"Finally on my way to yes
I bump into
all the places
where I said no
to my life
all the untended wounds
the red and purple scars
those hieroglyphs of pain
carved into my skin, my bones,
those coded messages
that send me down
the wrong street
again and again
where I find them
the old wounds
the old misdirections
and I lift them
one by one
close to my heart
and I say holy
holy."
I bump into
all the places
where I said no
to my life
all the untended wounds
the red and purple scars
those hieroglyphs of pain
carved into my skin, my bones,
those coded messages
that send me down
the wrong street
again and again
where I find them
the old wounds
the old misdirections
and I lift them
one by one
close to my heart
and I say holy
holy."
Pesha Joyce Gertler, “The Healing Time” (with thanks to soulclapitshandsandsing)
#pesha joyce gertler
#the healing time
#poetry
#poems
#stations in life
#paths in life
#scars
#past
#memories
#nostalgia
(Source: peshajoycegertler.com, via apoetreflects)
The Mirror
Seeing is believing.
Whatever was thought or said,
these persistent, inexorable deaths
make faith as such absent,
our humanness a question,
a disgust for what we are.
Whatever the hope,
here it is lost.
Because we coveted our difference,
here is the cost.—Robert Creeley, from Life & Death (New Directions Publishing, 1998)
Meaning is lost
between the vulnerable eye
and well-defended mind.—Kathleen Flenniken, from “Museum of Doubt” in Plume (University of Washington Press, 2012)
"All lovers live by longing, and endure:
Summon a vision and declare it pure."
Summon a vision and declare it pure."
Theodore Roethke, from “Four For Sir John Davies” (via litverve)
#theodore roethke
#four for sir john davies
#quotes
#poetry
#poems
#love
#relationships
#longing
#being delusional
"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic."
Oscar Wilde (via Facebook)
#oscar wilde
#quotes
#Quotes about writing
#quotes about poetry
#poetry
#writing
#bad writing
#to be too obvious
When you are old and grey…
"I think I grow more and more poetic. Perhaps I restrained it, and now, like a plant in a pot, it begins to crack the earthenware. Often I feel the different aspects of life bursting my life asunder."
Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 21 June 1924. (via grecianurn)
#virginia woolf
#quotes
#diary
#poetry
#being poetic
#Quotes about writing
#writing
#life
#aspects of life
(via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
"When the poet’s sentiments are overly visible, the audience may become uncomfortable. By writing simply and only what is there, the audience is drawn into the poet’s world.” - Naoto Fukasawa"
(via rimeswriting)
#naoto fukasawa
#quotes
#Quotes about writing
#quotes about poetry
#poetry
#writing
#words
#Good Writing
#bad writing
(Source: silentpassage, via rimeswriting)
