~ choco.chip.cream ~

BE NICE OR GO AWAY

[feral-ballad]

Yun Dong-Ju, tr. by Kyung-nyun Kim Richards & Steffen F. Richards, from Sky, Wind, and Stars; “Street Flowing”

[Text ID: “Let’s be happy and hold hands again some other morning”]

[feral-ballad]

Pedro Salinas, tr. by Ruth Katz Crispin, from Memory in My Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas; “The voice I owe to you”

[Text ID: “Only you can bring me / to you. That’s why I wait for you.”]

[feral-ballad]

Chong Hyon-Jong, tr. by U-Ch'ang Kim, from The Silence of Love: Twentieth-century Korean Poetry; “The Festival of Pain, I”

[Text ID: "When I see you, I become colors, I become void."]

[the-evil-clergyman]

The Swan Maiden, from Among Gnomes and Trolls No. 2 by John Bauer (1908)

[jung-koook]

their smile 🥺

[aidashakur]

[tear-dropp-deactivated20241031]

let’s go on late night drives listening to the songs you showed me

[hairstylesbeauty]

[tragic-saint-deactivated2021012]

i prefer not to feel anything

[yms1]

Tumblr still feels like my safe place after so many years

[wewanthappinessback-deactivated]

[fromeuropewithlove]

[ohdannyboyy]

[nyc-subway]

[feral-ballad]

Emily Skaja, from Brute: Poems; “Dear Katie”

[Text ID: “I was trying to starve myself out of / a feeling.”]

[feral-ballad]

Anonymous Geisha Songs, tr. by Kenneth Rexroth & Ikuko Atsumi, from Women Poets of Japan

[theborrowedbrilliancearchive]

"Do not be absent for too long, then come and ask how I am, details die with time and stories change."

— Mahmoud Darwish