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Hello all!
I posted waaaaay back in April about a possible Neruda poem tattoo. And finally, a million years later, I finally had the money and the dedication and the concrete idea of what I wanted. And I was on vacation with a wonderful friend and it was the day after my birthday, and there was no time like the present!
I found the font on dafont.com. It's Jewel Hill, and I'm rather fond of it. The pictures are a bit wonky, but they're the best I can do for now.
... and because I cannot take anything seriously! A silly face for y'all.
aaaand, the poem it's from.
This time is difficult, wait for me:
we will live it out vividly.
Give me your small hand:
we will rise and suffer,
we will feel and rejoice.
We are once more the pair
who lived in bristling places,
in harsh nests in the rock.
This time is difficult, wait for me
with a basket, with a shovel,
with your shoes and your clothes.
Now we need each other
not only for the carnations' sake,
not only to look for honey:
we need our hands
to wash with and to make fire,
and so let our difficult time
stand up to infinity
with four hands and four eyes.
-Pablo Neruda
In retrospect, this was an incredibly ambitious first-time tattoo for me, and I really wouldn't recommend the ribcage for anything if you are not hardXcore or can feel no pain (I am neither. It really hurt!! :( I am such a wimp.)
I was in San Jose, CA at Lucky Stars Tattoo with Anthony and with all the craziness it took just getting it, I could not be happier with how it turned out.
best birthday present ever!
I posted waaaaay back in April about a possible Neruda poem tattoo. And finally, a million years later, I finally had the money and the dedication and the concrete idea of what I wanted. And I was on vacation with a wonderful friend and it was the day after my birthday, and there was no time like the present!
I found the font on dafont.com. It's Jewel Hill, and I'm rather fond of it. The pictures are a bit wonky, but they're the best I can do for now.
... and because I cannot take anything seriously! A silly face for y'all.
aaaand, the poem it's from.
This time is difficult, wait for me:
we will live it out vividly.
Give me your small hand:
we will rise and suffer,
we will feel and rejoice.
We are once more the pair
who lived in bristling places,
in harsh nests in the rock.
This time is difficult, wait for me
with a basket, with a shovel,
with your shoes and your clothes.
Now we need each other
not only for the carnations' sake,
not only to look for honey:
we need our hands
to wash with and to make fire,
and so let our difficult time
stand up to infinity
with four hands and four eyes.
-Pablo Neruda
In retrospect, this was an incredibly ambitious first-time tattoo for me, and I really wouldn't recommend the ribcage for anything if you are not hardXcore or can feel no pain (I am neither. It really hurt!! :( I am such a wimp.)
I was in San Jose, CA at Lucky Stars Tattoo with Anthony and with all the craziness it took just getting it, I could not be happier with how it turned out.
best birthday present ever!