August 2020

from a distance

I come with no strings attached
I come with no expectations
I cross my heart
Crossing your dream from the list of
Buckets that makes the you
Different from the list of me

Empty

Silent

My dreams no longer describable
Though as likely as a common folk
Unbecoming the pauper
I will love you from afar
From a safe distance
I will admire you

Unknowingly

haikkun:

I’ll Let Myself Down, Thank You

It doesn’t work

Because in a dream I dreamt you said,

“This isn’t something serious.”

And I know, and I know, and I know…

But let a napalm heart pretend.

I see a million ways to ford the river

If I had not stomached so many stones

Too many too manies

Too many how would its

Too many I’m olds

Such a sweet thought

Such a beautiful coal in the folds of my coat

And I shall warm my fingers memory-side

From time to time while I can

You skipping stones

Your sleeping bones

You pulling me up from below

It doesn’t work

To let you go with my eyes open

_____________________________

Maureen Armstrong @haikkun

Reblog cuz #napalm iz close to my heart also

If you could meet only ten people that you follow on tumblr, which ten would they be?

definegodliness:

From the top of my head, varying from a chance to share deep thoughts to fun and easy-going inebriation, but mostly both. Some of us go way back! Makes me wish travelling was cheaper. Anyway, these people:

@takingstockofwhatmattersmost
@readsal
@cruxymox
@agirlcalledco
@midnightxmasquerade
@allnightsong2
@haikkun
@fifty-shades-of-apathy
@behind-the-veil-of-sanity
@cravingwitandwisdom

Me thinks there was a spelling error in there as I is not worthy of inclusion on such list. #ignoreme Though I will always suggest following @fifty-shades-of-apathy cuz … just because #thereareonlyafewthatcanmoveme

I’m not particularly impressed by Tumblr on IOS right now… *pheuming* WTF so you mean when you say IT COULD NOT BE SENT – TRY AGAIN ????!! All of my my frcking words are gone you stupid shit of an app. You better sort yourself out or I will get my Scottish dictionary out… and that will not be pretty @staff

As I watch Within Temptation live on stage from way back, I cannot but wonder: are you a Gouda man? Ok it is a cheesy question, but hey you wanted questions so!!!! I remember driving down from Amsterdam to Breda, passed the windmill to the right, nibbling on the cheesiest of dreams :) I will return one day!

definegodliness:

Nope. No Gouda. See, I have a cheese guy. 

I live in a rural area and every Friday ‘my guy’ arrives in his cheese truck. Sells the good stuff with his son. That flavour, I gotta tell ya, really puts any store bought brand to shame. And the mouth feel! That young matured cheese just melts in your mouth. 

Also, awesome to read you didn’t stop at Amsterdam! I know that’s our main attraction, but it’s so international you hardly get the Dutch experience.

“I have a cheese guy” – respect! My culture also embraces cheese, but unfortunately I now have to survive on cheddar…

Angel of syllables

For those of you in the know, and you
Not yet fully enlightened,
I hereby proclaim my innocence;
I am no longer a virgin of words,
No longer an Angel of syllables,
I speak my words without fear (a lie)
I whisper my dreams without tears,
I let my last moment of youth
Embrace me, before the final toll,
Before the final reckoning

Descends

madeofsaltwater-deactivated2021:

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an inventory of topoi

there was a fruit fly in the room

named it amy lawless shouting in the corner

is a bug hotel are they doing it on a glass ledge

(thats so sexy)

play tom waits

you mean nick cave

i mean dry demos

did you know when a bat falls from a cave onto a pile of cockroaches,

confess

conFESS

hand over knees wretching stop it please

i jest,

my lips are lined perfectly

.

Any writing referencing fruit flies deserves a reblog

“What it’s like to be a poet”

imperiallefty:

Writing for an audience that may never see your face and vice versa.
Creating stories that may never have a beginning or ending or middle.
Describing dreams as nightmare and days like nights.
Chewing up and spitting out cliches until they too become a cliche.
Dying forever just to live in a moment.
Writing a thousand words just to use one line.
Being loved and hated by strangers and yourself.
Idolizing the dead, romanticizing the fictitious, forgetting to pay the living.
(sometimes)
Understanding that your art may never pay a bill, save a life or make someone fall in love, with you or anyone else.
Being a poet is having a superpower that changes without warning and turns your villains into heroes.
Have fun with that thought.

Hear hear

Fade into oblivion, for them

I never watched you disappear into
The ground, never found your grave
All too appealing.

We shared images of women naked as
Backdrops to better living, yet your safe
Were filled with other pieces.

Your video collection, private, as the
Other half never understood your
Secrets, filled with filth and otherwise.

You shared the self with others,
My skin not by far thick enough
To understand and reciprocate
Whatever you did unknowingly.

I wish for less of your DNA
To permeate this earth,
For less of your ideas to
Remain a viable future

For them.

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