Lifediaryofann - Ann

Jane Austen was right when she said “I am half agony, half hope.”

I told you, you'll bloom again.

Somedays i love the sunsets, somedays the Sunflowers and most days, both.

Anneshwa Paul

i knew what i wrote was real when it scared me to write it

A dream that burned so bright,

it lit up the corners of the gloomiest alleys.

A dream as bright as the first light,

and as genial as a warm hug.

A gentle touch,

a glacé remembrance

of the sunny woods.

- Anneshwa ✨

“If you inherently long for something, become it first. If you want gardens, become the gardener. If you want love, embody love. If you want mental stimulation, change the conversation. If you want peace, exude calmness. If you want to fill your world with artists, begin to paint. If you want to be valued, respect your own time. If you want to live ecstatically, find the ecstasy within yourself. This is how to draw it in, day by day, inch by inch.”

- Victoria Erickson

Meet me where the light greets dark

Where the lovers go when they are tired

Take me blindfolded to a field of sunflowers and you might see the happiest kid alive.

-Anneshwa ✨

Jamil B. Holway, tr. by George Dimitri Selim, from Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab-American Poetry; “Throbbings”

Constantly pulled between what we've been taught, what we know and what we feel.