little odes

here you will find strangeness and beauty / longing and flight and sweet poetry / silk, lace, and snakes, grace and jewellery / the sea, the sea, and more foolery -

[kevinlucbert]

Distant castle

21 x 29,7cm, ink on paper, Kevin Lucbert, 2025

[selvaggea]

02.01.2025

The Cat and the Sea

[babyhoneykk-deactivated20201204]

Alexander McQueen, “Pagan Poetry” Dress (2001), and Matthew Barney, ‘Verspertine’ Music Box (2001) and ‘Vespertine Live’ Shoes (2001) (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic)

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Henry Miller written c. January 1933, featured in A Literate Passion

[enchantedbook]

'Night Hunter' by Vitali Skvorkin.

[versaversa]

[enchantedbook]

'A gathering in the woods' by Mariachiara Di Giorgio.

[viliere]

If I want a water of Europe, it is the black Cold puddle where in the sweet-smelling twilight A squatting child full of sadness releases A boat as fragile as a May butterfly.

Arthur Rimbaud, The Drunken Boat

[dk-thrive]

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

— Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat (1873) (New Directions, October 5, 2011) (via Thoughts)

[zoeflake]

Mirrors a recurring dream:  you, lost, adrift.

[zoeflake]

Ph. Lunaladee

[some-places]

blossom

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... mosaic ...

Dionysos riding a Panther, floor mosaic from the House of the Masks, Delos (c. 120–80 BC)

[silvaris]

Garden of Gethsemane by Cliff Hope

[mournfulroses]

Pablo Neruda, from a poem featured in his collection titled "The Sea and the Bells,"

[diemelusine]

Photograph of Likani Palace from the Kura River near Borjomi, Georgia (1905/1915) by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. Library of Congress.

[89cats]

(by Katia)

[mscoyditch]

"Embroidered Bookbinding". French. 1750-1800.

'White Silk embroidered with silver thread b read and embroidery silk.

KoninKlijke Bibliotheek. Geheugen van Nederland.

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