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I post for the people who went absolutely crazy learning about the Taiga biome in 5th grade

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William Fargason, “I Have Lost Faith”

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did you know that. um. but still. still. bless me anyway. i want more life. i cant help myself. i do. ive lived through such terrible times, & there are people who live through much worse, but... you see them living anyway. when theyre more spirit than body, more sores than skin, when theyre burned & in agony, when flies lay eggs in the corners of the eyes of their children, they live. death usually has to take life away. i dont know if thats just the animal. i dont know if its not braver to die. but i recognize the habit. the addiction to being alive. we live past hope. if i can find hope anywhere, thats it, thats the best i can do. its so much not enough, so inadequate but... bless me anyway. i want more life.

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looks like somebody forgot that dust we are and to dust we shall return lol

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it’s a what the living do winter

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theres nothing "common" about the loon. to me.

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Mt. Hood, 1898, chromolithograph

Credit: Detroit Photo Company, active late 19th century

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What do I need to do?

🧙‍♂️ fuck it we ball

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*feels my body get anxious for no reason* what is it boy, what do you see?

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Bruce Springsteen, Boston, 1977.

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from “Leaves and Blossoms Along the Way”

Mary Oliver

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Jack Gilbert

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genuinely do NOT want the world to see me because i don’t think that they’d understand

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wishing all people who constantly make “jokes” about hating men and men being disgusting etc. a very please fucking THINK about what you are doing and how you are harming the world at large

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this is what it means to be human

Everything, Mary Oliver

The Breathing, Denise Levertov

A Prayer by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

Like a Small Café, That’s Love by Mahmoud Darwish (translated by Mohammad Shaheen)

Having a Coke with You by Frank O’Hara

Eating Together by Li-Young Lee

The Orange by Wendy Cope

The Quiet Machine, Ada Limón

To Go Mad, Paruyr Sevak

Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro

Hammond B3 Organ Cistern, Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Peace XVIII, Khalil Gibran

Your Unripe Love, Paruyr Sevak (from “Anthology of Armenian poetry")

Here and Now by Peter Balakian

Ich finde dich (I find you) by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Thing Is by Ellen Bass

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you. by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

I Want to Write Something So Simply by Mary Oliver

What's Not to Love by Brendan Constantine

Where does such tenderness come from? by Marina Tsvetaeva

You Are Tired (I Think) by E. E. Cummings

Living With the News by W.S.Merwin

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

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You’ve heard of Friday I’m in Love, now get ready for Tuesday I’m Very Nervous.

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Art Print Botanical Flowers Dreamscape by clairespaintings