#couplet

[lionofchaeronea]

King Zeus, give us fine things whether we pray for them or not; Keep from us woes, even if we ask them. Ζεῦ βασιλεῦ, τὰ μὲν ἐσθλὰ καὶ εὐχομένοις καὶ ἀνεύκτοις ἄμμι δίδου: τὰ δὲ λυγρὰ καὶ εὐχομένων ἀπερύκοις. -Anth. Pal. 10.108 ~ [Plato], Alcibiades II 143a

[env0writes]

Juniper Journal’s Vol. 2, 6.16.24 “Lord of Light?"

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Hot sun Shogun Lord of body And light

Cool breeze Through trees Shadow cast haughty Over all within sight

No clouds Allowed Castle of sticks shoddy Beaten to death to prove might

Sunburn Heart yearn Blush cheeks flush naughty Oh, how the summer takes flight

[chashmenaaz]

Hope of love, mood of sight, color of pain

Today, don't ask anything, for the heart is very melancholy

umid-e-yar nazar ka mizaj dard ka rang tum aaj kuchh bhi na puchho ki dil udas bahut hai

[sophiechoir]

a feather left

at tether’s end

[kundst]

Arnoud van Mosselveld

Couplet (2023)

Color pencil on cardboard (14,5 x 21 cm)

[embermint000x]

Autumn's twilight haze

feels like I'm moving in place

But I find I can't even remember your gaze

I don't need this place to stay

My roots fossilized in the fiction you wrote

but my petals are everything you don't know

I never mean to dote

but the feeling in my memory just never goes

[creatediana]

I read and read, like Prospero— the magic still escapes me, though.

"No Duke" - a couplet written 7/10/2024

[planetpluto28]

Turtle Nebulae

blue, pink, just out in the void we call space.

sitting there floating, in all of it's grace.

[g-h-o-s-t-2000]

all that is in your mind all that is in your heart

[claireinsorcia]

The space between my fingers seems perfectly designed.

It's made to let your hand intertwine with mine.

[lionofchaeronea]

On a Statue of a Bacchant at Byzantium

Anthologia Planudea 57 = Paulus Silentiarius (6th cent. CE) It was not Nature, but rather Art That made the Bacchant out of her mind And mingled madness throughout the stone. ἔκφρονα τὴν βάκχην οὐχ ἡ φύσις, ἀλλ᾽ ἡ τέχνη θήκατο, καὶ μανίην ἐγκατέμιξε λίθῳ.

A dancing maenad. Detail from a red-figure skyphos by the painter Python, ca. 330-320 BCE. From Paestum (Poseidonia), Italy; now in the British Museum. Photo credit: © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons.

[deadly-danaid]

"My dad always told me to be proper, spent every second getting it right. That way, if someone touched me, I could cleanly take out their eye"

-- Protect Yourself || Monica (Moka) Lynn

[sophiechoir]

Lord, teach me how to bite

to fill my frantic appetite.

[starsnsonnets]

if you didnt exist i would be mentally saner

but if i didnt exist you would be mentally sane

[creatediana]

I know I'm alive, since I still hear the ringing; in most other senses, to life I'm just clinging.

"Buh." - a couplet written 11/13/2023

[planetpluto28]

Ghost of Jupiter

like a shadow, gone without a trace.

everything is quiet out here in space.