Poetry: Attraction

This poem is from my Honor's Thesis Project, which is a Creative Nonfiction Narrative about gays and the Holocaust.  Within the text of my thesis I am trying something new--for me anyway-- working in poetry into the main body of the text to help develop the main character who wants to be nothing more than a writer. 

This particular poem comes from a chapter in the "book" where the main character, Christoph  meets a young man that he finds attractive... hope you enjoy

                        Are you like me,

                        Therefore the hours gleam 

                        If I were to say to you

                        You are a dwelling where strawberries

                        Sweep through your name  

                        As if budding shrubs remind me  

                        Of some spring of water so cool, so clear

                        Twilight rain embraces your leaves

                        Which are stirred by a dainty wind  

                        It is where you transpire in verdant moonlight  

                        You are the lily, the aster, the white trillium

                        Even the viburnum, by all merits mine

                        The frosty star in the pasture sky,

                        The snowstorm still arriving

                        From its earthward voyage, here there is  

                        No snow but I dreamt the snow was you,

                        You come to be my night

                        You take on the dimensions of sleep,

                        The silhouette of sleep becomes you

                        In those dreams you fall from the sky

                        With numerous blossoms

                        Poetries spill from your mouth

                        In waves, your lips taste like the sea,

                        But the seas have flown away

                        Because of loving you, home is nowhere

                        Therefore you are my shelter

                        The song of any Eden we can mention

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I know this is early, but I felt this was a wonderful Valentine--from me to you my readers.  Exquiste photogrpahy, exquiste black and white sections and the music oh dear lord just love the whole thing, hope you do too

Peter Calandra Hits The Sheets For Designer Johnathon Abrielle

When I saw this online I had to share with all of you....Beefy stage and screen hunk Peter Calandra hits the sheets in a new video for designer Johnathon Abrielle for his new luxury linens brand Johnathon

This ain’t your Mother’s typical White Sale.  Lots of bootie shots , I mean really WOW!!

Naked Muse 2012 Calendar: Male Poets Pose Nude, Raise Money For Diabetes

The word "muse" has the tendency to elicit thoughts of fair-skinned, lyre-playing goddesses with beachy curls. But you won't see any Botticelli-inspired ladies in Victoria Bennett's 2012 calendar, "The Naked Muse." Instead, you'll find sensual, black-and-white photos of men relaxing on windowsills, men posing in forests, and men showcasing their tattoos.

These men are poets, and their portraits were taken by female photographers to illustrate poems about the topic of the male muse. Bennett, the founder of Wild Woman Press, began this project to raise money for Type 1 diabetes, a disease her three-year-old son Django has been diagnosed with.

"Unlike other children his own age… Django could face a future of devastating complications brought on by Type 1 diabetes such as losing limbs, kidney failure, blindness, coma, heart diseases, and even death," Bennett writes on her site.

One photographer involved in the project is Izzi Ramsay, who has dedicated her career to studying the nude figure. She has also worked as the director and curator of a London-based photo gallery, and an Art Psychotherapist and Counselor. Her portrait is of Alan Buckley, who won the 2010 Wigtown Poetry Competition, and was shortlisted for the Picador Poetry Prize that same year. He is pictured stretched out sleepily near a window, a visual adaptation of poet Pascale Petiti's "Sun and Life."

The result of this three-artist collaboration is an image as graceful as it is chilling.

On another calendar page, poet John Siddique gazes past a dainty, translucent veil. Photographer and art history guru Leonie Hampton posed him after Moniza Alvi's "My Wife and the Composer."

Boys at the Circus

Photographer Errikos Andreou and stylist AL GIGA collaborated on 'Boys at the Circus' with models Brett Reeves, Tiago Pereira, Marios Markou, Diego Garcia, Manuel Agila, Panagiotis Simopoulos and Fernando Freire.