Azra Tabassum's Blog, page 165

"and when our bodies rise again, they will be wildflowers, then rabbits, then wolves singing a..."

“and when our bodies rise again,

they will be wildflowers, then rabbits,

then wolves singing a perfect love

to the beautiful, meaningless moon.”

- Philip Appleman, from “Gathering by the River,” Poetry (October/November 1987)

you ever just so attracted to someone that literally every single thing they do turns your stomach...

you ever just so attracted to someone that literally every single thing they do turns your stomach into a mess of caterpillars that are just bursting out of their cocoons into butterflies???

Have you ever made a TON of a dish that is super tasty, and then that's the only thing you eat for 5 days? This is happening to me and a particularly delicious batch of sweet potato chili right now. Gah. I am so fat because of this. I have mixed feelings a

I’m really happy that you’ve sent me this message, you know? Like, it’s such a normal message. Or you’re just casually texting me because we’re friends and you just know that I can’t cook and am, therefore, jealous of your ability to make sweet potato chilli. But because I’m useless will just encourage you to eat more of it. Keep on babe, love x

"Kisses like poetry, like writing sonnets, quatrains, cinquains free verse desire Kisses like..."

“Kisses like poetry,

like writing sonnets,

quatrains, cinquains

free verse desire

Kisses like ballads,

your tongue on the roof

of my mouth.

Tell me you love me quietly,

tell me you’re turning me

into a song.

let’s bump teeth.


That’s how I want it.”

- Azra.T., “Free verse desire” 

I wish that I felt things even a tenth of the amount you do.

It isn’t necessarily always the best thing. Not when you’re up at 2AM worrying that someone you love doesn’t actually like you or sobbing over something some stranger has written or feeling like you’re a bundle of nerves walking upright and anyone who touches you can see straight into the heart of it all. It’s strange. Sometimes it’s glorious. Sometimes it hurts. Eh. 

5000letters:Okay so I made an instagram, but there is literally, and I mean literally, nothing on...

5000letters:

Okay so I made an instagram, but there is literally, and I mean literally, nothing on there yet. Ah well: azra.tabassum 

There’s stuff on here now! I mean not a lot, but it’s not blank space anymore 

"I think of how, in Czech,“to paint” and “to love”are only one vowelaway: malovat; milovat.The..."

“I think of how, in Czech,

“to paint” and “to love”

are only one vowel

away: malovat; milovat.

The salutation alone

is written. I paint

you, I paint you, I paint you.”

- Emily Wilson, from “Postcard I almost send to an almost lover” 

"We are unusual and tragic and alive."

“We are unusual and tragic and alive.”

- Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius

"Sometimes, like love, the neurons just cross fire.You don’t get everything back."

“Sometimes, like love, the neurons just cross fire.

You don’t get everything back.”

- Patricia Kirkpatrick, from “Survivor’s Guilt” (via unbloom)

"Fresh from killing 17 Palestinian journalists in Gaza last year, Benjamin Netanyahu will attend the..."

“Fresh from killing 17 Palestinian journalists in Gaza last year, Benjamin Netanyahu will attend the Je Suis Charlie rally in Paris today to demonstrate his unwavering commitment to freedom of the press.”

- Tom Bramble on reports (via monsieurfuad)