#poetry: 2019

[theoriginalmkp]

lady detective

cisgirl is puzzled. her friend's gender is a puzzle. the social construct of gender is a puzzle.

cisgirl wonders if her gender is a puzzle, too. she looks in the toys and game amazon department. it takes a while, but eventually she finds one that looks like her, or at least looks enough like her to pass, and it's the only one with packaging not designed to withstand a nuclear bomb.

cisgirl opens the box and dumps all the pieces on the table. she looks for the edges, the flat cut-offs of expectation. if she can piece together the puzzle's border, the boundaries she cannot - must not - ever cross, perhaps she will be able to define herself by way of negative space.

cisgirl is not very good at puzzles. she tries to spin the pieces in her head, listening for the click of tumblrs falling into place. it never comes. she is growing frustrated now, sick of this self-examination. she begins to force the pieces into place, utterly determined to finish by any means.

cisgirl is still puzzled. her friend’s gender is still a puzzle. the social construct of gender is still a puzzle.

cisgirl is determinedly ignoring any and all signs that perhaps - just perhaps - her gender is a puzzle too.

[elsaqueenofstress]

LAST ONE BORN IS NORMAL IS HAPPY IS FREE WINS

hasan minhaj, homecoming king / sing street (2016 + 2022) / little women (2019) / @/feefal_ on twitter / ferris bueller's day off (1986) / beef (2023) / the banshees of inisherin (2022) / jackie kay, "got you" / beth ann fennelly, "two sisters, one thinner, one better dressed" / michael torres, "my brother is asking for stamps" / the king of staten island (2020) / maggie stiefvater, the dream thieves / chelsea martin, "mcdonalds is impossible" / jonathan goldstein, ladies and gentlemen, the Bible!

[poemsonmars]

i am tired of being haunted

by ghosts that never even

had the guts to love me

while they were still alive.

i will not grieve something

that never existed.

you cannot make me.

not this time.

not again.

-mars

[poetryincostume]

On October 3rd, Elric asked me what day it was.

I said, ‘How dare you to talk to me, you coward.’

Major General Olivier Mira Armstrong

Traditionally tailored uniform, 2019

Japanese twill, canvas, grosgrain, leather, gilt braid

[asoftepiloguemylove]

hey, i've seen your post on being the eldest sibling and having to be the mother of your siblings against your own will. i was wondering if i could request for a webweave related to this but having to grow up? kind of like mxmtoon's almost home, "i was just a kid dreams were looking big and then i had to grow up" tysm!!

i hope you're doing okay <33

Mitski Class of 2013 // Sleeping At Last Eight // Sylvia Plath The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath // mxmtoon almost home // 나의 아저씨 My Mister (2018) dir. 김원석 Kim Won-seok // Bill Hader on Andy Muschietti's direction during It Chapter Two (2019) // Mitski First Love / Late Spring // Warsan Shire Backwards // Li-Young Lee // The Florida Project (2017) dir. Sean Baker // Lorde Ribs

[simmyfrobby]

― “Failing and Flying,” Jack Gilbert

Hockey Poetry Post 17/?

(Photo credit: Len Redkoles, Len Redkoles, Len Redkoles, Len Redkoles, Len Redkoles, Len Redkoles, Len Redkoles, Mark Blinch)

[hitokas-gf]

graduated today. been thinking about it a lot

the mountain goats / olivia olson / ocean vuong / taylor swift / ada limón / mitski / phoebe bridgers / philippe besson / mitski

[finalsymphony]

growing pains

1. Maya Hawke, Goodbye Rocketship

2. Greta Gerwig, Little Women

3. Louise Glück, Vita Nova

4. Amy Lowell, The Fruit Garden Path

[rashomon-vu]

"

we could never have loved the earth so well

if we had had no childhood in it,

if it were not the earth,

where the same flowers come up again every spring,

that we used to gather with our tiny fingers.

what novelty is worth that sweet monotony

where everything is known and loved,

because it is known?

"

-beth, little women.

[theoriginalmkp]

[naming myself litany, with names redacted]

At work, they call me M---. A good, sensible name. A exquisite-handwriting name.

M--- is the name of a woman who gets things done. M--- is the name of a woman who always has three pens, two spare hair ties, and an extra postage stamp, just in case.

M--- is my worksona.

At home, they call me M------. A good, comfortable name. A jumprope-rhyme name.

M------ is the name of a girl who never learns to be afraid. M------ is the name of a girl who throws herself off of swings, out of trees, into the surprised arms of the world, laughing all the way.

M------ is the sunlight visible in the cracks of my marrow.

There is power in the naming of things.

I name you, self.

I name you daughter. I name you sister. I name you eldest-of-three.

I name you cannot-sit-still. I name you runs-into-walls. I name you talks-too-loud.

I name you reads-too-much, needs-too-much, cries-too-often.

I name you missing-stair, avoided-bruise, test-of-patience.

I name you elephant-in-the-story, child-of-too-many-questions, woman-who-sleeps-with-stuffed-animals.

I name you speaks-in-echoes. I name you thinks-in-gifs. I name you sings-off-key.

lullabye girl. changeling child. woman-of-the-laughing-hands. hush now. hush.

hush now, scared-of-shadows. hush now, ghost-of-a-girl. hush now, poem-afraid-to-be-written.

hush now. hush.

I name you rocks-yourself-to-sleep.

[see-mab]

no because imagine a Neil perry and Jo march crossover in a parallel universe, the would be the craziest duo ever

[t0rschlusspan1k]

The cruelest walls are made of glass.

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (2019)

[p-isforpoetry]

12 poems read by Tom Hiddleston || Ximalaya FM Compilation (2019) [without music]

This is a re-upload of Tom reading poetry for Ximalaya FM from 2019 without the background music.

01: "The Mower" by Philip Larkin 02: "I Am!" by John Clare 03: "Strawberries" by Edwin Morgan 04: "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver 05: "And the days are not full enough" by Ezra Pound 06: "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley 07: "Clenched Soul" by Pablo Neruda 08: "Words, Wide Night" by Carol Ann Duffy 09: "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost 10: "Diving into the Wreck" by Adrienne Rich 11: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot 12: "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" by Dylan Thomas

Source: Ximalaya FM

[empirearchives]

Lord Byron was so fiercely loyal to Napoleon throughout his whole life, that the few times he ever criticized or reproached him is described by Dr. Adil M. Jamil as being something like “a quarrel between two devoted lovers.”

Napoleon was Lord Byron’s life-long idol and muse. “He saw himself in Napoleon, and Napoleon in him.”

[simmyfrobby]

― The Last Toast, Anna Akhmatova

Hockey Poetry Post 35/?

(Photo credit: Jeff Chiu, Len Redkoles, Mitchell Leff, Len Redkoles, Len Redkoles, Len Redkoles, Bill Wippert, Len Redkoles, Len Redkoles, Tim Nwachukwu)

[queenofbaws]

Don't think you'll be getting to this one for a while, but I get the feeling that both of us came to the same conclusion that Langston is clearly the perfect man lol. So would it be ever so possible to get six-sentences about the cleft lip, cat dad of my/our dreams?

She'd made it all of a step away from the intercom when it crackled again.

"You know...I'm not really one for the more, uh, physical challenges I'm sure you're coming up against - honestly, between you and me, I've never even set foot on the field training course - but if you decided you needed a little extra help handling the creative aspects of this particular AWE, I'd be more than happy to - "

Jesse's hand was on the intercom button before an excuse could form, leaving her to scramble on dead air for a moment. "Hey, Langston, thanks, really, but you know, it's just that - " she froze for a beat as Polaris glimmered, filling the gaps she hadn't been able to plug herself, " - I've been picking up a lot of intel here in Investigations, and it sounds like artists need to steer clear of the Bright Falls AWE, so...you're...probably safer where you are, honestly."

She let go of the sending button, waiting and (knowing full well she was on camera) trying not to visibly cringe; a lifetime seemed to pass before the line crackled once more and Langston's voice projected outward, sounding equal parts thoughtful and relieved, "My rhymes have been described as both funky and fresh, I guess."

They sure have, buddy, Jesse thought to Polaris, raising a double-thumbs up over her head for the cameras to catch as she jettisoned off towards the blinking lights of yet another disaster, those are definitely, definitely the words I would've picked too.

six sentence sat(or)sunday!!!