#poetry as healing

[sunsbleeding]

[pink-heart-writes]

[feral-ballad]

Jihyun Yun, from Some Are Always Hungry; “Reversal”

[Text ID: “I so want to survive this. Please lead me whole into another season so I may dare begin again.”]

[mournfulroses]

A. R. Ammons, from a poem titled "Shot Glass," featured in The New Yorker

[leonardospoetry]

Be grateful for every single stage of life. Especially the ones that break you open.

[toalltheangels]

Everyone has their own story

[thingswedontunbox]

[musings-n-museums]

i'm gonna make them so proud.

quote, @plumslices \\ i will, mitski \\ photo from pinterest \\ never grow up, taylor swift \\ photo from pinterest \\ quote, lalah delia \\ the best day, taylor swift \\ photo from pinterest \\ quote, @mounaks (could not find their acc) \\ both last photos from pinterest

[junehart]

sometimes i wish i could grab my childhood self and shake them by the shoulders and say YOU'RE GOOD. YOU'RE WORTH LOVING. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHOSE LIVES ARE MADE BETTER BECAUSE OF YOU. YOU ARE NOT A BURDEN. YOU ARE NOT DAMNED. SOMEDAY YOU WILL CRY OVER SUNSETS AND POETRY MORE THAN YOUR OWN PAIN. I NEED YOU TO REMEMBER THAT YOU'RE GOOD. YOU'RE WORTH LOVING. but i can't go back in time, so i say it to myself now. because i believe there's a future version of me looking back on this moment feeling the exact same way.

[dr4gme]

So, I’ve just read the new chapter of this fic that I love and I’ve been bawling my eyes out. The non-linear process of healing and learning how to accept love even if you don’t feel deserving of it hits so close to home.

7th poem is from @halfof-mysoul !

[sunsbleeding]

[kalavathiraj]

I am enough. I am OK. I will just stay. Here. By Myself.

Kalavathi Raj, QUOTUS

[echoesoftheinfinite]

I gave away all the parts of me. And now, I’m learning to heal from the empty spaces left behind.

[feral-ballad]

Jane Hirshfield, from Come, Thief: Poems; “When your life looks back”

[Text ID: “Your life will carry you as it did always, / with ten fingers and both palms, / with horizontal ribs and upright spine, / with its filling and emptying heart, / that wanted only your own heart, emptying, / filled, in return. / You gave it. What else could you do?”]

[pixieverse-icedtea]

people who get excited about stars, moons and sunsets are my kind of people

[vielesundnichts]

- reyna biddy