no east, no west

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important

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If I’m wrong about you shoot me before telling me the truth 

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STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER

You say strong, you mean:

kick-ass

leather-clad

midriff bared like body amour

whippet-thin

manga-eyed

little girl-woman seeming fragile, vulnerable, weak when

– surprise! –

she is anything but.

I say strong, I mean:

like coffee

rich, complex

developed over time

a thousand different flavours

from a thousand different beans

savoured in all its forms

from double-shot-espresso

to frothy fulsome cream

coffee

not one thing to any one person.

You say strong, you mean:

invincible, unbreakable, impenetrable

polished steel

kicking it with the boys

just one of the boys

just another boy

just a boy

in a girl-suit

who by any other name would still smell

of testosterone.

I say strong, I mean:

a woman who breaks

allows herself to break

picks up the pieces

allows others to pick up the pieces

puts herself back together

with or without help

not the same way

never the same way

perspective cracks different each time

her steel is a chain

resilient

flexible

repurposed to suit each new place

each new person

each new way of being

herself.

You say strong, you mean:

independent

splendid in her isolation

cracking cynical

when beaten

looking good

when bleeding

secret trauma worn rigid in her spine

softened

only for the most deserving

that special someone

just a little bit taller, broader, worthier

than her.

I say strong, I mean:

like equations

unfalsifiable

their validity autonomous of approval

mathematical engines

that will drive the world

if ever the world will let them.

I say strong.

Are you listening?

                                                              Kirstyn McDermott

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Girls like head, too (and weed) 😏

[noeastnowest]

water falling through open fingers

closed for a very long time

life’s floodgates

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The perfect sight

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What Love Cannot Do

by January Gill O'Neil

It cannot save itself when it expires

like a tire’s slow leak. It cannot bring back

the greediness of youth

                                          mouth on mouth,

                                          skin on skin, that gnawing,

                                          that longing you carried

until the next time

and then there is no next time.

You never see it coming but always see it leaving.

It waits by the door, bags packed,

full of stones from your life.

                                          What it can do is mark

the distance between Point A and Point B,

which feels like a galaxy,

                                          every star you ever wished upon

                                          imploding before your eyes.

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states of puddles and water features

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"To the New Year" by WS Merwin With what stillness at last you appear in the valley your first sunlight reaching down to touch the tips of a few high leaves that do not stir as though they had not noticed and did not know you at all then the voice of a dove calls from far away in itself to the hush of the morning so this is the sound of you here and now whether or not anyone hears it this is where we have come with our age our knowledge such as it is and our hopes such as they are invisible before us untouched and still possible

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Traducir

I adore lighting your light Until we’re in some Spring So many leagues after hell You’re outside of me, but You boil this delicate body I dream naked What a rose-colored moment.

[noeastnowest]

lvh original

[noeastnowest]

It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days… Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me… So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling… - Aldous Huxley

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hallowhatthefuck

[noeastnowest]

An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.

Goi Nasu

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