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Glad to see you’ve attained peace Sprout, hope it lasts forevermore ‼️
Omg YOU LIKE SPY X FAMILY RAHHHHHHHH???!!! I’ve been so obsessed w that for years but all my friends that like it only like it a normal amount 😞💔 it was so nice to see that u like it too
RAFAYEL AND ZAYNE SO TRUE (mine too!!) they wouldn't happen to... remind you of a certain ...duo would they? 😁
HELLO SPROUT who is your lads main
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hii i saw you asked for good news and i wanted to share something. In the country I live in there is an exam shortly after the 8th grade that determines where you go to highschool and then to college, and in the middle of the year we take a practice test and i just got my results back and they’re really good! 9,60 in my native language and a 10 in math! (96 & 100 in america)
Hello sprout!
I saw you asking for good news today and I thought I’d share some of mine! I hope this doesn’t come off as bragging but rather a way to spread the peace while everything feels like it’s burning.
I managed to score significantly lower on the mental health questionnaires my therapist makes me do (still have depression but my anxiety score has dropped to normal levels!), I am now together with a girl I’ve been pining over for a year now, and I found the most beautiful red leaf when walking home today.
In addition, I really hope you know how lovely your work is to us readers. You are genuinely very inspiring and I hope you carry this truth with you as times get harder. It would be a lie to say your words haven’t made me cry before, as well as laugh like crazy (canoe be honest with me especially)
Hope your day gets better!
hii girlie! i just wanted to say i love how you write so so much its literally one of the things thats motivating me to like look left & right before crossing the street because what if i get ran over and sprout posts the next chapter of slbts LIKE.. anyway. i love every fic youve ever partaken in wether im in the fandom or not.
Thinking about hvkh getting old together… Kaveh: oh no! I’ve got a grey hair! Alhaitham: woah, me too
I can’t find Lumas Twitter but I need someone to know that her fic about kavehs internalised heterochromia
made me sick olewase tell her thank
you sobs
hi sprout :D i am the speech contest anon!!! thank you so much for sharing all those poems omg they were so beautiful and don't worry about rambling!!! i would love to hear your thoughts (i took some notes myself but there are largely incoherent)
for my selection I think I will do In a Time of Peace, (i listened to the reading and i am in love with it) ninth elegy, or this other poem i found on yt while i was looking for in a time of peace lol called forest fires by Sarah Kay https://youtu.be/HGDB3ZqSTwM?si=fO18lwyzBiXHR7VI !!
thank you thank you thank you for sharing these with us they are really so beautiful and I read every one i see you share <3 have a lovely day!
Adding on to all the other comments -- Thank you sprout for all the poetry recommendations!! I'm going to be teaching English in high school soon and these poems are so amazing, I'm really excited to read some of them with my students :D
If you have more poem recommendations please do share, they are life-saving!! I really appreciate them 🥺
JJAHSDLKFJHSAFD THIS IS SO SWEET AND SO COOL?? OH MY GOD ID LOVE TO SHARE MORE OF MY FAVORITE POEMS/POETS WITH U AND UR STUDENTS
okay okay okay let me just list poets i like and then some more poems that i havent sent yet TRUE
- kaveh akbar
- ocean vuong
- mary oliver
- danez smith
- kinsale drake
- louise gluck
- nazim hikmet
- ross gay
- ilya kaminsky
some interesting books maybe:
"the symmetry of fish" by su cho - saw this in the library and read a few of the poems, i really liked them but i need to finish the whole book
"alive at the end of the world" by saaeed jones - friend showed me one poem that i really liked, sadly i cant remember the name but i loved the style and the language
misc poems
"dear white america" made me lose my mind: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/150542/dear-white-america
"we lived happily during the war": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91413/we-lived-happily-during-the-war
"my god, it's full of stars": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55519/my-god-its-full-of-stars
yeah okay thats about it ive already sent some of my most beloved ones earlier but YEAH!!! THANK U FOR THE ASK IM ALWAYS HAPPY TO TALK POETRY!!!
Hi I’m the poem asking anon THANK YOU!! Those were so helpful
hi sprout! not the same anon as the last one who asked for poems but I really enjoyed the ones you shared, especially In a Time of Peace. I'm doing a speech contest soon (there isn't really a theme) where you can read a poem, excerpt from a story, or a speech, and I was wondering if you had some suggestions for something that would be good for this kind of competition. Thank you so much for your time have a lovely day!
OH MY GOD??? THAT'S SO FUCKING COOL?? okay well i have some poem ideas, idk what the exact vibe is for the speech but ill try to offer a few.
so i actually heard ilya kaminsky read "in a time of peace" out loud and it was really cool, i just really love the line "The body of a boy lies on the pavement exactly like the body of a boy." bc (in my interpretation) it highlights the way art/society can romanticize a body or turn it into a noble sad symbol when it is just a dead body etc
"it's this way" is my FAVORITE fucking poem ever just bc of the simple line "i can't smell the medicines--carnations must be blooming nearby" and i could ramble endlessly about each poem i pick but then this response will go one way too long: https://allpoetry.com/It's-This-Way
ross gay i love his hopeful poems so here's "catalog of unabashed gratitude" and "sorrow is not my name"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58762/catalog-of-unabashed-gratitude
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/92472/sorrow-is-not-my-name
another hopeful poem/appreciating life poem by nazim hikmet "things i didn't know i love" (would also recommend reading the about/notes about this poem): https://poets.org/poem/things-i-didnt-know-i-loved
"god the whale" by freya bantiff is so fucking cool: https://www.theglobalretreatcompany.com/journal/god-the-whale
"snowdrops" by louise gluck: https://hellopoetry.com/poem/20568/snowdrops/
"all that wanting, right?" by devin kelly: https://www.havehashad.com/hadposts/all-that-wanting-right
"wail" by johnson cheu: https://poets.org/poem/wail-0
"for m" for the classic line "please leave your scarf in my life and come back for it later": https://www.foundryjournal.com/harvey.html
"i'm going back to minnesota where sadness makes sense": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/161060/im-going-back-to-minnesota-where-sadness-makes-sense
"little prayer" short and sweet: https://poets.org/poem/little-prayer
the ninth duino elegy: https://poetrysociety.org/poems/ninth-elegy
OKAY I HOPE THAT WAS ENOUGH AND WITH ENOUGH VARIETY PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT U END UP PICKING AND THANK U FOR THE QUESTION <333
Hi this is so random but I know you enjoy poetry and I am so undereducated in that department so- for an art project I’m trying to compose some kind of (preferably current) political poem, to feature on this shirt design- do you have any recommendations?
HELLOOOO thank you for reaching out I would LOVE to give u poetry recs!!
"fuck your lecture on craft my people are dying" is a classic: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/154658/fuck-your-lecture-on-craft-my-people-are-dying
there's this one with the quote "in order for me to write poems that aren't political..." which might make a good short quote: https://allpoetry.com/poem/17661332---In-order-for-me-to-write-poetry-that-isn-t-political----by-Kannon-McAfee
I also quite like "in a time of peace": https://poets.org/poem/time-peace
I think this is less explicitly political but it's still got an air to it it's called "magpies recognize themselves in the mirror": https://poets.org/poem/magpies-recognize-themselves-mirror
thank u for the ask!!
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