"I don’t want to be the best lover you’ve ever had.
I just want to be your favorite."
— Derrick Brown (via theorthodoxheretic)
- 1 day ago
- 65
"Pretend you live for a living. Pretend inside your skin you’ve got a friend who’s willing to give you everything you’ve ever wanted in exchange for everything you’ve ever been."
— Buddy Wakefield (via moqueur)
- 6 days ago
- 31
"I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem."
— Jaime Gil de Bieda (via breathemystardust)
(Source: light-essence)
- 1 week ago
- 7393
"#8 The last time we had sex your hips made Picasso out of my neck (and then my waist) like love literally didn’t exist before the second I tasted it in my mouth that night. You uninvented time when you climbed on top of me."
— Miles Hodges (11 Things I Shoulda Said)
(Source: creativedestruxtion)
- 1 week ago
- 37
"she stuck a bookmark
in my heart
and walked away"
— saul williams from “she” (via jamima-puddle-duck)
- 1 week ago
- 5679
I saw him
suspended in the atmosphere
hanging on the pieces of a man
that no longer looks back at him in the mirror
he doesn’t even realize that he’s become his own ghost
a spectre
an apparition
haunting the man that he would be
if he could just shake the cold grip of the chemicals that have transposed their hands around his neck
he’s become a man with no shadow
no reflection
just a leaf
in the wind
whispering his story to the breeze
because god is the only one listening
Damn, Rudy.
- 1 week ago
- 9
5. I have seen you crucified too. Spread out on billboards to be spiritually impaled by millions of men with eyes like nails who made martyrs of your daughters. So I’m sorry for the music videos, for Justin Timberlake at the super bowl, and the young man on the corner this morning who made you want to shed your flesh and become invisible.
10. Never stop pushing. This world needs you now more than ever.
- 1 week ago
- 17
"Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem;
I whisper with my lips close to your ear,
I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you."
— Walt Whitman, To You
- 1 week ago
- 12
Amplified Stillness: “…I couldn’t touch you without ruining you,so I didn’t touch you at...
“…I couldn’t touch you without ruining you,
so I didn’t touch you at all.
It’s when you’re on the brink of something
that you lose your balance.
You told me that once.
When I can’t bring myself to say what I need to,
my heart plays Russian Roulette with my throat.
I swear I fired that night, but, nothing.Someday, I’ll show you the bullet I had for you,
after time has done the wash.
I’ll take it out of the jar of missed opportunities.
We’ll hold it up to the light.
You’ll roll it around your mouth like a fallen tooth.
You won’t forgive me exactly,
but we’ll laugh about how small it is.
We’ll wonder how such a little thing
could ever have meant so much.”Mindy Nettifee
- 2 weeks ago
- 16
"you are better than the demons whispering in your cheeks"
— derrick brown (via unordinarymind)
- 2 weeks ago
- 45
"if all the butterflies in your belly
could fly into my mouth,
that’s the poem
i would like to sing out loud"
— Andrea Gibson (via variationalbeings)
- 3 weeks ago
- 10
"when I said ‘give me a ring’
she thought I meant a call
now I haven’t had her number for two years
and we keep saying,
how many times are we going to cut these red flags into valentines
you know all those wars we fought have turned our shine into rust
we can’t even touch each others hearts without a tetanus shot"
— Andrea Gibson, ‘Prism’ (via loverofstories)
- 4 weeks ago
- 62
"If I was a love poet, I’d write about how you have the audacity to be beautiful even on days when everything around you is ugly. I’d write about your eyelashes and how they are like violin strings that play symphonies every time you blinked."
— Rudy Francisco, If I was a love poet
- 1 month ago
- 86
"If you were to press your heart close up against somebody else’s heart eventually your hearts will start beating at the same time. And two little babies in an incubator, their hearts will beat at the same time. Love that. So if you have somebody in your life that is prone to anxiety, like myself, and if you happen to be a calm person, you could come up and hug me heart to heart and my heart hopefully would slow to yours. And I just love that idea. Or maybe yours would speed up to mine. But either way, we’ll be there together."
— Andrea Gibson (via echoingstreetsigns)
- 1 month ago
- 47
