#culture poetry

[manincaffeine]

Staying at your parents’ house is not free it costs you your mental health

[huellas-poeticas]

[crocsandbitches]

Not to get overly sentimental but rap beef is honestly such a creative form of expression. Like we’re going to hold off on kicking the shit out of each other and calling up shooters to make clever rhymes about each other and get the common man saying words like ‘double entendre.’

Here’s a couple of suggestions of other diss tracks to listen to if you’ve found you’ve liked bitchy poetry:

Ether - Nas (2001) - diss track vs Jay Z & widely considered to be one of the best diss tracks ever released. It’s a response to Jay Z’s diss ‘Takeover’ which at the time of its release left people thinking Nas’ career was over and then Nas uno reversed that shit with Ether and it’s still considered to be a miracle that Jay Z managed to maintain his fame.

Hit ‘em up - 2Pac (1996) -diss track vs Biggie & Bad Boy records. Part of the East Coast / West Coast beef. 2Pac was shot 5 times and survived and Biggie released a song called ‘Who Shot Ya.’ Hit em up is Pac’s response and it’s iconic. Plus the tune is groovy as shit.

Real Muthaphuckkin’ G’s - Eazy E (1993) - Dr Dre left his group NWA over a dispute about contracts/pay. He later released a song called ‘Fuck with Dre Day’ where he had a go at Eazy E (the lead rapper of NWA). Eazy released this in response and it’s another groovy, west coast banger.

Story of Adidon- Pusha T (2018) - Pusha T walked so Kendrick Lamar could run. Need I say more.

No Vaseline - Ice Cube (1991) - vs remaining members of NWA. Cube was the first to leave NWA over contracts/pay disputes. The remaining members released an album, with subtle disses against him. Ice Cube, as Ice Cube does, got pissed.

Life’s on the Line - 50 Cent (2003) - adding this because 50 Cent hates as easily as he breathes and it’s something to marvel at. His beef with Ja Rule started in ‘99 when Ja Rule was robbed by 50’s people and then one thing lead to another and 50 was stabbed and then he was shot 9 times. ‘Time is the best medicine-‘ no. no it’s not. If anything 50 gets angrier through the years. 19 years later 50 bought 200 tickets to Ja Rule’s concert so the front rows were completely empty.

[metamorphesque]

The Working Girl, Daniel Varoujan (translated by Alice Stone Blackwell)

[folklorespring]

Here are two poems by Maksym Kryvtsov, a Ukrainian poet, who was killed defending Ukraine back in January. One of the poems is dedicated to a ginger cat that followed him around faithfully and later died with him. Please read his words, don't let them die too.

[fixing-bad-posts]

Get women into you. It's feminism.

[clawsou]

Jazz's meeting with Music

by Clawsou

I finally possess the beat

of the human heart.

Remedy of Soul

My spark is whole.

[g0j0s]

orange peel theory this pomegranate peel theory that. but have you thought about badaam peel theory? when they soak the almonds overnight and peel them in the morning for you. now that right there is love at its peak.

[inbtwner]

if someone told me they loved me every 5 minutes, i think i’d live forever

[fairydrowning]

"It is August: the true ending of a year. I've grown sick from trying to love who I am."

-Carlie Hoffman, from "High Bridge Park," published in Gulf Stream

[xxconnection]

This Lesbian Poem by Akhaji Zakiya from Lisa C Moore's Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories

[huellas-poeticas]

《Rima XXIV》

Dos rojas lenguas de fuego

que, a un mismo tronco enlazadas,

se aproximan, y al besarse

forman una sola llama;

dos notas que del laúd

a un tiempo la mano arranca,

y en el espacio se encuentran

y armoniosas se abrazan;

dos olas que vienen juntas

a morir sobre una playa

y que al romper se coronan

con un penacho de plata;

dos jirones de vapor

que del lago se levantan

y al juntarse allá en el cielo

forman una nube blanca;

dos ideas que al par brotan,

dos besos que a un tiempo estallan,

dos ecos que se confunden,

eso son nuestras dos almas.

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

[themachomoron]

Look at your wrist, see the blueish veins? The blood flowing through them contains hemoglobin, a protein that has four iron atoms incorporated into its structure. Iron is only naturally produced in one place, it can only be forged in the core of dying stars.

Every time you look at your veins, remember that you are built from, and kept alive by, pieces of stardust.

[poemas-letras-y-artes]

Es en los sueños donde somos más libres que nunca; en esos pensamientos involuntarios que enaltece el subconsciente, fruto de lo que en el alma se germina y el corazón en sus profundidades siente…

Priscila Alcívar

[folklorespring]

Ukrainian school in Dnipro after russian missile attack. Teacher of Ukrainian language and literature from this school said that, symbolically, during the last class before the attack they were learning "Contra spem spero!" poem by Lesia Ukrainka:

[fixing-bad-posts]

you may want to make your fan content public  fic it's actually so beauty you're hope