Sis' Madlisa

Kumnadi Uk'ba La. Johannesburg, South Africa

[tiassamiura]

[achillesinhighheels]

Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett in a portrait taken for the 1995 film Waiting to Exhale.

[apoemaday]

How to Drink Water When There Is Wine

by Barbara Kingsolver

How to stay at this desk when the sun is barefooting cartwheels over the grass —

How to step carefully on the path that begs for the fleet unfettered gait of a deer —

How to go home again when the wood thrush is promising the drunk liquid bliss of dusk —

How to resist the kiss, the body forbidden that plucks the long vibrating string of want —

How to drink water when there is wine —

Once I knew all these brick-shaped things, and how they protract the striving and virtuous life.

Now I have lived long and I know better.

[achillesinhighheels]

“Mystique” Elibeidy Dani by Miles Aldridge

[loveridden1999]

"it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world."

[sismadlisa]

I forgot to drink water yesterday but I drank three pots of tea.

[sismadlisa]

I’m very excited about my Rothko inspired nails.

[sismadlisa]

Chinatown groceries then fruit and veggie market groceries then home to make a bowl of lifesaving noodles then nap.

[weltenwellen]

The Quiet Machine Ada Limón

[cronenburger]

[sismadlisa]

Painting is hard but I will keep trying

[sismadlisa]

The breakfast and the breakfast book.

[achillesinhighheels]

"Harvesting - Sewing - Reading - Resisting" by Palestinian Artist Nabil Ananim (1990)

[sismadlisa]

Forced to rewatch forever.

[sismadlisa]

[apoemaday]

Travelling Together

by W.S. Merwin

If we are separated I will try to wait for you on your side of things

your side of the wall and the water and of the light moving at its own speed even on leaves that we have seen I will wait on one side

while a side is there

[sismadlisa]