Lachrymose: Complete Poetry Works, #1

By Ece Karadag

My poems that I wrote for two and a half years to get rid of the hurtful thoughts that were running around in my head.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ece Karadag
• Release date: Jun 29, 2023
• ISBN: 9798359794640

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Ece Karadag

Lachrymose

Copyright © 2022 by Ece Karadag

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My love, this is for you…

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

Contents

Acknowledgement

Content Warnings

I. A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF SADNESS OR PROLOGUE

1. The Manifesto of a Hopeless Lover or Prologue

2. One More Chance to Love You Again

3. A Night When My Eternal Hopes Faded

4. Ophelia

5. Tears of Today

6. Scratched Vinyls

7. To My Family or The First Chapter of My Life

8. Gate of Eden

9. Letters from Mr. Nobody

10. Unfinished Poems, Unwritten Lines

II. BLANCHED PAGES, UNSENT POSTCARD

11. Melody of a Broken Heart

12. Poem for Him

13. King of the Bullet

14. Conqueror of Hell

15. Purgatory of Innocent Souls

16. The Ninth Circle of Hell or the Treachery

17. Hell-hounds in the Mortal World

18. For Luna

19. A Whimp

20. A Poem for My Rosy-Cheeked Gentleman

21. Back Flowing River of Heaven

22. When Life Hurts You

23. When the Flames Go Out

24. Chiromancy

25. The Gold Medallion

26. They were Kissing the Graves of Their Mothers

27. Can You Hear the Melody of my Sorrow?

28. Rain of Love

29. Extinguished Incenses

III. SONGS OF LOVE AND DESPAIR

30. When The Goldfinch Died

31. Ode to Apollo

32. The Sudden Death of Igor Igorevich

33. Broken Tears, Broken Hiccups

34. Take my hand first, then destroy me

35. To Beatrice

36. What were the foxes wandering inside my head telling me?

37. Ode to my family

38. I Loved a Man

39. Cherry Wines

40. Eternal Souls in the Mortal World

41. i took him to heaven (stanzas one & two)

42. master of sorrow

43. i took him to heaven (stanzas three & four)

44. to her monsieur

45. autumn breeze

46. Burning tears

47. first untitled poem

48. melody of icarus

49. the ballad of ethereal queen

50. second untitled poem

51. the waves

52. chamomile tea

53. cafuné

54. the grave digger

55. dreamers

56. august dream

57. ode to lucifer

58. champagne stains

59. forbidden faces

60. Mama, Pt. 1

61. Mama, Pt. 2

62. Healing the wounded heart

63. Mama,