Rose, Pepper, And Rose

Rose, Pepper, and Rose

by 徐大花xudahua

cemetery flowers after the ice storm photography: Peter Fricke

The above picture features ’Lovers in a private room in a teahouse’ (1788), oban format, from the series ’Poem of the Pillow’ by Kitagawa Utamaro.

This Utamaro design inspired Toulouse-Lautrec (who possessed this piece) to create the below painting ’Two lovers (Les deux amies)’ in 1895. 

Click on the word Toulouse-Lautrec at the end of this sentence if you want to learn about Lautrec’s fascination with shunga and particularly Utamaro: TOULOUSE-LAUTREC. 

poems that bring me comfort when i need it the most (hopefully they’ll help you too)

A Prayer by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

I Am Offering this Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca

Having a Coke with You by Frank O’Hara

I Want to Write Something So Simply by Mary Oliver

When Spring by Alberto Caeiro

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel

You, Darkness by Rainer Maria Rilke

What’s Not to Love by Brendan Constantine

The Thing Is by Ellen Bass

Wait For Me by Konstantin Simonov (tr. by Mike Munford)  

A Kiss on the Forehead by Marina Tsvetaeva   

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i’ve watched this like 8 times in a row