“When I say “I love you,” its not because I want you or because I can’t have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, and how you try. I’ve seen your kindness and your strength. I’ve seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what and who you are.”
—Joss Whedon (via quote-book)
November 2011
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Gracious Words.: Head over heals in vibrant huesof incandescent ocean bluesHappily... →
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Head over heals in vibrant hues
of incandescent ocean blues
Happily wading the eternal depths
of soft coral kisses and whispering breathes.
To seek out the soul that holds my own
bereft of all the skin and the bone
behind the guise of mortal shell
where melded hearts pulsate and swell.
…
You and I
How it might have
would have
could have
been.How it was.
How you should call me.
How I should call you.
How we should talk.
How we should (re)connect.
How I miss you.How you and I
could’ve made
something
out of we.(if we tried)
How I can’t say we tried.
How I never lied.
How the love never died.How I’m all out of whats and whys
and have nothing left
but you and when.
“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
—Daphne du Maurier (via itsalwaysabby)
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from it; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.”
—T. S. Eliot (via garptwo)
I think it’s pretty awesome how someone can just look at you & know how you’re feeling without you having to say anything.. & how a person can know you that well. It’s amazing.
“”My friends remind me, by their very steadfastness, that truth, beauty, and goodness exist in the world, and that, no matter what, there are and always will be people loving people through thick and thin.”
—(via youvegotemal)
I sit here wearing my Scarlet Letter with pride.
Don’t judge me on my past actions. Don’t judge me at all.
The good person inside me isn’t gone, she is me.
But there are always two sides. Don’t disregard the bad in me either.
Accept me as I am.
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity”
—Kahlil Gibra (via fiddleddee)
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Line. Break. Pauses. Punctuation. Melody.
Before reading Levertov’s The Function of the Line, I had never thought about how my use of line breaks or punctuation affected my poems. In fact I don’t think I cared very much, but now i see how important the it is to not only the reading of one’s work, but the understanding of it. You see when I write, I write exactly as the words come to my mind. I don’t arrange words or sentences. I purge my mind of its thoughts in the exact order it comes to me. So for example in class we did an exercise of moving the punctuation in a prose work to different places. I know without a doubt that the melody of my poems will change and they just might be virtually misunderstood because it was not read as I intended. “To incorporate these pauses in the rhythmic structure of the poem can do several things: for instance it allows the reader to share more intimately the experience that is being articulated: and by introducing an a-logical counter rhyme into the logical rhythm of syntax it causes as they interact an effect closer to song than to statement, closer to dance than to walking.” THis reading has made me change the way that I think about punctuation particularly in my poetry. I am definitely going to be playing with different ways of using punctuation and line breaks to change the oral reading of my work.
