cityelf]

this poem is about being nonbinary.

[catchymemes]

[soul-from-another-era]

Unconditional love isn't a free pass to hurt me.

[two-bees-poetry]

twenty years across the sea

[vexheart]

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies