Halloween Birthday John Keats

Happy Halloween Birthday to John Keats! For your enjoyment here are a few lines from his poem Lamia. A lamia is part woman, part serpent, and in homage to Keats (not to mention the creatures are cool) one appears in my paranormal dark fantasy romance, Mind Your Goddess – Wytchfae 3, coming out in December from Secret Cravings Publishing. 

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John William Waterhouse [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
“Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire
Sprinkled with stars, like Ariadne’s tiar:
Her head was serpent, but ah, bitter-sweet!
She had a woman’s mouth with all its pearls complete:
And for her eyes: what could such eyes do there
But weep, and weep, that they were born so fair?
As Proserpine still weeps for her Sicilian air.”

JOHN KEATS

John Keats, by William Hilton (died 1839). See...
William Hilton the Younger [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

By Flossie Benton Rogers

Paranormal romance author who loves to shake the edges of reality.

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