The future
will meet you
in the present
and you will have
the presence
you cultivate.
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can you do a web weave about being unable to love. you’re not sure if it’s trauma or born like this. but you feel like an impostor whenever you tell someone you care for them. because your ability to care is impaired. and you get tired and bored of people easily and are unable to form human connections somehow
i hope you're doing well <33
Anaïs Nin Fire; “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1937 / Clarice Lispector The Stream of Life / pinterest / Louise Glück Faithful and Virtuous Night / unknown / Mahmound Darwish In the Presence of Absence
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Your Golden Presence
Your soft sad smile had said it all
a west wind whispered of the end
we knew we never had a chance
yet it hurt like hell to lose a friend
A faint shadow fell upon our world
as the angels sang a song of sorrow
the tears of time toasted yesterday
for two hearts never to see tomorrow
How can a game demand such cost
then leave us hidden from the light
yet I'll ever feel your golden presence
as I cry beneath the moon each night
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favourite poems of december
a.r. ammons collected poems: 1951-1971: "dunes"
jennifer robertson shrill shirts will always balloon
n. scott momaday in the presence of the sun: stories and poems, 1961-1991: "the delight song of tsoai-talee"
ted berrigan the collected poems of ted berrigan: "bean spasms"
natalie diaz when my brother was an aztec: "abecedarian requiring further examination of anglikan seraphym subjugation of a wild indian rezervation"
greg miller watch: "river"
joanna klink excerpts from a secret prophecy: "terrebonne bay"
dorothy dudley pine river bay
brenda shaughnessy our andromeda: "our andromeda"
frank lima incidents of travel in poetry: "orfeo"
lehua m. taitano one kind of hunger
no'u revilla kino
linda hogan when the body
paul verlaine one hundred and one poems by paul verlaine: a biligual edition: "moonlight" (tr. norman r. shapiro)
mahmoud darwish the butterfly's burden: "the cypress broke" (tr. fady joudah)
mahmoud darwish the butterfly's burden: "your night is of lilac"
amir rabiyah prayers for my 17th chromosome: "our dangerous sweetness"
sara nicholson the living method: "the end of television"
charles shields proposal for a exhibition
ginger murchison a scrap of linen, a bone: "river"
tsering wangmo dhompa virtual
anne carson the beauty of the husband: "v. here is my propaganda one one one one oneing on your forehead like droplets of luminous sin"
muriel rukeyser the collected poems of muriel rukeyser: "the book of the dead"
anne stevenson stone milk: "the enigma"
david tomas martinez love song
robert fitzgerald charles river nocturne
thomas mcgrath the movie at the end of the world: collected poems: "many in the darkness"
linda rodriguez heart's migration: "the amazon river dolphin"
donald revell the glens of cithaeron
sumita chakraborty dear, beloved
angela jackson and all these roads be luminous: "miz rosa rides the bus"
kofi
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Mahmoud Darwish, from "In the Presence of Absence," originally published in 2006
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