#choir games

[nomorechoirs]

Pink, Greek choruses, a little mouse in a little apron 💞

a little mouse in a little apron!!!

darling, this is one of the best compliments I’ve ever received, this is calling to mind quaint images of beatrix potter mouse illustrations, thank you!! 

💖

what are 3 things you associate with me?

[nomorechoirs]

choir game!!

would you ladies like to play a game with me?? send me an ask with 🕊+ a word (for example ‘🕊 + siren’), and i’ll respond with a poem that reminds me of that word!!!

[nomorechoirs]

Sorry didn't see it should be sent as an ask! Thought it was repost instead 😆 But here I am, 🕊️ephemeral Have a nice day dear 🌸

hi darling!

no worries at all, i actually responded to your reply here but I went ahead and copied the answer here as well, I hope you like the poem and that your day/night is filled with warmth as well! 💖

The Deer by Mary Oliver

‘each of us is given only so many mornings to do it - to look around and love’

(send me 🕊 + a word and i’ll reply w/ a poem)

[nomorechoirs]

🕊 + hold

In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver

‘to live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go’ 

(send me 🕊 + a word and i’ll reply w/ a poem)

[nomorechoirs]

🕊 + heart

i carry your heat with me (i carry it in) by E. E. Cummings

‘i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)’

(send me 🕊 + a word and i’ll reply w/ a poem)

[nomorechoirs]

🕊 + faerie 🥰

The Stolen Child by William Butler Yeats

‘come away, o human child! to the waters and the wild with a faery, hand in hand, for the world's more full of weeping than you can understand’

(send me 🕊 + a word and i’ll reply w/ a poem)

[nomorechoirs]

🕊 + singularity :)

The Sciences Sing a Lullaby by Albert Goldbarth 

‘physics says: go to sleep. of course you’re tired. every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. quit tapping your feet. they’ll dance inside themselves without you. go to sleep.’

(send me 🕊 + a word and i’ll reply w/ a poem)

[nomorechoirs]

🕊️ timeworn

Messenger by Mary Oliver

‘are my boots old? is my coat torn? am I no longer young, and still half-perfect? let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished’