Tag: desire

A surreal, landscape-format digital painting depicts a glowing match held between indistinct, red-lit fingers emerging from the left. Its yellow-white flame burns against a smoky black sky, illuminated by a hazy, moonlike orb in the upper right. Below, swirling masses of scarlet and orange suggest a raging fire, while scattered embers hover in the darkness. Soft, blurred edges give the composition a dreamlike, ominous intensity. An AI take on a human-created digital sketch by Alabaster Rhumb.

“Play With Fire” & Other Poems by Deborah R. Majors

aromatica poetica October 19, 2026

Play With Fire Strike a match. Watch the cardboard curl upon itself before you slowly wave it out. Now, smell that thick swirling smoke— let it warm your nostrils and stick to your tongue, its earthy gunpowder bouquet, lingering. Then, light as that disappearing wisp, place your right hand, gently, upon my thigh. Flared Nostrils I smell like old people when I visit him in this place corralling the sick and dying, like a musty attic wiped with a …

A stylized garlic blossom rises like a botanical icon, its bulb rendered in creamy whites and purplish reds that swirl into curved, sensual segments. From this plump, glowing base, two deep-green leaves flare upward, framing a tall stem topped with a dense, spherical cluster of small violet-magenta flowers. The piece appears as a soft-toned triptych, each panel darkening progressively from left to right, giving the central image a luminous, almost devotional presence. Created and described with ChatGPT for “The Transformation.”

“The Transformation” * Poetry * Sambhu Ramachandran

aromatica poetica November 14, 2025

your gaze has gone straight through me like a vampire’s flashing fangs through a blue throbbing vein embossed on a bare slanted neck slick with sweat & I am already waiting feverishly in love’s unventilated vestibule for the moment of transformation the full moon night of losing myself in you that will rend me apart terrorising me with its blend of weakness and strength ecstasy & escalation of pain the senses grow suddenly sharper now I can hear your heart …