あきら

— George Abraham, “Untitled,” published in Black Napkin Press (via bostonpoetryslam)

[A white fortune cookie paper with red text on the front reading: An unusual dream will come true]

holy and pure

— Warsan Shire, from Conversations About Home

During the Victorian era, mourners sometimes collected their tears in gold decorated “tear bottles” to keep as a remembrance for the next of kin. It has also been said that the widows would go to the grave on the anniversary of the first year of death and sprinkle the tears on the grave to signify the end of the first year of mourning.

Anakreon, tr. by Willis Barnstone, from Greek Lyric Poetry; “Cicada,”

Gerard DuBois

Koloman Moser, sketches for Jugendschatz, 1897.

this whole year !!! am i right lads

Kerubim for Lovers Tarot Card