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derangedrhythms · 11 months
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so I wandered devouring darkness 
Alejandra Pizarnik, Selected Poems; from ‘Poems Uncollected in Books (1956–1960)’, tr. Cecilia Rossi
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mournfulroses · 17 days
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Miguel Hernández, tr. by Robert Bly, from The Selected Poems; "Opening Poem,"
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cache-e · 5 months
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“And she went into the sea because her core ached and there was no healing.”
May Sarton, from "She Shall Be Called Woman", Selected Poems
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soracities · 1 year
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But why am I too much for myself and too little with you why, whenever you come near me, I feel as if a part of me has disappeared—
Adonis, Selected Poems (trans. Khaled Mattawa)
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majestativa · 18 days
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Mirages of impossibilities.
— Gopalakrishna Adiga, Selected Poems, transl by Sumatheendra Nadig, (2005)
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aboutbirds · 6 months
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Practical to the end, it is the poem of his existence that triumphed finally; a wisp of feathers flattened to the pavement, wings spread symmetrically as if in flight, the head gone, the black escutcheon of the breast undecipherable, an effigy of a sparrow, a dried wafer only, left to say and it says it without offense, beautifully; This was I, a sparrow. I did my best; farewell.
William Carlos Williams, excerpt of "The Sparrow," from Selected Poems
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metamorphesque · 2 years
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 ― Marina Tsvetaeva, from Selected Poems
[text ID: Somewhere in the night a / human being is drowning.]
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daweyt · 6 months
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Pierre Reverdy, from “Selected Poems: ‘Inn’” tr. Patricia Terry.
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yorgunherakles · 18 days
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ne sabahın süsenleri tanır seni ne incir ağacı, ne atlar ne tepedeki dolunay, ne çocuk tanır seni ne de ikindi, ölüsün çünkü, dirileceğin de yok.
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angelinotuksarcro · 4 months
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"He, like me, is haunted by his heart,"
- Mahmoud Darwish (Selected Poems)
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derangedrhythms · 10 months
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When we arrived at the centre of darkness the forest opened.
Alejandra Pizarnik, Selected Poems; Uncollected Poems (1962 –1972) from ‘Contemplation’, tr. Cecilia Rossi
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llovelymoonn · 2 years
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i will be forever alone
anna mendelssohn i'm working here \\ richard siken crush: "litany in which certain things are crossed out" \\ olivia laing the lonely city (via @virginiewoolf) \\ charles bukowski
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theoptia · 2 years
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Alejandra Pizarnik, from Selected Poems; “Memories from the Little House of Song”
Text ID: They left me with dreams open, with my central wound open, with my tear. I lament; I have a right to do so.
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beforevenice · 1 year
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Is this really the world? Shall i grieve? Shall i hope?
// Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems
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majestativa · 4 months
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You can shape me from my ashes. […] Kiss my echo.
— Vasko Popa, Selected Poems, transl by Anne Pennington, (1969)
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beljar · 1 year
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I love the rainfall on the women of distant meadows. I love the glittering water and the scent of stone.
Mahmoud Darwish, from "Addresses for the Soul, outside this Place", diwan "Fewer Roses" (1986), Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems (Translated and Edited by Munir Akash and Carolyn Forché, with Sinan Antoon and A mira El-Zein)
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