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    Vermilion Dreams
    Vermilion Dreams
    Vermilion Dreams
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    Vermilion Dreams

    By J.L. McKenzie

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    This book of gothic prose transcends the reader into a world darker than they ever imagined possible. Vermilion Dreams is a blend of utter sadness, despair, light, love and passion that is sublime. It is a look deep into the psyche and you will never forget what you have experienced. Your world will be colored black and desolate by J.L. McKenzie's words and you will never be the same again.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateFeb 11, 2011
    ISBN9781456712808
    Vermilion Dreams
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    J.L. McKenzie

    J.L. McKenzie is a gothic poet who is not afraid to explore the darker side of life and all the emotions that paint the world in its many shades of black. Her work opens the scars of heartache of her readers and elicits hidden sorrows and grief to emerge in their tears. She uses her own life experiences and trauma to relate to her readers on a visceral level and they are forever changed after reading her work. J.L. McKenzie is a breath of fresh night air. She is a work of gothic art infused with bits of black eyeliner and synth pop. She is fearless and imaginative and intoxicated with life. She is an up and coming poet and artist of the sublime and surreal. - Lady Aslan, Victorian Days and Punk Rock Nights

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      Vermilion Dreams - J.L. McKenzie

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Forward

      Heartache

      Betrayer

      Broken

      Crush

      Damaged

      Extinguished

      Falter

      Goodbye

      How Does My Heart Grow

      Mirror, Mirror

      Poison Ivy

      Walking Away

      Despair

      Alone

      Babies’ Breath

      Declivity

      Final Embrace

      Husk

      Tidal Breath

      Suicide

      Bitter Pill

      Claret

      Sharp

      Sweet

      Vengeance

      Bright

      Come Undone

      Control

      Divine Madness

      Handmaiden

      Human Stain

      I Find You Are Gone

      Regret

      She Wants Revenge

      Surname

      Toxic Love

      Love

      Beautiful

      Bittersweet Days

      Constellations

      Dreaming My Reality

      Guide

      Healing

      Hourglass

      I Cannot….

      I Love You Because….

      Last Night I Dreamt

      Observations

      Pacify

      Quiver

      Roses

      Send Me Flying

      Simple Gifts

      Spring

      Stuttering Steps

      Sugar

      Supplicant

      Waltzing Heart

      Worship

      Lust

      Bliss

      Desire

      Domitae Naturae

      Eve’s Temptation

      False Goddess

      Flesh

      Nosferatu

      Savage

      Scheherazade

      Spider’s Web

      Miscellaneous

      Death’s Bride

      Drive

      Elemental

      Glimmer

      Harmony

      She

      Stillbirth

      White Flag

      Afterword

      Acknowledgments

      For my parents who never stopped believing in me….

      For my husband who was always my biggest fan….

      For my friends for inspiring me and encouraging me….

      For Sophia for her time and effort on the photos….

      For Bill and David for their contributions to the book….

      And for my cat, Mugwort, for keeping my seat on the couch warm while I wrote.

      Official MySpace Page:

      www.myspace.com/vdreamsbook

      Official Website:

      www.vermilliondreams.com

      Forward

      J.L. McKenzie knows what she is doing. Her poetry proves that. She is a fresh, unique voice amongst a chorus of contemporary Gothic voices today. Reading her work is like sitting in the graveyard after dusk, joined in hushed communion, listening to the dead and their clairvoyant insights into the fragile human heart. She began writing at age twelve, and her evolution over the past twenty years is starkly apparent in Vermilion Dreams; from her pen flows elegant ruminations, profound and unflinching in their vision. There is obsession here, and ravenous pain, dangerously close to the surface. There are slashes and slices of light and dark, and something not unlike the raw, evocative color of bloodletting coming from an opened vein…

      She writes cuttingly of unhallowed anguish, the burning desires and nighttime hunger that can come, of slitherings and teasings and the fleshly pleasures: about love renounced and then cast heartlessly out, of a despair so palpable that it hurts even to breathe. And of course, about the relentless wrath which often ensues. Her words are intelligent, lyrical, and yes, dripping with venom and deadlier than nightshade at times. McKenzie bares all in these poems—the feverish midnight exorcisms, whether real or imagined; her eternal quest for an undying love, those lonesome 3 AM musings from deep somewhere inside that ‘dark night of the soul’ we each of us know all too well. She plays the shrouded enchantress whom one moment we want to embrace, the next to edge warily away from in a kind of dawning, dreadful horror…before she takes us over that precipice with her, into a void of blackness where we would so gladly go. In Vermilion Dreams she comes tiptoeing to us in our moonlit sleep, makes us feel the painful, passionate thrum of her heartbeats pulsing in the darkness, then reaches out with a chill caress that turns the bedding to bright red beneath us…all the while becoming the poet she wants to be.

      You will not soon forget J.L. McKenzie—she knows what she’s doing. But don’t just take my word for it. Read on, please, and be enticed away into her world of wicked sensuality and into her perfumed, haunted shadows. Lose yourself in them. For that is the greatest gift a writer can ever give. It’s all here for the taking…as are glimpses of her soul laid bare, waiting between these pages. Embrace, and enjoy…

      I know I did.

      —William Gorman

      author of Ghost Whispers

      Heartache

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      Betrayer

      Such sweet words come from your lips

      I cannot help but to believe

      False embraces lead to fervent lies

      Swallow it all and let it catch in my throat

      Thinking you want me - your

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