December 2011
1 post
I have already fallen in love with far too many postage stamps When you appeared on my doorstep wearing nothing but a postcard promise No, appear, is the wrong word.. is there a word for sucker punching someone in the heart?
Is there a word for when you’re sitting at a bottom of a rollercoaster And you realise that the climb is coming and you know what the climb means and you can already...
October 2011
4 posts
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September 2011
6 posts
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elvedon:
We buried stories, the stars as a witness. There are more crinkles on the moon than our palms soaked in water for too long. Tonight is unsteady and staggering, we do not belong to our names.
Autumn is here.
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February 2011
1 post
Poetry 365: The Sweetest Sin, Liv.S →
The rain it falls without a care catching you and I quite unaware. Ever so softly and delicately light, twinkling on our skin it’s pure delight. From the sun it is a pleasant relief but we run to some shelter, leaves under bare feet. Beneath a canopy of branches, hiding from the weather …
August 2010
1 post
“Then followed that beautiful season… Summer… filled was the air with...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
December 2009
2 posts
“Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny,...”
– Henry Miller (1891-1980)
In Lollypop Land.
In lollypop land there is a peppermint sea beneath the shade of a chewing gum tree. The grass that grows there is a spearmint green and the blue of the sky is a heaven supreme. You walk in the sand that is sugary white; There are candy-tipped stars that shine down through the night.
In lollypop land there’s a fairy so sweet just a calico queen, all shiny and neat. A gingerbread house and a...
November 2009
5 posts
“You buy things and you keep them clean. You take care of them. Keep them in a special pocket. Away from keys and coins. Away from other things that should be kept clean and taken care of as well. Then they get scratched. And scratched again. And again. And again. And again. Soon, you don’t care about them anymore. You don’t keep them in a special pocket. You throw them in the...
August 2009
2 posts
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
July 2009
11 posts
“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life...”
– Maya Angelou
June 2009
22 posts
“there’s a house across the river
but alas, i cannot swim
& a garden of...”
– laura marling. (via oneshouldreadeverything) (via sab-rina) (via quote-book) (via aliceinpink) (via endofmarch)
“I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into...”
– Haruki Murakami
“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is...”
– Jiddu Krishnamur
“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has...”
– C.S. Lewis
“Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to...”
– C.S. Lewis
