Jacqueline Dowsey 🦇🐦⬛🕯
@cordsandthreads
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Published poet/writer, with 3 poetry chapbooks. Artist. Spirited and Spooky. Gothic and Witchy. Books. Music. Houseplant Killer. Arsenal FC.
Canada
Joined March 2009
Had such a brilliant day in Brighton and the night was equally so as we attended the Alison Moyet in Conversation + Signing at Resident Music. 🖤
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Hi everyone, please can we help little Amelia with her brilliant uplifting 8th birthday wish to receive 8,000 cards so she can have her name in the Guinness Book of Records. A birthday card or a retweet or both would be amazing! Thanks everso! Dinah 🥰💌❤️ @KatySkylab @raye
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Grace Jones with Nicola L’s Red Lips Lamp, NYC, 1991 from the article "Living with Nicola L" featured in Apartamento Magazine issue 21.
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The nettle, known as 'neantóg' in Irish, is an extremely nutritious plant and a vital part of our ecosystem that supports over 40 species of insects....yet we dismiss it as a stinging pest 🦋 In parts of England, people once believed that if you grasped a nettle firmly and
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. Janis Joplin, January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970
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In memory of Ariane Daniela Forster aka Ari Up, singer and founding member of the English punk band The Slits, born on this day in 1962, Munich, Germany. Photo by Martin Booth #punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #ariup #theslits #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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🖤🖤🖤 O Wind, if Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelly
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#BookologyThursday 📚👻 Bibliomania spotlights 'Little Ghosts Books,' located in Toronto — Canada's first (and still premier) indie horror bookstore! Nestled at 930 Dundas St W, this queer-owned gem (bookstore + café + publisher) is your ultimate haunt for indie horror,
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96 likes, 4 comments. “Toronto, ON @Little Ghosts Visited the only horror bookstore in Canada! They had a copy of Phantom hidden away 🖤 I’ll do a separate video with my haul later!”
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It has been 8 years since our friend and bandmate passed away. It doesn't get easier with time but focusing on the many positive memories and hearing her unique, awe inspiring voice helps to keep the sadness at bay. Love always, Ferg, Noel and Mike Photo by Andy Earl.
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Poem For Midnight 'I glance down at the street There is where she lived! The empty, abandoned window How brightly the moon on it shines! There is so much to illuminate; O lovely rays of light How you weave, then, ghostly about That place of Nothingness.' Friedrich Hebbel/A Wyeth
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In certain folklore, the hare is a mystical creature symbolizing fertility, rebirth, speed, and the moon, often linked to goddesses. Artwork by Catherine Hyde #WomensArt #WildlifeArtWeek
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View in Dracula’s Tomb’ by Fritz Schwimbeck, 1922
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How timely was this delivery. Looking forward to reading this soon. Happy Birthday, Pat Benatar! 🖤
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Poems for Midnight 'In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow In the bleak midwinter' Christina Rossetti. Art Ronau William Woiceske
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I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room. ~Jean Rhys art by Nom Kinnear King #PhantomsFriday #BookChatWeekly
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Do I dare to eat a peach? ~T.S.Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock art by Willem van Aelst (1627-1683) #BookologyThursday
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