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ROMANTICIZING

it’s great when I’m able to romanticize my daily life when things seem mundane. to be able to be grateful for what I have rather than focusing on what I don’t. that’s not to say that I think you shouldn’t question your situation and to be complicit, but sometimes for the time being you don’t have a choice. so it’s better to look on the bright side of things. I’ve heard the quote that the grass is greener where you water it and I believe that to be true to an extent. I’m also reminded of a poem that’s stuck with me for a while. it’s title is Aimless Love by Billy Collins and it goes like this: This morning as I walked along the lake shore, I fell in love with a wren and later on in the day, a mouse the cat had dropped under the dining room table. In the shadows of an autumn evening, I fell for a seamstress still at her machine in the tailor’s window, and later for a bowl of broth, steam rising like smoke from a naval battle. This is the best kind of love, I thought, without recompense, without gifts, or unkind words, without suspicion, or silence on the telephone. The love of the chestnut, the jazz cap and one hand on the wheel. No lust, no slam of the door— the love of the miniature orange tree, the clean white shirt, the hot evening shower, the highway that cuts across Florida. No waiting, no huffiness, or rancor— just a twinge every now and then for the wren who had built her nest on a low branch overhanging the water and for the dead mouse, still dressed in its light brown suit. But my heart is always standing on its tripod, ready for the next arrow. After I carried the mouse by its tail to a pile of leaves in the woods, I found myself standing at the bathroom sink gazing down affectionately at the soap, so patient and soluble, so at home in its pale green soap dish. I could feel myself falling again as I felt its turning in my wet hands and caught the scent of the lavender and stone.

@raven87

May 17, 2025

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my fav poem to read during valentines day

Love After Love The time will come  when, with elation  you will greet yourself arriving  at your own door, in your own mirror  and each will smile at the other's welcome,  and say, sit here. Eat.  You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart  to itself, to the stranger who has loved you  all your life, whom you ignored  for another, who knows you by heart.  Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,  the photographs, the desperate notes,  peel your own image from the mirror.  Sit. Feast on your life.  [Image ID: Carnegie Heart (1986) by Jim Dine]

@redglassheart_

Feb 13, 2025

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THIS RANDOM LITTLE POEM I FOUND

I don’t know the author because it was uploaded to pintrest a few times but I quite enjoyed it. “when you find yourself in love you fall. They say you fall slow and steady. But love is uncontrollable and unrecoganisable until it’s too late and you’re plummeting into darkness. It consumes you so beautifully sucking out your soul like a leech, feasting on all the twisted lonley parts of you. It holds up a mirror to your faults, it cracks open your chest spreading your ribs so you may bare your heart to another. It’s a form of ecstasy so addictive that you’ll never let go. The familiarity of anothers hands, the sound of them breathing in their sleep, the way they glance at you from the corner of their eye, it’s enough to ignore everything wrong with a person. They yelling, the unforgivable words, the feeling of never being able to look at them again. you forgive and you forget so you can sink your teeth into their heart. And in doing this you lose yourself, you start doing your hair the way they love, you push your undesirable interests aside, you can’t rest until they bid you goodnight. You slowly decay until you become half, half of what you once were, half of another. A reliant organism who is helpless without its host. you find yourself sobbing for a fortnight over someone who will never love you as deeply as you do. You see through the cracks in the armor. you fall into love, you plummet into darkness, you fall and fall and fall.

@caitlin17

May 26, 2025

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Glory Box BY PortisHead ❤️‍🔥

My current obsession. Heard it in the film the Killer by David Fincher a few weeks ago and have been unable to stop listening to in since then. It’s such a sultry song.

@larry_gopnik2

Mar 17, 2024

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Nilüfer yanya

Anything by her, especially her albums Painless and Inside Out. Her music is hard to categorize and combines a variety of genres. Such a unique sound.

@larry_gopnik2

Mar 29, 2024

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Bless the telephone by labi siffre

Beautiful, subtle, poetic!

@larry_gopnik2

Mar 30, 2024