talking backwards

am i making any sense to you?

[dourface]

Snippet from “The Concept of Time Among the Mangyans” by Dutch anthropologist Antoon Postma. The Mangyans are an indigenous group in the Philippines who rely on the moon to tell and measure time.

[fairycosmos]

i feel like ive missed out on so much in life. i wish i had been born different. there’s so much grief in this feeling

[leonardcohenofficial]

“The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It’s useful because it addresses the heart in the midst of all these activities, and it will always be useful in this very important way.”

— Leonard Cohen in a 1985 interview

[sorrrowfull]

[flowerytale]

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

[kristina100000]

i fade...................... into you

[frecht]

the penguin logo on angela carter’s books (heroes and villains, saints and strangers, fireworks, the bloody chamber)

[brandneweyescd]

they were right btw. you have to dig yourself out of your grave over and over again

[choysum]

Anne Boyer

[ishowdespair-deactivated2026012]

[vyva-melinkolya]

[metamorphesque]

i'm all the people i've ever loved

loseness lines over time by olivia de recat, @i-wrotethisforme, Kaveh Akbar, Olivie Blake

[vacuiterror]

can i please stop cycling through emotions like a hamster on cocaine

[rotvn]

no one appreciates that i could be a million times worse

[metamorphesque]

💌 poems for the month of love 💌

Having a Coke with You by Frank O’Hara

The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel

Wait For Me by Konstantin Simonov (tr. by Mike Munford)

A Kiss on the Forehead by Marina Tsvetaeva

Love by Joseph Brodsky

Your Unripe Love by Paruyr Sevak (from “Anthology of Armenian poetry")

Love poem by Tishani Doshi 

Maybe Under Some Other Sky by Willie Perdomo

Warming Her Pearls by Carol Ann Duffy

Ich finde dich (I find you) by Rainer Maria Rilke

Where does such tenderness come from? by Marina Tsvetaeva

I Loved You by Alexander Pushkin

Like a Small Café, That’s Love by Mahmoud Darwish (translated by Mohammad Shaheen)

Our Story by William Stafford

The Kiss by Sara Teasdale

[metamorphesque]

from Valentine's Day Love Sonnets to C. S. Lewis by Joy Davidman

You are the light of the world by Husik Ara

If you're leaving… by Paruyr Sevak

You by Paruyr Sevak

One of Those Kisses by Viggo Mortensen

Unending Love by Rabindranath Tagore

and Love said... by Husik Ara

Love by Paruyr Sevak

Impossible by Mher Arshakyan

I shall come to you by Vahan Teryan

Tenderer than tender by Osip Mandelstam

On Loving by Forough Farrokhzad

Time of love by Claribel Alegria

Love by Bob Hico

[existentialyearning]

- Mandeq Ahmed, 'Ocean of Tears'

[rosechata]

summer storms, switzerland

[qsfocus]