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aslisjournal · 2 years
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Asli Hersi
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derangedrhythms · 1 year
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moon-like winter days,
Georg Trakl, Poems and Prose: Sevenfold Song of Death; from 'Föhn', tr. Alexander Stillmark
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enby-panick · 9 days
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so this is love— a bruise so tenderly inflicted that it never fades away
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unbecoming-kiley · 2 years
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Christina Rossetti, from Poems and Prose; “Maiden-Song”
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27paperlilies · 11 months
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Below they weep If the gods below the earth could reach out with hands of stone and moss what would they say about all they've lost?
Could you tame the cries of misty eyes singing lost goodbyes could you answer that heartbreaking why?
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aera3014 · 1 month
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When you die, people don't cry because they miss you. They cry because they lost whatever you were able to give them, until they realise that someone else can give them that same exact thing.
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trickstersaint · 10 months
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apostate // july 9 2023
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atomlyy · 13 days
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Skin, skin, bones, bones. Please, don't spit me out, even if you want to. Caress my bones with your tongue, feel the taste of my love, look into my inner self. I know you have aways wanted to crawl into my skin and dance a waltz next to a mirror. Just remember not to step on our legs.
I am truly special, am I not? You haven't tasted anyone as delicious as me, it's only me who you wanted that passionately. I'll give you finger after finger, just keep saying that you love me. My blood runs cold, and I'm all dessert, eat until your stomach is full.
I'll weave a web from your insides, I'll catch everything just like spiders do. And even if your midges are not that good, I'll collect them and make a throne out of them. It's only me who is the ruler in you.
You stroke your body with your fingers. I feel your warmth and gentle touch, and in response I lean onto your stomach wall. I'm almost as your unborn child, trapped inside you and feeling only your feelings. I'm glad to be one with you, we're together forever, and it's not just a child's promise.
I kiss your stomach. You put your hand on me, and I know that you'll love me forever.
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selenepluto · 10 months
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medievalfawn · 3 months
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the future is bright and worth it.
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aslisjournal · 2 years
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excerpt from  “I Argued with the Stars About You”,  Asli Hersi
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derangedrhythms · 1 year
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Georg Trakl, Poems and Prose: Poems from Der Brenner 1914/5; from 'The Thunderstorm', tr. Alexander Stillmark
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enby-panick · 5 days
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even love, it seems, dies.
only to be born again, a true phoenix that lives in the cages of our beating hearts
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floatingsaturn · 4 months
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"....we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the heavens and leading us to our destiny, but it's only our vanity. We look at the galaxy and fall in love, but the universe cares less about us than we do about it, and the stars stay in their courses however much we may wish upon them to do otherwise. It's true that if you watch the sky-wheel turn for a while you'll see a meteor fall , flame and die. That's not a star worth following; it's just an unlucky rock. Our fates are here on earth. There are no guiding stars."
Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh
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27paperlilies · 11 months
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Swimming mid flight The coolness of hate turning warm under a tender touch. Salty tears watering a dried up husk, soft hands soothing aching eyes. Heart held devotion and tired bitter lies. Life so fleeting, as swift as a bird. Moments that ground us to roots of this earth.To be human is run fast and fall, but never to give up and to always laugh at the dizzying gall. If I had wings I'd learn to swim, for this life is a cliffegde and I won't jump on a whim.
But sometimes I remember that I am but a fish, I lounge within my bowl, and never see the world as a whole.
What must they think of us, the ones outside that globe, watching us take our first breath only to drowned with nothing left.
So when I look out at this world from within my little bowl, I see that life is meaningless but so are songs of old.
I certainly find beauty in those melodies so why shouldn't I find music in the simple things, perhaps I'll turn it into a kind of remedy
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With this dose of daddy issues, I wish you a good morning ☀
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