goldenspine:

i’m jealous of 
your pillows
and of your sheets

i want to hear
the sound of
your heartbeat 

fuckyeahfilipinopoetry:

There are words that are lonely

There are words hurt the tongue only

There are words that never speak

There are words that never break

But the most terrible of all

Are the words that never fall

But flip and flap in the sky

Not knowing when or how to die.

fuckyeahfilipinopoetry:

Everything is borrowed space, the space I occupy the space left behind. Who was here before? Who had a similar view of the garden? 

In the story is a house in another part of the city, with a nearly identical room that can contain the both of us. Inside are objects that can be used in our own murder: a pair of scissors on a stack of folded napkins, the knives in the kitchen, a spool of floss in the downstairs bathroom, the poison under the sink. Inside the story, the living says, I woke up and saw a stranger standing at the foot of my bed. 

Outside the story, we leave the couch and make plans for dinner, surrounded by the things that belong to us. Here, a window, a lace curtain. Here a table, a chair, a view of the garden. A plate of apples, a cup of coffee heavy with our reflection. Outside, night falls, and I touch your hand, and we believe we are safe, we believe we have all the time in the world.

From Maps, 1st place in Poetry (English), 2010 Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature

Track Title: Bright Star by John Keats

Artist: Tom Hiddleston

Album: Tom Hiddleston Reads Poems

Tom Hiddleston reads Bright Star by John Keats

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— 
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—
No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever—or else swoon to death. 

effnicpunx:

Diane di Prima, “Revolutionary Letter #7”

fluttering-slips:

The blur between fingers

 

He buries his face into my hair and inhales. 
If I live anywhere in his body, 
I live in his lungs. There are better organs 
I’m sure, but it’s warm here too, 
and most of the sound stays away.

Sometimes in the middle of the night, 
I wake up to feel my spine against the wall.
I don’t mean to make this all about bodies
but we are the sort of people whose faith is
Tangibility, and there is little room
for dreamy motions or romantic confessions.
Some mornings, I don’t even stay for coffee.

How do I explain then, the nova in my stomach,
and the bird in my throat who, as time passes,
beats his wings more furiously. I have to keep 
my mouth closed to prevent feathers 
from bursting out. And oh, what trouble it would be
if a song escaped. What beautiful trouble
it would do to our small little worlds.

Cassandra Warren