Azra Tabassum's Blog, page 59

"When she says “I love you,” everything else vanishes–in that moment I live eternities."

“When she says “I love you,” everything else vanishes–in that moment I live eternities.”

- Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin featured in A Literate Passion: Letters Of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller (1932 - 1953)

was that your voice?? ? ?

Yes…?

I love that you are fingers firstplum-soaked andsodden with...

I love that you are fingers first
plum-soaked and
sodden with it.

Your want
and mine,
a choke-chain around that
delirious hum

That pull and heave,
whisky-dipped tied twice
around your fist

Tied once over
and over and over, full of
the throat
the untwined spine, the mouth 

On mouth and teeth
and tongue, unloosen the
back,
undo the shoulders and press
down

Hand-first, landlocked
fish the breath out of the
stomach,
swallow it whole, take it

Bellyful, mouth full,
unlearn the ache, cup the
bruise
kiss downwards against those
plains

Sigh – honestly,
breathless, and begin the
careful
unravelling, unstitch the
skin again

And again, I love
how you tighten your fingers
around it, bring it closer
and

let it fill you, brimming.

Azra.T “Sugar Plum”

"Who were you before they touched you? Kissed your whole mouth clean? Pressed you into the..."

“Who were you

before they touched

you?

Kissed your whole

mouth clean?

Pressed you into the

quiet concave of

The Earth?

Pinned your wings there?


I loved you

before it happened.

That soft un-stripping

of yourself.

How they poured concrete

into your

hollows.

Pushed you into

every river

they could find.”

- Azra.T “Feathers” 

"In the story, you fall in love with a girl on another planet. She’s been dead for years, but..."

“In the story, you fall in love with a girl

on another planet. She’s been dead

for years, but through your telescope

you watch her laugh, laughing too.

You wave when she, remembering

her smallness, remembers the stars.”

- Annelyse Gelman, “Love Poem” in Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone (via pigmenting)

"Imagine a person upon which nothing is lost…Those welts blossom your skin plural, you are looking..."

“Imagine a person upon which nothing is lost…



Those welts blossom your skin plural, you are looking at me like nothing

I need”

- Wendy Xu, from “Phrasis,” Naturalism (via lifeinpoetry)

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"—oh itit puts the heart in my chest on wingsfor when I look at you, even a moment, no speaking ..."

“—oh it

it puts the heart in my chest on wings

for when I look at you, even a moment, no speaking

                is left in me”

- Sappho, If Not, Winter (tr. by Anne Carson)

malinconie:love is natural and real, but not for such as you and I

malinconie:

love is natural and real, but not for such as you and I

Are there any songs that just turn you into a puddle of tears as soon as you hear them?

Yes!

9 Crimes - Damien Rice
Light - Sleeping At LastShe Will Be Loved - Maroon 5Burn - Ray LaMontagneTowers - Bon IverIf I Go, I’m Goin’ - Gregory Alan IsakovThe Trapeze Swinger - Iron and WineWires - Athlete Iris - The Goo Goo DollsThe Funeral - Band of HorsesWhere The Story Ends - The FrayWherever You Will Go - The CallingI Know It’s Over - The SmithsLover, You Should’ve Come Over - Jeff BuckleyWork Song - Hozier Trouble I’m In - TwinbedRun - Snow PatrolShooting Star - Air TrafficSamson - Regina SpektorHot Gates - Mumford and SonsHigh Hopes - KodalineMedicine - Daughter