A Temple of orchids and bones

In the space between moments I see you. Haunted by your woes and fears, perhaps by musings of universes beyond, perhaps by the dream of my lips, you seemed rooted in the ground. Are you a specter? A man of mist and memory? If I reached out a hesitant hand would you drift through my fingers? Or if I grasped you with violent need would you solidify? In this world where orchids and bones are equally real, an undecided woman can lose or gain a world. A second is all it takes to unmake a reality. A blink of an eye. Galaxies are created in milliseconds. Will you step forward to meet me? In this world of orchids and bone anything is possible…

[eliminated]

[openblogtomyabusivemother]

[thepersonalquotes]

[thepersonalwords]

“““Does it hurt?“ asked the Rabbit. “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”” - Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit”

—

[rustic-bones]

[quotefeeling]

“Distance doesn’t separate people. Silence does.”

— Jeff Hood

[especially]

[recaption]

[understands]

[understands]

[curseofmxcbeth]

The aesthetic

Victorian architecture, dark wood, knit scarves, hardcover books, oil paintings, vintage sheet music, dusty chandeliers, dark poetry, large libraries,  antique bookstores, intense eye contact, lipstick marks on cups of coffee, trench coats, running through the rain.

[tsuronhema-deactivated20250213]

"Beauty does not belong to a single, privileged race, I have promoted throughout the world of art the idea that beauty is everywhere. Every race has its own beauty, which differs from that of others. The most beautiful black person is not the one who looks most like us."- Charles Cordier

[hiest-moved-deactivated20190716]

have y’all seen that nasa pic of the earth with the sun behind it on the night time side it really really fucked me up my own soul became solid and like………….. weeped!

[hiest-moved-deactivated20190716]

who wouldn’t see this and then look deeply into their own emotional playing field to see what improvements could be made purely inspired by the vulnerable earth. this is the face of all literal gods

[greycloudsandlinings]

That’s actually called the Overview Effect- something experienced by some astronauts that makes them see that “from space, national boundaries vanish, the conflicts that divide people become less important, and the need to create a planetary society with the united will to protect this “pale blue dot” becomes both obvious and imperative”.

[memecology]

And a 2020 study showed how the overview effect turns observers (astronauts) into environmentalists

[neithy]

Inktober challenge 2018

Day 13 : Héra

Day 14 : Andromeda

Day 15 : Persephone

[kaitlily1973]

Shamed

By Katie Holsinger

Where once you stood is an empty spot

A place displaced within my heart.

How convenient memories grow faint

So that heartbreak tasted on my lips

As a rim of salt from lies told in the dark.

The you shape that once lay in my bed

Beneath the sheets and deep in my hollows

I’ve filled with the smoke and mist and ephemera of youth gone sour.

For time ticks on, a burgeoning forward motion

With no pity or shame in rolling over those

Who cradle wounds to their chests like treasure

I am such.

For love spilt on infertile ground,

Just a wasted fantasy of hope, can never be plucked back up...

It just spills through hands that suddenly quake with awful freedom

Solitary as a leaf blown from its tree.

Too ashamed to call myself a fool

I try not to hear you call my name

All that was is gone,

Today I have known what you leave in your wake.

I’ll have no more tears.

[recaption]

[compulsive]