title: Provocative Poetry and Prose: Portraits of Black Love
author: Sardonyx Jade
description: Poetry that knows what love is all about; erotic poetry that never confuses sex and love; that knows one only enhances the other. Beautifully done Sardonyx. --Brooklyn Darkchild&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WOW is all I can think to say. I expected all erotic poetry and the prose to follow suit. SURPRISE! The poetry was an eclectic mix! There were so many different poems that I loved. I have to say De Sade (I know, I'm kinky, what can I say) was one of my FAVORITES!!! I absolutely LOVED Bondage, Hunt and Ecstasy. AMAZING! There were others too... like Fear. I didn't expect that! I love the poem, such a dark undertone. I can feel the emotion behind it. It's so thought provoking! I love it. I love the poem I Enjoy... It's beautiful... then at the end it's so innocent. Like adolescent... I can feel a tinge of fear of rejection, almost lack of self esteem in that poem. It's remarkable how much you can provoke emotion with just a few words. That's what I love about poetry. It can evoke such emotion, passion, in just a few words! The prose was wonderful! I LOVE the piece you wrote on Black on Black Love! It's SO AMAZING!! WOW! I can't wait to read it again... I can't WAIT For the next book!!! --Dennis W. (Santa Monica, CA)<br /><br />Poetry that knows what love is all about; erotic poetry that never confuses sex and love; that knows one only enhances the other. Beautifully done Sardonyx. --Brooklyn Darkchild
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  A Reckless Character and Other Stories
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [A Reckless Character  
  
  
    
  [The Dream  
  
  
    
  [Father Alexyei's Story  
  
  
    
  [Old Portraits  
  
  
    
  [The Song of Love Triumphant  
  
  
    
  [Clara Militch. A Tale  
  
  
    
  [Poems in Prose
  
  
  
  
  
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  # A Reckless Character and Other Stories
  
  
  ### Ivan Turgenev
  
  
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  [A Reckless Character
  
  
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  [The Dream
  
  
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  [Father Alexyei's Story
  
  
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  [Old Portraits
  
  
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  [The Song of Love Triumphant
  
  
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  [Clara Militch. A Tale
  
  
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  Etext from horrormasters.com
  
  
  ##### Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood
  
  
  ### A Reckless Character
  
  
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  There were eight of us in the room, and we were discussing contemporary
  matters and persons.
  
  “I do not understand these gentlemen!” remarked A.—“They are fellows of a
  reckless sort. . . . Really, desperate. . . . There has never been an