Ay, forsooth

Poetry blog primarily. There are over two thousand poems on here from around the world, so search by name or nationality, e.g. 'american poetry', 'french poetry', and so on. My views will be unpopular to everyone, but I don't care. “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire

[allthingseurope]

Bad Gastein. Austria 

[radical-revolution]

"Happy Easter"

Be well, happy and free from suffering.

[filmografie]

“What do you believe in?” Decision Before Dawn (1951), dir. Anatole Litvak

[jaded-mandarin]

 Frederic Edwin Church. Detail from Aurora Borealis, 1865.

[seek-the-truth-be-the-truth]

[forsoothsayer]

[fotojournalismus]

Flower vendor at Dal Lake, Kashmir, 1999.

Photo by Steve McCurry

[pollyj]

Thousands of Hazara, minority Shiite Muslims, gather in Daykundi Province to mark Nowruz, the first day of spring. Nowruz is celebrated in Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia, but Sunni extremists deem the ancient Persian holiday un-Islamic. The Taliban regime banned it, and terrorists have bombed celebrations. 

Kiana Hayeri 

[eclectic-tidalwave]

Nowruz comes from the Zoroastrian religion, which is one of the worlds oldest. Prior to Christianity, the Caucasus (Northern West Asia) predominately followed and affiliated itself with Zoroastrianism as well. Elements of it have been carried into the present-day. For Armenians, the purification practice of jumping over fire has now been transformed into what we call Trndez.

[everyguysdirtymind]

Bogliasco. Italia

[ohk4te]

“Feeling listened to and understood changes our physiology; being able to articulate a complex feeling, and having our feelings recognized, lights up our limbic brain and creates an “aha moment”. In contrast, being met by silence and incomprehension kills the spirit. Or, as John Bowlby so memorably put it: “What can not be spoken to the [m]other cannot be told to the self.””

— Bessel Van Der Kolk, “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma (via extra-garlic)

[aoironokioku]

[arsvitaest-deactivated20260111]

Still Life with Flowers, Pears and Tea Cup, ca. 1908, autochrome Attributed to Franz Kaiser

[reality-detective]

The new normal... Brought to you by - Pfizer!

[hollywoodlady]

James Dean at a gas station with his silver Porsche 550 Spyder he named Little Bastard, just hours before his fatal crash, 1955.

[anamorphosis-and-isolate]

― Carrie Pilby (2016) Tara: Nobody likes anybody for who they are. That’s why we have to pretendto be better than who we are and then let people find out the truth later once they’ve already invested.

[entheognosis]

[staakenau]

Spring sends its first messengers into the country. Flowering sloe. • Le printemps envoie ses premiers messagers dans le pays. Prunelle fleurie. • Der Frühling schickt seine ersten Boten ins Land. Blühende Schlehe.