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lingering leaves

@unfeignedheart / unfeignedheart.tumblr.com

"I wanted to try this new drink. That’s all we do, isn’t it – look at things and try new drinks?" twenty-something. female.
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Darling, do you remember how soft and calm the sand was underneath our exhausted, adventurous feet as we strolled around the exotic coastlines in Nice, my hand in yours, humming shy poetry?

I think my most treasured memory is the day we got lost in the playfully confused streets of Venice, the smell of the ocean and thirst drenched in our sighs as you pushed me back against the welcoming wall, lips on mine and hands on my hips

(I know tourists recall this better than we do)

We used to sneak out at midnight in Naples, rolling in the beaches and collecting stars in our hair, feet half-damp with Italian ocean and sadness that this will soon end

I gave you my first kiss in Venice, you gave me our last in Zurich and I sometimes wish we kept in touch

(I think we were beautiful as fuck, leaving traces of adolescent infatuation and kisses on street corners and on foreign sandcastles, only keeping little faint reveries for ourselves)

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read in front of crowd tonight for awards ceremony at my Uni and oh my god was I so nervous but it was such a good night/day, friends and professors are so precious to me I never want to graduate

also today I finally got a poem out about Dachau and its not the poem I wanted to write but it exists now and just thinking about everything related to /dachau/ makes me so emotional and sad and angry and everything. there is so much grief and suffering in this world.

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A Few Small Nips (Crazy in Love)

A Few Small Nips (Passionately In Love) (1935), Frida Kahlo / Crazy In Love, Beyoncé ft. Jay-Z

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I just want you to know: I think you are the prettiest girl at the ball. Baby, take both of your shoes off and run to me.And don’t worry! I love pumpkins. I can do my own laundry. I swear to always remember you by your face. I promise to always get you home on time. If the stroke of midnight means something to you, it means something to me. Baby, I am floored by your kindness. God, I am floored by your mouth and everything that trips out of it.

Trista Mateer (19 of 30)

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Pero, it seems I can only touch you With my body You lie with me And my body es la hamaca That spans the void between us Hermano raza, I am afraid that you will lie with me And awaken too late To find that you have fallen And my hands will be left groping For you and your dream In the midst of la revolucion

Para un Revolucionario - Lorna Dee Cervantes (via elmovimientochicano)

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Pomegranate

No sun and moon move up high in the same shade of luscious red, sky like the inside of the fruit you fed me. I did not protest.

You never cut me away from virgin ground. I guess you might say it was an accidental joining of discrete purposes. My screams were misinterpreted: I will not, I will not I will not tell on you.

This is Hades. Count out the seeds.

One

I hear your name. I turn. By your gaze I am consumed.

Two

Despite humid darkness your scent makes me think I am still in the meadow. Your black poppies close over my face I smile drowsily:

your heat though reflective makes me briefly believe you have fingers to touch me.

Three

You speak in the voice of an angel fallen too often. You speak in the words of one who has died and risen not often enough to his liking.

Four

You turn away.

Five

I am feverish. I am cold. I go to where you are.

Six

Whenever I see you I want to fall to the floor and lie there, sleep there, or die there, lapse into darkness beyond light’s absence. I want you to tie my wrists above my head to enjoy the moral freedom of temporary relief from accountability for my actions.

Seven

I follow, and swallow, and I forget to rise.

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psa: when you post a quote/poem/prose piece/anything that is originally written in another language (ex. vargas llosa, neruda, rilke, etc.) please post the translator’s name as well. this is especially important because many different translators translate the same poem into the target language. ie; rilke’s Herbsstag there are so many variations of the same poem (google it) it is hard to keep up.

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