the girl with no country
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but i, being poor, have only my dreams; i have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. - w. b. yeats
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if i write for you, do you think you could read it? savor the words carefully chosen just for your eyes, your ears. for i am personal and i am illegible, in all manners and parts i am how you choose to see me.
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“There is silent and long-suffering sorrow to be met with among the peasantry. It withdraws into itself and is still. But there is a grief that breaks...”
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The Relativity of Time
It seems at times
as if the galaxies have churned ten times over
as if months have given way to years, and years to...
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Gold
I buried our love
in the backyard
with a hatchet—
it’s still there;
it’s grown into
a leafy tree
and each Spring,
buds blossom into
fruit and...
Taia. 17. Student. Poet. Singer.
Authors: Dostoevsky, Whitman, Liebling, Franzen, Ishigiro, Austen, Mitchell, McEwan, Wright, Proulx, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Milton, Frost, Maugham, Dickinson, Larsson, Dickens, Wharton, Neruda, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Morrison, too many to name…
Music: Temper Trap, Florence and the Machine, Ryan Adams, Ra Ra Riot, Etta James, Billie Holliday, the Killers, the Smiths, Fitz and the Tantrums, Maroon 5, Bon Iver, Amy Winehouse, Adele, Brandon Flowers, Edith Piaf, MIKA, Regina Spektor, Jane Monheit, She & Him, Ryan Bingham, Buddy Holly, John Mayer, Lady GaGa, Keane, Belle & Sebastian, Ella Fitzgerald, Tally Hall, Phoenix, Ray LaMontagne, Andrew Bird, this list is quite long enough already.
Currently Reading: North and South, the Brothers Karamazov, T.S. Eliot’s poems
