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hamesha ishq me hi jeena

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OMG MY NEW SHOES CAME :3 ignore my ugly house arrest ankle bracelet. haha

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not sure if anyone is interested in this but here is a list of the most joyfully vital poems I know :)

You're the Top by Ellen Bass

Grand Fugue by Peter E. Murphy

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

Everything Is Waiting For You by David Whyte

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Is Alive! by Emily Sernaker

Instructions for Assembling the Miracle by Peter Cooley

Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay

Barton Springs by Tony Hoagland

Footnote to Howl by Allen Ginsberg

Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman

Tomorrow, No, Tomorrower by Bradley Trumpfheller

At Last the New Arriving by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

To a Self-Proclaimed Manic Depressive Ex-Stripper Poet, After a Reading by Jeannine Hall Gailey

In the Presence of Absence by Richard Widerkehr

Chillary Clinton Said 'We Have to Bring Them to Heal' by Cortney Lamar Charleston

Midsummer by Charles Simic

Today by Frank O'Hara

Naturally by Stephen Dunn

Life is Slightly Different Than You Think It Is by Arthur Vogelsang

Ode to My Husband, Who Brings the Music by Zeina Hashem Beck

The Imaginal Stage by D.A. Powell

Lucky Life by Gerald Stern

Beginner's Lesson by Malcolm Alexander

Presidential Poetry Briefing by Albert Haley

A Poem for Uncertainties by Mark Terrill

On Coming Home by Lisa Summe

G-9 by Tim Dlugos

Five Haiku by Billy Collins

The Fates by David Kirby

Upon Receiving My Inheritance by William Fargason

Variation on a Theme by W. S. Merwin

Easy as Falling Down Stairs by Dean Young

Psalm 150 by Jericho Brown

Pantoum for Sabbouha by Zeina Hashem Beck

ASMR by Corey Van Landingham

A Welcome by Joanna Klink

From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee

At Church, I Tell My Mom She’s Singing Off-Key and She Says, by Michael Frazier

Hammond B3 Organ Cistern by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Sorrow Is Not My Name by Ross Gay

You Can't Have It All by Barbara Ras

We Were Emergencies by Buddy Wakefield

To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably In the Next Stall by Kim Addonizio

Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller

The City Limits by A.R. Ammons

There Is a Lake Here by Clint Smith

Goatsong by Laila Chatti

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Spring Reading List 📚🌼🎧🌸☕

It's been a while since I did a reading list (mostly because the past few months have been too busy for leisure reading), so here are some of my recent reads!

Done:

Tehrangeles by Porochista Khakpour. While this was a satirical read, i was a bit confused at times at where the plot was going. A wealthy and disfunctional family starring in their own reality show, which ends up in secrets being dragged up and various shenanigans.

Why the Germans Do It Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country by John Kampfner. The title sums what the book is about. Having lived in Germany for some time I can agree with some of the points, but quite a lot was mostly from a German perspective, with some obvious biases.

Colored Television by Danzy Senna. The life of Jane, who's greatest dream is to finally publish the monster of the book she's been writing for several years, and to finally get that tenure and improve her family's life. However, things get a different turn and things go right, then they go wrong and so on. The plot was interesting, but it felt like it was setting up for this massive plot twist which never actually happened.

The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister. Where to even begin with this book. This is definitely one of those books that goes in a direction you never even thought existed. The Haddesley family of West Virginia have a "covenant" with the bog; they take care of it and offer a sacrifice in the form of the family patriarch when he's close to death, and the bog in turn sustains the family, and provides the oldest son with a "bog-wife" to produce heirs. Except this time something goes really wrong. It's not really the gothic horror that I expected, but it nonetheless has fantastic imagery and an interesting approach to complex themes.

Current:

Confucianism: The 4 Books and 5 classics. Rereading this again as I left it alone for several months.

To-read:

The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene (This book has been haunting me for almost a year now. One day I will finish it. But not today. The day I finish it I will throw a party to celebrate it)

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[barcarole]

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, dir. Jonas Mekas, 2000.

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[the-reverii]

@the-reverii

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cttos <33 pinterest

[uroko]

Enbaru River, Yamagata City, Japan // 癒しの自然風景 ♡

[uroko]

Heavy rain, Aichi, Japan // 癒しの自然風景 ♡

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[rihovski-ru]

Когда-то здесь кипела жизнь

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by Sam{Lightonthewater}

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It’s cool to not be totally healed from something 9 months later and it’s also cool to understand that you don’t really heal from anything you just live beyond it and find new happiness and it’s cool to grieve the loss of some sort of innocence you can’t quite name and it’s cool if you’re crying because I am too

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1.  / 2. / 3.  p.s. i still love you, jenny han / 4. the social network / 5. / 6. / 7. emma  / 8. / 9

[the-horologist]

“Tonight I can write (The Saddest Lines),” Pablo Neruda / frenchtoastlesbian / Hozier / “seven,” Taylor Swift / Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge

[erzfreu]

made a really big poster about whale falls for uni this semester. enjoy