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Sappho, from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho; tr. by Anne Carson

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I have three modes of reading

Dont read

Read a 500 page book in a day

Read only fanfiction until my eyeballs drop out of my skull from exhaustion

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[1] Summer clouds are racing across the sky on Monet's pond, [2] Current in a summer sky,(Monet's pond) | Reiji Hiramatsu

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yall ever just yearn? ever get filled with the most profound sense of longing for something you cant understand? yall ever crave? ever have an unexplainable ache?

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funniest part of the homeric hymn to hermes is when hermes not only lies to apollo about stealing his cattle on the basis that he is an infant, but he also tries to gaslight apollo by claiming that he doesn't even know what a cow is

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― Ivan Bunin, The Collected Stories

[text ID: In October I confessed my love for her, and she allowed me to kiss her.]

˗ˏˋ☕ˎˊ˗  

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Azaleas, Kim Sowol 김소월

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— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks

[text ID: My library is an archive of longings.]

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“For the Courtesan Ch’ing Ling” by Chinese poet 吳藻 (1799-1862), translation by Kenneth Rexroth and copied from Love Poems by Women, an internationally-minded, feminist anthology compiled by Welsh poet Wendy Mulford in 1991.

The biographical note on Wu Tsao reads:

The daughter and wife of merchants, she is China’s best known lesbian poet.

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Wu Zao  — For the Courtesan Ch'ing Lin.

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ਭਾਵੇਂ ਜ਼ੁਹਦ ਇਬਾਦਤਾਂ ਲੱਖ ਹੋਵਣ

ਇਸ਼ਕ ਬਾਝ ਨਜਾਤ ਨਾ ਮੂਲ ਮੀਆਂ - ਵਾਰਿਸ ਸ਼ਾਹ

#book #ਹੀਰ #heer #waris shah #gurmukhi punjabi #punjabi poetry #punjabi

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“Come to me again when the moon Moves the flower shadows.”

— Li Qingzhao, from Thoughts from the Women’s Quarter (tr. by Kenneth Rexroth & Ling Chung)

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Sorrow of Separation, The Complete Ci-poems of Li Qingzhao: A New English Translation by Jiaosheng Wang

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-Shiv Kumar

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ਲੋਕੀਂ ਪੂਜਣ ਰੱਬ, ਮੈਂ ਤੇਰਾ ਬਿਰਹੜਾ

ਸਾਨੂੰ ਸੌ ਮੱਕਿਆਂ ਦਾ ਹੱਜ, ਵੇ ਤੇਰਾ ਬਿਰਹੜਾ - ਸ਼ਿਵ ਕੁਮਾਰ ਬਟਾਲਵੀ

#shiv kumar batalvi #punjabi poetry #selected poems #punjabi #book #poem

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ਸਾਨੂੰ ਤੇ ਮਿਲਣ ਦੀ ਆਸ ਰਹਿੰਦੀ ਆ ਹਰ ਵੇਲੇ

ਜੇ ਯਾਰ ਹੀ ਭੁੱਲ ਜਾਵੇ ਤਾ ਕੀ ਕਰੀਏ ।

#punjabi #punjab #punjabi poetry #bullehshah #baba bulleh shah #gurmukhi #poetry