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Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
This is a piece of spoken word composed about the innateness of misogyny. How for centuries it has ran rampant and untamed in our hearts and minds, changing the way we think, structuring our behaviours, punishing our minds for stepping out of line. Are we condemned to live under a constructed pretence for eternity?
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Ptah.
Ancient being,
Patron of the craftsmen,
Representing the workers
Who built the foundations of a city
Or the pillars on a grecian porch.
The weaver of wiles,
upholders of creation,
The Cherubims and the acolytes,
Who are servants to a Lord-
A deeply penetrative being who is
embedded thrice into their core.
Masters of craft
They wield their hammers
Guided by innate desires
To forge a man-made dream.
And so it begins.
Bearing youth in their arms,
She is thrown into the kiln to shape her mortal clay,
The blaze roars with haunted screams.
And Mount Sinai sings from the hallowed flames.
Hell-born child,
memphian olive or beige,
Made in likeness of a collectively wished upon Ivory maid.
A mosaic and frightening chimaera.
Encased in a tender prison.
Beneath her film of flesh,
The cursed things inside her grew
Fostering in the silence,
Blisters of sin.
The leper will lose her colour,
And grow unappealing pockets of pus,
The workers will be beckoned back
by the wrath of desire.
Stone altar, iron anvil, Violent clangs,
His immortal finger strook,
Layer and layer, foreheads of sweat.
Sweet desire will ascend the blaze.
She is brought out once more,
moulded to his touch.
Now cold and rounded stone,
Entangled in a forged reality.
In the centre of town she will go,
Offerings, sacrifices and endless prayer.
Frozen in a prison of physicality.
The lack of identity she cannot bear.
Time wavers,
cracks begin to form,
Liquid notes seep out
with sonorous force.
A Thousand echoes escape
And ride the melodious wave.
Listen
Listen for the solemn sweet pipes
The wheezing of her aching organ,
Restless keys pressed down inside her soul
Barbaric yawps and guttural screams
Sounds sourced from the depths of the wild.
Beats of breath, syllables of her chest
Underscore the rhythm of a future hell born child.
Outside there is only silence.
Time wavers and her Sufferance will wilt.
Withering in the soil, scathing the forest oaks.
The ivory maid still stands,
Limbs broken and others fallen off.
An Odd muse of time.
Symbol of mankind;
Flesh daughters fear the statue with no name.
They know the basket that carries fruit,
But not the tender aches held within her frame.
She stands over the girls in withered glory,
The infernal serpent seeps from the cracks of stone
the girls are a solemn feast
A banquet ripe with immortality,
Flesh daughters and fresh slaughters,
Bearing the state of innocence
A worker's touch is inevitable,
They ride malleable waves.
The daughters are consumed by inevitability.
Wild animal turned on a spit,
Struck from mouth to anus,
Roasting, served in severed parts.
Spit strings of gluttony,
A foul odour from the mouth,
Overwhelming accords of greed,
It’s an Insatiable hunger, an unmoving void.
The ultimate talisman of humanity,
A continual state,
Perpetual incapacity.
A vacuum.
Look back.
Siphon through the tide of history,
open your eyes in the darkness,
experience the void.
Feel the silence, know its stillness
Kiss it, touch it, hear it sing,
Let the expressive notes ring
Keep your eyes open.
The void will show you the truth.
Its darkness will multiply,
Kaleidoscopic vision
Lifetimes and decades will reveal themself
Let the experiences embody you,
Merge beings,
Dissipate.
Share the burden and know the stories
Renaissance middle age or enlightened,
Enter their bodies
Feel the pressure of sin
The weight of sufferance
Your spine will bend.
Let it break
Be torn in two,
Unfix yourself from what is set
Tender mitosis,
Dissolve.
Lose the fragments,
Velvet night,
And pile into ash.
Collect yourself in handfuls
Fall through the cracks
There is no wind in the immovable darkness.
It is only still.
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Morning bird,
Fragments of the velvet night,
Gentleness of the seasons,
A voyage into the ocean,
Submerged in all that is sublime;
The salt stings.
Morning bird,
Sing for us,
Call to the tenderness of the world,
Read us your tender sonnet.
So the skylarks will sing,
And the doves will fly.
Feathers of sunlight,
Framed by the wind,
Grant me pilgrimage
And Godspeed,
Into the vastness of your mind
Let the travellers discover
The poet's home in your heart,
Volumes worthy to be read.
Morning bird,
Fly.
At all hours,
Split the heaviness that consumes,
Startle the sad salt air with the whir of your wings,
Allow the warmth inside you to spread.
Morning bird,
Sit upon a ledge.
Dig your claws into the soul of an aged branch,
Look out to the world.
Feel the sunlight pool in your heart.
Autumn
Autumn has no distance.
Autumn is pouring rain,
Overflowing the gutters.
Autumn is the hotness of April disappearing behind the blades of grass while May presents itself in the soft bellows and hallowed screams of the Autumn wind,
They say that Autumn is the season of the soul, not of nature.
Sometimes I hear it, the soul. In the crunch of leaves, the crash of waves, in the memories that I’ve lost. I hear them, come from the forgotten, banging on my door in the middle of the night.
Sometimes I see it, in unusual patches of sunlight, swallowing one part of the path but only that one.
Sometimes I smell it, the crumbs of wheat and summer sprawled along the floor.
Sometimes I feel it, sun-soaked, numb and famished.
In these moments, when I am made aware of the Autumn soul, Autumn lasts forever.
When the summer days fade,
And the leaves turn dry,
let us breathe for a while.
Let the wind carry our breath and with it our souls.
It has no distance,
No finish line.
Instead, let the honey-soaked patch of sunlight warm you on the inside and it's buzzing bees light you up.
Let them make their white combs and sweet honey out of your blooming conscience.
The soul of Autumn is here forever,
You just have to know where to look for it.
March is hot - March is breathing hazel green distractions and once again I am wading through knee length blades of grass and feeling the sting of salt water in the cuts on my knees from grass ever so dry.
So dry it cuts, and I am left growing bleeding and strong with an April like longing.
Summer is clementine crushes and sticky hot sun drunk sweltering laughter
God is dead.
God is dead.
I killed Him with my bare hands, or maybe it was with a stake. Perhaps nails.
The details evade me,
but the image of His body laying with the dust do not.
It fills my mind and my dreams - a constant reminder that He is no more than the dust on his feet, or the worms passing through the soil.
The ribs that he made broke through my skin, it pierced through every layer - His own creation was folding in on itself.
If my God is dead - then I’ll die with it.
Without my God there is no religion,
there are no rituals,
there is no room in my mind for the birth of thoughts that weren’t devotion,
no room in my mouth for theme of my tongue to be of anything else
no room in my veins for a liveliness that wasn’t predicated on the will of my God
Maybe in my death I’ll feel my spine
and the way it bends
when I am carried to my grave,
or the way it curves, succumbing to the pressure of dirt
However it may move, I hope I’ll die knowing it wouldn’t break.
the vocabulary of loss is the dictionary
— Sylvia Plath, "The Bell Jar"
Who I was and who I am are inseparable; I am my own life’s Frankenstein, stitched together by an inexplicable understanding of life and death. I cradle this understanding in my heart like a soft animal, still shaking with grief. Its desperation seeps into my empty soul, a desperate attempt or longing for an explanation - a feeling that welcomes itself in me all too familiarly
- stories i hope to never finish
She was warm,
like a summer leaf.
Where she was, it was only this stillness,
fields of solitude accompanied by
a single black locust tree;
dripping sap and
honey intertwined at touch
and soul.
…our humanness is the ultimate talisman, and ultimate state of perfection as it is our one core resonance that allows the unalikeness present in each and every one of us to grow, and to live, and to embrace the inalienable proportionality of life in all its forms.
For old times sake is actually such a heartbreaking and beautiful sentiment. Like, let’s do it for the love that used to be here. It is reason enough.
a girl does start to feel optimistic in a patch of sun
bridget o’bernstein, “how to be a body” + franz kafka, letters to milena