[eternalsappho]

a tear slips

up your face 

into your left eye 

and you blink. 

it’s gone

⠀

and i know we both

would go back and undo 

everything

if only we could.

[antoniettabrandeisova]

Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, View from the Lawn, with Figures in Sunlight and Shade, c. 1944. Arthur Spooner

[fordarkmornings]

Joan Marti Aragonés  -  Haciendo la manicura hotel de San Francisco 

Spanish, 1936-2009 

Oil on canvas

[artfoli]

A Thorn Amidst the Roses, 1887, by James Sant (1820-1916)

[fordarkmornings]

Vicente Romero Redondo (Spanish, b. 1956). Pastel on paper. 

[eternalsappho]

yesterday,

when the wind carried

the scent of your home

i closed my eyes

and thought;

this is it

this is what happiness feels like

[eternalsappho]

her hand shot upwards

her eyes filled with tears

& she hadn’t been hugged

in so many years

but there was her daughter

at 6 feet apart

and being conscientious

was suddenly hard

[eternalsappho]

when she saw the tremble

in her mother’s strong chin

the winds took her caution

said, please come in

although we know better

and you’re old and grey

i want you to hug me

i want you to stay.

[eternalsappho]

her hand shot upwards

her eyes filled with tears

& she hadn’t been hugged

in so many years

but there was her daughter

at 6 feet apart

and being conscientious

was suddenly hard

[leselfov]

Multnomah Falls by Albert Bierstadt

[eternalsappho]

warmed by the fire in her eyes 

i rest my weary limbs 

on the mossy forest floor and think; 

i am the soft earth 

i am the gentle breeze 

i am the sunlight and i am

the people bathing in it

and i will forever

be whole 

[eternalsappho]

what does the future hold? they ask

i say, it holds me

it holds me in its solid arms

so let me find myself in moments past

let me love my breath

until my last

let me be narcissus

for as long as i grow

[paintingsdaily]

Miguel Carbonell Selva ‘Sappho’ 1881

[eternalsappho]

is safe better than sorry?

i asked my friends, they nodded

let me get it, i said

i am young

i can do anything

let me get it

like icarus, i did not know my

life was a story and

i did not know

the malice of the gods

but i should have known

that hubris always

precedes the fall.

[genterie]

Pino Daeni “Desire”

[eternalsappho]

o flower, my flower

i watered your seeds

i bathed you in sunlight

and pulled all the weeds

but winter came early

and life isn’t fair

you withered too quickly

and left me no air

[midnight-summerx]

Henry Ryland

[eternalsappho]

i don’t believe in real feelings

because fake ones don’t exist

of course, they don’t make sense to you

but tell me

have emotions ever listened to reason?