enamouredpoet:

eunoia

(noun)

beautiful thinking; a well mind

“In the dream I don’t tell anyone, you put your head in my lap.”

Richard Siken, ‘I had a dream about you’

‘wyd’? no i want a handwritten love letter on how i am the ultimate love of your life, how much you miss me and why i should drop everything i’m doing to flail into your arms

virginia woolfe’s guide to reading ‘right’:

novels: “do not dictate your author. try to become him. be his fellow worker and accomplice.” what is the author feeling? what do they hope i will feel from this? what do they think they know the answers to?

poetry: poetry is a MOMENT. let your emotions and instincts rule. a good poem is like a shock of personal emotion. the purpose of a poem is to grasp and centre the reader in a mood or movement. allow yourself to get carried away by sensation.

biography: that longing we all feel when sometime in the evening you’re standing in front of a house and the windows are lit. that urge to understand another person’s life. biographies “light up innumerable such houses”. within the mundane, revel in those moments making up everyday life for this person.

references from: How Should One Read a Book - Virginia Woolfe

roots of hair blooming from the bed that is her golden skin,

tear residue on the waterline; a waterfall she conceals within

yet she is both sandalwood and grapefruit juice,

because that is her spirit and the scent of her hair she lets loose.

morgan harper nichols

“a beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance. then her soul sat on her lips, and language flowed.”

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

vintage

a black corset hangs in my room, i read archaic classics, i play 60s jazz and wear dated pieces probably worn on the arm of someone who had a longer story than mine; my world is woven with antiquity and age, divine, divine age.