#conrad aiken

[snizabelle]

you ever think about how famous poet conrad aiken used to visit his parents graves (murder-suicide when he was 11) and would boat watch and one time he saw a boat called 'cosmos mariner' and was like holy SHIT that goes HARD and he went to look up where it was going and it just said 'destination unknown' and he was like OH MY GODDDDDDD so he ended up putting "COSMOS MARINER: DESTINATION UNKNOWN" on his grave which is also a bench so you too can sit by his parents graves and look out for boats with cool names?

[shisasan]

Conrad Aiken, Nocturne of Remembered Spring, and Other Poems originally published: 1917

[nobeerreviews]

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

-- Conrad Aiken

(Mamaia, Romania)

[red-ibis-red]

All the poetry in her nature had been stifled—sooner or later it would have had to break out…

—Conrad Aiken, from “Field of Flowers,” The Collected Short Stories

[lillyli-74]

Her glimmering phantom loveliness.

~Conrad Aiken

[mindonfirebooks]

Forget cheer. Dive into the true dread of classic verse. We've gathered 5 masterpieces of Eerie Folklore, Gothic Dread, and Visceral Verse, featuring the chilling work of Poe, Dunbar, and Aiken. 💀 🔗 #GothicPoetry #Horror #TheRaven

5 Classic Poems: Eerie Folklore, Gothic Dread, and Visceral Verse

[thefrankshow]

Silent Snow, Secret Snow

[invisible-woe]

"We tried to turn away; but still Above we heard her sorrow thrill; And those that slept, they dreamed of ill And dreadful things: Of skies grown red with rending flames And shuddering hills that cracked their frames; Of twilights foul with wings; And skeletons dancing to a tune; And cries of children stifled soon; And over all a blood-red moon A dull and nightmare size. They woke, and sought to go their ways, Yet everywhere they met her gaze, Her fixed and burning eyes."

— from The Vampire, by Conrad Aiken