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Excerpt From Eternal Verse By John Lars Zwerenz (A New Book Of American Poetry To Be Published In 2013)
OF TWO IN PARADISE
When the silver fountains sigh
To the paradisial sky
Eloquently, majestically,
I shall gaze into your ebony eyes
As the snow descends upon your jet-black hair
And your face, so astonishing,
Astonishingly fair.
The castle by the sea
Where the diamond currents rise
With the grace of an angel's wing
Is a witness to our ardor there.
And as the pines, wrapped in a breeze
Of blue and velvet rhapsodies
Shake their perfumes upon your dress
I shall find ecstasy in your feminine caress
And our kiss shall recite The Angelus.
When the silver fountains sigh
To the paradisial sky
Eloquently, majestically,
I shall gaze into your ebony eyes
As the snow descends upon your jet-black hair
And your face, so astonishing,
Astonishingly fair.
The castle by the sea
Where the diamond currents rise
With the grace of an angel's wing
Is a witness to our ardor there.
And as the pines, wrapped in a breeze
Of blue and velvet rhapsodies
Shake their perfumes upon your dress
I shall find ecstasy in your feminine caress
And our kiss shall recite The Angelus.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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An American Romance By John Lars Zwerenz : Excerpt from the novel "An American Romance"
An American Romance By John Lars Zwerenz : Excerpt from the novel "An American Romance": The wind became wild and many dead leaves were blown about the expansive graveyard.... The clouds obscured the moonlight further, unt...
Excerpt from the novel "An American Romance"
The wind became wild and many dead leaves were blown about the expansive graveyard....
The clouds obscured the moonlight further, until now no moonlight appeared at all. Lawrence found it hard to see where he was going.
In the center of the cemetery was erected a centuries-old mausoleum. Lawrence ascended its white, stone steps and passed in through its immense foyer. The mausoleum's interior was cryptic, and mysteriously was moderately lit, lit by glittering lights. What Lawrence found most strange about this place was that the huge, gruesome edifice was illuminated not by electricity but by candles, half of them alive with flame. Their sperm dripped down upon the hard, white floor. On the crypts near the candlelight he could read the names of the deceased with little effort. he wandered down one long corridor where more white candles were lit rather than dead and at last came to the center of the mausoleum which was shaped in the form of an immensely large hexagon. At its center was a huge statue of some medieval, male saint whom Lawrence was unable to recognize. He gazed up at the statue's face and asked for intervention, for help.
At that instant lightning struck the mausoleum and to Lawrence's horror the large, marble hexagon was lit up as though it was day, and the statue of the saint pointed at him, and with a terrible voice said: "Leave thee, for thou art damned! You have no place among the blessed here!" At seeing and hearing this, Lawrence fainted in a fit of terror upon the hard, unforgiving floor as more lightning struck, shattering one of the stain-glass windows on the top of the center's dome.
- From An American Romance By John Lars Zwerenz
An American Romance is available at Amazon.com, Barnes&noble.com and at other online retailers worldwide.
The clouds obscured the moonlight further, until now no moonlight appeared at all. Lawrence found it hard to see where he was going.
In the center of the cemetery was erected a centuries-old mausoleum. Lawrence ascended its white, stone steps and passed in through its immense foyer. The mausoleum's interior was cryptic, and mysteriously was moderately lit, lit by glittering lights. What Lawrence found most strange about this place was that the huge, gruesome edifice was illuminated not by electricity but by candles, half of them alive with flame. Their sperm dripped down upon the hard, white floor. On the crypts near the candlelight he could read the names of the deceased with little effort. he wandered down one long corridor where more white candles were lit rather than dead and at last came to the center of the mausoleum which was shaped in the form of an immensely large hexagon. At its center was a huge statue of some medieval, male saint whom Lawrence was unable to recognize. He gazed up at the statue's face and asked for intervention, for help.
At that instant lightning struck the mausoleum and to Lawrence's horror the large, marble hexagon was lit up as though it was day, and the statue of the saint pointed at him, and with a terrible voice said: "Leave thee, for thou art damned! You have no place among the blessed here!" At seeing and hearing this, Lawrence fainted in a fit of terror upon the hard, unforgiving floor as more lightning struck, shattering one of the stain-glass windows on the top of the center's dome.
- From An American Romance By John Lars Zwerenz
An American Romance is available at Amazon.com, Barnes&noble.com and at other online retailers worldwide.
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An American Romance By John Lars Zwerenz / New Releases / Romance / Fiction / Amazon.com books
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Book Description
An American Romance is the intimate story of the love between a man named Lawrence and a woman named Renee, two intelligent, intensely romantic people. They approach and discover one another gracefully, with a solemn ardor; a passion which contains both brightness and darkness. They take an unforgettable journey through love and resentment, lust and domination, rapture and blackness, and they find that forgiveness is the key to understanding. Songs of Rapture and Other Poems, included as an appendix within this book, is a mystical journey into the interior of every man and woman's heart. It speaks of things, both of gilded rays and of deep, profound shadows, which surpass the realm of all music. The poet takes the reader through the golden, sunny corners of the psyche's most wondrous daylight to the blackest regions of the human mind.
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From the Author
An American Romance takes the reader on an emotional, mental and mystical rollercoaster ride. This book was written exclusively to expose the reader to extremities of both light and darkness, love and envy, lust and domination, sanctity and madness, resentment and forgiveness. This book is purgatorial and is meant only for an adult audience.
John Lars Zwerenz
John Lars Zwerenz
From the Back Cover
It is a brisk winter day in Paris, France, as Lawrence Bradford takes a last long drag on his cigarette and smashes it in the ashtray. Lonely, depressed, and consumed with dark thoughts, Lawrence thinks he has nothing to live for--until he sees her.
As a beautiful young woman dressed in a pea coat crosses the boulevard in front of him, all thoughts of suicide and melancholy suddenly leave Lawrence's mind. She is familiar, as he has already seen her face in thousands of visions over the years. As snowfl akes begin to fall gently onto the sidewalk, Lawrence greets her, introduces himself, and immediately asks for her phone number. In a matter of seconds, Renee Cartwright, an American teacher in France for a conference, captures the heart of a man who only moments ago sought refuge from his pain in his poetry. As Renee and Lawrence gracefully discover one another, both fi nally reveal their internal demons, sending their relationship--and their future--on an uncertain path.
Accompanied by Songs of Rapture and Other Poems, a new collection of Zwerenz's poetry, An American Romance is an intimate story of love and the darkest regions of the human mind, as two young lovers take an unforgettable, passionate journey together through darkness, forgiveness, and hope.
John Lars Zwerenz is an American poet who is the author of Selected Poems, Mist and Flame, Visionary Wanderings, and Sonnets of Dusk and Dawn. He resides in New York City.
As a beautiful young woman dressed in a pea coat crosses the boulevard in front of him, all thoughts of suicide and melancholy suddenly leave Lawrence's mind. She is familiar, as he has already seen her face in thousands of visions over the years. As snowfl akes begin to fall gently onto the sidewalk, Lawrence greets her, introduces himself, and immediately asks for her phone number. In a matter of seconds, Renee Cartwright, an American teacher in France for a conference, captures the heart of a man who only moments ago sought refuge from his pain in his poetry. As Renee and Lawrence gracefully discover one another, both fi nally reveal their internal demons, sending their relationship--and their future--on an uncertain path.
Accompanied by Songs of Rapture and Other Poems, a new collection of Zwerenz's poetry, An American Romance is an intimate story of love and the darkest regions of the human mind, as two young lovers take an unforgettable, passionate journey together through darkness, forgiveness, and hope.
John Lars Zwerenz is an American poet who is the author of Selected Poems, Mist and Flame, Visionary Wanderings, and Sonnets of Dusk and Dawn. He resides in New York City.
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