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i hate when people misunderstand my shyness for unfriendliness like no!!! i actually like you! i’m just a piece of shit that can’t communicate
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Since you talked about poems about mental health, do you have any recs?
tw/cw for nearly all of these.
So many poems in Said the Manic to the Muse by Jeanann Verlee (Good Girl & The Session were some of my favorites)So many poems in Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 by Alejandra Pizarnik Lady Lazarus by Sylvia PlathLast Words by Sylvia PlathMad Girl’s Love Song by Sylvia PlathTulips by Sylvia PlathElm by Sylvia PlathThe Other by Sylvia PlathOracle by Cate MarvinResumé by Dorothy ParkerCommunion by Jeanann VerleeThe Mania Speaks by Jeanann Verleemy lover’s in love w/ sylvia plath by @openlylesbiansurvival kit by @viperslang[untitled] by @viperslangexcerpt from #Godbot by @viperslangVIRGINIA WOOLF WALKS INTO MY APARTMENT by @linettereemanHow to Get the Gun Safely Out of Your Mouth by Jamaal May14 Lines from Love Letters or Suicide Notes by @doclubenpoetryPoetry Suite in Nailed by Stevie EdwardsPoetry Suite in Nailed by Jeanann Verlee (esp. Polyamory, With Knives)Reshaping the Bell Jar feature in Winter Tangerine (esp. oath (blud litany) and The River’s Lure)Poems in Hatred of Women by Cassandra Troyan (esp. untitled)Poems in Throne of Blood by Cassandra Troyan (major violence/graphic abuse/trauma tw)On the Border by @afterthelonely (especially two.)Wanting to Die by Anne Sexton
some supa good slam poems(-:
here’s a list of some of my favorite slam poems because slam poetry is beautiful and wonderful and incredible and lovely and everything
sienna burnett- “U Fine?”
“my mother has a texting language all her own and when she asks, “U Fine?” this means somewhere, very recently, there was another bullet-stop ending. there was another trigger parade.”
karina stow- trigger warning
“i don’t believe in lying to children, but when she asks me what’s wrong i still tell her the storybook version; i tell her that once, a bad man broke into my home. i wish i’d also told her that bad men look like respectable young men–trigger. that bad men will compliment your nana on her lemon squares. bad men write love poems- trigger. bad men smile so wide they will swallow you and you, you will convince yourself you asked him to.”
don luben- 14 lines from love letters or suicide notes
“i came home on thursday and found all of the chairs in the house stacked in a pile in the center of my kitchen; i don’t know how long they have been like that, but it must have been me that did it. it is the kind of thing a ghost might do, to prove to the living he is still there. i am haunting my own apartment.”
tucker bryant- facts about myself
“but being built like a short story is a lesson in finding other ways to be the tallest tale in the room.”
sarah kay- love letter from a toothbrush to a bicycle
“i know about your rough edges and i have seen your perfect curves, and i will fit into any spaces you let me. if loving you means getting dirty, bring on the grime, i will leave this porcelain home behind.”
savannah brown- i wish i was (a flaw examination)
“i wish i was more interesting but that might be one of those things where everyone else thinks i’m interesting, but i don’t because i’m me and i know i spend most of my days wearing pajamas in my room, which isn’t that interesting.”
phile kaye- beginning, middle, and end
“like the night you thought you were invincible, ran out into the lightning storm with a million keys tied to a million kites, and a clench in your jaw that said, “take me with you, goddammit, i dare you.” and the week you finally reached out to feel your father’s cheeks and just found paper cuts.”
dia davina- emergency room
“dont touch my heart when it’s thundering. you wouldn’t swim in a lightning storm, would you?”
melissa newman-evans- 9 things i would like to tell every teenage girl
“you remember that metaphor about killing you being stealing your voice? sometimes…the world will actually try to kill you. you’ll never deserve it.”
desiree dallagiacomo- sink
“is that not living? being so close to death that you paint it on your skin?”
I hate how addicted I get to anything that makes me feel anything
Isn’t it weird how you can actually feel the pain in your chest and stomach when something really hurts your feelings
“It’s suffocating me being here. I can’t stand the routine life I’m in. I sleep all the time because it physically hurts me when I imagine my future. Being here, doing the same thing until I die, marriage arrangement because I’m not allowed to fall in love. It seems ridiculous imagining that this is what I was born for.”
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“i feel empty drained for any real emotion having this hopelessness inside that’s controlling my life and tears running wild happiness is like a dream waking up to see it’s never real”
— t.m.
