lena, a little octobrist, lived in a big soviet city.
she really loved dandelions, the most common flower of her concrete urban wasteland. having fallen seriously ill and being on the edge of death, lena told her mother:
— mom, why are you crying? are you afraid that i'm going to die?i'll just become a dandelion puff and fly all over the world, i will fly over to you too, and you will remember me.
then she died.
the end
Bernd
Sun, 02 Mar 2025 05:48:44 GMT
No. 25544809
>>25544814
>>25544820
Do not stand
By my grave, and weep.
I am not there,
I do not sleep—
I am the thousand winds that blow
I am the diamond glints in snow
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle, autumn rain.
As you awake with morning’s hush,
I am the swift, up-flinging rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight,
I am the day transcending night.
Do not stand
By my grave, and cry—
I am not there,
I did not die.
— Clare Harner, The Gypsy, December 1934
Bernd
Sun, 02 Mar 2025 05:51:20 GMT
No. 25544814
>>25544809
my daughter, being raised in the basement, never saw the outside... one day she comes up to me with a drawing. it consists of a weirdly shaped tree, a big star in the sky and some grotesque animals. the colours are all wrong, bizarre. she tells me "daddy, i drew the outside, the one they talk so much about in books and that you tell me about in stories" she then sighs and continues "if only it was real..." and i go "yeah... if only"
Bernd
Sun, 02 Mar 2025 05:53:04 GMT
No. 25544820
SÄGE!
>>25544809
Wtf that poem is written by a woman.