Tag: Poetry

sharkodactyl:

““Wanna make a monster? Take the parts of yourself that make you uncomfortable—your weaknesses, bad thoughts, vanities, and hungers—and pretend they’re across the room. It’s too ugly to be human. It’s too ugly to be you. Children are afraid of the dark because they have nothing real to work with. Adults are afraid of themselves.””

— Richard Siken, Editor’s Pages: Black Telephone   (via slyherin)

sharkodactyl:

“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. And anyway it’s the same old story—
a few people just trying,
one way or another,
to survive. Mostly, I want to be kind.”

— Mary Oliver, from New and Selected Poems
(via luthienne)

inkskinned:

of all the stories, 
i could not look straight at cassandra’s;

a myth that all women 
knew was not a myth

the first time he hits us and is just flirting
is the first time we awake in cassandra’s fields

and she tells us:
it will always be like this, it will always be like this

you will be burning and they will tell you
that there’s really nothing wrong