#poetry of death

[triste-guillotine]

NIGHTFALL “Macabre Sunsets” CD 1993 (’Son of fire, I was born in hate, in misery. I'm the grand one, the rapist, unholy. Doomed to ride as the moon sings... The song of glory in my sword, in my soul’)

1. Η ΠΟΛΙC EAΛΩ (Odious) 2. Precious / All My Love Is Lost 3. As Your God Is Failing Once Again 4. Macabre Sunsets / Love Song for a Black Soul 5. Bitterness Leads Me to My Savior Death 6. Mother of All Gods, Mother of Mine 7. Poetry of Death 8. Enormous / The Anthem of Death 9. As Your God Is Failing Once Again  (previous version)

“Listen to the tunes of Doom Sing the lyrics of sadness Awake, upon your grateful tomb Be part of the kingdom of Darkness Grateful sorrow deep within my heart Captured by the feeling of desire The one I've always searched in dark The one that burns me like glowing fire Grand warriors messengers with burning eyes Giving me wings for flying away As I feel my body, it dies Let my soul join the pale sky's grey I'll soon be back As the legends used to say A night, blazed, right into Dark Or a day with its sky full of grey Poetry of Death Written deep within the soul of the man Followed by orchestrical tunes nonplayed Under the slavesun”

[feral-ballad]

Mosab Abu Toha, from Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

[grendel-menz]

A navigation of some adult relationships

[letallthetrashraindown]

@judas-redeemed / Wilhelm Schulz, “All Soul’s Day” / Neil Hilborn, “Our Numbered Days” /@petfurniture / Hugo Simberg , “The Garden of Death” / Ramona Ausubel

[daweyt]

Thomas Mann, from “Death in Venice”, originally published c. 1912.

[girlfictions]

Hiba Abu Nada, from I Grant You Refuge (trans. Huda Fakhreddine)

Hiba Abu Nada was a novelist, poet, and educator. She wrote this poem on Oct. 10th, 2023. She died a martyr, killed in her home in south Gaza by an Israeli raid on Oct. 20th, 2023. She was 32 years old.

[usefulquotes7]

When death finds you, may it find you alive -African Proverb

[clementartz]

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm hiiiiii turned a vaguely homoerotic poem i made about a mosquito i didn't want to kill into. this. yay 👍

[mournfulroses]

Margaret Atwood, from The Selected Poems of Margaret Atwood; "Dream 2: Brian the Still-Hunter,"

[thecosmoswhispers]

Shelter dogs are still just dogs. You are still a dog. You still love.

— quote from a piece someone rewrote.

i'll add credits asap! (i say, about every recent web weave i post)

[thatweirdguyinthebushes]

"if i was orpheus i simply wouldn't have turned around" if you didn't love her enough to turn around, you didn't love her enough to crawl through the underworld to save her. if you could prevent yourself from looking back, you wouldn't be trying to bring her back to life. if you were able to look forward, you would be grieving.

"if I was orpheus I simply wouldn't have turned around" if you don't love her enough to turn around, you aren't orpheus.

[paradoxarchive]

i am too in love with life, i don't want to die (i cannot fathom the absence of living)

arthoesunshine | sunlightafterdark | joseph cambell | mary oliver | amy krouse rosenthal | joseph brodsky | unknown | gregory orr | colette, tr by matthew ward | anaïs nin

[grendel-menz]

my farm girl blues

[chaiaurchaandni]

the last poem written by a Palestinian martyr

read the full poem here!! <3

[sageandscorpiongrass]

Have you ever thought about losing your brother?

me vs. making webweaves on dying and family. really this was just an excuse to think about killing flies.

Killing Flies, Michael Dickman | Separation, W.S. Merwin | Eurydice, Ocean Vuong | It, Stephen King | Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A Milne | Fading Kitten Syndrome, ROAR | Quote via. Maurice Sendak | A Meeting, Wendell Berry | Anguish, August Friedrich Schenck | West Wind I, Mary Oliver | Planet of Love, Richard Siken | Quote via. C.C, Aurel | Oats We Sow, Gregory and the Hawk | The Living to the Dead, Käthe Kollwitz | Quote via Fortesa Latifi | Antigonick, Anne Carson | Killing Flies, Michael Dickman (cont.)

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustration from Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Joseph Noel Paton (1863)