ada!!! i was thinking about your post with poems you think the lone star characters would love, and for nice ask week i was wondering if you have any others you’d add to that list? or if there’s any you really love that you think capture certain characters/relationships on the show? always love to see your recs :’) <3 —maddie/reyesstrand
Maddie!! I love this question so much so thank you for asking it!! <3
I actually planned to make a part two, especially since it's National Poetry Month, but it got a bit away from me so I'm taking this opportunity to just ramble (godspeed to whoever reads this):
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver is one of the most Carlos-coded poems you'll ever have the pleasure of reading. Or maybe it's not, but after using it as basically a thesis for tender eyes that shine, I've decided that it was written for him. Especially:
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Hello?? That's Carlos Tomás Reyes in his purest form!
Oh TK, our hopeless romantic self deprecating boy. I think I'm going to give him Molly Brodak by Molly Brodak, one of my favorite poems that makes me want to burst into tears each and every time I read it. When I think of him, I specifically think of the ending, but I think the whole thing could ring true to him:
I am a good man.
The amount of fear
I am ok with
is insane.
I love many people
who don't love me.
I don't actually know
if that is true.
This is love.
It is a mass of ice
melting. I can't hold
it and I have nowhere
to put it down.
Nancy is absolutely getting Aileen Wuornos Takes A Lover Home by Olivia Gatwood because it's one of my favorites and Nancy's one of my favorites, it only makes sense! I think the ending would really get to her in a way she didn't expect, and I don't blame her, because this is the ending:
In a phone call tapped by police, Aileen called Tyria her right arm, her left arm, her breath, how all Tyria could say back was Please tell them, please say it out loud. But Aileen didn’t want to talk about it.
She wanted to talk about love. So Tyria would hang up, unsuccessful, and the officer would tell her to Say it like this, tell her she’ll get off, tell her it won’t be so bad.
But how, each time, for three days straight, the police listened to Aileen talk about love.
About her right arm. Her left arm.
Her breath. Her breath. Her breath.
Actually going to tag @sznofthesticks because I feel like you would love this poem as well, and you'll agree that Nancy would love it too.
This is cheating but this song is so poetic I'm going to call it a poem. Owen would listen to You Are Your Mother's Child by Conor Oberst and he would want to sob but then he'd get cry lines. I think the whole thing is so Owen-coded but this part especially:
Out on the diamond, and you're up to bat
Chewing your Big League, adjusting your hat
Taking a swing and hearing it crack
Look at that apple fly
Tears will dry if you give them time
Life's a roller coaster, keep your arms inside
Fear, that's a big emotion
But you are your mother's child
And she'll have you for a while
But someday, you'll be grown
Then you'll be on your own
You could tell me Judd wrote I Am Offering this Poem under the pseudonym Jimmy Santiago Baca and I'd believe you. I'd believe he wrote while looking at Grace when she wasn't even looking at him because it has Judd all over it like:
Keep it, treasure this as you would
if you were lost, needing direction,
in the wilderness life becomes when mature;
and in the corner of your drawer,
tucked away like a cabin or hogan
in dense trees, come knocking,
and I will answer, give you directions,
and let you warm yourself by this fire,
rest by this fire, and make you feel safe
I love you,
That's Judd!
Tommy would adore Every Job Has A First Day by Rebecca Gayle Howell. There's a cozy feeling to it, but the final words hold such a heavy weight that I think Tommy would appreciate and carry with her:
I listened as he taught me to relax the hand just enough.
They can smell, he said, the oils our pores release
when we tense to catch. You have to believe it,
he said. You don’t mean any harm.
Speaking of Rebecca's, Marjan is giving me You Are the Penultimate Love of My Life by Rebecca Hazelton vibes in the best way. Maybe it's the romanticizing of something that has an inevitable ending but I feel like this would be Marjan's approach to a break-up, especially this part:
The garden you plant and I plant
is tunneled through by voles,
the vowels
we speak aren’t vows,
but there’s something
holding me here, for now,
I feel like Paul, like me, would love the work of Cameron Awkward Rich, but specifically The Child Formerly Known As____ and even more specifically, the ending:
& in the end, isn’t that what we all want?
To not feel so
split? To carry an image of ourselves
inside ourselves & know exactly what we mean
when we say I— . I— .
I— ?
I think Mate would love getting the chance to read Prayer for Werewolves by Stephanie Burt because I think he would see so much of himself in it. Stumbling and tumbling trying to find himself somewhere and eventually finding the place where he belongs. I also feel like he loves the supernatural and the first part of this poem would feel like a gut punch:
Someone will probably love you for who you are.
If not, you’ll still find friends,
friends who, given time, or given warning,
will probably gather around you, hold your hands,
and wrap you in soft coats and blankets till the violence
inside your body ends.
Finally, my beloved Grace, is things i want to ask you by Helga Flores because I feel like the poem is just a list of things running through Grace's mind when she only knew Judd by voice, but that first one in particular:
i want to ask you what god feels like.
You've reached the end of my exhaustive essay that would probably keep going if I didn't reign myself in. I hope you liked these, they're some of my favorites <3
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and death shall have no dominion by dylan thomas
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
By Dylan Thomas, 1914 - 1953
And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.
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so i have two (2) submas poems for you on this fine day. they are both in the exact same vein but the first works with the interpretation that ingo is truth and emmet is ideals and the other is vice versa. enjoy :)
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They are black.
And white.
And yin, and yang, and fire, and electricity.
Alone they are all color,
Or the lack of it.
Together, they are all and none,
Everything and nothing.
Grey, mixed together by the gods.
Mixed together by the legends.
Mixed together by the princes.
Mixed together by the boys themselves.
Grey, mixed.
They should have never been black and white again.
They never thought they could be.
They thought the gods the legends the princes their very own small learning fire-red and electric-yellow hands would hold it, hold it firm and steady and tight til the day their bones rotted in the earth.
They are black.
And white.
And god,
They are not grey.
The god,
What have you done?
What has your kin wrought?
Wrought law breaking undefinable, a curse neverending.
They are black.
And white.
And yin and yang and one and the other and they are alone.
There should have been no such thing as alone for the two of them.
One without the other is a terror they never thought they would face.
A dancer without their feet.
One without the other is a singer without their voice.
A piano without its bench.
A musician with no instrument.
A conductor with no train.
A trainer, with no Pokemon to care for.
Things that are easy to lose, things they never thought could compare to them, and yet and yet and yet.
Worthless, useless, missing missing missing.
The singer is without their voice.
The dancer is without their feet.
The bird is without its nest.
The musician is without their instrument.
The fire is without its electricity, staticky and bright. The electricity is without its fire, solid and warm. The grey has been impossibly, irrevocably, intrinsically torn, torn at the seams by a vengeful god, a vengeful world, one that wishes to defy all law. They are without their voice and their feet and their piano and their bench and their backyard tree and their lantern and bird and they are torn terrified
Frozen.
They are frozen.
Rotting slowly in the frigid cold of their separation, frostbitten and decomposing, burning and broken and alive.
Tears fall and turn to ice.
One dragon.
Two, and a hollow shell.
Grey, and the wretched mechanisms used to cleave it apart again.
Grey, and the horrible day it faded away.
Grey, and the horrible day one became everything. Everything they'd known, everything they'd remembered, every ideal they'd held.
Grey, and the horrible day one became nothing. Nothing of what he'd ever known, remembering nothing, knowing only the truth of this empty world around him.
The hollow third rests in the air. In their minds, on heavy shoulders, in ice grey eyes.
It is rotting them from the inside out.
Ice. Ice fire cannot melt, ice electricity cannot break.
The ice that rests betwixt their ribs. The ice that burns behind their eyes.
Omnipresent. Ever reminding of the other of themselves of the other. Ever wailing of the grey and its horrid misplacement, in the crevice of time, in the crevice of space, and truth and ideals and the chaos god, the Almighty himself.
The Almighty himself, who made them grey. The Almighty himself, who made them everything and nothing yet again. The Almighty himself, the bastard, the betrayer, the summoner of ice, forever and always and now and then.
Almighty Sinnoh, what have you done?
Arceus, what have you wrought?
Grey, never again.
They are black.
And white.
That is forever their binding fate.
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the god has torn them apart.
the god,
and his devil,
and his right hand men.
grey, wrenched impossibly into two.
grey, forced apart again into black and white.
grey, forced apart into ideals without truth,
forced apart into truth without ideals.
the fire rages without its static.
the electricity fizzles out without its flame.
the man in white mourns a brother lost.
the man in black wonders what is gone.
two princes once tore grey apart,
extracted black from white and white from black,
fought over one half and another,
and a hollow shell followed.
that was right.
that was natural.
that was a result of an argument ill made.
that was the consequences of ideals and truth, at war.
ideals and truth were one.
ideals and truth were a mirror.
ideals and truth were in harmony.
the twins were grey, a perfect shade.
but the god said no.
why?
why must you pilfer perfection?
why must you take it,
from our warm hands and our bright eyes and our grey, grey hearts?
they beat as one,
in time,
a dancer and their step,
a bird and their song,
a piano and their bench,
a time made and a beat kept.
but the god said no.
forsaken.
forbidden.
forgiven, for it was not his fault.
for the living, as they are.
the man in white mourns a brother lost.
the man in black wonders what is gone.
and the electricity fizzles out,
whispering into the night.
and the flame burns all around it,
crying out at the sky.
sinnoh.
arceus.
god.
what is the meaning of self-inflicted blasphemy?
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