For Amy Lynn Watkins
To make it burn you have to throw yourself in. – Galway Kinnell
‘Faith, love does not dwell solely in the mind,
And will not be controlled by intellect.
It infects the soul, and makes us blindly
Expose that which we oft’ strive to protect;
‘Tis lunacy to pretend we can love
Both truly and carefully – attempting
To keep one foot safe outside the flames of
Passion – for our own hearts are unyielding;
No breast can be proofed ‘gainst Cupid’s arrow –
The magic of love allows no defense.
We must fall completely, or grow hollow;
Razed in the battle ‘twixt madness and sense.
Real love can not flourish by increment,
We must submit and burn in sweet torment.
19 October 2010
Love Does Not Dwell Solely in the Mind
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08 October 2010
The Mad Sonneteer Featured in a YouTube Video
Yours truly has been included in a YouTube video promoting an anthology that published three of my pieces (including two sonnets).
The video includes the best picture ever taken of me, and two lines from my sonnet, "The Ways That My Body Remembers Yours."
Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzfj3fGJ5G4
(I come in around the 3:43 mark.)
Enjoy.
The video includes the best picture ever taken of me, and two lines from my sonnet, "The Ways That My Body Remembers Yours."
Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzfj3fGJ5G4
(I come in around the 3:43 mark.)
Enjoy.
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07 October 2010
Two Sonnets in Eclectic Flash - September 2010
Two of my sonnets -- "A Simple Word Too Easily Said" and "Poets Never Really Die by Suicide" -- appeared in the September 2010 issue of Eclectic Flash, an online and print literary journal (eclecticflash.com/home.html).
Here is a link to the electronic version of the issue: http://issuu.com/eclecticflash/docs/vol_1_sep_2010?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml&showFlipBtn=true
My works are on pages 13 and 40.
Enjoy.
Here is a link to the electronic version of the issue: http://issuu.com/eclecticflash/docs/vol_1_sep_2010?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml&showFlipBtn=true
My works are on pages 13 and 40.
Enjoy.
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