[metamorphesque]

Walking with the Wind, Abbas Kiarostami (translated by Michael Beard)

[seaymphea-deactivated20190709]

“A tiny moon as small and white as a single jasmine flower / Leans all alone above my window,”

— D.H. Lawrence, from Selected Poems; “A White Blossom”

[muhtesemz]

“I ask God to forgive my lack of sincerity while I repent.”

— Umm Rabi’a al-Shamiyyah, Siyar a’lam an-Nubala (via aboonoor)

[divaneee-deactivated20160604]

A Lonely Man at the Banks of the Barada River, Damascus, Syria, 1890

[veiligplekje]

Het Beekbergerwoud, the Netherlands

[diaphanousblack]

A photo my dad, who was studying in Amman at the time, sent to my mom in Iraq. On the back he wrote: “I’m sending this picture to be with you, but I wish it were me instead” (January 1983 - a year before they were engaged).

[themusingmuslim]

[Source: Hisnul Muslim (Fortification of the Muslim)]

[adrasteiax]

“There is a thing in me that dreamed of trees, A quiet house, some green and modest acres (…) I would have time, I thought, and time to spare, With only streams and birds for company, To build out of my life a few wild stanzas.”

— Mary Oliver, from A Dream Of Trees in “New And Selected Poems: Volume One”

[cileekk]

[yesterdaysprint]

The Minneapolis Star, Minnesota, May 15, 1934

[weltenwellen]

Anaïs Nin, Fire: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1937

[finita--la--commedia]

“I would split open my heart with a knife, place you within and seal my wound, that you might dwell there and never inhabit another …”

— Ibn Hazm (Córdoba, 994–Niebla, 1064),  from “My Heart”, translated from the Arabic by Ammiel Alcalay in: “Poems for the Millenium. Book of North African Literature”, edited by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour

[aristotlemencloza]

Grief is just love with no place to go.

– unknown // Art piece by Ikenaga Yasunari

[feral-ballad]

Zhang Jiuling, ed. by Jane Portal, from Chinese Love Poetry; “Looking at the moon and longing for a distant lover”

[wiltsea]

“Like petals of light fallen from the moon,”

— Sara Teasdale, from “Old Tunes” (via niimph)

[growaglow]

[aminck]