#lloyd schwartz

[typewriter-worries]

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

[havingapoemwithyou]

leaves by Lloyd Schwartz

[elvendeity]

"I'm only asking for strength for my days. Teach me the art of small steps."

1 @soracities || 2, 3 shanna van maurik || 4 winter of artifice by anaïs nin || 5 hermann hesse, in an excerpt from hermann hesse on little joys, breaking the trance of busyness, and the most important habit for living with presence, the marginalian || 6 café terrace at night (place du forum, arles), Vincent van Gogh || 7 oamul lu || 8 leaves, lloyd Schwartz || 8 tony kushner, angels in america || 10 dead poets society || 11 a prayer, antoine de saint-exupéry 

reading lists and more

[feral-ballad]

Lloyd Schwartz, from The Handbook of Heartbreak: 101 Poems of Lost Love and Sorrow; “Who's on first?”

[Text ID: "Do you love me?" / "Of course—; but I resent it."]

[sageandscorpiongrass]

First off I wanna say I love Elsa's song and the amazing devil...

Do you think you could make a web weave of your best friend cutting you off after years? It's been a lot on me :(

What do I do with myself now? On: Friendship and endings.

I hope this is alright. It's been... a few years since someone's called me their best friend? So my implied emotion might be a tad off.

Poem, Langston Hughes | Near Miss, Fanny Howe | Bluets, Maggie Nelson | @/petrichara | Spirit Hold Part 2, Holly Warburton (desaturated) | The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman | Cough It Out, The Front Bottoms | Honeybee: "I Still Forget We’re Not Even Friends", Trista Mateer | To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death, Lloyd Schwartz | @/becherdireinen | If You Knew, Ruth Muskrat Bronson | Cocaine Jesus, Rainbow Kitten Surprise | The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald | @/inkskinned

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[quillaffinity]

This Grief Like Fire - lio fotia web weave (promare)

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i am burning

ive always, always burned. come, let me warm you for a while.

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Promare is a film directed by Imaishi Hiroyuki and produced by Studio Trigger

ocean vuong / blue kid, “the dismemberment song” / promare / lloyd schwartz /  rosanna warren / promare / ocean vuong / dorothy parker / promare / clarice lispector / promare / ??? / promare / anton chekhov ( trans. hugh aplin), “uncle vanya” / promare / promare / promare /  franz wright / promare / björk / promare / yves olade / ??? / promare / moss angel

[the-final-sentence]

Top Final Sentences of 2022

 I was everything I needed.           Xoài Phạm, from “The Greatest Pleasure”

He helped me find what I truly craved and identify what had been there all along: an unwavering sense of self.         Jennifer Chowdhury, from “In Pursuit of Brown-on-Brown Love”

Such an old, old memory, why should it make me cry?         Lloyd Schwartz, from “The Two Horses (A Memory)”

“I love you,” he whispered again, against the top of her head.         Mary Balogh, from Thief of Dreams

And he paused, in the space between inhalation and exhalation, and invited magic in.          Freya Marske, from A Marvellous Light        

“Nothing I didn’t already know, deep down.”         Dante Medema, from The Truth Project

It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.         Toni Morrison, from Sula

For just a little while more, I think, let me hide here.         Jonathan Robbins Leon, from “The Same Kind of Monster”

In search of, an approximation:            desire of, love of.         Iliana Rocha, from “Elegy Falling Forward & Down“

I still crave the comfort of a hand in mine, the warmth of being claimed in the daylight.         Laura Bogart, from “A New Kind of Heroine”

And it is you, it is you she is holding like an open book, well-loved, in her hands.         Eve Alexandra, from “Heroine”

We survived to whisper our names to each other even if we could not yet confess them to anyone else.         Anna-Marie McLemore, from “Roja”

And this is the story of how I am caught.         Margaret Owen, from Little Thieves

I’m trying to hold on to this rope, and I’m trying to let go.         Melissa Faliveno, from “Tied, Tethered, Unfettered, Free”

Imagine you don’t fit anywhere, not even in your own head.         Bassey Ikpi, from “What It Feels Like”

I look to the sky and feel her ghost.         Colton Haynes, from Miss Memory Lane

It would be nice if we could talk about how we went online, driven by some sort of longing, and why we stayed there, pushing that want outward, over and over, until it couldn’t be ignored.         Kaitlyn Tiffany, from Everything I Need I Get from You

Care tasks exist for one reason only… to make your body and space functional enough for you to easily experience the joy this world has to offer.         K.C. Davis, from How to Keep House While Drowning

I had become one of the people on the street who knew where he was going.         Andrew Rannells, from Too Much Is Not Enough

Until everything was sea and sky, and the falling was flying, and he realised he was laughing too.         Alexis Hall, from A Lady for a Duke

Under the wrack and wreck of what had come before, the sky was new, and I reached for it with a yearning eager hand.         Nghi Vo, from The Chosen and the Beautiful

My beating heart is still yours, the letter said, and I’ll be waiting for you.         Dana Schwartz, from Anatomy

It won’t last for long, but it’s beautiful for now.         Linda Oatman High, from December

She holds my hand as I leave them all behind.         Erica Waters, from “Stay”

And then I fall back into my sheets, still warm and crumpled, and close my eyes.         Alice Oseman, from “Hands Against Our Hearts”

[onenakedfarmer]

LLOYD SCHWARTZ "Proverbs from Purgatory"

It was déjà vu all over again.

I know this town like the back of my head.

People who live in glass houses are worth two in the bush.

One hand scratches the other.

A friend in need is worth two in the bush.

A bird in the hand makes waste.

Life isn’t all it’s crapped up to be.

It’s like finding a needle in the eye of the beholder.

It’s like killing one bird with two stones.

My motto in life has always been: Get It Over With.

Two heads are better than none.

A rolling stone deserves another.

All things wait for those who come.

A friend in need deserves another.

I’d trust him as long as I could throw him.

He smokes like a fish.

He’s just a chip off the old tooth.

I’ll have him eating out of my lap.

A friend in need opens a can of worms.

Too many cooks spoil the child.

An ill wind keeps the doctor away.

The wolf at the door keeps the doctor away.

People who live in glass houses keep the doctor away.

A friend in need shouldn’t throw stones.

A friend in need washes the other.

A friend in need keeps the doctor away.

A stitch in time is only skin deep.

A verbal agreement isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

A cat may look like a king.

Know which side of the bed your butter is on.

Nothing is cut and dried in stone.

You can eat more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Don’t let the cat out of the barn.

Let’s burn that bridge when we get to it.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Don’t cross your chickens before they hatch.

DO NOT READ THIS SIGN.

Throw discretion to the wolves.

After the twig is bent, the barn door is locked.

After the barn door is locked, you can come in out of the rain.

A friend in need locks the barn door.

There’s no fool like a friend in need.

We’ve passed a lot of water since then.

At least we got home in two pieces.

All’s well that ends.

It ain’t over till it’s over.

There’s always one step further down you can go.

It’s a milestone hanging around my neck.

Include me out.

It was déjà vu all over again.

[scatteredprayerbeads]

“A True Poem” by Lloyd Schwartz

I'm working on a poem that's so true, I can't show it to anyone. I could never show it to anyone. Because it says exactly what I think, and what I think scares me. Sometimes it pleases me. Usually it brings misery. And this poem says exactly what I think. What I think of myself, what I think of my friends, what I think about my lover. Exactly. Parts of it might please them, some of it might scare them. Some of it might bring misery. And I don't want to hurt them, I don't want to hurt them. I don't want to hurt anybody. I want everyone to love me. Still, I keep working on it. Why? Why do I keep working on it? Nobody will ever see it. Nobody will ever see it. I keep working on it even though I can never show it to anybody. I keep working on it even though someone might get hurt.

[typewriter-worries]

Every October it becomes important, no, necessary to see the leaves turning, to be surrounded by leaves turning;

Leaves, Lloyd Schwartz 

[multifandominfj]

Has anyone ever thought that Kristin Chenoweth and Hannah Waddingham are the same person? Vaguely similar facial features, the same personality, and similar vocal ranges.

Like, there was just two of Hannah, one of them got zapped by a shrink ray and ended up being Kristin 😂.

The musical theatre version of Dr. Evil and Mini Me. 🤣

[ask-sebastian]

Ooh so excited for this one 💕

More to come, of course!

Two from my favourite musicals! 🖤 Is it really Showtime if I don't post Defying Gravity? I think not.

[feral-ballad]

Lloyd Schwartz, from The Handbook of Heartbreak: 101 Poems of Lost Love and Sorrow; “Who's on first?”

[Text ID: "I love you, you know." / "Yes... but why?"]

[literallybyronic]

dear 2p0 if the author of this children's book grokked the journey to self acceptance in 1967 then what is taking you so long

[tailschannel]

Knuckles the Echidna mini-series to debut six episodes on 26 April

The long-awaited Sonic the Hedgehog movie mini-series, Knuckles, was officially announced by Paramount Pictures early Thursday.

A newly unveiled poster teased a six-episode streaming event on the Paramount Plus streaming service on 26 April 2024 in the United States and Canada. Viewers elsewhere will get the new show on 27 April.

The new live-action event series follows Knuckles (Idris Elba) on a hilarious and action-packed journey of self-discovery as he agrees to train Wade (Adam Pally) as his protégé and teach him the ways of the Echidna warrior. The series takes place between the films SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 and SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 3. In addition to Elba starring as the titular character, Adam Pally reprises his role from the film franchise as Wade Whipple. The ensemble cast includes guest stars Stockard Channing (The West Wing), Edi Patterson (The Righteous Gemstones), Scott Mescudi (Don’t Look Up), Ellie Taylor (Ted Lasso), Julian Barratt (Mindhorn), Rory McCann (Game of Thrones), Cary Elwes (MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future), Paul Scheer (Black Monday), and Rob Huebel (Childrens Hospital). Special guest star Ben Schwartz will reprise his role as Sonic, as well as special guest star Tika Sumpter, reprising her role as Maddie. Colleen O’Shaughnessey will also return as a special guest star in her role as Tails.

The studio also uploaded a trailer on social media, which gave fans a closer look at the highly anticipated programme.