Come graze my heart's tragic grasses.

𝑭𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒂𝒅? 𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒓.

[aqua-regia009]

La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1926) - Frank Cadogan Cowper

[wedarkacademia]

THE PARTHENON: former temple on the athenian acropolis, greece, dedicated to the patron goddess athena, (438 b.c.).

THE PANTHEON: former roman temple, the best-preserved building from ancient Rome (c. 125).

[liridi-deactivated20250617]

-jean little

[manly-sombero]

Easier to stay on the ground then it is to fly

Easier to say I can't then to try

Easier to not say hello than it is to say goodbye.

My wings, like iccarus were made of wax

I swore like Orpheus to not look back

I promised like Pandora I wouldn't open up

But like each of them, I melted, I turned

And tragedy emerged with me.

[poemsforpersephone]

december carves its way into my bones the same way that water breaks rock. it finds cracks in the skin. freezes. expands in the lungs. melts. restarts a process that leaves boulders broken open and me, a mess of winter pieces.

l.s. | you do not weather winter; winter weathers you © 2017 

[poemsforpersephone]

apollo drags the sun through the sky and icarus watches. today his feet are firm on the ground but he has always been weak to eyes that burn molten orange / skin so hot to touch it sets fingertips on fire. apollo drags the sun through the sky and icarus wants to follow. today his feet aren’t quite as firm / his body not so steady. weakness spreads like sticky honey on his tongue / it infects his lungs. every inhale burns his throat every exhale sounds like mourning. apollo drags the sun through the sky and icarus shrugs on wings, muscles already aching. apollo drags the sun through the sky and icarus rises / he can see apollo’s smile, already beaming, already burning. apollo drags the sun through the sky and icarus falls in love.

ICARUS FALLS IN LOVE, NOT INTO THE OCEAN // l.s.

[poemsforpersephone]

i like girls who resemble the sun; burning, brilliant, blinding, if you look for too long. the kind of light that lingers on your eyelids. i like girls who remind me of moonlight; who have a way of lighting the dark spaces in my mind on cold nights, when dawn seems like a distant dream. i like girls who personify the ocean; wild laughter and wide eyes, salt slick skin, arms raised as they sway as one with the waves, tide drunk and dizzy with the scent of the sea. i like girls who embody the earth; who ground with a touch. who fight off lightning and kiss like how rain tastes on your tongue when you open your mouth to the sky.

l.s. | i like girls © 2017

[poemsforpersephone]

i have loved you the length and strength of a thunderstorm- that is to say, not for very long, but with enough power that one misplaced bolt of lightning would be enough to cause death.

l.s. | thunder and lightning and love © 2018 

[p2ep]

your tumblr avatar is who you are on the outside, and your discord avatar is your true self

[westindianheaux]

requested list of recommended books

Women, Race and Class - Angela Davis

We real cool: black men and masculinity - bell hooks

Wind up bird chronicle - Haruki Murakami

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander and Cornel West

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to Present - Harriet Washington

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

The autobiography of Malcolm X

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth - Warsan Shire

This is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz

I Will Teach You to be Rich - Ramit Sethi

The $100 Start Up: Reinvent the way you make a living, do what you love and create a new future - Chris Guillebeau

Beloved - Toni Morrison

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King

The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz

Sisters of the Yam: Black Women & Self-recovery - bell hooks

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling MenT

Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself (Further reading has both of us recommending take this book with a grain of salt) 

Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type

 Positive Discipline

How to Spot a Dangerous Man Before You Get Involved

Why Is He So Mean To Me? (2nd Edition

The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind - and Keep - Love

The 16 Personality Types: Profiles, Theory, & Type Development

. The Highly Sensitive Person

 Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)

 Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism

. Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

Assata: An Autobiography

Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles

 Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - A Biomythography (Crossing Press Feminist Series)

Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth

Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder

Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy (Fully Revised and Updated Fourth Edition)

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

 The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

 Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality By Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jethá

Learning All The Time

 The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition

Some other recent books…

41. Malignant Self Love

42. Non-violent communication 

43. The Power of Now

44. Men Who Hate Women And The Women Who Love Them

45. The Complete Book Of Home Organization

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[westindianheaux]

for the anon who asked me this morning.

now BOOKMARK IT cause i searched for a while LOL.

[pushatwashington-deactivated202]

Bringing this back for myself and others.

[sunsetpinks-deactivated20220109]

“You don’t meet the people you love, you recognize them.”

― Anna Gavalda, “Life, Only Better” , trans. Tina Kover

“You and I know each other in our bones”

― Kurt Vonnegut, from a letter to Nanny Vonnegut 

“but everyone had this patina

  of slightly bruised longing, this shimmer of

  I think I knew you when we were children,

  this look of I’ve loved you ever since you

were born

  and probably longer than that”

― Paul Hostovsky, from “Everyone was Beautiful,” Dear Truth (Main Street Rag, 2009)

“He’s been here in my heart before I even knew him. Understand? He’s always been here. Always.”

― Sandra Cisneros , from Woman at Hollering Creek: Stories; “Never Marry a Mexican,”

“You came into my life–not as one comes to visit…but as one comes to a kingdom where all the rivers have been waiting for your reflection, all the roads, for your steps…”

— Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to Véra Slonim (1923), Letters to Véra

“I love you. I feel as though we were never strangers, you and I, not even for a moment.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, from a letter to Mathilde Trampedach

“Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.”

— Robert Brault

“Here when I say “I never want to be without you,”

somewhere else I am saying

“I never want to be without you again.” And when I touch you

in each of the places we meet in all of the lives we are,

it’s with hands that are dying and resurrected.

When I don’t touch you it’s a mistake in any life,

in each place and forever.

— Bob Hicok, Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally a Love Poem

“She said that she had been searching for my eyes in the crowd because she felt as if she were talking to my heart.”

— Audre Lorde, from “Zami: A New Spelling of my Name,” published c. 1982

“Who knows? perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening…”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from You who never arrived (tr. by Stephen Mitchell); Uncollected Poems: 1913–1918

[ancientsstudies]

Castle Howard. x

[quotemadness]

“Grab your coat, leave a note, and run away with me.”

— William Chapman

[ibroughtyoumybullets]

i can domesticate him

[ovenroastedtwerkey]

-some ancient Egyptian staring at a cat, circa 7500BC

[ganymedecatamitus]

- Some ancient cat staring at an Egyptian, circa 7500 BC

[seojunies-moved]

The Suicide Squad (2021) dir. James Gunn

[greeksblog]

|Motzart|

|The magic flute|

[netleys-emporium]

The light academia is growing on me

[seabeck]

And into the woods I go, to lose my mind and find my soul