#poetry !

[schoolhater]

Poem by Marcellus Williams

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call script to urge the state not to kill him

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

A poem written by Marcellus Williams about Palestine.

Despite DNA evidence proving his innocence, he was executed on September 24, 2024.

[ochevidets]

Thinking about this poem I wrote two days ago.

[weltenwellen]

Alex Dimitrov, from "Waiting at Stonewall", Love and Other Poems

[leonardospoetry]

What gets lost in the translation between feelings and language? I wonder how much of myself I can’t translate into words. I wonder how much of myself I don’t even know.

[ptimepoet]

[resqectable]

It’s better to have nobody than someone who is half there, or who doesn’t want to be there.

Angelina Jolie

[mournfulroses]

Trista Mateer, from "Aphrodite Made Me Do It," originally published in 2024

[thoughtkick]

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.

Tyler Kent White

[wedarkacademia]

Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls and the walls of hospitals have heard more prayers than any other sacred holy place - because love is felt most when its leaving.

Alfred Nonymous

[thepersonalquotes]

Shop

[bebx]

Dexter: s06, e07 — Nebraska

[perfectquote]

All of us are better when we are loved.

Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief

[weltenwellen]

Alex Dimitrov, from "August", Love and Other Poems

[leonardospoetry]

Have you become so addicted to doing what you like that now you don’t even have time to do what you love?

[hussyknee]

Today is Refaat Alareer's birthday. He would have been 45 years old.

Dr. Alareer used to manage the social media account of Gaza's Municipality. Please consider donating at least a couple of dollars to Life for Gaza, so that his family might have water to drink, clean and safely dispose of waste. They're 40% short of their goal.

If I Must Die  by Refaat Alareer

If I must die,  you must live  to tell my story  to sell my things  to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, (make it white with a long tail) so that a child, somewhere in Gaza while looking heaven in the eye awaiting his dad who left in a blaze— and bid no one farewell not even to his flesh not even to himself— sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above and thinks for a moment an angel is there bringing back love If I must die let it bring hope let it be a tale

Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine, edited by Refaat Alareer

Free PDF on Research Gate. Free EPUB.

Gaza Unsilenced, edited by Refaat Alareer and Laila El-Haddad

Free PDF on Academia.edu. Free EPUB.