#poetry will save us

[attonitos-gloria]

What are your top five poets?

ahhhhh friend, hi. great, GREAT question.

louise gluck. there's a part of me of which this woman is a keeper. and she doesn't even know me. but when she said "you will not be spared, nor will what you loved be spared," i need you to believe that she was talking about my family, specifically, and when she said "it does me no good to be good to me now; violence has changed me", i understand this with my blood and bones and all the viscera inside me. i feel like if you read all of her poems you'll know me better than half of my friends.

mary oliver. and it's pathetic but i feel like crying now because i didn't have the best of the weekends, and i was thinking earlier about dogfish, that line about hurrying into the work of your life and then, like a fracture right in the middle of the poem, "you don’t want to hear the story of my life. And anyway I don’t want to tell it, I want to listen to the enormous waterfalls of the sun." i feel like she translates hope into a language that i can understand.

carlos drummond de andrade. brazilian, and, i think, the best we've got. funny fact: he wrote a poem called "the flower and the nausea" that was recited at the opening ceremony of Rio's olympic games in 2016. unfortunately, they took some verses out of context and made it sound like it was about global warming. and well, nothing against education about global warming, really. but the poem is not really about that? it happens to be one of my favorite poems ever and i was really mad at the time because it sounded lame and drummond is anything but. i think a part of the force of him is lost in the translation, at least the translation i found available online, but i know these lines by heart: "A flower bloomed from the street! Far away they pass by, trams, buses, rivers of steel traffic. A flower, though faded, evades the police, breaks the asphalt. Be completely silent, stop your business: I assure you that a flower bloomed. Its color is unnoticed. Its petals don’t open. Its name is not in the books. It is ugly. But it is truly a flower. [I sit on the ground in the country’s capital at five in the afternoon and lightly pass my hand over this frail thing.] Beside the mountains, dense clouds swell, little white points dance on the surface of the sea, startled chickens. [It is ugly. But it is a flower. It pierced through the asphalt, the boredom, the disgust and the hate.] "it is ugly. but it is truly a flower" every time i get that lump in my throat i'm telling you T_T this man was a genius, absolute favorite. (and i think it should be obvious, even without the whole poem, that this is not a literal flower and this is not an environmental crisis poem. this man was a COMMUNIST the name of the book is THE PEOPLE’S ROSE what do people think the flower stands forrrr aaaa i’ll be bitter about this forever)

adélia prado, also brazilian. and she reminds me (and everyone, lol) of drummond a little, but adelia translates a particular kind of religious sentiment that i just adore. it's so kind. she reads like prayer to me; i was raised evangelical and conservative, so when adelia wrote "God is no longer severe; His wrinkles, His creased mouth are expression lines from smiling too much at me", she instantly healed like, years of religious trauma. also love the way she writers about writing, makes poems about poetry. she reminds me of mary oliver, too, because she uses a lot of nature references?

katie ford, because while i love that adélia taught me a god who is soft, i still need someone to express all the religious angst. and she does that. my god she does that. the first time i read the line “I want a god who stands mute with me / a long, dull night on a hill, very still, without reaching” i stared into nothing for a very, very long time. i had a revelation, i think? i don’t know. to this day, that line remains one of my favorites to express my feelings about the divine. a god who stands mute with me...! katie ford knows what is going on.

the summary is that while i love poetry overall, my heart lies with the modern and contemporary ones. xD 

now tell me your top five poets!!

(everyone come here and ask me my top five of anything <3)

[hussyknee]

Her final tweet on October 8 reads:

“Gaza’s night is dark apart from the glow of rockets, quiet apart from the sound of the bombs, terrifying apart from the comfort of prayer, black apart from the light of the martyrs. Good night, Gaza.”

[artharakka]

Beautiful, But Broken

[greengirllover]

[fandom-trash-goblin]

i wish i could save my mother.

@/veniennes on tiktok // Elena Poniatowska, from "La Flor de Lis," published c. January 2011// love drought - beyonce // Athena Farrokhzad, "My Mother Said" // Oleander, by Janet Finch// Hannah Green from "Night Terrors" // Sharon Olds, “Holding To A Wall, Treading Saltwater” // Kyung-sook Shin, Please Look After Mom // take care: mothers, daughters, and inheriting self-hatred by Ella Wilson // tumblr user honeytuesday // Marge Piercy from "our neverending entanglement", Made In Detroit // Honey Girl, Morgan Rogers// supernatural season 12 ep 22 // Silas Denver Melvin, from Grit: Poems; “Twenty” // Hayan Charara, from Mother and Daughter

for @shestrying

[thedomesticanthropologist]

I was feeling some feelings, so I wrote them down. Freeform poetry

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Movie!Tails 🤝 Nine

Getting all 😳😊 when Sonic says that he considers them a friend

[oatbugs]

Jack Marsh (2005), Friendship Otherwise - Toward a Levinasian Description of Personal Friendship

[simmyfrobby]

flower poem pretty please ?

― Adult Grief, Louise Glück

[six-white-venus]

pick an object to your right and tell me about it

[soulinkpoetry]

Drunk on silly ideas…

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[muteprincess]

nothing could’ve prepared me for what life is like.

[officialgleamstar]

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[woundgallery]

Mary Jo Bang

[greengirllover]

[el-huddpudd]

No, I don't think poems will save us. And yet, and yet

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