February 2012
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Word of the Day 24/02/2012 - cicurate
cicurate v. to tame, or reclaim from a state of wildness.
“Here you go, Love - have a long toke on this. You need to be cicurated after our frolic in the meadow.”
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ninewhitetulips:
so yeah i think i miss you but that’s the way of the world when it spins in reality
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Word of the Day 23/02/2012 - absit omen
absit omen phr. Latin touch wood.
“Darling, I’m feeling somewhat frolicsome again. I think you should absit omen, dear. Ooooh! Yes, that’s it!”
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“It was a fast, fresh, blue-dappled day; the wind, a distant relation of this...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Despair (via starspray)
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“Ah, gentle drivers gliding through summer’s black nights, what frolics, what...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via litdub)
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“It’s after one and you must be asleep.
Or maybe you can feel the night as well....”
– from the suicide note of Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1930 (trans. Erik Korn)
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Equals
ninewhitetulips:
You shine so brightly My love But I like being in your Shadow I bow to my better happily So happily-shine beloved Even in this darkened Place I feel the heat emanating From your beauty There will be time later To snuggle up with you and Rest One loving body heart soul and Mind with another when Love equals us
Michelle Dent
So. Is. This!
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She’s In Love
ninewhitetulips:
She’s in love with a man whose face Is the sun With eyes that hold so much more Than we see Whose soul is elegance wrapped in A burial of night His heart harbors the moon and all Her craters His mind a cavern of pirated treasure Along the rocky shore of a yet to be Discovered beach A man whose power spans space and Time condensing them to lay at the Feet of those he loves
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She Blushed
ninewhitetulips:
I heard him say to her I look forward to you Not to seeing you Not to hearing from you Just… You I look forward to you Matter of fact-just like That She blushed and looked Down He never took his eyes Off her
Michelle Dent
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“I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly...”
– Vincent van Gogh (via floralnymph)
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“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one...”
– Lao Tzu (via floralnymph)
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“Awed by her splendor
stars near the lovely
moon cover their own
bright faces...”
– Sappho, Awed By Her Splendor (via floralnymph)
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“If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a...”
– Ray Bradbury (via floralnymph)
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Word of the Day 22/02/2012 - diuturnal
diuturnal a. lasting long.
“Whatever happens, acushla, however far away you are, no matter how much time you need, and however diuturnal the wait, I will still be here and my love for you will be eternal.”
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kangarusunnyday:
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling) i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
e.e...
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“Think of a bee
You are its knees
You waft through me like a summer breeze
Can...”
– Bernard Black (via jeanyay)
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“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be...”
– - A bit of writing advice from Neil Gaiman. (via faramirs)
I said it on the Nerdist Podcast, and I believe it. It’s as true for any area of the arts, not just writing. Perhaps it’s true for life.
(via neil-gaiman)
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Word of the Day 21/02/2012 - paraphilemia
paraphilemia n. Love play. Again.
“Ah, my Love, our game of Scrabble was delightful. As was watching Inception for the 48th time. But seeing you waltz into the spare room with that cheeky wave and your transparent underwear has filled me with the urge to drag you into my bedchamber for another game. What’s that? Scrabble? Haha! No, no - I propose a little paraphilemia.”
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“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via loveyourchaos)
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Word of the Day 20/02/2012 - pundigrion
pundigrion n. a pun.
“I must say I thought Treebeard’s acting in The Lord of the Rings was very wooden. Oh! Ha! No pundigrion intended.”
I suppose that was just barking up the wrong tree. Oak-a, ok, I’ll leaf it alone.
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“I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.”
– Vincent van Gogh (via 32flavors-)
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Whispers
I live in a very, very quiet part of England. I have one set of neighbours, a young and friendly couple who I sometimes think are a figment of my imagination as I hear and see them so rarely. The next house in one direction is about a quarter of a mile away, and in the other direction, about half a mile. There are no street lights.
Lately, in the still hush of the middle night, as a whorl of...
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“A story is alive, as you and I are. It is rounded by muscle and sinew. Rushed...”
– Cameron Dokey (via danseurs)
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“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast....”
– Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (via bookmania)
Oh, I know that feeling!
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Word of the Day 19/02/2012 - marcid
marcid a. exhausted.
“Lucia, what with all this crawling around on my hands and knees, I’m getting quite marcid.”
or
“My acushla, after over 900 emails in 20 days, I am feeling utterly marcid. But don’t you dare stop, or I may have to chastise you…”
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Moonset
ninewhitetulips:
As the moon begins her sleepy descent I arise It’s always a good day when I see she’s waited Up to greet me before retiring That’s when I tell her my secrets-in the morning After my dreams reminded me of what I thought I’d forgotten
~Michelle Dent
It feels like you wrote this especially for me and another, Michelle.
Thank you.
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Good Vibrations
ninewhitetulips:
You give new meaning My love to resonance Repatterning as you Growl your way Through my body
Michelle Dent
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Moving On
ninewhitetulips:
And then there’s the Matter of your hands Adept as they begin Their exploration With a departure as Changeable as a Cartographer’s Coordinates back in The day And your clean Shaven neck smelling Of a small explosion of Forested blossoms Vulnerable in it’s Exposure
Michelle Dent
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ninewhitetulips:
like the moon whether seen or not I feel your presence and flow in and out with your waxing and waning
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Word of the Day 18/02/2012 - volva
volva n. (botany) a sheath enclosing the whole of the fruit body of some agarics.
“I’ll be with you in a minute, Anna; I’m just getting into my volva before we go for a ride.”
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“When this earth and world did not exist
When there was no moon, sun or sky...”
– Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (via floralnymph)
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“Young she was and yet not so. The braids of her dark hair were touched by no...”
– Tolkien, on Arwen (via floralnymph)
[This could be describing someone else, too… Tolkien understood romance.]
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“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s...”
– Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (via mariposaofthemist)
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Word of the Day 17/02/2012 - luz
luz n. a bone supposed by Rabbinical writers to be indestructible.
“It doesn’t matter how many times we try to break it, Lucia - my luz is quite unyielding.”
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“There’s a time and place everywhere I go
When the river meets the sea...”
– Chris Rea, That Girl of Mine, from the album Dancing With Strangers
Sometimes, we need to post some cheery stuff, especially on a Friday. If Sunday is the saddest day, Friday is one of the happiest. Unless you’re going to a funeral, that is. Sorry if you are.
Chris Rea is very good at wistful...