"She's eating roses on toast with tulip butter"

Praying for her mirror to stay young; On its no longer gilted surface This message she has scrawled: ‘O somewhere between Heaven and Woolworth’s I live I love I scold I keep kingfishers in their cages And goldfish in their bowls.’ (Brian Patten)

[through-a-historic-lens]

Ambrotype of a girl from c. 1855

[xanaxfarts]

Unnamed creatures from Fantastic Planet (1973)

[requiem-on-water]

twopartstudio

[therisingfog]

[cascaura]

— Basman Aldirawi, "This Bread Was Born, This Bread Was Killed"

[starlightshadowsworld]

For me to write poetry that isn't political

I must listen to the birds

and in order to listen to the birds

the war planes must be silent

- Marwan Makhoul, Palestinian Lebanese poet.

[lunchboxpoems]

REFUSAL TO MOURN

In lieu of flowers, send him back.

ANDREA COHEN

[bex-orcist]

[darkpoetrynprose]

“There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.”

― Ranata Suzuki

[englishsunshehascome]

Rest in power Refaat Alareer

[flowerytale]

Mahmoud Darwish, from "A Metaphor", A River Dies of Thirst: Journals (tr. by Catherine Cobham)

[houseofpurplestars]

Tell them

the olives ripened

no one to gather them

the children

did not gather

nor ripen

tell them

—Suheir Hammad, Palestinian poet

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[photo-critter]

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[houseofpurplestars]

In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political

I must listen to the birds

and in order to hear the birds

the warplanes must be silent.

– Marwan Makhoul