If you want my love
Pay me in tenderness
Each day.
…………………………………..
© Iulia Halatz
Co-author of Anthology Volume I: Writings from the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective, available on Amazon and Kindle.
Thank you for reading!
Art — Matrix of Love by Vladimir Kush. Source: Pinterest
What is the most difficult poem to write?
The one that does not come from your heart.
“Honesty matters. Vulnerability matters. Being open about who you were at a moment in time when you were in a difficult or an impossible place matters more than anything. – Neil Gaiman
“To write with the truth of pain in your mouth is gruesome poetry…You’ll have to cut out your heart with every word and show it to the world, then hope it will heal. This is how the light gets in, also the dark. To acknowledge fear, defeat, despair and pretend serenity of a lesson learned while patching up the wounds is…Life.” – fragment from my Tyranosaurus Writing.
Art – Peter Mork Monsted
“Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art – Henri Martin (1860-1943 ; French painter). Source: Facebook
My latest at Blue Insights, a Medium publication
Today I am on winter leave
As my soul is too heavy
with all the snowdrops,
violets and perfumes of spring…
Your heart is wondrous
and alone
till you find me
aching for lilies of the valley.
© Iulia Halatz
Thank you for reading!
Art — Julius von Klever. Source: Pinterest
“Green was the silence, wet was the light…”
– Neruda
Photo credit – Rooney Mara by Annie Leibovitz
Welcome October!
Art – Eugène Samuel Grasset‘s La Belle Jardinière calendar, 1896
He is fairer than Spring,
Wiser than my unread library,
Tenderer than a feather
in the newly-stirred autumn wind.
“I tell you, the more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
© Iulia Halatz
Co-author of Anthology Volume I: Writings from the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective, available on Amazon and Kindle.
Thank you, Ivette, for publishing my story!
Also featured at Poetry’s Home, a Medium publication.
Art – — Vincent van Gogh. Source: Pinterest
