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Summertime Sadness

08 Tuesday Nov 2016

Posted by Betty Zhang in Beauty, Petit Passages

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lana del rey, literature, music, musician, poem, poet, poetry, summer, writer, writing

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Listening to Lana Del Rey on summer nights: a wearable mood / like slipping on a cloak of indulgent sadness / a shift of persona, swift as Mystique / a sinking and falling into place, like being swallowed into the depths of a dark rose, petals spiralling into infinity / memories unfolding, genuine or embellished, shrinking and blooming like youth on rewind / FIN.

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Who said demise was for the fall, and death winter?

25 Tuesday Oct 2016

Posted by Betty Zhang in Petit Passages

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death, nature, poet, poetry, prose, romanticism, summer, writer, writing

flower girl tumblr.jpegI should like to die on a splendid day at the height of summer, under a radiant blue sky on a bed of flowers. If it were not for my morbid longing for the picturesque, I should not mind expiring as wildlife do, Continue reading →

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