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[lotrmusical]

never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱

[lilliesand-valleys]

[sugas6thtooth]

Remember Hind. Remember Reem. Remember all the little boys and girls who are more than mere numbers. They are dreams, humanity's innocence, and most importantly they are not to be forgotten.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

other words to use instead of walk?

Advance - to move forward; proceed

Amble - to go at or as if at an easy gait

Canter - to move at or as if at a canter (i.e., a 3-beat gait resembling but smoother and slower than the gallop)

Footslog - to march or tramp through mud

Hike - to take a long walk especially for pleasure or exercise

Journey - travel from one place to another

Lumber - to move ponderously

March - to move in a direct purposeful manner

Meander - to wander aimlessly or casually without urgent destination

Mosey - to move in a leisurely or aimless manner

Pace - to walk with often slow or measured tread

Pad - to traverse on foot

Parade - to march in or as if in a procession

Patrol - keep watch over (an area) by regularly walking or traveling around or through it

Perambulate - to travel over or through especially on foot

Plod - to walk heavily or slowly

Prance - to walk or move in a spirited manner

Promenade - take a leisurely public walk, ride, or drive so as to meet or be seen by others

Prowl - to move about or wander stealthily in or as if in search of prey

Ramble - to move aimlessly from place to place; to explore idly

Roam - to go from place to place without purpose or direction; also to travel purposefully unhindered through a wide area

Saunter - to walk about in an idle or leisurely manner

Shamble - to walk awkwardly with dragging feet

Shuffle - to move or walk in a sliding dragging manner without lifting the feet

Slog - to plod heavily

Stalk - to walk stiffly or haughtily

Step - to move (the foot) in any direction

Stride - to move over or along with or as if with long measured steps

Stroll - to walk in a leisurely or idle manner

Strut - to walk with a proud gait

Stump - to walk over heavily or clumsily

Toddle - to walk with short tottering steps in the manner of a young child

Tour - make a tour of (an area); a short trip to or through a place in order to view or inspect something

Traipse - to walk or travel about without apparent plan but with or without a purpose

Traverse - to move or pass along or through; to move back and forth or from side to side

Tread - to step or walk on or over

Trek - to make one's way arduously

Troop - to go one's way

Trudge - to walk or march steadily and usually laboriously

Wander - to move about without a fixed course, aim, or goal

Hope this helps. If it inspires your writing in any way, please tag me, or leave a link in the replies. I would love to read your work!

[jordanbolton]

To The Person I Returned The Expensive Shirt To - Jordan Bolton

My first book ‘Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car’ is now available to pre-order! Get it here - https://smarturl.it/BlueSky

[darlingdeathx]

I am yours, even in this waiting. I am yours.

[leavemeslowly]

[fairydrowning]

in order to live a happy life, you must romanticize everything (and see a good therapist).

[welcometogrouchland]

ANOTHER SKETCH DUMP! Featuring more of me playing with lineless art. Batman reborn era trio (dick, damian and steph) I miss you...when will you return from war. Also featuring Steph designs bc I've seen ppl dissatisfied w/ her current look, some good mom Talia, and Jason Todd poetry club. Duke is confused not that Jason would start a poetry club but that he'd have such mid poetry opinions. (ID in Alt)

[thefamiliarstrangers100]

“The war will end. The leaders will shake hands. The old woman will keep waiting for her martyred son. That girl will wait for her beloved husband. And those children will wait for their heroic father. I don’t know who sold our homeland. But I saw who paid the price.”

— Mahmoud Darwish; Palestinian poet.

[writingthethoughtsaway]

“I believed you even when I knew you were lying.”

- S. C. C.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Words to use instead of beautiful?

Alluring - having a strongly attractive or enticing quality

Angelic - resembling, or suggestive of, an angel (as in purity, holiness, innocence, or beauty)

Appealing - having appeal; pleasing

Attractive - arousing interest or pleasure

Beguiling - agreeably or charmingly attractive or pleasing

Bewitching - powerfully or seductively attractive or charming

Captivating - charmingly or irresistibly appealing

Celestial - eminently pleasing; delightful, heavenly

Charismatic - a person who possesses special traits that attract, inspire, or fascinate other people; a person possessing charisma

Charming - extremely pleasing or delightful

Cute - attractive or pretty especially in a childish, youthful, or delicate way

Dapper - neat and trim in appearance; very spruce and stylish

Dazzling - brilliantly or showily bright, colorful, or impressive

Debonair - suave, urbane; lighthearted, nonchalant

Divine - supremely good; godlike

Elegant - of a high grade or quality; splendid

Enchanting - powerfully pleasing, appealing, or delightful

Enticing - arousing strong attraction or interest

Entrancing - capable of attracting and holding interest; charming

Exquisite - pleasing through beauty, fitness, or perfection; one who is overly fastidious in dress or ornament

Fine - worthy of or eliciting admiration

Gorgeous - splendidly or showily brilliant or magnificent

Graceful - pleasing or attractive in line, proportion, or movement

Handsome - having a pleasing and usually impressive or dignified appearance

Heavenly - suggesting the blessed state of heaven; beatific; delightful

Immaculate - having or containing no flaw or error; pure

Lovesome - winsome, lovely; affectionate, amorous

Pretty - having conventionally accepted elements of beauty

Pulchritudinous - physical comeliness

Radiant - marked by or expressive of love, confidence, or happiness

Ravishing - unusually attractive, pleasing, or striking

Refined - free from impurities; fastidious, cultivated

Resplendent - attractive and impressive through being richly colorful or sumptuous

Seductive - having alluring or tempting qualities

Striking - attracting attention or notice through unusual or conspicuous qualities

Stunning - strikingly impressive especially in beauty or excellence

Sublime - tending to inspire awe usually because of elevated quality (as of beauty, nobility, or grandeur) or transcendent excellence

Sultry - exciting or capable of exciting strong sexual desire

Voguish - fashionable, smart; suddenly or temporarily popular

Winsome - generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence

If this helps/inspires your writing in any way, please tag me, or leave a link in the replies. I would love to read your work!

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[jordanbolton]

To The Boy Across The Road - Jordan Bolton

My first book ‘Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car’ is now available to pre-order! Get it here - https://smarturl.it/BlueSky

[lilliesand-valleys]

[vomitingwords]

and then I learned

how to cry

without tears

falling from my eyes

behind clouds // ma.c.a

[ninasdrafts]

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