Loss | Modern Romanticism

Sunken beneath, the tides, as you wereMy solace, the source to my wellOf tears.I threw a line for your freedom, when I saw you were drowning.I threw it, to save you from the uncertainty that kept you weeping.For each drop in the tide, was yours.Though,…

Poetry Series – 1/10 Poems – “A Thrown Line into the River” – A Failed Romance – 2/16/2020

February 16, 2020

Passed upon myself,Was her shadow.Like to pass over my disused and torn spirit,After a love shattered,Like the bottle I cling to. I attempted to ignore,Though, it kept calling,As it kept me company. Beside myself, flesh over a drunken spirit.Inside myself, with ignorance overdone,I only slept…

Poem – “A Drunken Identity” – Romantic Poetry – 2/5/2020

February 5, 2020

My hands wet with the dewThat has crossed my eyelids,And dropped with graceUpon the flesh of my palms,As I fell to my knees. I bleed wine, from my wrists,And bleed the sea, from my eyes.And, bitterness encompasses both. Late when the feeling comes to subside,Under…

Poem – “My Hands Wet with Tears” – Romantic Poetry – 1/18/2020

January 18, 2020

Tired of all,When yearning to crawlAlong fields sprayed with your tears.Here is beauty,And there is sceneryFor me to weep over, in view of your slumber. Your darknessFights me off,Intrudes upon my light,The comfort I’ve aimed to grant. I have placed roses for you to wieldLike…

Poem – “With Placement of Beauty” – Romantic Poetry – 1/18/2020

January 18, 2020

What is thisBetween elongated limbs?What is this short figure, that does no longer kiss?It merely stares. I carved a portrait, from dust,And made a heart flutter, with rust,And, with a face I’ve come to love,Here it is, never knowing what’s above. It peers at meIn…

Poem – “As My Arms now Hold a Ghost” – Romance – 1/12/2020

January 12, 2020

What fiend has caressed my shoulders,Besides the loneliness, I feel within my heart?It is yet a monster, without the need to sleep,Without the will to heal. She lays there, for my eyes to behold her presence,For my view, for my corrupt and trembling hand,To mimic…

Poem – “I Etched my Wife out of Porcelain” – Romance – 12/31/2019

December 31, 2019

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Feverish marks, from where love had struck a solid chordUpon thy evergreen heart,Upon thy smoothened heart,Upon thy fabulous heart,Were as beauteous, as the next whore of a line,Of a waitingTo see,To plea,And then, to fleeAway from my fingers, that brought you to ceaseYourself, from how…

Poem – “A Kiss to Save the World” – Romance – 12/27/2019

December 27, 2019

As life would be, thrown in my directionWith all the smallest jingles from bells against it,And the scenario builds itselfUpon the rottenness of my withering shoulders,For my life is a crusade,A great raceAcross this treasured desert,Upon this harlot’s cross,Where she’d die for the nighttime,Where she’d…

Poem – “Worth all the Tears” – Romance – 12/27/2019

December 27, 2019

Winter has me breathingThis cascading silver air,Across your delicate forehead,As you’ll recede with your eleganceBack to where you belong.A den of darkness,Is where you find comfort,And I do not belongIn such a realm. I am sick,Though, you seem to be healthy.You have cheeks that sparkle…

Poem – “Recession back to Numbness” – Romance – 12/23/2019

December 23, 2019

Upon sticks and brambles, and everything taken from the trees,Love, we do, with our hearts spread, over everything new.Like two fossils, once beautiful and full of scenery.Like two trees, now collapsed, with kisses running overAs the remaining twigs that caress. I am in love, or…

Poem – “To How we Share our Love, Apart” – Romance – 12/18/2019

December 18, 2019

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