Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death & Sensuality
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"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.""
- Lewis Carroll; Through the Looking-glass
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Crying for a Vision
by Jim Janda
To cry for a
vision
is a sacred
task
after hearing
a holyman
after taking
a sweat bath
with sage and
sweet grass
one must climb a
mountain alone—
here a song
may be heard
here a vision
may be given
here a dance
may be learned—
one must then
leave
the mountain
to sing the
song
to live the
vision
to begin the
dance
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“The rose-light / and heavy face of sweetness”
— Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, from Marine Rose; “Winter Poetry”
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Apollo 16 ultraviolet photo of Earth taken from the surface of the Moon [1026x1024]
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under my post of “the patience of ordinary things” by pat schneider i’m cryinggggg
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Angela Davis & Ursula K Le Guin, visionary women for a hopeful future
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Phillip Marsden, The Summer Isles, on the inherent magic of the land as text.
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I was compelled to write a poem for the first time today cause it was on my heart.
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“Letters from Medea”- Salma Deera
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Sujata Bhatt, from “Parvati”, Collected Poems
[Text ID: “If this myth is alive
for me then why isn’t it for you?
How does a myth stay alive?
How many people does one need in order
to keep a myth alive?”]
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“–I want to draw the earth. –Draw it, my darling. –I have. –And who is this? –She is my friend. –And where is the earth? –In her handbag.”
— Dunya Mikhail, from ‘The Artist Child’, The War Works Hard (trans. Elizabeth Winslow)
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“To kiss a forehead is to erase worry”
by Marina Tsvetaeva
To kiss a forehead is to erase worry.
I kiss your forehead.
To kiss the eyes is to lift sleeplessness.
I kiss your eyes.
To kiss the lips is to drink water.
I kiss your lips.
To kiss a forehead is to erase memory.
I kiss your forehead.
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Haiku
by Bashō
a riverside cottage
raking up tea leaves
after a storm
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today I saw a woman so beautiful that I only dared to look at her once.
I looked at her once and then was too afraid to look the second time, and so I just tried to keep my heart still in my chest and quietly sneaked out, not looking at her again.
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