Hi everyone. I have been thinking about a tattoo from the poem "Oread" by H.D., specifically the first line. It ends in an em dash, and I'm trying to decide whether or not to leave the dash in. I like the unfinished sense of it, but it might look weird, I'm not sure.

Your opinions please:( full poem and font choice )

Hi. First time poster. I got my first literary tattoo yesterday. It's a line from Heaven-Haven by Gerard Manley Hopkins.( Read more... )

i posted an entry back in march about my idea for a visual representation of a line from an arthur rimbaud poem, & i just got it a few weeks ago. since then i've given it a chance to heal, so i figured i'd post some pictures. the line being memorialized is "a little kiss, like a mad spider, will run around your neck…" from the poem "a dream for ( Read more... )

i've posted here once before when i shared my samuel beckett tattoo ("i can't go on, i'll go on" on my collarbone), & i also shared an idea i had about sleeves that are a quilt of different literary quotes. the sleeves are being designed as my little fingers peck away at this keyboard, but while that's being carefully plotted out, i've got an idea ( Read more... )

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!

( slightly not safe for work, i guess? underside boob, nothing scandalous )

To my fellow merkins, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving, and to the rest of the world, I hope you had a great day!

This one is mostly healed now-I got it done a couple of weeks ago, by Jake Thompson Art in San Francisco, CA:


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does anyone have a tattoo of this poem (or a portion of it?) I am looking to get one of the last stanza specifically...

Ever drifting down the stream-
Lingering in the golden gleam-
Life, what is it bit a dream?

thanks :)

I want to get a tattoo in honor of my grandfather who passed away some years back. . .
I've rolled this around in my head for ages because I didn't want to get just anything, i've thought about many different quotes and even to have his portrait tattooed on my shoulder blade... but that would be, I think, a bit over the top and if I wanted a ( Read more... )

Hi! One of my friends introduced me to this community, and ever since I've been just blown away by all the beautiful, thoughtful, creative ink and inked persons I've seen here. So, I think you all are super neat! =D ( Read more... )

okay.  i've been an e.e. cummings fan forever...ever since i picked up "selected poems" by accident, I've been head over heals for his stuff.  but i really like his prose pieces the best.   here i've copy and pasted his introduction to NEW POEMS,--- i have the whole piece basically memorized by heart. i want to get a line from this piece inked, and ( Read more... )