Pleasures are strange when you seek danger,
Faces look empty when you're alone.
Women seem wicked when you are wanton,
Stilettos are unending when you're owned

Gazing thus captures more than mere attention,
while wayward thoughts inhabit this pliant state,
perversity, desire and madness hasten my fate.

" The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. "

 ~ T.S. Eliot 

“Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid pressure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odour.”

~ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ~ James Joyce

~ Do sheep-men dream of adroit eclectic Impératrices ?

~ Haiku ~


Thy beauty beckons

Amber glow, dancing shadows

Lyrical moonrise

~ epicaricacy ~

8^)

"Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.” 

~ Charles Baudelaire

"Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe (1838) 

. . . . [ Yet her features were not of that regular mould which we have been falsely taught to worship in the classical labors of the heathen.
"There is no exquisite beauty," says Bacon, Lord Verulam, speaking truly of all the forms and genera of beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion." 

Yet, although I saw that the features of Ligeia were not of a classic regularity --although I perceived that her loveliness was indeed "exquisite," and felt that there was much of "strangeness" pervading it, yet I have tried in vain to detect the irregularity and to trace home my own perception of "the strange." ] . . . . 

Lord Verulam, one of the titles of Sir Francis Bacon, born in London, 1561. Bacon's actual quote, paraphrased by Poe in "Ligeia" is, 

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

To block, or not to block: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of unsolicited messages,
Or to take arms against any plea so troubled,
And by hiding end them? 

~ Haiku ~

Articulated Arch

Rhythmic Staccato Tattoo

Stiletto Adieu