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Asiya

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"Where cruelty and injustice are concerned, hopelessness is submission, which I believe is immoral." — Edward Said Sumūd ✊🏻 Photograph by Man Ray

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Asiya @asiyamiya.bsky.social · Jan 18

"We won’t abandon you, Gaza."

✊️ Sumud

🎼 Rajawi Falasteeni performed by Zeyne

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Rajawi Falasteeni (Ma Nisma7 Feek Ya Gaza) | رجاوي فلسطيني (ما نسمح فيك يا غزة)

YouTube video by zeyne زين

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · Apr 28

Jacques Prévert & Pablo Picasso by Boris Lipnitzki, 1951

"Picasso's Promenade"
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What an idea to paint an apple
says Picasso
and Picasso eats the apple
and the apple tells him Thanks
and Picasso breaks the plate
and goes off smiling

Picasso laughs & rests his head on Prévert’s shoulder

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · Apr 28

Sarah Choate Sears' portrait of her daughter Helen, along with John Singer Sargent's painting, both from 1895.

Sargent wrote this to her:

"How can an unfortunate painter hope to rival a photograph by a mother? Absolute truth combined with absolute feeling."

A young girl in a white party dress looks at a large globe

A young girl in a white party dress looks at some flowers

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𝑈𝑟𝑏𝑎𝑛 𝐺𝑖𝑟𝑙 @urbangirl.bsky.social · Apr 28

Morning rays...

Spain ©️ Ruben Ramos

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · Apr 27

Luminous angel babby from my collection, ca. 1960s.

A color photo of a delicate and fluffy white medium-haired cat sitting on a window ledge. They are looking at the camera. What makes this photo extra special is that the cat is backlight by the sun coming through the window, the light illuminating their fluffy hair making them appear glowing and angelic.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · Apr 27

The bird photos will continue until morale improves

Two Mourning Doves, beige soft-looking birds with long tails and pink feet, sit on top of a shepherd's hook bird feeder that is decorated with a metal bird. The doves are sitting so close to each other they are touching, which is super cute and why I took a feeder picture in some random neighbor's yard.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Apr 26

Fred Wah

to have the seasons
to have what comes
to have my love

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Apr 26

Tina Darragh

a cloud doesn’t revolve around a cloud
mountains don't taper to rain
bark couldn’t be called wrinkled
lightning won’t be long alone

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · Apr 27

Ted Kooser’s “Starlight”

All night, this soft rain from the distant past.
No wonder I sometimes waken as a child.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Apr 27

Ariana Reines (@graywolfpress.bsky.social)

Who’s the real addressee
Of literature? The soul itself?

What gave rise to the novel? Why
Romance the real?

Can the real
Be borne without it?

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Carolina @anilmedeiros.bsky.social · Apr 26

All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.

Clive James,

Hélène Béland,
'Light catcher'

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Carolina @anilmedeiros.bsky.social · Apr 27

Last night I dreamed you came over and stayed...

Kim Addonizio

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Final da tarde,
Tudo para para assistir
O pôr-do-sol

Costa de Caparica,
Almada - Portugal ♡

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Carolina @anilmedeiros.bsky.social · Apr 20

ele perguntou-me
em que medida é que isso te marcou?

eu perguntei-lhe:
como se mede uma raiz?

André Tecedeiro

Arte: Cy Twombly

: já se ouve o marulhar... ❤️

#25deabrilsempre
#fascismonuncamais

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c @3boxesofsighs.bsky.social · Apr 27

life is not like water.

things in life
don't necessarily flow
over the shortest possible route.

- haruki murakami

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c @3boxesofsighs.bsky.social · Apr 18

white butterfly anemone against black background

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c @3boxesofsighs.bsky.social · Apr 17

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Bluebeauty ~ human being/she/her @bluebeauty.bsky.social · Apr 27

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If by Rudyard Kipling - Read by Sir Michael Caine

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · Apr 27

"We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly."

Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · Apr 24

Yes Babs yes. Rock-a-bye baby. Tura-lura-lura. Yes Babs yes. Something was bound to happen, in any case, there’s no living with those people without something happening. Sh, baby, sh.

Cortazar / Hopscotch (35)

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · Apr 24

. . . the Beat Generation was a new flock of early Christians gathered prematurely before the bomb, an open-air asylum for the gentle and the mad . . .

Norman Mailer
Cannibals and Christians

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Takeshi Sudo @artssoy.bsky.social · Apr 24

“A breeze like the turning of a page
Brings back your face: the moment
Takes such a big bite out of the haze
Of pleasant intuition it comes after.”

——John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · Apr 24

To learn that we have said or done a
foolish thing that is nothing:
we must learn that we are
nothing but fools, a far
broader and more important lesson.
#Montaigne25 #Essays

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⚷ @birdheartedgirl.bsky.social · Apr 24

katia chausheva
dusk light

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · Apr 25

With red ink and manifest complacency, Morelli had copied in one of his notebooks the ending of a poem by Ferlinghetti :

Yet I have slept with beauty
in my own weird way
[ . . . ]

Cortazar / Hopscotch (121)

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