Tags
e. e. cummings, fiction, Isaac Marion, Jeanette Winterson, Love, Lovers, Pablo Neruda, poetry, quotations, Valentines Day
1.
I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge. I want our cells to braid together like living thread.
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies.
2.
Sonnet XII
Full woman, fleshly apple, hot moon,
thick smell of seaweed, crushed mud and light,
what obscure brilliance opens between your columns?
What ancient night does a man touch with his senses?
Loving is a journey with water and with stars,
with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour:
loving is a clash of lightning-bolts
and two bodies defeated by a single drop of honey.
Kiss by kiss I move across your small infinity,
your borders, your rivers, your tiny villages,
and the genital fire transformed into delight
runs through the narrow pathways of the blood
until it plunges down, like a dark carnation,
until it is and is no more than a flash in the night.
— Pablo Neruda, Selected Poems.
Erhard Loblain
3.
Where did love begin? What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and weary, dragging home food, arms cut and scarred, that you saw yellow flowers and, not knowing what you did, picked them because I love you?
— Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping.
4.
love is the voice under all silences,
the hope which has no opposite in fear;
the strength so strong mere force is feebleness:
the truth more first than sun more last than star
— e. e. cummings
Gustav Klimt
VJ Knutson said:
Excellent assortment of ‘love’ notes, Deborah.
deborahbrasket said:
I’m glad you liked it!
Writing to Freedom said:
Exquisite poems. My inner romantic has flown the coop.
deborahbrasket said:
Thank you. I think mine has too. 🙂
Ken Chawkin said:
Such beautiful and passionate poems and paintings, Deborah!! HOT!!! Perfect for lovers on this Valentine’s Day.
deborahbrasket said:
Thank you, Ken. I enjoyed putting this together.
stolzyblog said:
amazing Neruda, and e.e.c.: the hope which has no opposite in fear 🙂
deborahbrasket said:
Yes, I’ve been reading more of Neruda’s poetry today. Amazing stuff.
laura bruno lilly said:
Sizzling poetry just right for the day!
deborahbrasket said:
I’m glad you liked it!
romanticallyinclined23 said:
A great selection of poems and art! Loved reading this – even though it’s not Valentine’s Day anymore. ❤️
deborahbrasket said:
Thank you. Love poems should be enjoyed every day of the week, don’t you think?
romanticallyinclined23 said:
I agree!! ❤️