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wedarkacademia · 1 year

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tygerland · 1 year

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Allen Ginsberg (l) by Bruce Weber; NYC, 1992.

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agentx8d · 5 days

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PREGNANT WOMAN NEEDS EVACUATION

Laila Ezzat al Shana is a 20 year old from Gaza who needs to evacuate her family from Gaza. Her husband needs immediate surgery for injuries in both feet. Her son Ismail is 2 years old, and all Laila wants for him is to live a safe and happy life! She just wants to raise her upcoming baby in peace and security like any other mother! She has only received 46€/75,000€ needed! Please, please help me share her message!

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galina · 1 year

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I was very excited to be invited to design the cover(s) of Resonance’s New Poets Anthology earlier this year. Here’s the printed work. Having attended every open mic at both Three Hounds and Matchstick Piehouse I can confidently say Resonance is the best poetry night in London, some seriously incredible poets come through and there are often unbelievably good first-timers too. The energy in the room is always amazing, but on the launch night for the anthology it was like a sparkler you could taste on your tongue and feel at the end of your fingers, pure magic

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happysadaf · 5 months

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If I Must Die by Palestinian writer and poet, Rafaat Alareer. Refaat was killed by the Israeli forces on 7 December, 2023, one week after he wrote this poem. Rest in peace brother.

#free gaza #free palestine #palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #gaza strip #gaza #middle east #refaat alareer #refaat in gaza #mahmoud darwish #poetry #poets on tumblr #poems on tumblr #poem #literature #english literature #qoutes

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embeccy · 2 months

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“All great and precious things are lonely.”

- John Steinbeck

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hersurvival · 9 days

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Poison Ivy eyes

Hold me captive

In my own mind

Her gaze lingers,

Steady,

Her name on my tongue

Like a burning,

Sweet tincture

She has weaved her vines

Through my veins,

Taken root

And left my heart

Lacquered

I know they say

"Leaves of three, let it be,"

But I am weaker at the prospect

Of trying to resist her

#poison ivy #green eyed girl #she consumes me #urushiol in the sap #is what causes the rash associated with poison ivy #they use it for traditional east asian lacquerware #fun fact #writing #poets on tumblr #poem #poetry #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #spilled poem #spilled writing #original writing #flame

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rrcraft-and-lore · 28 days

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Another shared myth across many cultures you might not know about? The swan maiden.

Shows up in Irish folklore, in Wales, Germany, Romania, Russia, Swede, Finish, through other parts of Asia, the middle east, and one of the oldest south Asian tales there is - so old that- people believe the theme might have come to that story from an earlier proto Indo-European tale.

What does the swan maiden represent? Well, it changes, but it's often thought to be: divinity, a representation of both the sky and water, a bridge between them, and celestial presence - entities. Luck. Prosperity.

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bluebell-lace · 9 months

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I can’t wait for fall 🍁

#girlblogging #lana del rey #femcel #moodboard #autumn #autumn aesthetic #autumn academia #smashing pumpkins #halloween #dark academia #the secret history #east coast #new england #dead poets society

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verademialove · 5 months

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“But I do feel strange-almost unearthly. I'll never get used to being alive. It's a mystery. Always startled to find I've survived.”

John Steinback, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

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randomrichards · 2 months

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THE SWEET EAST

Lost on a field trip

Teen girl meets a few weirdos

Surreal satire

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rootsinmydreamlandx · 7 days

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us pleading for a double album drop and then getting it and having to process 15 new songs at 2 am after trying to process 16 new songs at 12 am

@taylornation @taylorswift

#ttpd #the tortured poets department #taylor nation #taylor swift #double album excuse me i'm crying #i'm an east coast girlie and i'm marked unsafe #but i did take a personal day tomorrow so YAY

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agentx8d · 16 days

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URGENT- PLEASE REBLOG

https://gofund.me/f9de475f

Sabah is a Palestinian woman living in Gaza who needs help to evacuate her children NOW! SHE IS ONLY 175€/20,000€! With the threatened invasion of Rafah, this is an URGENT PLEA for Sabah’s fundraiser to be shared so she can evacuate for her and her children’s LIVES! Thank you!

Layan, Hamood, and Sahar, Sabah’s children.

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importantwomensbirthdays · 5 months

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Iman Mersal

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Iman Mersal was born in 1966 in Mit 'Adlan, Egypt. Mersal has written five books of poetry and a book of essays. Her work has been translated into Spanish, French, German, Hebrew, Dutch, and English. Mersal's creative nonfiction book Traces of Enayat al-Zayyat won the 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in Literature, and her book The Threshold was shortlisted for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize.

#poets #poetry #writers #woman writers #arabic poetry #arab #egypt #egyptian #middle east #middle eastern writers #Youtube

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lesewut · 7 months

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The "West-Eastern Diwan" by Goethe - A bridged beauty between Occident and Orient. Published by Prof. Dr. Heinrich Düntzer, Berlin and Stuttgart, 1878.

It is said, that Goethe used the "oriental mask" to cover his pantheistic ideas, speaking trough the lips of the newly translated poets. Next to the Hafez' poems, which where published and translated by the orientalist Joseph von Hammer, other literal and scientific sources were used as inspirational impact and to refine the tone of the great masters of Oriental poetry, like the academic achievements of Prof. Wurm, Prof. Paulus (Orientalist in Heidelberg), other translations of cultural impact like Rückert's "Östliche Rosen" (~ Eeastern Roses) the Mewlana-Transaltions of 1819 and the collection of August von Platen called "Ghaselen", Goethe corresponded with Boisserés and with one of the Grimm brothers. Wilhelm von Humboldt praised the authencitiy of Goethe's work.

The "East-Western Diwan" is the last great cycle of poetry Goethe has wrote, his interest for Persian poetry arised in the time of the Rheinbund. It can be traced, that this period of time disillusioned him, the diving into another time and continent is essential for escapism, but as Goethe and his field of interest and curiosity is as deep as wide, he must felt like thrown like a freed bird into new heavenly realms. The "Diwan Atmosphere" was created by reading several works and taking in Oriental elements. So we can find "Madschnun and Leila" interwoven in the heart-shaking correspondence between Suleika and Hatem in the "Book Suleika". Expressions of the Dervish Hafis of Shiraz can be found, Tarafas, Labid (Prophet Mohammad called him the poet, who said the most true words; Labid converted to Islam and wrote eologies, but it is said, that he stopped practicing ?), Zoheir, Saadi and Hafez. Saadi was also known as a sheik and was called "Poet-King" (or King-Poet, if you like :P) and if we would compare the structure of the poems, it is more likely, that Goethe imitated Saadi, rather than Hafez.

Goethe is playing wonderfully with expressions, merging wine and tears, praising the dust of the lover as better than safran and comparing the loved one to a drop of water and the lyrical-I as desert sand. Numerology is emphasising the cultural background, drawing a link between the poet and the priest, pairing mystics and religion into ecstatic relief. This wonderful work is a gift, for everyone, who sometimes had the feeling of getting ripped apart by two forces. It feels like the made-up gap between Europa and Asia is nothing but a fiction, like a forgotten song of our cultural cradle. Let us share the pomegranates of our culture, let us nourish from unkown fruits to break our borders, to sharpen our discernment, to truely lift our feet and recognize the extraordinary.

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djouzaherondale04 · 7 months

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Beneath the rising sun, in the farthest eastern sea

A promised land, once tranquil, once free.

Weeps for its children bleeding in the street,

Tired, bewildered, on bare feet they entreat.

Their faces stained with ever-flowing tears.

Their hearts bear burdens too heavy for their years.

Each day they watch helplessly as homes explode

Illuminating the sky as their hopes corrode.

By day the hide, by night , they count the dead

And time marches on, their homes turn to thread.

Theirs is the exhaustion of both heart and mind

No rest can ease the darkness they've confined.

Their pleas are drowned by the bombs' cruel sound

Falling from the sky, shattering sacred ground.

They cry out to god, "What have we done to bear this fate?",

Yet, this is the work of men, consumed by hate.

FREE PALESTINE

#free palestine #palestine #poetry #english literature #dark academy #middle east #artists on tumblr #poets on tumblr #israël #wrong #booktok #music #muslim #christianity #jewish

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