Spilled Ink

jamusrants:

What are you?

Why is there nothing in my mind

I ponder more often

Than how you have the effect

You do?

Who are you?

Are you the one

I’ve been hunting for,

The one with everything

All at once?

I feel alone unless I’m with you,

Why can’t I just reach out and kiss you?

My suffocating timidity, 

Low self-esteem rigidity

Is my downfall.

If I could just say what we could be,

Perhaps,

Just perhaps,

We Could Be.

spilling-your-ink:

spilling-your-ink:

For a while I had made the decision to turn off submissions. Remember? Well, I’m turning it back on. So you can submit —here—

But here is what we’ll look at: links. 

• Why?
  —We want you to get the notes on your wonderful work.
  —So we will be sticking to reblogging.
• This means:
  —If you submit a poem…. and not a link… we won’t even look at it, it’ll be trashed.
• Why? (again..)
  —If an editor catches something that they think should be featured… we don’t want to be the ones featured. We want it to go to you.
• I want you to remember what #spilled ink is about. It’s about community. We are more than happy to take your poems and reblog them if read it and fall in love, but we also want/need/desire/crave/live off of your help. If you come across a piece from a fellow poet and you think it should be shared further… send it to us!!!
• Now, in the past we get several submissions from the same people. We will only take one of them, so choose wisely.
• REMEMBER LINKS ONLY

Also. TAGS
 —This is what we pay attention the most too.

• #creative writing
• #writing
• #poetry
• #prose
• #onewordaday
• #october horror
• #my words

Our dash is so full and we just don’t have enough time to go through them, so we filter through the tags. The moderators are also busy people with lives and also run their own blogs and write their own pieces.

We suggest you take advantage of the tags as much as we do.

Don’t forget we’ve opened up a special blog for PROSE pieces so you should follow it as well. http://spilledinkprose.tumblr.com

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask us.
Much much love, Lilli

Good morning darlings (if it’s good evening or afternoon for you then I guess you’re not my darling…). If you weren’t really on yesterday maybe come on over for a visit and catch up. We were pretty active and reblogged some great things. Also, check out our most recent #onewordaday prompt here!

On a side note/follow up (because Lillian was obviously not listened to completely…..), we want the submit feature to be a COMMUNITY effort. Which means that, sure, submit something of your own that you’d really like to get some more feedback on, but also submit links to us from the prose and poetry crossing your own dashboard. Or dive into the crazy amount of tags we track and find some gem that was buried deep.

So, let us change up exactly what Lillian said yesterday: “We will only take one of them.” No. If you send us multiple links from your own blog in the span of one day, we will delete ALL of them. We apologize if this comes across a little harsh, but please think of it from our perspective…

We want variety. This cannot be one of those dull marriages where the bed life is stale and repetitive. We didn’t sign up for that, and hopefully neither did you. If once a day you send us 3 links from your blog, that’s not really helping at all (no matter how versatile in language and style you may be!). If you send us one link to your poetry or prose, and then a few different links from blogs you follow, that is variety and that is helpful and that is genuinely appreciated!

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns we are still working on setting up a hotline, but until then you can reach us at our personal blogs if you want a quicker response, or right here.

Not as much love as Lillian has for you all, but still enough,
Bethany

People submitting things to us: I highly recommend reading through these two memos from Lillian and myself. The amount of submissions I’ve had to delete the past week or so is sad. I am going to expand on the submissions guidelines now so hopefully that, coupled with this reblog, things will become clarified for you all.

sed-infinitum:

Minefields and ditches crawling with army ants in the flood of bloody nightmares,

History will forever scare me more then some acient myth’s mystery of a monster,

As long as slaughter is a herioc badge pinned to the now homeless man’s ratty old coat,

And the goats in Parliament continue to bleat louder then the beating of the heart of the city,

Where mystery is the question of whether you’ll be able to pay for some kind of dinner tonight,

And “All Right” is the lone woman making it home safe for at least this night coddling her child in the cold of an apartment tomorrow she can’t afford to own,

The man sitting at the bus stop banging his metal pots with a soup spoon drumstick and just asking for some Change,

Because in an accidental aberration of a constitution’s fuzzy resoslution,

The magnifying glasses have now decided to start a revolution, 

That’s maybe 1% insanity, if madness for some is simply a step away from an idea now used-up and useless,

But 99% humanity, for the rest.

The restless.

spilling-your-ink:

• the act of departing from the right, normal, or usual course. 
• the act of deviating from the ordinary, usual, or normal type. 
• deviation from truth or moral rectitude. 
• mental irregularity or disorder, especially of a minor or temporary nature; lapse from a sound mental state. 
• Astronomy . apparent displacement of a heavenly body, owing to the motion of the earth in its orbit.

Don’t forget to tag your poetry or prose with #onewordaday so that we can find you! Trust us, with a dash our size there’s no way we’ll just happen to stumble upon your posts.

[Also, go check out past words & previous posts we’ve reblogged onto our site relating to the tag.]

lettersinblackandblue:

An aberration of artistic assumptions

Left its stain on my forearm.

Under lavender’s shade came the

Scarlet blush over azure veins:

The entire affair was redolent of rain.

Hello! October is here let the HORROR begin! We’re going to be tracking the tag #October Horror and reading your horror poems and prose. So write away and tag it! We’ll reblog a few here and there. Track it for yourself and read all of them.

noun 1. a tomb, grave, or burial place. 2. a. a cavity in a mensa for containing relics of martyrs.     b. a structure or a recess in some old churches in which the Eucharist was deposited  with due ceremonies on Good Friday and taken out at Easter in commemoration of Christ’s entombment and Resurrection.

Hello! October is here let the HORROR begin! We’re going to be tracking the tag  #October Horror and reading your horror poems and prose. So write away and tag it! We’ll reblog a few here and there. Track it for yourself and read all of them.

We will also continue to do #OneWordADay and with Halloween on it’s way, it will most likely be based from that!

Check out Katy’s post here