#tr. robert bly

[apoemaday]

Gacela of the Dark Death

by Federico García Lorca tr. Robert Bly

I want to sleep the sleep of the apples, I want to get far away from the busyness of the cemeteries. I want to sleep the sleep of that child who longed to cut his heart open far out at sea.

I don’t want them to tell me again how the corpse keeps all its blood, how the decaying mouth goes on begging for water. I’d rather not hear about the torture sessions the grass arranges for nor about how the moon does all its work before dawn with its snakelike nose.

I want to sleep for half a second, a second, a minute, a century, but I want everyone to know that I am still alive, that I have a golden manger inside my lips, that I am the little friend of the west wind, that I am the elephantine shadow of my own tears.

When it’s dawn just throw some sort of cloth over me because I know dawn will toss fistfuls of ants at me, and pour a little hard water over my shoes so that the scorpion claws of the dawn will slip off.

Because I want to sleep the sleep of the apples, and learn a mournful song that will clean all earth away from me, because I want to live with that shadowy child who longed to cut his heart open far out at sea.

#poetry #federico garcia lorca #gacela of the dark death #tr. robert bly

[mournfulroses]

Miguel Hernández, tr. by Robert Bly, from The Selected Poems; "I Have Plenty of Heart,"

#lit #miguel hernandez #poetry #tw: grief #words #poetry in translation #spanish literature #fragments #excerpts #writings #i have plenty of heart #p

[cursed-and-haunted]

HOLE THEORY

@/wovi / Immemorial Silence, Karman MacKendrick / Track, Tomas Tranströmer tr by Robert Bly / Black Square on a White Field, Kazimir Malevich / Hole Theory, William Pope L. / Overflowing With Empty, Judas H. / The Man With a Hole in His Head, Rick Bursky / William Pope L. / @/vren-diagram / Andrew Wyeth / Eating the Archive, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh / What We Buried, Caitlyn Siehl / Ann Carson

#mine #hole theory #web weaving

[petaltexturedskies]

Juan Ramón Jiménez, tr by Robert Bly, from "Nocturne" wr. c. 1903

#typography #moon #Juan Ramón Jiménez

[kermit-coded]

O Mother Where Art Thou?

batgirl (2000) // bethany webster, from mother wound healing: why it’s crucial for women // batgirl (2000) // enough, suzanne buffam // batgirl (2000) // h.d., from “envy” // fariha róisín, how to cure a ghost // batgirl (2000) // batgirl (2000) // james baldwin, from jimmy’s blues and other poems // janet fitch, from white oleander // batgirl (2000) // batgirl (2000) // clarice lispector, “excerpt”, collected stories (trans. katrina dodson) // batgirl (2000) // jack gilbert, “the abandoned valley” // batgirl (2000) // tomas tranströmer, tr. by robert bly, from a poem titled “track” // batgirl (2000) // batgirl (2000) // may sarton, journal of a solitude // batgirl (2000) // adonis, from selected poems; “a piece of bahlul’s sun” (tr. khaled mattawa) // batgirl (2000) // batgirl (2000) // neil hilborn, “a place where someone loves you” // batgirl (2000) // laura gibson, from “empire builder” // batgirl (2000) // anne carson, grief lessons

#my webweaving #web weaving #dc #batgirl #cassandra wayne #barbara gordon #cass cain #batgirl 2000 #cassandra cain #dc comics #mothers #girlhood #lady shiva #sandra wu san

[feral-ballad]

sorry if this is specific but do you know any quotes about pomegranates in relation to love? whether it be hades/persephone related or a general idea, i’m just looking for something to add to my girlfriend’s valentines card😭 i’ve always felt the act of sharing fruit was very romantic and i got her a pomegranate patch, however i just felt adding a quote to the card might help her understand the meaning behind it a bit more. if not, i totally get it and thank you for your time!!

this is the cutest!🫀🤍

I’ll kiss you in the pomegranate garden.

From I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan, tr. by Eliza Griswold

Salma al-Khadra al-Jayyusi, ed. by Kamal Boullata, from Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry by Arab Women; “Dearest Love — III”

I have sat down in the middle of the Earth, my love, in the middle of my life, to open my veins and my chest, to peel my skin like a pomegranate, and to break the red mahogany of these bones that loved you.

Gabriela Mistral, tr. by Randall Couch, From Madwomen: The Locas Mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral, a Bilingual Edition; “The Abandoned Woman”

Igor Severyanin, tr. by Avrahm Yarmolinsky, from Modern Russian Poetry: An Anthology; “And it passed by the sea-shore”

My heart is a fiery pomegranate, / its scarlets clustered, and its wax opened, / which could offer you its tender beads / with the stubbornness of a man in love.

Miguel Hernández, tr. by Robert Bly; “Your heart?—It is a Frozen Orange”

Jeanette Winterson, from Written on the Body

Tell them that you weren’t hungry, tell them you followed the pomegranates seeds because they tasted like blood, like love.

Pauline Albanese, from The Closed Doors

Oscar Wilde, “In the Gold Room”

#anon #ask #compilations #recs

[megairea]

And he was the demon of my dreams, the most handsome of all angels.

Antonio Machado, from “And he was the demon” (tr. by Robert Bly)

Erica Jong, from Lullaby for a Dybbuk

Rosalía de Castro, from “With his wave's soft persistent whisper” (tr. by Anna-Marie Aldaz, Barbara N. Gantt, Anne C. Bromley)

#compilation #erica jong #Antonio Machado #Rosalia de Castro

[artofdyingslowly]

— Miguel Hernández, tr by Robert Bly, from the Selected Poems: “Death”

#miguel hernández #death quotes #i can’t sleep

[kiwi-smug-silvalina]

vincent van gogh ("trees and undergrowth") // Otherside (MInecraft OST) // david levithan // @endrinstone // Sappho, from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho; tr. by Anne Carson // nikolay dybowski and alexandra goludeva // Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. November 1935 featured in Selected Diaries // // voyager golden records // Vladimir Mayakovsky, from a letter featured in "Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, 1915-1930," // Purple Steel // Nadezhda Mandelstam, from "Hope against Hope: A Memoir," originally published in 1970 // Arthur Rimbaud, from The Complete Works of Arthur Rimbaud; "A Season In Hell," // @zeteri-art // — clarice lispector, the stream of life // Miguel Hernández, tr. by Robert Bly, from The Selected Poems; "Letter," // Miguel Hernández, tr. by Robert Bly, from The Selected Poems; "I Have Plenty of Heart,"

(Part 1/2) (2/2)

kantje, Showtime SMP, on growth, sacrifice, development and the choices we made with the consequences we suffer

Part 1 of my very first web weaving which is also a present for @zeteri-art (i hope you dont mind that i used one of your art pieces for it, there just arent many pieces of art of kantje that were not made by you (i respect the grind o7)) for @mcyt-valentines

I have had no idea who kantje was before I got you as my secret valentine and since i wanted to make something special, and this is a rather niche character from a smaller smp, I wanted to make something for this! I went around the internet, trying to find lore summaries and other stuff to no avail, until I stumbled upon @endrinstone who was literally my beacon in the dark and gave me such a vast explanation of the lore, moments that were important and also some screenshots that I could use for the web weaving! Like so many kudoes to you bestie, I wouldve literally probably given up on it and did something else instead if it werent for ya.

But! I really hope that, as an outsider from this smp who hasnt even known of the characters existence until like, five days ago, I captured their lore at least a little bit! I really hope you enjoy and I will post this and the second part immediately afterwards, which I will also @ you in!

#kantje #showtime smp #mcytblr #mcyt #web weaving #mcyt valentines #kiwi edits

[89rooms]

And he was the demon of my dreams, the most handsome of all angels.

Antonio Machado, from “And he was the demon” (tr. by Robert Bly)

[llovelymoonn]

on laughter

sanna wani tomorrow is a place \\ bridgerton \\ laura wetherington feel piece 4 \\ miguel hernández (tr. robert bly) selected poems: “lullaby of the onion” \\ dudley randall laughter in the slums

kofi

#on laughter #mine #my webweaving #webweaving #web weaving #webweave #web weave #web #webs #ww #parallel #parallels #parallelism #compilations #intertext #intertextuality #compilation #comparative #comparatives #sanna wani #bridgerton #laura wetherington #miguel hernández #robert bly #lullaby of the onion #dudley randall

[fernvictor]

go there. go into the dark.

cosmic love - florence and the machine // untitled (t1980-k5) - hans hartung // death or the waiting room - vicente aleixandre (tr. lewis hyde) // hollow knight - team cherry // presence of a memory - alekos kontopoulos // unknown // breve vi - jean degottex // track - tomas tranströmer (tr. robert bly) // tumblr user catcrumb // only this darkness - e.e. cummings // tiktok user bob.reese // scheherazade/scheherazade - paul tran // jouissance de l’espace n. 11 - rene duvillier

#webweave #web weaving #darkness #dark

[mournfulroses]

Miguel Hernández, tr. by Robert Bly, from The Selected Poems; "Eternal Darkness,"

#lit #miguel hernandez #poetry #quotes #words #eternal darkness #poetry selections #robert bly #p

[cursed-and-haunted]

A study on my wip Things That Swallow

Black hole, Trying to Swim With God - Warsan Shire, Death, Labyrinth, The Archive of Alternate Endings - Lindsay Drager, Untitled - Anish Kapoor, Track - Tomas Tranströmer tr. by Robert Bly, Immemorial Silence - Karman MacKendrick, Bare - Danze Smith, Jenny Holzer, Where it Begins - Erica Jong, Holy Feast and Holy Fast - Caroline Walker Bynum, Eating Snake - Margaret Atwood, Ouroburos, Sacrifice: a Problem for Theology - Simone Weil, Sanctificum - Chris Abani, Sing Unburied Sing - Jesmyn Ward, Cain's Hymn - Bianca Braswell, Adonis tr. by Samuel Hazo, The Night There - Mahmoud Darwish, The Incredulity of Saint Thomas - Caravaggio, The Incredulity of St. Thomas - Bernardo Strozzi, Trail - Thomás Boersner, Eternal Return

#mine #things that swallow #web weaving

[emmtyradio]

I stretch my loneliness out from eternity to eternity.

—Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. by Robert Bly, from Selected Poems

#books & libraries #literature quotes #dark acadamia aesthetic #darkacademism #light academia #solitude #dark academia #literature #aestheitcs #positivity #franz kafka #writers on tumblr #female writers #aesthetic #vintage

[oldwinesoul]

like you, i can't sleep, because i love too many things, and my heart, dressed like the dead, overflows toward the universe.

—Miguel Hernández, tr by Robert Bly, The Selected Poems: "Death"

#poets on tumblr #dark academia #aesthetic #spilled poetry #words #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #19th century #vintage #love poem #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia books #renaissance art #renaissance #poetry #miguel hernández