my thrill….

 ... if I had known free spirits are burning deities

I’d have stayed away from you

If I could…

Built a moat around my heart

Cloaked my soul and shut my eyes from your radiance

I am burning.

A beautiful fire has set me alight

You came into my life a far away wind blowing on foreign land

Carrying the smell of sweetened love with you

If I had known you would fan my spirit I’d have sought counsel from the four winds

and travelled earlier to find you

Look how I blush the colour of your soul

The colour of my heart before you came dancing to the sound of my name..

— my thrill - Tapiwa Mugabe, tapiwamugabe.tumblr.com

"ZZZ…": Natasha Poly by Tim Walker for LOVE #11 Spring/Summer 2014

all you need is...

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
— Cicero

Marc Jacobs|The Secret Garden

it is….

It is music and dancing that makes me at peace with the world.

— Nelson Mandela
Ter et Bantine Fall/Winter 1999 Campaign photographed by Armin Linke

One moment...

I have had one moment of enormous peace.

This perhaps is happiness.

Now I am drawn back by pricking sensations; by curiosity, greed and the irresistible desire to be myself.

— Virginia Woolf, from The Waves

"Wishes on a wheel". Caitlin Morrin by Parisa Walklett for DressLab

Your becoming is inevitable….

Your becoming is inevitable 

Create to calm the boil

This will thaw out the numb spirit

Before floods of laughter 

And a hundred posies full of kisses

There will be nights turning into loneliness

You will go from soft to brittle then soft again 

You’ll learn grief is a horrible thing

that cooks anger and serves sadness

But you will rebuild yourself into something better

And you will find a new way to breath

Then you will fly and fly away

— your becoming is inevitable  - Tapiwa Mugabe

georgina stojiljkovic by Sarah Moon for grey ss11

Witness of freedom….

We are living in a time when men, impelled by mediocre and ferocious ideologies,

have gotten into the habit of being ashamed of everything
 —ashamed of themselves, of being happy, of loving or creating.

— Albert Camus, The Artist as a Witness of Freedom 
lukasz wierzbowski

Having...

Having experienced both, I am not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

barbara stanwyck

There is...

"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.

There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.

You feel it, don’t you?" 

― Rumi

Valerie Sipp in “Designer’s Palette” by Javier Vallhonrat for Vogue Italia March 2002

♥

"I want to see you.

Know your voice.

Recognize you when you

first come ‘round the corner.

Sense your scent when I come 

into a room you’ve just left.

Know the lift of your heel,

the glide of your foot.

Become familiar with the way 

you purse your lips

then let them part, 

just the slightest bit,

when I lean in to your space

and kiss you.

I want to know the joy 

of how you whisper 

"more". 

― Rumi

Jeneil Williams photographed by Txema Yeste for Numéro #150 February 2014

Love story...

"The minute I heard my first love story, 

I started looking for you, not knowing

how blind that was.

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.

They’re in each other all along."

― Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

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