desert places

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Your eyes, now gleaming dark obsidian, Now deep and somber velvet jungle flowers.

Gertrud Kolmar, from Dark Soliloquy: The Selected Poems; “Asia,” (via ontheedgeofdarkness)

[mythologyofblue]

Man is no star, but a quick coal Of mortal fire: Who blows it not, nor doth control A faint desire

-George Herbert

[luthienne]

“I will devour you, love you into flame,”

— H.D., from Collected Poems 1912-1944; “A Dead Priestess Speaks”

[bookmania]

The desire to be loved is the last illusion Give it up and you will be free.

Margaret Atwood, A Sunday Drive (via autobibliographies)

[lifeinpoetry]

I know your sadness bleeds

inward, like a nick in the wrist made more sick by your picking.

— Jill Khoury, from “My mother speaks to me from the grave, again,” published in Barren Magazine

[antigonick]

Why lure us, radiant darkness?

Andal, excerpt of Koli Alaippatan Munnam : The Song for The Clothes (tr. by Priya Sarukkai Chabria)

[aaitwo-deactivated20250816]

emotionally im doing the laminated paper wobbling sound

[soracities]

Novica Tadić, epigraph to ‘Monkey Business’, Dark Things: Poems (trans. Charles Simic)

[Text ID: “remember everything, see through your wounds.”]

[sweatermuppet]

from abell 2218 by eric gamalinda, published in amigo warfare: poems

[Text ID: I use my body to find love. I eat all the wrong foods. I believe what I see with my own two eyes. Fear eats me. I have to look for a job. I can sprint faster than sound. I burn forever, I have no end. /End ID]

[hartkamer]

anyone else feeling extremely stuck in themselves in their human bodies in their human lives or is that just me

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West c. October 1928

[soracities]

Here I am in a valley of pine, waiting for you to find me. I could pretend I’m speaking to everyone—assume a middle distance and transcend myself—but I’m taking to you and you know it.

Richard Siken, from Spork Press’ Editor’s Pages: “The Long and the Short of It” (via soracities)

[undomestication]

trying this new thing where I make my decisions based on “common sense” and not my prophetic visions & omens

[wishbzne-deactivated20210526]

ocean vuong, ‘threshold’

[ID: “I lost it all with my eyes wide open.” end ID]

[jupiterlicivciv]

[beyondstyx]

if anyone knows what place this is ,please tell me

[bioillogically]

therapist: how are you? me: fine how are you

[timotaychalamet]