It's world poetry day so here are some of my favorite poems:
Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert
What the Living Do by Marie Howe
Night Walk by Franz Wright
Crossword by Lloyd Schwartz
The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert
Love Train by Tomás Q. Morín
Divorced Fathers and Pizza Crusts by Mark Halliday
Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo
in another string of the multiverse, perhaps by Michaella Batten
acknowledgments by Danez Smith
Death Wish by Josh Alex Baker
San Francisco by Richard Brautigan
How to Watch Your Brother Die by Michael Lassell
You Are the Penultimate Love of My Life by Rebecca Hazelton
On Political(ized) Life by Kanika Lawton
All the Dead Boys Look Like Me by Christopher Soto
It Was the Animals by Natalie Diaz
In Time by W.S. Merwin
It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off by Hanif Abdurraqib
Dear Life by Maya C. Popa
I Could Touch It by Ellen Bass
To The Young Who Want To Die by Gwendolyn Brooks
Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds by Ada Limón
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"And I am still / to blame for that night. Why do my hands still feel like blood?"
Kanika Lawton, Hot Mess, "Vagabond City"
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Everything I do is out of love; which means
I am constantly splitting myself in half, which
means I am both the knife and the waiting flesh,
urging myself to be gentle, breaking apart instead.
It was Butler who said misrecognition lies at the
heart of the scene of address, meaning even when
I do not respond to the calls, even when I shrug
off their wandering hands, even when I cut off
my own ears, it was meant for me: dyke crawling
from acid tongue, Asian bitch from leering mouth.
No one asks what you really are before grinding
you into dirt — I taste like rancid blood. I taste like
the earth set aflame. I say I love you as if that will
protect me; once I folded myself into your arms and
everything went quiet. I always walk behind men
who feel like my father — my hands know anger but
they’ve been cut to the bone. I wonder what it’s like
to be a body left alone; I don’t mean to be bitter, but
I’ve been chewing on rotten fruit since birth, turning
myself pulp before they can tear me to shreds. The
nurses didn’t believe my mother was my mother.
Perhaps my face was too pink with new skin, or
maybe soft rage. Or maybe unbridled sorrow.
I didn’t come screaming into the world —
The cord around my neck made sure of that.
Kanika Lawton, “On Political(ized) Life”
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Kanika Lawton, “Girl as Burning,” Wildfire Heart
petition for crowley to fistfight god in s3
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Tubbo and Badboyhalo – To teach is to learn
This one has not a lot to do with canon and everything to do with a faint AU in my head I can’t stop mulling over. So yeah, a bit OOC. But I wanted to make it c:
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1. https://pin.it/51VnYzw
•=•What are you asking•=•
2. Quote by Louise Glück
3. https://pin.it/4hPLYSI
4. “Places I’ve Taken My Body” Molly McCully Brown
5. Pink Floyd – The Final Cut
6. https://pin.it/e0deI5Y
7. Quote by Sylvia Plath
8. https://pin.it/66Z1qm0
9. https://pin.it/sjwLM4S
•=•What I will teach you•=•
10. “A Self-Portrait In Letters” Anne Sexton
11. Quote by Stephen King
12. https://pin.it/3h66DI5
13. The Green Knight (2021)
14. https://pin.it/1GFid8J
15. https://pin.it/41v0qZI
16. “Eating Snake” Margaret Atwood
17. “The Queen of the Damned” Anne Rice
18. https://pin.it/4gHV6RX
19. “South and West” Joan Didion
•=•What you will learn•=•
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21. Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
22. Quote by Warsan Shire
23. “2 Truths and a Lie” Angelia Lowes
24. https://pin.it/3YNHTFG
25. “A Living Chattel” Anton Chekhov
26. https://pin.it/4dh3MCR
27. Quote by Eric LaRocca
28. @.cultof-aphrodite
29. https://pin.it/6HVZFin
•=•What I will realize as well•=•
30. Quote by Kurt Vonnegut
31. Japanese Breakfast – Boyish
32. “Caffeine, Pt.1” Sean Glatch
33. “My Own Deep Soul”
34. https://pin.it/2BZfYgO
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36. “Hot Mess” Kanika Lawton
37. https://pin.it/4Fwh6jy
38. https://pin.it/7chb5vs
39. Quote by Anne Sexton
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q!Charlie & q!Mariana, on grief and guilt
four plays by euripides, anne carson | half light, frank bidart | romance or the end, elaine kahn | google search results | black leopard, red wolf, marlon james | this is how you lose the time war, amal el-mohtar and max gladstone | unknown | c.s. lewis | undertale + unknown | hot mess, kanika lawton | unknown | a house in nebraska, ethel cain | the moving target, w.s. merwin | remember me, coco | letters to vera, vladimir nabokov
qsmp web weaves
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on fathers,
when sylvia path wrote "there is your dead father who is somwhere in you," and when nicola yoon wrote "growing up and seeing your parents' flaws is like losing your religion, i don't believe in god anymore, i don't believe in my father either", and when blythe baird wrote, "half daughter, half apology, all fire and the wrong kind of love", and when key ballah wrote "your father could have been kinder, he could have been gentler, he could have held his tongue and his fists", and when katie maria wrote "my head spins and i am back in my childhood home where love doesn't exist", and when annie ernaux wrote "i am still searching for my father's love in all the corners of the world", and when clementine von radics wrote "every time a man yells, you are seven years old again and he is packing that suitcase, once more picking you up by the neck, teaching you obedience, to be soft like the belly of a fish exposed to a knife", and when amatullah bourdon wrote, "'you were my father', he wanted to say, 'so why couldn't you be my father?"' and when kanika lawton wrote, "i always walk behind men who feel like my father", and when desireé dallagiacomo wrote "and i think that's what a father is- a blade that never stops cutting", and when catherine lacy wrote, "if you're raised with an angry man in your house, there will always be an angry man in your house, you will find him even when he is not there and if one day you find that there is no angry man in your house- well, you will go find one and invite him in!" and when augustin gómez-arcos wrote, "the word 'father' rotted in my mouth",
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On Political(ized) Life, Kanika Lawton
[ Text ID: I say I love you as if that will / protect me; once I folded myself into your arms and / everything went quiet. ]
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musings of the lone wanderer - florence gallagher
revelations 21:6, kjv / catherynne m. valente, deathless / sensitive, unknown / silas denver melvin, grit: a poetry collection / sylvia plath, the unabrigded journals of sylvia plath / kaveh akbar, pilgrim bell: poems; forfeiting my mystique / ada limón, the echo sounder / nicola yoon, the sun is also a star / kanika lawton, girl as burning, wildfire heart / user @/ojibwa / undertale / revelations 21:6, niv
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