Ten Word Poem #6
hii lovely people! how’re you all doing?! it’s been a very long time I hope you’re all well :)
I just wanted to hop on here to say thank you!
I owe so much to this community and the love my poems received (and still receive!) here. I started writing poetry 10 years ago when I was just 13 and began sharing it on this blog pretty early on. At the time, I was writing to process my feelings and then sharing my work here in the hopes that I wasn’t alone in what I was feeling.
In the last two years I’ve started trying to get my poetry out there, and have so far had them published in two magazines and a book! I know for a fact that if I hadn’t had the years of encouragement and positivity here when sharing my very early work, I never would’ve felt brave enough to take my writing seriously and send it out to journals and competitions.
I hope to one day share my newer work here when the time feels right, but until then thank you again for all the love ❤️ :)
Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart
from a poem traveled down my arm- alice walker
Henri Matisse corresponded with his close friend, writer/artist André Rouveyre ~ sometimes writing several times a day ~ and liked to illustrate the envelopes in his characteristic style (1941-45)
“Attending the Party” by Hieu Minh Nguyen, from the collection Not Here (2018)
- Sometimes you have to get what you wished for to realise it’s not what you needed
- Not everything you want is good for you
- You can’t rush healing
- Healing in itself is relative and there is no date by which you’re meant to be over something
- Not all pain is created equal
- Some pain will have no expiry date and you must learn to live with it
Ten Word Poem #49
Joni Mitchell - Both Sides, Now
Henry Dumas, Knees of a Natural Man: The Selected Poetry of Henry Dumas; “Valentines”
Shane Seely, from “Second Attempt at Elegy for Anthony Piccione,” Image: Art, Faith, Mystery (no. 62, Summer 2009)
‘I’ve Dreamed of You So Much’ by Robert Desnos as seen in The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry edited by Ilya Kaminsky & Susan Harris
“In the dream I don’t tell anyone, you put your head in my lap.”
— Richard Siken, from I Had a Dream About You
saul steinberg, holly warburton
Devotion, a guide (for @581d00 @secifosseluce @thedialectofmedusa @deerbheth ♡ )
Lykke Li. ‘I Follow Rivers’ | Lord Huron, ‘Meet Me in the Woods’ | Holly Warburton ( @holly-warbs ), Making Amends | Lykke Li, ‘I Follow Rivers’ | Elisabeth Hewer, ‘Dove Hands’ | Yeah Yeah Yeahs, ‘Maps’ | Titanic, dir. James Cameron | Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, dir. Peter Jackson | Anna Karenina, dir. Joe Wright | Death Cab for Cutie, ‘I’ll Follow You Into the Dark’