Reclining Nude By Alphonse Lecadre (1870)

wet evening in April by Patrick Kavanagh

Be, be as you've always been

Be like the love that discovered the sin

That freed the first man and will do so again

And, lover, be good to me

Be that hope when Eden was lost

It's been deaf to our laughter since the master was crossed

Which side of the wall really suffers that cost?

And, lover, be good to me

Be as you've always been

Be as you've always been

Be, be as you've always been

True to the time and the placе you've been given

Your heart in thе world, and a world there within

And, lover, be good to me

Be there and just as you stand

Or be like the rose that you'd hold in your hand

That grows bold in a barren and an uneasy land

And, lover, be good to me

And, be as you've always been

Be as you've always been

Be as you've always been

Be as you've always been

Liberty and Fifth, Pittsburgh, ca. 1940

Roman Widow - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874 (details)

“Dark and Fair” by Tadeusz Styka (ca. 1908) Marthe Barnède, nicknamed Madame Sappho, is ‘a stunning brunette, with hair the color of deep shadow,’ while Colette, her young and frail lover, is described as ‘a pretty girl with lily-white skin and light blonde hair that crowned her pale ivory forehead with a riotous golden halo. (source).

— Carolina Outcrop

Diana Reposing by Paul-Jacques-Aime Baudry (1859)

Flying like a fish out of water

Sea levels rising as the earth gets hotter

I think this weekend I’ll go on an alcohol bender

But at least drinks are free when you’re the bartender.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Robert Frost