Larmoyante

"Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem, I whisper with my lips close to..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:20:25 -0700

“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”

"Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other “sins” are invented nonsense."

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:46 -0700

“Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other “sins” are invented nonsense.”

- Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:12:01 -0700

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

- Helen Keller

"So you attempt to hide your loneliness in public, to behave, in fact, as though you have too many..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:09:05 -0700

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So you attempt to hide your loneliness in public, to behave, in fact, as though you have too many friends already, and thus you hope to attract people who will unwittingly save you. But it never works that way. Your condition is written all over your face, in the hunch of your shoulders, in the hollowness of your laugh. You fool no one.

Believe me in this; I’ve tried all the tricks of the lonely man.

”

- David Marusek

So if one were to submit personal posts would they be sent to your ask or your submissions?

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:07:26 -0700

Either is fine :-)

Please note that it’ll take us time to get back to you! We’re receiving a lot of submissions and we can only reply back to so many at a time.

"‘Am I weird?’ ‘Yeah. But so what? Everybody’s weird.’"

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:01:10 -0700

“‘Am I weird?’
‘Yeah. But so what? Everybody’s weird.’”

- Stephen King, Different Seasons

Can I anonymously send in a poem i wrote for feedback?

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:43:37 -0700

You can definitely send in a poem. However, we can’t really offer much feedback because it’s not our place to critique something that has personal meaning in it. We could offer suggestions on the structure of the poem, but not on the content.

Do you accept personal submissions? Even if its just to read/comment upon, not necessarily to post

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:25:58 -0700

Yes! We highly encourage everyone to send in personal submissions. We don’t always post them, but we definitely enjoy reading all of them :)

"No one in my family, not one of my friends or classmates realized that I was going through life..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:01:26 -0700

“No one in my family, not one of my friends or classmates realized that I was going through life asleep.
It was literally true: I was going through life asleep. My body had no more feeling than a drowned corpse. My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. ‘Hold tight,’ I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to.”

- Haruki Murakami, Sleep

"The heart was made to be broken."

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:24:54 -0700

“The heart was made to be broken.”

- Oscar Wilde

"Do your thing and don’t care if they like it."

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:52:14 -0700

“Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.”

- Tina Fey, Bossypants

"In order to write about life first you must live it."

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:48:17 -0700

“In order to write about life first you must live it.”

- Ernest Hemingway

"My memory loves you; it asks about you all the time."

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:01:00 -0700

“My memory loves you; it asks about you all the time.”

- Jonathan Carroll

Mantra to Overcome Depression

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:01:12 -0700

Vitamin D. Sunlight. Go
outside. Get a good night

of sleep. Not too good.

Not shades drawn forever
good. Not like you used to.

Open the windows.

Buy more houseplants.
Breathe. Meditate. (One day,

you will no longer be

afraid of being alone
with your thoughts.)

Exercise. Actually exercise

instead of just googling it.
Eat well. Cook for yourself.

Organize your closet, the

garage. Drink plenty of water
and repeat after me:

I am not a problem

to be solved. Repeat after me:
I am worthy I am worthy I am

neither the mistake nor

the punishment. Forget to take
vitamins. Let the houseplant die.

Eat spoonfuls of peanut butter.

Shave your head. Forget
this poem. It doesn’t matter—

there is no wrong way

to remember the grace of your
own body; no choice

that can unmake itself.

There is only now, here,
look: you are already

forgiven.

by Sierra DeMulder

"You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:15:00 -0700

“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked “female”.”

- Erin McKean, You Don’t Have to Be Pretty

"I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything."

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:01:16 -0700

“I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald about Zelda Fitzgerald in a letter to a friend dated Febuary 1920

What is your go-to book (i.e. the book you always read to escape the daily wear and tear of life;...

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:55:59 -0700

What is your go-to book (i.e. the book you always read to escape the daily wear and tear of life; essentially your ‘chicken soup for the soul’)?

"Self-confidence and self-love come from within. You can’t love another person so hard that your..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:11:50 -0700

“Self-confidence and self-love come from within. You can’t love another person so hard that your perception of them seeps into their subconscious and affects how they view themselves.”

- Anonymous, Let’s Not Sexualize Insecurity

"Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:38:32 -0700

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

- Rumi

"Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life."

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:44:48 -0700

“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”

- Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way