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[xwezi]

By Dutch-Egyptian artist Roeqiya Fris

[angelicalmentenegra-deactivated]

[wildestlovers]

[lezzginka]

curly hair is so.. . romantic

[whisperthatruns]

“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”

— Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading    

[kxowledge]

autumn-inspired moodboard for @dianadeclairmont

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.”

— Albert Einstein

[soracities]

“Passion generated from passion. A rain that didn’t stop. A fire that couldn’t be put out. A body without end. A desire that lit up the bones and the darkness. We didn’t sleep except to be awakened by the thirst of salt for honey and the smell of slightly burned coffee, roasting over burning marble. Cold and hot was this night. Hot and cold was that moaning.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982

[roohfully]

ummm just to be clear i despise rupi kaur n her contemporaries and their absolute corruption of 21st century poetry and that’s that on that!! everyone is losing out on avant-garde writing, writing that blends modernism and the heart, writing that is present, and it is unfortunate and even tragic that the mass is being fed generic platitudes and i hate it!!!!!!!!!!!!

[roohfully]

to be clear again i have no arguments against their awful white screenshots that they curate minimalistically on instagram or how they retweet their soulless aphorisms over and over again as that is free consumption so who actually cares?? but once they begin selling books with 3 line 10 word total mental hiccups masquerading as poems that is when i have a problem bc they are a) ripping people off and b) taking the limelight away from actual poets who contribute something to the studying of the self

[roohfully]

this criticism does not merely extend to original writers either, it is also applicable to translation. like ummm coleman barks??? those translations of rumi are easy to swallow and i commend them for that, but at best they are full of effort and nice to skim and at worst soulless and cold. you can’t remove god from religious poetry like ………………… but as barks has intelligently perceived, doing so allows for mass consumption by the west soooo. still, at least these translations shed light on an older poet for the populace and barks is upfront about how he does his translations (i.e. doesn’t proclaim to be a deep, melancholic poet blah blah) so i’ll let him and his translations go for that reason alone

[gulistaan]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/chiaragiovanni/the-problem-with-rupi-kaurs-poetry

- you might find this bit about the Gurmukhi interesting:

“Kaur meticulously works to present a different face to each market: On her website, she states that she writes in exclusively lowercase using only periods to pay homage to her mother tongue, Punjabi. But in a January 2015 interview with the mainstream feminist website HelloGiggles, she gives her love of “branding,” “visual experience,” and symmetry as the reason for her stylistic choice, with no mention of her mother tongue or the Gurmukhi script. It is a watered-down version of her explanation on her website, and one designed specifically with a white audience in mind. A love of symmetry is, after all, easier to identify with than a loyalty to a specific South Asian script.“

[pairedaeza]

“कभी कभी शाम ऐसे ढलती है के जैसे घूँघट उतर रहा है kabhi kabhi shaam aise dhalti hai ke jaise ghoonghat utar raha hai sometimes the evening shivers into the night like the slow flutter of a veil”

— Gulzar, from ‘Zeehal-E-Muskin’. Translation mine.

[lagoonhag]

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

[comradeorangutan]

being a woman is like you have too many eyes and too many voices and none of them are yours

[dspallas]

Marpessa by Ferdinando Scianna

[flowerais-deactivated20211031]

enchanting things

- the reflection of sunlight on the ocean - feeling like you’re in a movie when you’re happy and having adventures - seeing a beautiful stranger - looking into someone’s eyes - stargazing and talking about life - the color palette of the early evening - feeling like you’re in a dream with someone and everything feels perfect

[puppetwithapistol-deactivated20]

[pbs-r]

I feel like interpersonal jobs are so underrated. Speaking kindly with people in addition to doing some type of task.. like bike mechanics that communicate individually to each person what’s going in with their bike so that they can easily understand. Checking to see that the person is learning and absorbing the information like how a teacher would…

Tonight at free yoga there was this assistant to the teacher that went around the room always putting his hands on people and giving them gentle realignments .. the level of careful energy it takes to merely touch another person in a helpful and grounding way is unreal!

People that give manicures and are touching you too. Even a receptionist that can speak smoothly and calmly to impart a feeling of calm on people waiting for nervous appointments. Like every single person that works at Planned Parenthood that consciously works to make sure all of their movements and expressions are done in a protective , caring way …

That is so cool and also so much energy I am in awe that people can do that every day and try to project feelings of goodness unto others…

[filmaticbby]

Before Summer Ends (2017) dir. Maryam Goormaghtigh

[aoca]