December 2011
147 posts
“It was snowing while we fucked. “Okay,
your turn to get off now,” you said...”
– RPoetry
MEGAN FALLEY ON INDIEFEED- LISTEN! →
meganfalley:
25,498 DAYS SINCE I LAST SAW YOU
Years later, did you look for my name on the bookshelves? Flip to the back cover to see if I’m still pretty, how many kids I have, if I mentioned you?
I am not what I once was. My spine: curlicue and scoliosis from crescent moons you bent in to me. Skin: sunset and jaundiced from a daffodil you once rubbed across my cheek. Hair: silver as a daydream...
“It’s possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and...”
– Raymond Carver (via Vintage Books & Anchor Books)
(via bookoasis)
“Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up (via bookoasis)
River
The river is angry and thrashing.
The river says, My veins were built for this, reshaped.
The river says, Fuck you. And spits on your fresh-shone shoes.
The river follows you, whispering.
When your arms turn into a row of doorbells,
the river invites herself in
after ringing each bell thrice; leaves nothing to chance.
You are an empty house
and she dances.
The river screams banshee.
The...
Fuck Yeah Slam Poems!: Lauren Zuniga - Opening →
fuckyeahslampoems:
The photographer says she can’t wait until my next “opening.” I start to correct her and say With poetry, it’s called a reading, or a performance or a slam. Then I realize maybe that’s the problem. So I step on my loud and say, “Yes. Please come to my next opening!” It will not be all good…
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some...”
– George Orwell, “Why I Write” (via bardsandsages)
“Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolescence ever, quite...”
– Truman Capote (via decrepito)
“Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via bookoasis)
Sharing Poetry: Wendell Berry, "Sabbaths 1998,... →
sharingpoetry:
There is a place you can go where you are quiet, a place of water and the light on the water. Trees are there, leaves, and the light on leaves moved by air. Birds, singing, move among leaves, in leaf shadow. After many years you have come to no thought of these, but they are themselves your…
“I think the greatest poetry… is revealing to the reader the beauty in something...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via writers-bloc)
“And words, words
In a poem or song:
Aren’t they a stream
On which your...”
– Gregory Orr, fromConcerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved (adapted from growing-orbits)
“Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the...”
– Babette Deutsch (via bookoasis)
“You are not your bra size, nor are you the width of your waist, nor are you the...”
– Unknown (via oblivio)
Sharing Poetry: Muriel Rukeyser, "Night Feeding" →
sharingpoetry:
Deeper than sleep but not so deep as death I lay there dreaming and my magic head remembered and forgot. On first cry I remembered and forgot and did believe. I knew love and I knew evil: woke to the burning song and the tree burning blind, despair of our days and the calm milk-giver who knows…
“I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not...”
– Jane Austen, from a letter dated May 31, 1811 (via bookoasis)
“I wanted to write “stay”
on your sides, surround
your bed with oceans
of...”
– J. Bradley (via grammatolatry)
Sharing Poetry: Katie Donovan, "Yearn On" →
sharingpoetry:
I want you to feel the unbearable lack of me. I want your skin to yearn for the soft lure of mine; I want those hints of red on your canvas to deepen in passion for me: carmine, burgundy. I want you to keep stubbing your toe on the memory of me; I want your head to be dizzy and your…
“Poetry effects change by fiddling with the archetypes and getting at people’s...”
– Gary Snyder, The Real Work: Interviews & Talks (via bookoasis)
“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down,...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via brionnasballoon)
“Is it just me, or does it feel as if the Amazon brass decided to spend the...”
– Amazon’s Jungle Logic is a look at the web giant’s latest strategy to attract customers: encourage them to go into bricks-and-mortar stores to see what they might want to buy, and then buy it for cheaper online. It’s something that people have done for years, so you might think the overt...
