[expressions-of-nature]

Spring Sunset in Switzerland by Nikolai Matveev

[mournfulroses]

Charles Baudelaire, from a letter to Caroline Aupick featured in The Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire

[starsfromanothersky]

Dharmendra and Sharmila Tagore in Anupama, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, 1966

[mockingjay80-deactivated2020122]

[amadryades]

[nahinsamne]

Charulata (1964)

[nahinsamne]

Laapataa Ladies (2024) dir. Kiran Rao

[pollen]

Czeslaw Milosz, from "Ars Poetica?"

[honeyandelixir]

“Being alive in the world means being found by that world and sometimes touched to the core in ways we would rather not experience. Growing with our bodies, all of us find ourselves at one time violated or wounded by this world in difficult ways, and still we live and breathe in this touchable, sensual world, and through trauma, through grief, through recovery, we heal in order to be touched again in the right way, as the physical consecration of a mutual, trusted invitation.” Excerpt From ‘Consolations’ by David Whyte

[honeyandelixir]

وقتيكه باد

كاكل دوشيزه بيد را

بر روی شانه های ترش ناز ميدهد

درمن جوانيی

از كوتلی تمام زمستان تمام برف

سوی بهار و باغچه آغاز ميشود

دستان باد

از كاكل خيالی دوشيزه كم مباد

عاصی *

When the breeze 

caresses the tresses of the weeping willow 

On its wet shoulders,

A seed awakens in me

The snowy mountains, covered in magnanimous snow,

Begin to move towards spring & warmth

May the hands of breeze

Never cease to caress the willow’s tresses

[honeyandelixir]

حُسنت به اتفاقِ ملاحت، جهان گرفت

Your beauty coalescing with elegance, conquered the world

Hafez

[petaltexturedskies]

Mary Oliver, from "Poem" in Dream Work: Poems

[nizariat]

With seven pillows filled with light cloud, wait for her

بسبعِ وسائدَ مَحْشُوَّةٍ بالسحابِ الخفيفِ اُنتظرها

With womanly incense filling the place, wait for her

بنار البَخُور النسائيِّ ملءَ المكانِ اُنتظرها

With manly sandalwood scent about the backs of horses, wait for her

برائحة الصَنْدَلِ الذَكَريَّةِ حول ظُهُور الخيولِ اُنتظرها ,

And don't lose patience, if she comes late, wait for her

ولا تتعجَّلْ , فإن أقبلَتْ بعد موعدها فانتظرها,

And if she comes too early, wait for her

وإن أقبلتْ قبل موعدها فانتظرها ,

Don't scare the birds sat on her braids, and wait for her

ولا تُجْفِل الطيرَ فوق جدائلها وانتظرها ,

So she can sit comfortably, like a garden in its beauty's pinnacle, and wait for her

لتجلس مرتاحةً كالحديقة في أَوْج زِينَتها وانتظرها ,

So she can breathe in this air, stranger to her heart, and wait for her

لكي تتنفَّسَ هذا الهواء الغريبَ على قلبها وانتظرها ,

Mahmoud Darwish, "A Lesson from Kamasutra"

[lifeinpoetry]

To you the beautiful To you who rise glowingly To you who still remain When I cannot send my regards what can I do

— Kim Hyesoon, from "That Place 5," The Hell of That Star, tr. Cindy Juyoung Ok

[romancegifs]

PRINCESS MONONOKE • もののけ姫 1997 — dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[doitlikeachic]

Lunch in Tajikistan.

[honeyandelixir]

In the stillness of the night, the home laments, but you could not hear

My heart fell to its knees,

I prayed, after you, I no longer want to know..

My beloved, I am estranged without you...

[honeyandelixir]

اندر این کوچه ی تاریک دلم روزنی هست که در آن نقش تو را می بینم

Inside this dark alley that is my heart

A tiny window exists

Through which,

I get a glimpse of your silhouette...

خسرو نکونام