Roni

Hey! Just wanted to check in, how are you? It's been a while since you've showered us with some good poetry of yours. 
          I love it when you post.
          Hope you're doing well.

Continuing my tradition of setting up social media way too late, I present to you my Tumblr blog:
          
          https://www.tumblr.com/erebus-helios

"Still afternoon. I breathe the early spring air, as memories of past rebirths of nature are unearthed within my mind. I decide not to mind them, as my only duty is to make the most out of the present moment. Love, I’ve discovered, is choosing to be maximally good in the face of misery, a beacon in eternal tempests that surround this existence.
          
          This spring, wings are sprouting out of my body that is fragile and immovable. I have been unable to look myself in the mirror for quite some time now – I feel that I face a ghost of all my failures, a machination that was destined to fail at the simple purpose of being alive. I deemed all affection undeserved, any chance of redemption inconceivable. Every waking moment was spent prolonging the inevitable collapse."
          
          I have written a few new poems this year, but I have already started shifting considerably to prose. It feels more natural right now to express poetic thought that way.
          
          Also, new profile aesthetic!

No new poems in 2024, as I enter a sort of typical period for me of a few weeks without writing anything in the new year.
          
          A good time to consolidate what I've previously written and plan for the future. In this year, my goal is to put my work further out there, hopefully I succeed in that!

My newest poetry collection, ΗΛΙΟΣ / ΕΡΕΒΟΣ or SUN / DARKNESS, is now complete!
          
          I will most likely not write in the style present in the collection anymore, since I feel as though I've expressed everything that could be written in it. Inevitably, I will be writing less poetry as a consequence of this.
          
          However, I recently got an idea for a wonderful story that I think really needs to be told. I have begun planning and writing it, and hopefully in a few weeks' time I'll have most of it done! It could even become my first novel. Its provisional title is "To Be a Person".

i hope you get recognition for these wonderful poems you wrote <3

ΗΛΙΟΣ / ΕΡΕΒΟΣ is actually kinda good, pls read

SUN / DARKNESS
          
          the sun shone on my cheeks on those beautiful winter days
          the darkness gripped my heart and I fell into its embrace
          peace of mind surrounded me on streets of unknown
          while the sun set on my sanity amidst my collapse
          
          I remember the cold days as well as the warm nights
          the pristine winter as well as the mad summer
          I stared into the abyss of the ever glowing dark sun
          it’s where my soul has stayed alive through the apocalypse
          
          and to the sun, these days I am best left in darkness
          
          My recent poems are coming together into a neat new collection.
          The void's rule may be ending, but there is still darkness to be overcome.

Possibly the last poem ever to mention "void". :)
          
          AMOR
          
          I will rip open the gates of Amor
          and reclaim the love taken away by the void
          I will not let anything belittle me again
          for I am a person that loves with love itself
          
          I will enter the forest at its darkest point
          where birdsong shall rule my fearless heart
          I will face the world with arms wide open
          to free my soul from this self-imposed prison 
          
          I will recognize the love shining right at me
          and let the sparkle in my eyes bring me back to life
          I will hold the hand of beauty under the starry skies
          and love, and be loved, loved with love itself
          
          18/11/2023

Re-watched two movies I previously saw as a kid in the past week or so, cried to both of them.
          
          Song of the Sea (2014) - absolutely beautiful and warm animation, irish folklore and mythology, from the plot and characters to music everything was amazing and I cried multiple times.
          
          Bridge to Terabithia (2007) - watched today, remembered a bit more of the plot so I knew what was coming but still felt like a genuine return to my childhood.
          
          I got inspired to actually compose rather than write something from both movies, so I might do that sometime