Tag Archives: Beauty

Premature Nostalgia

Posted on December 1, 2025 by John Biscello

Ever since I can remember, I have been afflicted by what I call premature nostalgia. A simple definition of premature nostalgia: Mourning or grieving, or experiencing acutely a deep sense of loss, a profound wistfulness, ether before something happens … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose | Tagged Beauty, bitterswet, gentle melancholy, liminal, mono no aware, nostalgia, Poetry, Prose, vanishing points, words | Leave a comment

Detour

Posted on October 23, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. In a world of blue, you’ve been through it, haven’t you? Scraped deep to beauty.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Beauty, blue stairs, haiku, japan, niigata, poem, rust, world of blue | Leave a comment

Romance

Posted on October 17, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Dilapidation a stunning aphrodisiac for the soul hopelessly in love with time’s obscene touch and lusting after erosion as a blatant course of conjugal intimacy.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged age, Beauty, decay, erosion, japan, niigata, poem, portrait, time, tribute | Leave a comment

Aria

Posted on August 9, 2022 by John Biscello

You are at a masquerade ball that takes place at Club Infinity, and you notice a lonely woman standing in the corner, her entire body breathes loneliness like strange music thickening the air, which in essence thickens the plot … … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose | Tagged aria, aura, Beauty, infinity, loneliness, soul, the journey, woman | Leave a comment

Venus Infers

Posted on July 6, 2022 by John Biscello

Venus rising in frothy lace petticoats and sunkissed pearls, the seawear of golden seduction, and I, a lone comma pulsing within the voluptuous grammar of the ocean, I, a conjugal apprentice and disciple to all things invoking beauty to rapture.

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Ravels

Posted on September 7, 2020 by John Biscello

At the wound’s core, dark luscious ravels of text, courting, inviolate measures, the fathomless brood of Beauty’s End.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Beauty, craft, inspiration, John Biscello, poem, Poetry, the writing life, wound-letting | Leave a comment

A Golden Piece

Posted on December 31, 2019 by John Biscello

Because “yes” and “thank you” are the profoundest of blessings, and gratitude the golden key.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Beauty, beloved words, gratitude as the golden key, hope, John Biscello, poem, raymond carver, the heart's way | Leave a comment

Breeze

Posted on April 4, 2019 by John Biscello

Modeling a breeze, exultancy became her, wave by breaking wave. (Photo by Anne Brigman)

Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged a shore thing, anne brigman, Beauty, dance dance dance, John Biscello, photo, poem, sea breeze | Leave a comment

Witness

Posted on August 23, 2018 by John Biscello

Inspiration, when two worlds converge, unplanned, and you serve as witness.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Beauty, cup, haiku, inspiration, John Biscello, sea, witness | Leave a comment

Gauge

Posted on August 23, 2018 by John Biscello

The sun, like a brandied dream, slips away beneath the world’s ending, or beginning, same difference, by the sea’s ancient gauge and meter.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged beach, Beauty, John Biscello, Light, sea, sunset, time | Leave a comment