Laughing While Bleeding:

"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."

- Fernando Pessoa

4 weeks ago

Tagged with: #life #love #pain #fernando pessoa #quote #philosophy #poet

“Oysters” - Me’Shell Ndegeocello

1 month ago

Tagged with: #true music #meshell ndegeocello #oysters #weather #kcrw #art & song

ReInCarnation Haiku (XXXIX/LX)

what shall we call it

breech birth offspring of oysters

사랑 incarnate

poetry by M. Omari

photography Andrea Hübner

1 month ago

Tagged with: #haiku #marcus omari #pearls #photography #poetry #portrait #reincarnation #verse #Andrea Hübner #spilled ink

"To begin is no more agony than opening your hand."

- June Jordan

1 month ago 3 notes

Tagged with: #verse #lit #june jordan #quote #poet #philosophy

“Greater Than The Sun” - Zo! (feat. Phonte)

1 month ago

Tagged with: #music #The Foreign Exchange #Zo! #Phonte #greater than the sun #real music #lucid waking

Lucid Waking Haiku (XXXVIII/LX)

sacrilegious dawn

wrenches me from dreams of you

i wake in protest

poetry by M. Omari

photography by Bunny England

1 month ago

Tagged with: #haiku #poetry #verse #marcus omari #dreams #photography #portrait #self #hypnotized

"…dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love — which is to transform us."

- Bell Hooks

1 month ago 2 notes

Tagged with: #quote #lit #dreaming of love #set a drift #metamorphosis #metamorphosis #bell hooks

1 month ago 1 notes

Tagged with: #giving up is hard to do #it's a love thing #sacrifice #philosophy #quote #rhetoric

Sambucus Latipinna Haiku (XXXVII/LX)

it is all backwards

absolute tongue, string cheese &

amstel; turn around…

poetry by M. Omari

photography by Andrea Hübner

1 month ago

Tagged with: #haiku #poetry #verse #marcus omari #korean #red elder #photography #portrait #Andrea Hübner #spilled ink

"you can never do battle
with someone else’s demons…
they will defeat you every time."

- M. Omari

1 month ago 1 notes

Tagged with: #trust in god #verse #quote #tomorrows sun #marcus omari #battling the wolf

“Revelling” - Ani DiFranco

1 month ago 2 notes

Tagged with: #revelling #reckoning #ani difranco #righteous babe #folk music #grace #kcrw #classic

Present Wish Haiku (XXXVI/LX)

in that hour… before

all hell breaks loose & truth be

told; a moment please

poetry by M. Omari

photography by Andrea Hübner

1 month ago 4 notes

Tagged with: #haiku #poetry #verse #marcus omari #portrait #andrea hubner #spilled ink

"We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are."

- Anaïs Nin

1 month ago 3 notes

Tagged with: #anais nin #as you were #author #quote #what it is #what we are #lit

“Teleport” - Hawthorne Headhunters

1 month ago

Tagged with: #music #hawthorne headhunters #new sh!t #teleport #how to get from monday to friday

View From Backdrop Haiku (XXXV/LX)

if ever sunrise

& God; if ever Love’s fate

resigned… show yourself

poetry by M. Omari

photography by Nikoline

1 month ago 5 notes

Tagged with: #haiku #poetry #marcus omari #love's fate #portrait #photography #nikoline #view #spilled ink #napomo

Laughing While Bleeding:

Annie Christian's poetic guide to a proper death in the lap of the woman you've always wanted