We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.e.e. cummings (via ryandonato)
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Sylvia Plath, from “Thalidomide” (via violentwavesofemotion)All night I carpenter
A space for the thing I am given,
A loveOf two wet eyes and a screech.
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Pillow my thoughts of her
so I can Sandman in the night.
I home for her.
My spirit Big Bad Wolfs these straws of logic
which Three Men in a Tub me in my stormy ocean.
I’ve Little Bo Peep my feelings to her
and my heart London Bridges over and over
thinking how I missed my chance with her.
So the homie, Nate Lyle Cedilla, makes the poem his own, so dope!!! He just asked if he could run with it and I told him go for it, and then this happened. =D
The children checkerboard their lives
until they became Kings and Queens.
And as they saw the pieces fall,
They understood the truth:
Royalty, with its power and glory,
is loneliest
without a kingdom under rule.
Their lives had turned
to a ticking clock,
that watched them grow old and worn.
No king is a king without his people,
an audience to behold.
Queens, will you weep
as your throne now topples to the floor?
Checkerboards may have brought you here,
but forever will you stay
such cruel ends to your lives
due to the games you play.
The children checkerboard their liveswas trying to figure how to put this into a poem but figure I leave it a lone and let it be a poem
until they became Kings and Queens.
I’m looking for the face I had before the world was made.Yeats: The winding stair (via scheggine)
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I don’t know Sam Sax personally, only met him a couple of times through mutual friends. Seen him perform a couple of times and he certainly has an amazing presence when he reads. Came across this video today which is gut-wrenchingly good.
Been itching to make a villain series. Tonight seem like a good night to start it. Here goes the first one.
Megatron
You claim for peace.
As if such harmonious facade
would magically appear by merely wishing for it.
Protect the weak?
Were we not granted great power?
Were we not born to do great things?
There is no legacy in maintaining order.
Legacy is written about those who seized order,
who shaped worlds by the strength of their will,
who conquered and ruled universes into their image.
How will helping feeble minded life forms help me?
They have nothing to offer that I want
and should they have something I will take.
Let them stop me … they will fail.
I am not a monster.
If all get out of my way
and let me do as I please
there will be no trouble to be made.
Afterwards we can even play out this peace everyone speaks of.
Yet, many feel a need to oppose me.
Am I not suppose to be angered by this?
Am I suppose to let simple weaklings tell me what to do?
No.
They will taste my vengeance.
Their feeble bodies
will have the honor of being disintegrated
by my force, my power.
I am followed because I am feared
I am followed because they understand my strength
I am followed because I will lead them to greatness.
This body was built to destroy
so that this mind could build the galaxy I’m destine to make.
Why should I deny my gifts?
For the sake of harmony?
I am creating harmony by bringing order,
an order where those with power
have the honor of ruling the weak.
Do you not see this fusion cannon?
Is it not a thing of great wonder?
This is my reminder of whom I am.
I am designed to utilize
the potential of this instrument,
to push it to its limits and even beyond it
because it demands I give it that respect.
I am a fighter, a warrior, a leader
and as such I will embrace it,
I will seize it,
I will rule with it.
No one shall deny me what shall be mine.
We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside of the mass hallucination you see it for what it is worth.(via sublimesea)
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There’s a stereotype that black people are lazy. I don’t know if that’s true, but I know white people went all the way to Africa to get out of doing work.
Lance Crouther
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The following questions will help you determine if you’re the type of person who becomes a victim.
1. Do you tend to stay quiet in relationships instead of confidently asking for what you want?
2. Do you feel inadequate on your own, and only feel worthwhile if you are part of a couple?
3. Has a girlfriend or boyfriend, at some point in the past, been able to isolate you from your friends?
4. Are you too much of a people pleaser?
5. Do you desperately want and need to be loved?
6. Do you bury and suppress your anger and resentment?
7. Do you find it hard to say NO to others, and to set and maintain healthy boundaries?
8. Would you describe yourself as being over-responsible?
9. Do you struggle with feelings of false guilt and shame?
10. Do you desperately want to be noticed and affirmed?
11. Do you lose your unique self if in your relationships with others?
12. Do you find hard to disagree with others?
13. Are you the kind of person who takes care of others but doesn’t really take care of themselves?
14. Do you give more than the other person in close relationships?
15. Are you always saying “sorry”; do you tend to assume that everything “bad” is your fault?
16. Are you a bit on the gullible side; are you easily taken in by others?
17. Do you allow other people to squash your spirit, and suffocate your creativity?
18. Do you tend to ignore that nagging inner voice and to blindly hope that everything will be OK?
19. In relationship, do you pretend that any problems “are no big deal” as you’d rather avoid them, than address them properly?
20. Do you tend to forgive too easily?
Processing these questions and trying to figure its place in regards to my personal growth.
Effects Of Thinking White People Are “All Like That”:
- Literally nothing other than white people having their feelings hurt on the internet
- I’m not joking there is no real world consequence of this
Effects Of Thinking People of Color Are “All…
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I tried to move my mind there and nowhere else and imagine a single detail that, if I didn’t see it that weekend, I never would; tried to make out a deer’s eye in the leaves, tried to pick up a single stone. The world is easily lost.James Dickey | Deliverance (via blogut)
