Literature | Modern Romanticism

Near the windowsill where you wept,While the wood still keptThe stains of reddest tears,Because, your wrists didn’t agreeWith the color of blueThat drained from the sky. Near the windowsill where you slept,And I’m still with the memory of a facePainted by sadness, despite my gladness,For…

Poem – "Near the Windowsill where you Wept" – Romantic Poetry – 1/15/2020

January 15, 2020

“There is a difference, as it should be stated, that ’emotion’ is lesser to the act of being ‘passionate’. Just as to be ‘anxious’ is lesser to being ‘paranoid’, it is the same. And, to be passionate means to kill in the experience of betrayal.…

Words of Wisdom – "To be Emotional or to be Passionate" – Philosophy on Life – 1/4/2020

January 4, 2020

… He sinks, and still while holding the hand of his dying beloved, this elderly man conjures up one thought of her before himself. It is time during his adolescence, he has the compelling desire to drink her into himself, through one Springtime kiss. Youth…

3rd Short Story Excerpt – "A Worried Angel" – Romance – 1/2/2020

January 2, 2020

She rose, so well, in the time of morning,Stilled, my finger was, worn and broken,At the still of morning, by what laces the sun,Being, her face, as I trace every line and curve,By that same finger. What a kindness, unto me!What a world, that enraptures…

Poem – "As I Cry Grief into my Book of Notes" – Romance – 12/31/2019

December 31, 2019

I lay it, quietly,A kiss upon thy forehead,While music shudders around us,And destroys all tension,As I have kissed you. Resplendence, among beauty and grace,All are teeming in your bosom.You have a flower in your hair,And a heart that shimmers, like the wings flapping from the…

Poem – "A Kiss upon Thy Forehead" – Romance – 12/27/2019

December 27, 2019

Depression is a current moment, for youWhen you dip tears into the bowl of failure,I have not been good to you.But, I will surround you, in the venom of friendship.I will surround youIn the thorns that have been, all to us,The things we recognize,Are to…

Poem – "Celebration of a New Moment" – Romance – 12/26/2019

December 26, 2019

Rain comes as the fewest petals,To break themselves upon the shores of my cheeks,I had loved you, with all the grains upon my heart,I felt your suffering, for what it truly was,Though, I am alone.I am alone, without you.I am alone, to kiss my own…

Poem – "As I am Alone…" – Romance – 12/23/2019

December 23, 2019

We are revealed, before an Earth that has concealedIts face for too long.Here is place we’ll both escape to, in the realm of our disgrace,Death is a final place, that we both had to face. We stared into Death’s face,And spat upon it.Now when love…

Poem – "As a Witness to your Downfall" – Romance – 12/21/2019

December 21, 2019

Pleasures sometimes, and only sometimes,Stifle themselves,Upon our walks through boarded passageways and times alone,When we may see the shores with its naked sands,Fused like longing upon longing.What will the seas become, without the sands beneath?As scarlet as your lips,We are lone with only our shadowsAmong…

Poem – "When the Wound Rejected the Cure" – Romance – 12/14/2019

December 14, 2019

When Hell cannot be quelledOf its shaping design, to forge a fire in my mind,There are the eyes, I always followTo where they point,Upon my bosom, where a bruised heart, burns black.A little woman with her hair in tangles,And suffering as a stain upon only…

Poem – “Solace, in your Eyes” – Romance – 12/10/2019

December 10, 2019

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