Jun. 5, 2011 at 8:03pm with 244 notes
Reblogged from crushes
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sometimes i dream that you are sherlock holmes and i am watson.
we kiss in alleyways and solve nothing.
we kiss in alleyways and solve nothing.
rage haiku
word on the street is this is totally a thing. do you think this could be a thing?
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Guillaume Apollinaire, ‘Il Pleut’, in Calligrammes: poems of war and peace 1913-1916 (1918)
It’s raining
it’s raining women’s voices as if they had died even in memory
and it’s raining you may as well marvellous encounters of my life O little drops
those rearing clouds begin to neigh a whole universe of auricular cities
listen if it rains while regret and disdain weep to an ancient music
listen to the bonds fall off which hold you above and below
[‘translation’ from: Edward Hirsch, how to read a poem: and fall in love with poetry (2000)]
sez you
[Henry Lawson (1902), photograph, Henry Lawson Collection: University of Sydney]
