#richardsikenpoetry

[forlornpariahs]

we can't live without tenderness

— Masculin Féminin (1966), Jean-Luc Godard

[mera-aaina]

"If you were to behold something beautiful, you would comment upon it. But how do you know your opinion is completely yours? Are you not the compilation of moments you can barely call your own? Are you not an assimilation of all things, good and bad, that happened before you ever came into existence?"

— 'when the meek ones sleep', by @forlornpariahs)

[greenjaydeep]

"Here is the repeated image of the #lover destroyed." ~ #richardsiken #crush #richardsikenpoetry #selfiestagram #selfiee #redminote6prophotography #selfieee #love #experimentalphotography (at Kolkata) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNSqL-zFJE-/?igshid=w8w2c1oypt6d

[hlpmeiaminhell]

Incredible. #poetry #richardsikenpoetry #crush

[forlornpariahs]

I just think that

"are you eating enough" - I hope you're taking care of the body you call home;

"did you sleep well": I hope your fears don't keep you up too much at night;

"how's life been treating you?"- i hope sometimes you just look around in life and sense warmth and comfort

"are you feeling okay"- you know it's a journey even if you aren't, right?

[forlornpariahs]

“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.”

— Audre Lorde, from "A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer"

[forlornpariahs]

— The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, Liz Jensen

[forlornpariahs]

studio ghibli || artistic scenes

[forlornpariahs]

“𝘪 𝘢𝘮 𝘢𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘪 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘪 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘱𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨.

𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘥𝘰 𝘪 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳? 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘦?”

— 𝘑𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘦 𝘖𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘢 ‪

[forlornpariahs]

november never feels real to me

every year I live a dream

[forlornpariahs]

how I met your mother - s06e19

[forlornpariahs]

// Francisco de Zubaran // Taylor Swift- my tears ricochet // Adrien Ghenie // Mitski- I Want You // The Roses of Heliogabalus // Ocean Vuong // Feminine stereotypes - Romina Bassu // Lucy Dacus- Night Shift

[forlornpariahs]

"𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥,"

—

[forlornpariahs]

My PIN number to this day is my second grade best friends birthday. There are people I don’t talk to anymore whose families are still in my prayers. There are shirts I wear to bed from exes of 8 years ago who are married now with kids.

And I haven’t found a macaroni salad recipe better than my college boyfriend’s mom’s. Our lives are made up of so many people and when people become parts of our lives, some parts remain long after they leave. And in the same exact way, it’s comforting to know there are so many lives you’re still a part of that you have no idea about.

- @i-writethisforme

[forlornpariahs]

In my dream, I apologize to everyone I meet. Instead of introducing myself, I apologize for not knowing why I am alive. I am sorry. I am sorry. I apologize.

In real life, oddly enough, when I am fully awake and out and about, if I catch someone’s eye, I quickly look away. Perhaps this too is a form of apology. Perhaps this is the form apologies take in real life.

— Claudia Rankine, "Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric"

[forlornpariahs]

// 'A Lover's Discourse', Roland Barthes