Tag: poetry
one day we’ll look at the stars
and see ourselves reflected in them
in all our imposing, incredible presence ✨
excerpts from an interview with kathee muzin about the first time she fell in love with another woman, published in the montreal gazette, december 1991
Wherever there is music, she is too, / in the soft blue of the sky, in Grecian verses, / in the mirror of water that flows from the fountain, / in the marble of time, in a sharpened sword, / in the serenity of an open terrace / that looks upon the gardens and the sunsets. / And behind all the myths and masks: her soul, which is always alone.
Jorge Luis Borges, tr. by Paul Weinfield, from “Susana Bombard,”
(via kuanios)
to any historians
who may be reading this–
though there are probably
none,
cuz my poetry sucks–
i want you to know,
without a doubt,
that i am gay.
i’m a lesbian.
i love girls, i love
their beautiful clothes
that highlight flowing bodies,
their compassion and care
and quick-witted minds,
i love women’s laughs and
smiles and frowns and just,
damn,
i’m gay.
so don’t call me ‘ambiguous’
or straight.
to clear up any confusion (via hoverboard-dinosaur)
here’s the hella gay spoken word poem i performed in front of 100+ people. still can’t believe my anxious closeted self did that & fcking won.
Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water.
And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home,
and you have cried yourself to sleep enough times that you are down to your last two percent, but
nothing is infinite,
not even loss.
You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day
you are going to find yourself again.
Finn Butler (via oofpoetry)
How to Survive
1 – count.
tell yourself
one. two. three.
four. five. six.
start over.2 – breathe.
it goes like this:
in, out. in, out.
you can close your eyes,
but just breathe.3 – cry.
let tears fall.
scream, wail
sob your sorrows.
don’t be alright.4 – talk.
don’t be silent.
don’t listen to that voice
that says no one cares
they’ll listen.5 – laugh.
laugh loudly
at anything.
laugh because
it’s raining.6 – keep moving
life is a river darling
and you stop
and start drowning,
so move.7 – learn.
learn to dance.
learn to suck at things
and be okay with it.
do things you never expected.8 – have fun.
watch a movie,
eat ice cream in bed
with only your socks on,
don’t brush your hair that day.9 – I’m going to tell you something,
it’s different from the rest, now
you need to know though
so here it is
right now:10 – it’s okay
to not be okay
to regress, because an arrow
only moves forward, once it is pulled back
and you’re an arrow darling.So count to ten
breathe in. breathe out.
cry.
talk.
laugh loudly.
keep moving.
keep learning.
have fun.
darling, this is how you survive.
justokayskybluepinkviolinistcat
(via wnq-writers)
it’s okay not to be okay.
thank you for framing this so beautifully. (via b-isforbombshell)
failed2be-chill 