You know, I wasn’t going to post today, but I figure I can add a few quickies. Check out vociferation‘s new John Donne tattoo — oh, and it’s a matching tattoo; check her gallery for those pictures…

If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th other do.
And though it in the centre sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to me, who must
Like th other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end, where I begun.

From BME’s love themed tattoo gallery, here’s two ways of talking about love. On the left we’ll start with a simple love letter, on Lil Miss Strange by Lucas in Beerse, Belgium. On the right is a tattoo by Mark at On Edge in The Netherlands, with a slightly more indepth explanation — “love is the reunification of the two halves of a split soul”.

Such a cute tattoo! It’s on chickadee2084 (“a reminder to always Be More“, she says), and was done by Tina Carr at Inkers in Germantown, MD (the shading is a nice addition), and originally designed by Gray.

PS. Happy Sun Shirts!

Thanks to Black Ink Pen for sharing her BME-slogan tattoo (I think this is my favorite of the various slogans, although “It happened when I was abducted by aliens” is near the top of the list too), appropriately customized to match her own story and personality. Tattoo by David at Desired Skin in Big Rapids, MI.