“I’m chasing myself (I have been for years).”
— Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980
THE FULL QUOTE IS 500X WORSE I WANT TO DIE
hi what are your favorite love poems/letters?
I have a compilation of my absolute favourite love letters
as for poems:
“Having a Coke with You” “For Grace, After a Party” and “Morning Poem” by Frank O’Hara
“Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled With Shrieks” by Christopher Citro
“Elegy for My Sadness” and “Song of the Anti-Sisyphus” by Chen Chen
“Intifada Incantation: Poem 38 for b.b.L.” “Poem for My Love” and various poems for Haruko by June Jordan
“One Last Poem for Richard” by Sandra Cisneros
“Snow and Dirty Rain” by Richard Siken
“Wish” and “In Time” by W. S. Merwin
“A Pity, We Were Such a Good Invention” by Yehuda Amichai
“Like a Small Café, That’s Love” by Mahmoud Darwish
“Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally A Love Poem” by Bob Hicok
“For M” by Mikko Harvey
“To Kiss a Forehead” by Marina Tsvetaeva
“When I Tell My Husband I Miss The Sun, He Knows” by Paige Lewis
“The Quiet World” by Jeffrey McDaniel
“Morning Love Poem” by Tara Skurtu
“[Of all the things I have done, I am most proud of our relationship]” and “Aubade” by Yanyi
some French ones: “J’ai tant rêvé de toi” “Les espaces du sommeil” by Robert Desnos, “Les yeux d’Elsa” “Les mains d’Elsa” by Louis Aragon, “La courbe de tes yeux” “Ma morte vivante” “J’ai fermé les yeux” by Paul Eluard
Do Not Bring Him Water, Caitlin Scarano
…or masterpost about ziall. A VERY RANDOM ONE. you can’t possibly systematize zayn and niall, they are just love and happiness and love and protectiveness and caring and did i mention love?
so, anyway, let’s just talk about ziall for a while. i don’t know where they stand now and neither does anyone here, so let’s talk about what we know and what we have seen alright happy ziall
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his lips.
The first time we talked it was like I had suddenly found the piece of me that was missing.