Wishes

[parrotthepolly]

I wish this new acquaintance will be online and not upset at me when I contact tomorrow and please don't drop me or disappear There isn't much for me to live for.

 

[In the weeds]

I wish my daughter could be healed.

 

[parrotthepolly]

I wish this new acquaintance will be online and not upset at me when I contact tomorrow and please don't drop me or disappear There isn't much for me to live for.

Apparently it went well, suspiciously well... Doesn't seem like will be leaving my life anytime soon so that's comforting.

I'm not sure why someone is willing to put up with me without expecting anything in return...

 

[Rose White]

I'm not sure why someone is willing to put up with me without expecting anything in return...

This is such a big part of where I’m at right now in my head too

 

[oliver767]

I wish I'd never learned all the poems at school

 

[Friday]

I wish I'd never learned all the poems at school

Poetry was a subject deliberately NOT taught to children… for centuries. As it was deemed too powerful, influential, passionate… for developing minds. Instead? It was reserved for university & beyond.

Modernly? We teach poetry to toddlers, and reserve -real- history for university.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯​

 

[Rose White]

it was deemed too powerful, influential, passionate

Zizek says in the documentary “How to Become Free,” that there is no ethnic cleansing without poetry, that so many of the great poets of the last centuries were fascists, and that Putin’s main propagandists are poets and artists. So it’s still extremely powerful and influential but people don’t realize it—which is a kind of true power.

 

[parrotthepolly]

I wish I had permission to take care of my mind and body or at least permission to exist comfortably.

 

[whiteraven]

Poetry was a subject deliberately NOT taught to children… for centuries. As it was deemed too powerful, influential, passionate… for developing minds. Instead? It was reserved for university & beyond.

Modernly? We teach poetry to toddlers, and reserve -real- history for university.

Very true! I published a book of English haiku this year (first in a series of three), and my haiku (and other poetry) *teaches* history.

 

[Rose White]

I wish I could accept all the parts of myself. I wish I could forgive myself—for what idk but I think I need to for something.

 

[parrotthepolly]

I wish he haven't died yet.