April and National Poetry Month xxoo!

This is the beautiful poster for National Poetry Month 2013...

It has all my favorite things.  Pretty papers and fountain pens.

I'm working on a 12,000 word novella in the moment -- doing the research for that, at any rate called "The Locket" -- it's romantic.  The era of the Romantic poets and so I think this month I'll try to do a romantic and erotic poem each day.  Some of the themes in the book have to do with "The Sublime" and the hunt all the Romantics were on to find it.  Like say, Wordsworth.  I'll more than likely be writing the poems over in WordPress at my blog Valentine Bonnaire if you want to follow along.

In the meantime, that silly poem I wrote last month is up a ERWA...

"a kiss upon the stair" -- you can read that here.http://www.erotica-readers.com/GD/S/Erotic_Poetry.htm

So, I love this picture because it represents many things about the Romantic period in art...

Love as perpetual rose garden of dreams.

Enjoy the poem!

xxoo!

Valentine Bonnaire

You're heterosexual aren't you? I am.

You are looking to read something sexy.

You like sexy, and that is how you found me.

I write for men.

You're my audience.

You always have been.

Here is the first piece of me.

I never write anything that isn't a true story.

Transport yourself.

It's Friday.

xxoo!
Valentine

Literary Erotica as candybox!

If you've read any classic erotica you know it's like a candybox of text.  Each story has a center and it's like a sampler.  All of them have different flavors?

Not unlike this picture...

So, what is inside?

That's what the reader finds out.  I like to write short stories and poetry in this genre.  Erotica can contain "love" as a theme, or not.  I've written both and sometimes I like to write morality tales.

Oftentimes we use a lot of metaphor on the literary end of the spectrum to convey something.

So, here is a poem I wrote once, called "candyboxes."

Most Literary Erotica is non-explicit because it is written in a poetic style.   Can you call it erotic?  Yes.  This kind of erotica is meant to paint a picture in the reader's mind.

I'm going to be linking to some classic books and art as I go along because there are so many wonderful writers I know.

That was my Valentine candy!

I like it elegant?

xxoo!

Valentine Bonnaire