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i went out to meet you; the universe smelled of clover, of a star opened in the dew. who are you, and why are you singing so intimately, so uselessly precise?

[petaltexturedskies]

To everyone carrying a heavy heart in silence, it’s gonna be okay, someday.

[slfcare]

after it has been new, scary and uncomfortable, it’s going to be okay. isn’t that what we’re doing it for?

[polespullspolls]

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[engulfes]

Dreaming of childhood and summer and lemonade and grass with daisies in it and running through sprinklers and devouring books in an afternoon and trying to swing high enough to fly

[fromhersoul]

[fromhersoul]

[fromhersoul]

Erin Vest: All The Horses Of Iceland

[fromhersoul]

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

— Czeslaw Milosz, Tr. Robert Haas, from “Late Ripeness”, Second Space: New Poems

[pollen]

Czeslaw Milosz, from "A Magic Mountain"

[coffee-quotes]

—Czesław Miłosz, "1913" from New & Collected Poems

[oldwinesoul]

A life unendurable but it was endured.

// Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001

[askyea-poesy]

Who will I be when I wake after enduring?

Czeslaw Milosz

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

There’s something so uniquely terrifying about memory issues. I feel like my self is slipping away from me.

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

Here’s the thing I feel like a lot of folks don’t get: I’m not trying to forget what you said. Honestly, I really tried not to. I can’t control what I do and don’t remember—forgetting things just happens. It’s annoying for you, I know, but for me it’s distressing as hell and when you make a big deal out of it rather than just reminding me you make me feel ashamed. I’ll remember that, at least.

It costs you nothing to be kind to people with memory problems. Please. It’s scary enough without people treating memory lapses as a personal failing.

[neareststar]

I feel this. I feel like I'm slipping away from myself. When I forget the only password I need to remember (the one to my password manager). When I forget conversations that I've had with people. When I forget whole memories and my loved ones are left telling me, I was with you remember we've seen this show twice before? It's distressing, and so I try to document as much as possible. In my journal. On my calendar. Through photos.

[mirethos]

[mournfulroses]

Ada Limón, from "Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry," originally published in April 2026

[petaltexturedskies]

Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden