#does this even count as poetry??

[gra1nofsand]

Hello I wrote a thing

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The Canary, the Raven, and the Dove

Based off the Life serieses (?)

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The Canary the Raven and the Dove

Of Warning of Death and of Peace

One by one they all go

And the end will come for us each

The Canary is the first one to go

As he has shown us and died a-plenty

For when he dies the first bell is tolled

And we are Warned of the upcoming ending

For the Raven the person is unknown

For we can never see who sheds the black feathers

But they are revealed and die and so we cry

For the beast of Death comes untethered

For the third is the Dove, pure of being

And with him, all peace leaves us

For the Dove has charged into battle

And the drums of war begin to sound

The Canary the Raven and the Dove

Of Warning of Death and of Peace

One by one they all go

And the end will come for us each

[seepy-sucker]

The stars do not compare to such beauty as yours for they envy you but I, I admire you.

[atopvisenyashill]

Thoughts on the Alysanne is Maegor's daughter AU? I feel like it has some interesting potential, and it vastly recontextualizes different parts of Jaehaehae (I do not like him sjsjsjs) and Alysanne's relationship (such as Jaehaehae's treatment of their daughters) but I wanna hear what you think about it!

I’ve touched on this a bit before but since you actually want to hear my thoughts, allow me to present to you my Jaehaerys Is The Goddamn Worst, And Alysanne Annoys Me Too: An Essay lmao but my answer is basically “yeah all of what you just said.”

I think it makes Alysanne much more palatable (to me) as a character because as she stands, she just fixates on forcing her daughters through these fucked up marriages at too young an age bc it traumatized her to be married and pregnant at 15 too but she’d never admit that being a willing participant in her own kidnapping by her brother-husband was the single worst thing that ever happened to her, and because Alysanne doesn’t want to admit it (and Jaehaerys would never see it as wrong or a mistake) F&B really shies away from delving into the fact that Alysanne is as deranged of a mother as Cersei is. So as she stands, she’s very flat to me because she’s presented very flatly and inconsistently. She’s so in love with Jaehaerys, she’s maritally raped by Jaehaerys, she’s a loving and doting mother, she forces her daughters into marriages when they’re the same too young age she was, she accuses her teenage girls of being scheming whores then gets angry when her husband accuses their teenage girls of being scheming whores, and worst of all we are just told “Maegelle tells them to make up so they do” so we don’t know why Alysanne gets over all of this. What is the point of riding a dragon when you never use that dragon to protect your daughters from unwanted teen marriages? We’re just not given a good enough justification for why her behavior is so weird and frustrating towards her daughters.

Make her Maegor’s daughter though…most of her behavior as an adult makes more sense. Like a worse version of Rhaenyra’s childhood almost - a father desperate for a son, but lowkey obsessed with his daughter, who makes all his hang ups about his parents the problems of every woman around him, except Maegor is out here blood sacrificing and torturing and starting wars and forcing babies on wives he discards quickly and brutally. Then here comes Jaehaerys on a white horse green dragon to save her from the horror her life has become, and he loves her so much he runs away with her even though Alyssa says they shouldn’t marry because people won’t like it. And they have beautiful children, and a beautiful marriage, and build a beautiful kingdom.

Then her pregnancies start getting dangerous. Gaemon, then Valerion, die. Alysanne thinks of the shriveled up mutants she called brothers, if Maegor’s taint has passed to her. Her perfect husband ignores her no, and forces Gael on her. Alysanne remembers that he said nothing to Rogar when Alyssa died, merely wept. Then her daughters start to die. Daella, Alyssa, Viserra, all within a few years. Then Jaehaerys makes Saera watch as he murders her boyfriend, calls her a whore, and says Alysanne cannot follow Saera to Lys. Alysanne thinks of Maegor torturing the Harroways over Alys’ presumed infidelity. Jaehaerys says he’s sorry, and her daughter badgers her into forgiving him, and she remembers how she helped Jaehaerys badger Alyssa into forgiving Rogar. Not two years later, Jaehaerys passes over Rhaenys. Alysanne thinks of how she was never enough for her father, how she felt so superior to Rhaena banished to Dragonstone and resented by Aerea, yet there she is dragging Gael away from court because she can’t stand to be with Jaehaerys. How her father was surrounded by dead women and dead babies and how Jaehaerys is surrounded by his own dead daughters, but surely she did the right thing, surely Maegor was worse, surely the realm is better off? Is he right to pass over Rhaenys? Is she enabling a man just as monstrous as her father? She will never decide, because Maegelle will guilt her about keeping Gael isolated at Dragonstone, and Alysanne will do as she’s told, just like Rhaena, and Alyssa, and Jeyne, Elinor, Ceryse, Alys, and Tyanna, just like every one of her daughters.

I do get why Alysanne is Alyssa & Aenys’ and not Maegor’s. The weird Targ babies, the line not descending from Visenya, Jaehaerys and Alysanne being held up as the perfect Targaryen couple specifically because they are brother and sister and dragon riders. I do even think canon Alysanne is likely traumatized by her time as a hostage on Dragonstone, and the ensuing war, and the trauma bond that caused with Jaehaerys, and it makes her idolize Jaehaerys, and then he isolates her at Dragonstone so he can swiftly and safely marry, groom, and knock her up. It’s not like,,,, a fun time, and it’s enough to make anyone crazy and weird about their daughters, but I think having her father be Maegor makes Alysanne herself much deeper because it gives her, as the most beloved Targaryen queen, a blood tie to the most hated Targaryen king, and a marriage to the most beloved Targaryen king. It fits better with a lot of the themes of the main series (again, imo) - forcing the spotlight on the outsiders to see how the affect the story from behind the scenes. The fall of Aegon’s sons, and The Long Reign, not told from the PoV or to serve the PoV of any of the kings or princes, but of the queen that tied them all together.

[forkpigeon3146]

not rlly poetry but i love how much im able to love

i love my friends so much that like, im genuinely struggling to find the right words right now bc it feels like nothing i write will amount to the love i feel for them

and yeah sometimes i give my love to the wrong people who dont deserve it, but i think thats the beauty in it, because no matter how much love i give out, there will always be more to spill from my bleeding heart made of glass (its 3am i cant fight off the poetry mind)

i have so much love and i hope i see the day where i can finally write the words down correctly

[goldiebeams]

Girl help, I’m regressing to that point in my childhood where I’d imagine a fictional crush standing by my bedside as I try to fall asleep, gazing lovingly down at my resting figure in awe of the raw beauty and honesty that comes with the peaceful stillness of slumber

[jaydeiswriting]

Additional 2024 writing goal:

No more boxes.

[butiamjustaperson]

How do you learn to grieve someone who isn’t dead?

Someone who didn’t leave you against their will but by it?

And how do you learn to grieve in that specific way when you haven’t learned to grieve yet in any way at all?

When it’s your first time?

When Grief hasn’t yet had the chance to gently introduce herself with a batch of cookies welcoming you to the neighborhood?

When Loss breaks your window with a softball and Grief has no choice but to go up to your door, knock, and apologize for her daughter?

When Grief offers to pay for the damages?

When Grief says she wishes she’d met you under different circumstances?

When Loss hides behind her mother’s skirt?

What if Grief never arrives?

What if Grief is absent and all you have is Loss herself come to apologize?

When she holds out her piggy bank do you take it?

Do you look at Loss’s missing baby teeth, the gaps in her hesitant smile, and think she’d like a cup of orange juice?

Do you offer that to her?

Do you introduce her to Forgiveness?

[lancecorporalderby]

[ THE LOVERS. ]

They are Just no one in particular.

[sunnydaychai]

"No Title"

I'm no poet

I'm too direct with my words, like an arrow at a bullseye

I'm too repetitive with my feelings, like a star looping in the sky

I'm too lost within my head, like a dog lost in a maze

I'm too aware of myself, like a poet without a heart

I like to think my writing can be poetic

But sometimes it's too direct, repetitive, lost, or aware

Sometimes my writing seems like an outsider moving into a new neighborhood

Sometimes my writing feels like the people I lost along the way

Sometimes my writing doesn't feel like poetry

So what do I do?

Does it have to be MORE shrouded in mystery?

Does it need to be ABOUT the people I've lost?

Does it need to be so honest that it PAINS me to write it?

I'll never know

For I'm no poet

[oicuperp]

i don't like crying in the shower, even though a lot of people prefer it, because i can't tell if i'm really crying i like to feel the tears in my face because, to me, they're proof that i am here, that i can feel, that i can love, that i can grieve

[astrxealis]

okay rambles but i started creatively writing in like ... 5th grade? and. oh god just a little encouragement to anyone looking to get into writing or insecure or whatnot, but HELLS, maybe it's to he expected with my (obviously) very young age and inexperience with writing then, but my writing was really. yeah. Yeah. but then i'm what... a lot older now, obviously, and my writing has gotten leagues better. i'm probably not a good example for this bcs childhood years development stuff are different etc etc BUT practicing writing more and whatnot really does go a long way :]

[understarslikeyours]

[monorayjak]

Frozen Trust

I stopped trusting myself so long ago,

I stopped listening to myself,

I stopped believing myself,

I tear myself down every day,

And I build back up each night,

Internally I’m always in a fight,

I’m stupid and a monster,

But I’m human and flawed;

Just like everyone else.

I want to trust me.

I want to trust what I feel,

Just as easily as trusting what I see.

I’m tired of fighting this battle,

I’m tired of doubting every thought.

I want to be free,

To trust what I feel,

To say it’s all real.

Because I can’t live like this forever,

I need to trust what I feel,

I need to believe I am who I think and feel I am.

I don’t want to be an imposter.

I don’t want to feel like a liar when I try to speak.

I’ve took comfort in numbers and logic for as long as I remember.

But they aren’t the best way to be human;

We are not beings of absolute logic;

We are flawed,

We are emotional,

We do stupid things,

So why can’t I trust,

That what I feel doesn’t have to follow the cold numbers.

I’ve frozen myself for so long.

I want to feel the heat and know I’m not wrong,

To accept how I feel.

But where do I start?

How do I trust myself,

When I feel like me and myself have been torn apart?

I see myself frozen,

But I want to be whole.

I need to free me.

To be brought together again,

To be whole.

But I can’t.

Where do I begin?

I can’t do this forever.

Please, someone,

Help me wake up.

[starryemberskinposting]

the forests and mountains are my home,

and yet, as the beast beckons from within,

i'm left with guilt weighing a thousand moons

as i wonder what would have happened

if i were never to become a monster

[forkpigeon3146]

this is your friendly reminder that you will never be too much or too little to the people who truly enjoy you and your presence!!!! the people who are worth staying around will love you no matter how weird you are or how odd you come off as!!!!!! the people who truly love you are the one's who come along and accept you as you are!!!!!!! do not change yourself to fit someone else's friendship requirements!!!!!!!!

[poetryaccountnumber12345]

Skeleton Outgrowth

Years twine years, spinning threads of decay

'Round my bloodied carcass, dripping with age.

My skeleton outgrows me, its cage set to die

At an age far younger than its bones.

Twist, turn, writhe, stretch...

Burst.

It mustn't thrash, yet it protests,

Staining the bedsheets below.