June 2012
On adorable kids and Captain America.
holymotherofguard:
So, today at the waterpark, there was a little boy didn’t want to go in the water for whatever reason, and so he just kind of chilled in one of the reclining pool chairs with his grandma, watching his friends or relatives or whatever playing around.
I thought it was kind of sad and adorable, but didn’t give it too much thought until I passed by him sometime later and saw him...
“Sun behind you
I kissed the hole in the light
and said: Yes.”
– Rebecca Lindenberg, from “Aubade” (via the-final-sentence)
“[When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir,...”
– Austin Grossman, from Soon I Will Be Invincible (thanks, talesofearth)
Allen Ginsberg, "An Eastern Ballad"
sharingpoetry:
I speak of love that comes to mind: The moon is faithful, although blind; She moves in thought she cannot speak. Perfect care has made her bleak. I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild. (submitted by blackinkobelisk)
“In my next life I want to accept things as they are and when people ask why, I...”
– Elizabeth Crane, from All this Heavenly Glory (thanks, the-jewitch)
“And as you promised that if you didn’t come back, the river would whisper to me...”
– Consuelo de Saint Exupéry, from The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind The Little Prince (thanks, aiilovelife)
“[They stand a while in the flickering light, rehearsing
the children’s names...”
– Gwen Harwood, from “In the Park” (via the-final-sentence)
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via frivolousandreckless)
“[What do you think of, lying so quietly
by the water?] When you look that way I...”
– “The Pond” by Louise Glück (via journalofanobody)
“But I would never kiss anyone who doesn’t burn me like the sun.”
– Jens Lekman (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
“But I’m not insisting you’re some kind of goddess,
(I know you’re suspicious of...”
– Rives (via infatuationsbreakusdown)
“Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers...”
– Rumi (via bowcox)
“I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via oceaniceyes)
“There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine...”
– Steve Maraboli (via oceaniceyes)
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
– Winnie the Pooh (via fkojs)
“Let’s look for dragons,” I said to Pooh.
“Yes, let’s,” said Pooh to me.”
– Us Two - A.A Milne (via maria-erikaa) 