Richard Siken Poetry Starters

musingofmemes:

• I wore his jacket for the longest time. 
• I’d live on the moon probably except I think I’d miss the moonlight
  
• Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. 
  
• You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together
  
• But you know how I am. I push too hard.
  
• I’m hungry and hollow and just want something to call my own
  
• The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive
  
• Monsters are always hungry, darling.
  
• Sorry about the blood in your mouth.
  
• I could pretend I’m speaking to everyone.
  
• I’m talking to you, and you know it.
  
• Everyone needs a place. It shouldn’t be inside of someone else
  
• Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing and not all of those things are good.
  
• Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.
  
• Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
  
• Let’s admit, without apology, what we do to each other
  
• Your body told me in a dream it’s never been afraid of anything.
  
• Everything casts a shadow.
  
• You could drown in those eyes
  
• I swallow your heart and it crawls right out of my mouth
  
• I want to be grateful but I’m having a hard time with it.
  
•  I am sad and angry and I want everyone to be alive again.
  
• I believe we will be reborn, because I believe everything, and I believe that we will meet again and suffer together again.
  
•  Keep talking. I’ll keep walking toward the sound of your voice.
  
• I wanted to take him home and rough him up and get my hands inside him
  
• There are so many things I’m not allowed to tell you
  
• We are all going forward. None of us are going back
  
• Is that too much to expect?
  
• I didn’t want to see it this way
  
• Wanna make a monster?
  
• It’s too ugly to be human. It’s too ugly to be you
  
• I’m sure you remember, I was on the phone with you, sweetheart.
  
• Someone once told me that explaining is an admission of failure.
  

violentwavesofemotion:

“Your eyes. Your eyes. Eyes with teeth. Terrible as obsidian. The days to come in those eyes, the days gone by. And beneath that fierceness, something ancient and tender as rain.”

— Sandra Cisneros, from Woman Hollering Creek; “Eyes of Zapata,” c. 1991

im goin to bed early for the move tomorrow but just wanted to say Officially mislyn’s hair is so long it goes past her back & then post trespasser she hacks it all off to above her shoulders…. shes still real cute

sb: lyn-
mislyn:

when hozier wrote foreigner’s god he was writing it abt lady lavellan he told me so himself in a dream last night

extravagantliar:

the crown of thorns is a heavy burden to bear on your own, good sir.

varric tethras as loved by elisabeth

anyways while mislyn loathes being the herald and is pretty miserable all throughout haven and a little while after, she actually enjoys being the inquisitor. like yah, it’s a lot of responsibility and indescribably stressful and she’s not happy exactly but. she likes being in charge, she likes leading, and she’s good at it! honestly post inquisition but pre-trespasser is probably like? one of the best time periods in her life? she’s helping people, she’s changing things (esp w leliana’s support as divine), she’s doing so well.

which just makes her all the more angry after solas’ betrayal and a large part of why she ultimately disbands it, though it’s not the only reason. 

stuck w the image of mislyn sitting on a rock on the storm coast looking very content and downright blissful while a storm rages on around her with he rest of her companions in the bg looking utterly miserable bc they’re all cold and wet