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Thank you kookie !!!

So happy to hear things are going good for you!! I wish you all the good luck for everything life has in store for you.

Cheers to our dreams and goals!

Please don't disappear from Tumblr again.😂

Hiii :)

Myself Kookie and I am back here :)

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You!

My dearest,

Are all the world's love languages

bottled into one.

You! my love,

you cruelly rob me of words

They race upto my lips and die out.

You! my love,

You imprison me in the heat of your touch

My body pledging it's reverent allegiance.

You! my love,

You started a trade, drawing up a bargain

And somehow the world's wealth turns futile

You! my love,

You make my days feel like years

Making me long for our eternity.

You! my love,

You make love feel like devotion

And my heart a feverent devout.

You!

My dearest,

Are all the world's love languages

Moulded into one

The one for me

The only for me.

- NP.

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Its weird that I've never loved anyone romantically, never had a heartbreak,

yet i feel,

like I've lived through ages,

loved through centuries,

and

grieved their loss over the rest of my life.

-NP.

(Photograph : "If I'm Lost, Please Don't Find Me" by Alex Stoddard)

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I know far too much

to be just a friend,

And a little too less

to be your lover.

You keep me at arm's length

but within your orbit,

Your fingers linger for minutes

yet you flee with your heart in seconds

I think a lot about you

A lot more than I should

A lot more than I want to

And still,

We're friends.

But it stains my tongue

to be washed away with tea

brewed to suit your taste

held close to my chest

I see the war in your eyes

The same battle in mine

The sun sets and rises again

And still,

we're friends.

Maybe I should look it up

In a dictionary or thesaurus

But for now,

we're friends.

- NP.

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We're artists, darling!

We feel a bit too much

Hurt too much

Laugh too much

Dream too much

And without an ounce of regret

Love a little too much,

even if it's never enough.

- NP.

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I could overdose on the high you pull from the words that flow gently touching your lips stumbling off your tongue right into the corner of my lips I lick it off greedily scared they might disappear but years later when someone else traces my lips despite all the sweetness i can offer they would taste a hint of bitter Is it my fault or yours? I can't tell! but there it goes, ruining my life Over and over again a ghost from the past a taste from the past slotting into my life in whispers, in dreams and in the brown of their eyes.

-NP

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I feel safe hiding behind a mask, safe enough to share my writing,thoughts, musings without being afraid of somebody trying to carry out an autopsy of my words,binding it to my life and discovering the treasured parts of my being. There's something so beautiful about being vulnerable without actually being vulnerable.The mask is a safety net,I've realised.I might be a coward for doing that, but is it too much to ask if the only thing I'm asking, is for the world to not figure me out completely so that when everything ends, I can rest easy that only the people I've truly wanted in my life are the ones who actually got to read the entirety of my being and that the others only got certain pages,certain chapters,selectively handed out to them.

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I burnt myself enough times,

hoping i'll be warm enough

to shield you from the cold,

the woes of this merciless night.

- NP.

( Painting by Paul Benney)

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Stars are ruins, they say

how much more of a ruin should i be?

to be one among the stars

or am i ruined too far?

to belong to the night sky.

Tell me dear expanse,

Am i worth your heart?

To carve a place,

A speck of haze.

- NP.

( Art : An Artist in His Studio Contemplating a Moonlit Street from His Opened Window, an oil painting by German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich )

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Perhaps i should feel the hurt in the exact way it should hurt,

in my bones, in my mind and a weird pang in my chest that'd make me doubt if my heart would survive.

I should let the hurt devour me like a starved beast,

Gently mourn the death of a part of me that crumbled under the weight of the rock i couldn't carry,

I should forgive myself for putting aside the hurt for so long that it had gained power to break me into a million little shards

the same ones that would give me nasty cuts as I put them away.

I should cremate the should haves and could haves

and get a good night's sleep,

without dreams, expectations or hope.

Just a good night's sleep.

Plain darkness, nothing fancy.

Perhaps, that might heal my soul.

- (NP)

(Sculpture : Breathe, by Billie Bond)

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You cannot live alone on the fantasies you feed to your mind, eventually you have to touch your life for real, assess and analyze your habits, understand your character, try not to hate yourself for your character as it was shaped when you were very young by circumstances outside of you, and begin learning how to cope with your character, how to build habits that work for you, finish small projects, finish big projects, expose yourself to more uncomfortable situations, assess why you want to leave that friendship before you leave it, raise your anxiety levels on purpose, so that you can grow, raise your work load on purpose, so that you can grow, so that you can build resilience, so that your life expands, and can be experienced by you in full and in reality

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writing these are addictive

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What a beautiful piece of art!

i wrote a twin cinema poem about two gay soldiers in wwi

context: the two sides, read separately, are the two soldiers thinking about their futures with each other. when read together, it's a reflection of their final thoughts when they die together struck by bullets <3

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Trial 385 to Sleep

The night stretches longer,
Each tick of the clock strikes louder, sharper,
Like tiny needles piercing the silence.

The shadow in the corner—
It spills, grows bold,
Now it swallows half the room.

I close my eyes,
And there you are:
Your face, soft as smoke,
Hovering just beyond my reach.

I ache for another touch,
To plunge into your arms,
Pour my soul like molten silver onto your skin,
Split open—so you’d see yourself
Reflected in the hollows of my being.

I carry you,
Pressed into the lining of my ribs,
Folded into the chambers of my heart.

I reach for you,
But your edges blur, dissolve.

My eyes snap open—
The shadow has grown.
It creeps closer, darker, heavier,
And I am left
Alone with its weight.

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Its weird that I've never loved anyone romantically, never had a heartbreak,

yet i feel,

like I've lived through ages,

loved through centuries,

and

grieved their loss over the rest of my life.

-NP.

(Photograph : "If I'm Lost, Please Don't Find Me" by Alex Stoddard)

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Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.

Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version, here's a 2017 version.

As you like it: you'll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version. Here's Kenneth Brannagh's 2006 one.

Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston. Here's the Ralph Fiennes 2011 one.

Cymbelline: Here's the 2014 one.

Hamlet: the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. The 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. The 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1969 Williamson-Parfitt-Hopkins one is there, and the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation, the Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 2000 Ethan Hawke one is here. 2009 Tennant's here. And have the 2018 Almeida version here. On a sidenote, here's A Midwinter's Tale, about a man trying to make Hamlet. Andrew Scott's Hamlet is here.

Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here's part 1 of a corwall school version.

Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.

Julius Caesar: here's the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one. A theater Live from the late 2010's here.

King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here. The 1953 Orson Wells one is here.

Macbeth: Here's the 1948 one, there the 1955 Joe McBeth. Here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery, and the 1966 BBC version is here. The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here, here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. The 1988 BBC one with portugese subtitles, and here the 2001 one). Here's Scotland, PA, the 2001 modern retelling. Rave Macbeth for anyone interested is here. And 2017 brings you this.

Measure for Measure: BBC version here. Hugo Weaving here.

The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie with Al Pacino. The 2001 movie is here.

The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.

A Midsummer Night's Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version. Have the 1986 Duncan-Jennings version here. 2019 Live Theater version? Have it here!

Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.

Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.

Richard II: here is the BBC version. If you want a more meta approach, here's the commentary for the Tennant version. 1997 one here.

Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier. The 1995 one with Ian McKellen is no longer available at the previous link but I found it HERE.

Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version. Here's a stage production. 1954 brings you this. The french musical with english subtitles is here!

The Taming of the Shrew: the 1980 BBC version here and the 1988 one is here, sorry for the prior confusion. The 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here, and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. This one is the Shakespeare Retold modern retelling.

The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one. Theater Live did a show of it in the late 2010's too.

Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,

Troilus and Cressida can be found here

Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here

Twelfth night: here for the BBC, here for the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.

Two Gentlemen of Verona: have the 2018 one here. The BBC version is here.

The Winter's Tale: the BBC version is here

Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.

(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)

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musings on grief

Lisa Marie Basile, Nick Alm, Callista Buchen, Max Porter, Gustav Klimt, Fortesa Latifi, Safet Zec, Anna Akhmatova, Chen Chen, Sergey Andriyaka, Anne Carson, Svetlana Tartakovska, Max Porter, Lindsey Kustusch, Patrick Kavanagh