#original poetry on tumblr

[rolloroberson]

Echo and Shadows

Smell of ardor spread across the room

Like sands from the Sahara

Saw the sun rise and set in her auburn hair

Sanity is a moving target

Riding side saddle with desire

The reflecting ponds of her endless eyes

Fingerprint traces embroidered in the velvety silk

Like evening breeze in Eden

The heavenly hesitation of her golden touch

Enigmatic sounds reverberate

Cascading along the horizon

Breathless and beatific

Amidst the pulsations of passion

2023©️RolloRoberson

“There's just not a woman there

Who can meet you God knows where

If there's some secret, you can keep it like a king

The part that really rubs me raw

Is you don't live by any law

You go straight for the bone, you start at the bone

It's terrifying” - Lilly Hiatt

[benjamin-vague]

11/3/2022

Have you ever loved someone who is losing their mind?

The more of them you see as that action, "losing their mind", the less clarity they seem to have. The less they seem to exist in an ordered sense. Like light passing through a crystal's lens in too imprecise a way to be coherent, their thoughts fall senseless and heedless of circumstance, a tangle of consonants and shapes without meaning. And you, in love and confusion and ageless weariness, you simply say, "Yes, my love" and hold them as they dissolve. Sometimes it seems like we are all losing our minds and this thing, life, is just the process of helping one another accept that as we dissolve too. And in those times, I like to pretend that I am not flesh at all, but rather an idea that has been entangling itself ever more in the pattern of things since before monkeys thought to put time inside a circle. Or rather, that flesh itself is only metaphor--for the life of thought and concept must surely have a skin and it seems sensible that it should be these bodies we so briefly wear! "Am I still here?" She asks me. And I, in love and in acceptance and not really separate at all, say, "Yes, my love." And as we dissolve, I too am held. And isn't it strange finally how the same idea can wear so many bodies, so insistent on itself, and yet never recognize itself in those other faces? Dissolution is really the only way back to remembering.

[lotrmusical]

never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱

[foxbirdy]

A short comic I made about my experiences as a seasonal worker, and the way places change you.

Prints & PDF

[delicacysblog]

“what was the most pain you have ever felt”

healing from someone, i once thought i would heal with

[skylark-234]

[maybe-itsforthebest]

- j (x)

[randomnotebookthoughts]

I wonder if anyone ever fantasizes about having a life with me.

[nasa]

Hurry! You Can Catch a Ride to Jupiter with NASA

Well, at least your name can.  

One of the planet Jupiter’s largest and most intriguing moons is called Europa. Evidence hints that beneath its icy shell, Europa hides an ocean of liquid water – more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined. In 2024, our Europa Clipper robotic spacecraft sets sail to take a closer look…and when it launches, your name can physically be aboard! Here’s how: 

NASA’s Message in a Bottle campaign invites people around the world to sign their names to a poem written by the U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. The poem connects the two water worlds — Earth, yearning to reach out and understand what makes a world habitable, and Europa, waiting with secrets yet to be explored.

The poem will be engraved on Europa Clipper, along with participants' names that will be physically etched onto microchips mounted on the spacecraft. Together, the poem and names will travel 1.8 billion miles to the Jupiter system.

Signing up is easy! Just go to this site to sign your name to the poem and get on board. You can send your name en español, too. Envía tu nombre aquí.

The Europa Clipper launch window opens in October 2024, but don’t wait – everyone’s names need to be received this year so they can be loaded onto the spacecraft in time. Sign up by Dec. 31, 2023.

We hope you’ll be riding along with us! Follow the mission at europa.nasa.gov.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space!

[and-corn]

[aurevives]

— Aure Vives, from ‘km ⇢ xo’

[allll-these-ruins]

If I could turn back time, I'd just dance with you.

[iambrillyant]

“december, close the chapters that don’t speak to my spirit and open up the pages that remind me of who i am. give me the courage to release myself from what i’ve outgrown so i can fit into shoes suited for where my journey is going. balm me in patience and soak my bones in love.”

— iambrillyant

[crazystonergirl]

ngl this is so me

[timberfigure]

I have always loved people in a way that would allow them to tear me apart. it took me far too long to realize I should stop loving people who are willing to do that to me.

[delicacysblog]

if someone is really into you,

you don’t have to keep begging them for a text, call or to spend time with them

they’ll do it if you’re a priority