Yes I got this title from that Beyonce article. let's move on. My point with this four poems are to self mythologize myself. not necessarily to make myself some hero that does amazing and impossible things but to bring that world and those stakes to my world. most greek myths are super romantic and tragic and i think thats the kind of extraness i want to reach in my poems. rearanging the stars. spinning golden wool for a beautiful dress. beating impossible monsters. having homosexual relationships. you know all the cool stuff.
Arachne Went Down To Georgia
So I got this idea after catching up with the Arachne myth. And idk I just think the idea of normal people beating these divine creatures is super interesting. arachne, johnny, frankenstein, there was more in my head before i started talking but now i've lost it. but in this context i wanted to make it about a relationship im losing or winning?? but instead of like a God i'm going up against it's literary figures. but specifically males. Like I like the idea of this immortal girl who's just sitting around so lonely and closed up in her room because all the people shes loved are dead. maybe this is a bit gay idk. i dont want to write from the perspective of a gay character because i dont feel like i can accurately portray that in the way it needs to be. but i also dont feel like i can do that with a woman either so idk. but basically i want it to be to like the famous poets who are known for writing love letters. shakespeare, petrarch, lord byron, you know the whole lot. maybe mix in some other guys from myth there. orpheus... apollo... idk. I want this to be like a sad poem. one that you'd find tucked away in a attic somewhere when the page that its written on is barley together anymore and it's this super sad letter about someone that just wants to be loved by al these people and they arent sure where all the love went. it's very careful and sensual but sad. so far the only lines i have are:
You don’t touch me anymore
Oh Midas won’t you turn me to gold
Times New Roman
yes tk's meme made me think of this. specifically the uniformity of the font. it's like the letters are all dressed up in their nicest clothes to go to some ball. i'ts the font you use for everything. once you use it enough everything else starts to look weird. and to me this is the feeling of not fitting in. so somehow i want to combine that idea. idk this is the one i've put the least thought into. but the big idea for this one is these big declarative sentences about thinking you're okay but realizing you don't fit in and trying to deal with that somehow but then the ways and steps you take to deal with that just make you more uncomfortable until youre a parody of yourself and you only react on predetermined reactions and you call that yourself but it's not really yourself but now you know no other self because deep down all you are is these reactions you cant get over. like youve been in an abusive relationship with yourself over your own anxiety and now everything is a trigger and everything is a coping mechanism.
Sometimes taking a second to breathe means
Recognizing that you're doing so with someone else's lungs
Impotence
I explained this feeling in my wall a while ago but this is it in poem form. it's waking up the day after the last day of classes and realizing everything is gone. but it's also coming to terms with everything. it's telling all the truths you were never able to say before.
I woke up at 10:01 this morning
And I didn’t brush my teeth
Or take a shower
Or pick my hair
And when 11 o'clock rolled around I didn't see your face
And that’s how I knew it was summer
And it's a sadder death than the ones that came before it
There will be no resurrection
No obituary
No resurrection
I don't love you
And that may not be a shock to you
But it's something I needed to say
We Are Universal
this is the love poem you all should have already read. today my professor said something as she was sayign goodbye to us. she was talking about how as english majors we have this unique relationship with these texts that we've read and the themes and how we should never give up and honeslty it was beautiful and it made me cry and i cant do it justice at all but the one part that stuck out to me was when she said "we are universal" and i think that's the most romantic thign ive heard. because she didn't mean it on like a we're psace dust and we're in the flowers and the cars and each other kind of thign she meant it in a literary sense. like how love is a universal thign. it's a theme in literature old as writing itself. it never dies or gets old. and idk i just think there's somethign super uplifting and romantic about that. so that's why i want to pair it with this poem and the idea that love has been universal. its been this and that and why does it need anythign else? it doesnt but maybe we dont have to be great we just have to be passionate. and i think its nice to have this deep love poem here right after the one before it where im basically saying im delusional im not in romantic love. but i want it to be about giving a little love even when its not necessary and dispelling the fiction that it takes more of yourself to love someone. like you need to be someone else or somethign better when all you can ever be is you. you can be the best you you can be but you cant be better than you you know. you're universal. you already have everythign you need. but anyway i want this poem to feel like that canvas video of when you play sky full of song on spotify. just that feeling of being in a big house as it rains softly but a lot and the wind blows through the house and it feels haunted but also so like energetic and full of life. idk how to describe it. anyway thank you. goodnight.
And I'm not concerned with what love needs
Because I know it's lied to the both of us
Saying we could be better
You should know
That we'll never know the stars on more than a first name basis
No matter how many poems we write to Orion
But we already have everything we need to conquer the universe
Everything necessary to trace out the Libra scales to be little more balanced
And align Andromeda on your skin in the morning
We are universal
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