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Category: The Dark Delights

Working from Home

November 8, 2020November 6, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Moments are there to be taken savoured and treasured like found gemstones...

Screw You

November 2, 2020October 30, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

I don’t have the privilege I wasn’t born cis in a world of pink and blue and so what if I like purple...

Right…

November 1, 2020October 30, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

As my wings soar I am the raven looking for flesh my craven call of wanting...

Shattered Chains

October 11, 2020October 10, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Gaga sings I was born this way but I was not born to be someone’s perfection with my mind infiltrated...

Sensual Inquisition

October 10, 2020October 10, 2020 ~ Raven ~ 2 Comments

I felt the solution caressing the insatiable answers to the questions of love...

Facades

October 6, 2020October 6, 2020 ~ Raven ~ 2 Comments

Removing the fake facades yet keeping our mouths shut not revealing the shame of it...

Anonymous

September 14, 2020September 13, 2020 ~ Raven ~ 2 Comments

Hidden behind the letters page of a conservative rag withered by decades of hate...

Wish List

September 13, 2020September 5, 2020 ~ Raven ~ 2 Comments

Come to me lady of my heart find your place within my wish list...

What Chance of Love

September 7, 2020September 4, 2020 ~ Raven ~ 2 Comments

Voyages of discovery in the back row of a corny movie with naïve kisses and indiscreet fumbling fingers on buttons...

High Point

September 6, 2020September 4, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Touching you filling your senses with you...

Silent Voice

August 18, 2020August 17, 2020 ~ Raven ~ 14 Comments

Too afraid to speak to stand up and say my name instead my voice tapers to silence...

Sensual Sleep

August 17, 2020August 15, 2020 ~ Raven ~ 7 Comments

Last night I inhaled and tasted you until my head was dizzy and I needed to sleep my mind fighting me to stay awake as if...

Natural Instinct

August 12, 2020August 12, 2020 ~ Raven ~ 2 Comments

The turning points of life pretty much suck, don’t they? I knew they were coming as the moments built up over years, even decades...

The Hunger of Souls

August 11, 2020August 12, 2020 ~ Raven ~ 3 Comments

Each breath inhaling infusions of leathery musk and floral high notes that carries no name but it is so familiar...

Living with Demons

August 10, 2020August 10, 2020 ~ Raven ~ 7 Comments

My mind was haunted. So hideous evil, dark, and cruel the word monster is insufficient...

Gender Repetition

August 9, 2020August 7, 2020 ~ Raven ~ 7 Comments

Answering the same old questions and I watch him ticking the same old boxes another shrink scanning my mind...

Invitation

August 8, 2020August 7, 2020 ~ Raven ~ 2 Comments

Black lace kissing thigh high silk painted nails enticing my sighs...

Essence

July 26, 2020July 24, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Black velvet taking my vision fascinating my senses with bouquets of roses and scents of spice...

Take-Out Box

July 22, 2020July 21, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

You want a piece of me like I am some cake naughty but nice a candle lit treat on someone’s birthday...

Hedonic Enchantment

July 19, 2020July 18, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Coveting pleasure in feral desire yearning is burning transmogrifying to inner power...

In the Candlelight

July 8, 2020July 7, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Flickering flames golden in reflections of warmed honey dripping slowly...

Accents on Lace

July 7, 2020July 6, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Surfing online for something special little intimacies with a personal touch black diamond accents on lace...

Enough

July 3, 2020July 2, 2020 ~ Raven ~ 4 Comments

Accepting myself is enough my approval of me is all that I need to stand back and look back...

Trickling Sand

June 28, 2020June 26, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Grains of guilt trickle through me like the sand on a sunny beach dry and rasping against my senses...

Discovery

June 27, 2020June 26, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Wrap yourself in my love let me surround you and find you...

Just a Something

June 26, 2020June 25, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

I did not mourn her passing nor was she buried in the rose garden delicate pink, white, red falling to the ground...

Kiss My Scowl

June 6, 2020June 5, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Bring me down to you feed my flame echoing your desire...

Driftwood

May 30, 2020May 30, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Tonight, give me your smile the smile of my lover’s kiss on my throat the cool touch of your hands...

Resistance is Futile

May 29, 2020May 28, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

My dreams that have no shape form the shadows of my mind with echoes beyond earthly desire...

It Started with a Kiss 2020

May 27, 2020May 26, 2020 ~ Raven ~ 4 Comments

Poet’s Note: A rewrite of my 2008 poem was suggested by an Irishman to a Welshman – so combining Irish and Welsh forms here – let the fun begin

Look at Me

May 26, 2020May 25, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

I don’t want to celebrate that day it’s not my birthday it’s not my anniversary...

Empty Faces

May 25, 2020May 24, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Defined by colours pink for a girl blue for a boy...

The Right Choice

May 24, 2020May 23, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Do you think it’s been easy - to face the reality the pain...

The Switch

May 15, 2020May 14, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Watching you kneel in anticipation, hunger glistening on your open thighs. The crack of leather breaking the tension...

Wrinkled Peas

May 14, 2020May 13, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

It’s late as I finish typing the last word and supper sits cold on the table the rhythm of your breathing stretches ...

Awakened by Instinct

May 11, 2020May 10, 2020 ~ Raven ~ 2 Comments

Desire lies frozen like marble untouched by the sculptor my heart of ice...

The Old Tom Cat

May 9, 2020April 21, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Vague dreams desiring the unknown regretting the sorrow of loving...

From a Kiss

May 7, 2020May 6, 2020 ~ Raven ~ 2 Comments

From the moment he leans to take her kiss to let her kiss his lips she knows she will get his play...

Division

May 6, 2020May 5, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

‘Speak out’ you say and ‘say how you feel’ but we both know my voice will be silenced...

Silk and Stays

April 25, 2020April 25, 2020 ~ Raven ~ 2 Comments

White tulle lacing through my fingers as I drape it lazily over ...

No Regrets

April 20, 2020April 18, 2020 ~ Raven ~ 2 Comments

With no regrets but still I sigh when thinking of the years lost years in denial...

The Science

April 18, 2020April 18, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

And the pendulum swings back and forth desire in constant movement backwards and forwards...

Peeping

April 4, 2020March 20, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Through the window shines the moonlight a lantern for the lateness of the hour and as we stumble through the door...

Non-Existent

March 26, 2020March 15, 2020 ~ Raven ~ 3 Comments

I felt alone and broken a shattered soul of the night...

I Need a Hero

March 24, 2020March 14, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Love if this obsession can be called love moved by you...

Getting Dressed

March 22, 2020March 14, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

She’s resting on the chaise longue with glazed eyes of contemplation oh, what to choose...

Higher Ground

March 21, 2020March 12, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

It’s a question of standards a moral benchmark if you will a standard set by those...

Thoughts for the Day

March 7, 2020February 28, 2020 ~ Raven ~ 2 Comments

Next to me I feel her skin cool on a winter morning her nails as pearls caress...

Inherent Beauty

February 29, 2020February 24, 2020 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Unformed structure hidden in the virtual shadows of words...

The Worker Bee

February 27, 2020February 24, 2020 ~ Raven ~ 2 Comments

Come slowly my love gently lay your mist upon my lips...

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Glorionic Sonnet Notes

Originally posted on About the Jez of It:
Created by Gloria MartinStructure: Octet and a sestetMeter: decasyllabic or pentameterSchema: aabbbccc ddedee. Example Black Rose Petals by Jez Farmer As I lay the black roses on your graveI no longer feel I am strong and braveAs winds blows emptiness again todayIt feels like living is so…

Japanese Sonnet Notes

Originally posted on About the Jez of It:
Created by Jose Rizal M ReyesStructure: Quatrain, sestet and quatrainMeter: each line is a haikuSchema: aaaa bbbbbb aaaa Example Sakura Memories by Jez Farmer Sweet scented petals descend on the breeze; fragrant farewell,Memories entwine in rivers of tears; love cannot dispelDark clouds obscure the future and the…

Grammarian Sonnet Notes

Originally posted on About the Jez of It:
Created by Jose Rizal M. ReyesStructure: alternate quintains and coupletsMeter: decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme Scheme: abbba cc deeed ff Example The Rabbit and the Warrior by Jez Farmer As springtide comes amid the ancient stoneA warrior stands alone as he seeksThe old one with whom holy wisdom speaksAs…

Promised Kisses

Promised Kisses

Form: Limerick Oh love of mine when the dawn awakesmy promised kisses are yours to takein the first golden lightas we seal our loving nightyour gentle heart I will never break. Dear lady you are all I desirecome fill my dreams of love with your fireand I will sate your needswith all my words and […]

Devil’s Dance

Devil’s Dance

Form: Quintilla Shifting easy from dark to lightLazily back to dark againSitting on the edge in the rainSilently watching in the nightJiving between the shades of right ©JGFarmer2021

Aftermath

Aftermath

Last night dancing the tiles all red
Our feet talking more than words said
Glasses overflowing with wine…

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