Veni Vidi Amavi

charlie / 20 / he/him. mostly poetry + aes + art. (i came. i saw. i loved.) minors dni

[sativamargarita]

[tothedesert]

when richard siken said “it keeps coming back to that: what do i do with these hands?” and when mitski said “i don't know what to do without you, i don't know where to put my hands” and when olivia gatwood said “what am i, if not yours? what do i do with my hands when they are just hands?” and when sylvia plath said “what did my fingers do before they held him? what did my heart do, with its love?”

[sambeckdraws]

coalesce

[trans-brarian]

i think maybe i was put on this earth to sit on hold on the phone for long periods of time

[valtsv]

my esteemed rival,

[valtsv]

my beloved nemesis,

[valtsv]

dearly detested,

[fernpapst]

Miriam Cahn, 2013

[ourravenboys]

the dream thieves, maggie stiefvater // townie, mitski // the good fight, ada limón // real love, big thief

[moon1ike]

richard siken, “the language of the birds” / chris schoonover / nikki giovanni, “hands: for mother’s day” / alda merini, “antique lyric” / denis sarazhin / mary ruefle

[untrustyou]

[megairea]

We are very lonely and that’s all right. We never have a light, not even ghosts approach us. And if we did: what would we do with light?

Bertolt Brecht, from “O you great trees” (tr. by Tom Kuhn & David Constantine)

[valtsv]

booty shorts that say “god won’t let me die” on the ass

[cileekk]

[eternalsummer2006]

happy valentines to toxic people only

[caesarsaladinn]

So much of what is “cringe” is just… earnest.

[argumate]

what if you made an honest expression of genuine human emotion and someone saw it!

[metaphorformetaphor]

Do not ask questions about longing. Look in my face.

Rumi, from “Burnt Kabob,” A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings (HarperOne, 2006)

[oikawaonline-deactivated2022080]

IT CHAPTER TWO (2019) dir. Andy Muschietti

[luthienne]

natalie diaz, from postcolonial love poem; “my brother, my wound” / (x) / anne carson from the beauty of the husband; “i dedicate this book to keats”