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New poem, I think I cooked in this one >_<

"The Cardinal Heart" "I think there is something wrong with me. Not the kind of wrong doctors can diagnose or priests can wash clean with holy water— but the kind that blooms quietly behind the ribs, like black roses growing in cathedral walls. I search for love the way starving people search... read more

A poem for a married woman

A few months ago, my muse got married. A few hours ago, I realised that, given the poetic conventions of the Middle Ages, *now* I should write her love poems in a very specific style. So, I composed this one, here translated to English from the original Portuguese: "When April falls asleep upon... read more

A overlooked commandment

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I... read more

Finding a genuine partner in this generation

There is still a hope that 90s type love exist in this generation who really wants to put efforts and feel genuine connection and whose actions speak more than words ....

Not a rare find.

They meet me like I’m something shimmering in tall grass— a chance encounter, a lucky spawn, something to weaken, capture, name their own. Their eyes light up not because they see me, but because they found me. I can feel it— the calculation behind their smile, the quiet thrill of acquisition, the... read more

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