A poem by Gabriela Marie Milton, and a beautiful acknowledgment of my blog

A Poem by Gabriela Marie Milton

In the summer’s lethargic haze, waves cry on my skin,
burying our slow afternoons where roses bloom between humid lips.

Tides pull us under their sensual drift,
reviving your thorned kisses in liquid memory.

A Beautiful Acknowledgment of my Blog

Best Poetry blog to read in 2026

Blog To Read

•March 2, 2026•3 min read

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1. I Don’t Have My glasses on

I don’t have my glasses on: Beth, a cupcake maker, an enthusiastic dater, a lover of the arts, and a teacher, is the main voice behind this beautiful blog where she talks about everything but poetry.

2. Short Prose

Short Prose: Gabriela Marie Milton, a 3-time Amazon bestselling poet, award-winning poet, and internationally published author. Her poems are brief but profound.

Thank you to Lukesh for selecting my blog, and congratulations to Beth!

Best Poetry blog to read in 2026

Gabriela Marie Milton
Author, founder, editor in chief of Literary Revelations

Please follow me on IG @gabriela_marie_milton and on X @sholrtprose1

Please follow and subscribe to Literary Revelations, IG, and X @lr_publisher.

My books (Only English)

#1 Amazon bestseller, Passions: Love Poems and Other Writings (Vita Brevis)
#1 Amazon Bestseller, Women: Splendor and Sorrow (Vita Brevis)|
#1 Amazon bestseller, Haiku and Tanka: Lull, Harmony and Power in Japanese Art – co-authored with Hikari (Literary Revelation)

Thank you to all my followers who reviewed my books.
Please read other reviews here:

Woman: Splendor and Sorrow: Love Poems and Poetic Prose by Gabriela Marie Milton in Portland Book Review
Woman: Splendor and Sorrow: Love Poems and Poetic Prose by Gabriela Marie Milton in Manhattan Book Review
Passions: Love Poems and Other Writings in San Francisco by Gabriela Marie Milton in San Francisco Book Review
Passions: Love Poems and Other Writings by Gabriela Marie Milton In Manhattan B

A short poem (poetic prose) by Gabriela Marie Milton and news about Literary Revelations’ anthologies

I am therefore I write

Gabriela Marie Milton

A short poem (poetic prose) by Gabriela Marie Milton

In the rose’s tender clasp or jasmine’s whispered breath,

femininity and desire weave,

beckoning us to a passion refined—

vulnerable in its bloom,

triumphant in its essence,

resonating with the timeless spirit over fleeting flesh.

For more poetry, please follow me on IG at gabriela_marie_milton

News about Literary Revelations‘ anthologies

I am genuinely moved by the beauty of your haiku submitted to Haiku for Soulmates. Your creativity and passion shine through your words, and I encourage you to continue sharing your work. 🙏

Both Tranquility: An Anthology of Haiku and Petals of Haiku, published by Literary Revelations (@lr_publisher), are now part of the Museum of Haiku Literature in Japan, thanks to our talented artist in residence, Hikari (@hikari2162554).

The Museum of Haiku Literature is distinguished as the world’s only library solely dedicated to collecting and preserving haiku works for the enrichment of future generations. Literary Revelations promised to create legacies. We are doing it.

We invite you to keep submitting to Literary Revelations’ upcoming anthology, Haiku for Soulmates. We hope this collection will also find its place in esteemed museums.

To participate, please submit five haiku to literaryrevelations@pm.me with the email subject clearly labeled as “Haiku for Soulmates.” Please be aware that unlabeled submissions may be misplaced and not read. The deadline for submissions is February 26. Kindly note that your five haiku will be reviewed as a set and accepted or rejected as a whole.

Thank you for your continued support and inspiration. 🙏

Gabriela Marie Milton

My books (Only English)

Thank you to all my followers who reviewed my books.
Please read other reviews here:

In the Beginning – Poetic Prose – Poem by Gabriela Marie Milton

I am therefore I write

Gabriela Marie Milton

In the Beginning – Poetic Prose – Poem by Gabriela Marie Milton

In the beginning, the sky was dark, swollen with braided longings. The earth lay beneath it, clothed in smiling flowers and the slow breath of gods. Petals parted like whispered confessions, damp with promises. Desire had no name.

On that day, I bent and chose one bloom. My fingers lingered,. At the first trembling touch love burst from the ground.

The earth arched upward, aching, rising to meet the weight of the sky. Roots tightened, winds sighed, and the night thickened with roses and heavy steps. Your name became the name of desire spoken by birds.

The second day of creation started.

Gods of my many worlds, I beg your forgiveness.

Featured Art: Shutterstock

A thought and some reminder

I was asked in an interview how I write “lush poetry” and “haiku”, such different poetic genres. The answer is I do not know. I just can. I leave the beauty of both genres raining over me. I became one with my writings.

Please do not forget our fabulous Artist in Residence, Hikari, and me published Haiku and Tanka: Lull, Harmony, and Power in Japanese Art.

Delight yourself in its pages.

Call for Submission from Literary Revelations

Literary Revelations is thrilled to announce an open call for submissions for our upcoming anthology, Haiku for Soulmates. Whether you have a soulmate and wish to celebrate your connection, or you dream of finding one, we invite you to share your poetic voice. If you have a soulmate, please compose five haiku for him or her. If you do not, let your imagination shape five haiku that describe the soulmate you hope to meet.

To participate, please submit your five haiku to literaryrevelations@pm.me and clearly label your email subject as Haiku for Soulmates. Please note that unlabeled submissions may be misplaced and not read. The submission deadline is February 25. Your five haiku will be accepted or rejected as a block.

Gabriela Marie Milton

My books (Only English)

Thank you to all my followers who reviewed my books.
Please read other reviews here:

Poetry in English and Basque & A Quick Reminder & #1 Top Seller in Canada

Wishing all my followers around the world a wonderful weekend! May magic, love, and peace be with you.

Poetry in English and Basque & A Quick Reminder.

Poetry in English and Basque

I am who I am, and who I am breathes in the hush between desire and devotion — hidden in the tears that slide down the cracked face of an iconoclast’s old church, glistening like skin after rain.

My essence stirs in the murmur of the waves that caress Bilbao’s restless shore. There, beneath the trembling light, I unfold — a secret pulse, a body made of memory and prayers, aching to be touched by the world again.

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Ni naizena naiz, eta naizena arnasa hartzen du desioaren eta debozioaren arteko isilunean — ikonoklasta baten eliza zaharraren aurpegi pitzatuaren gainetik behera irristatzen diren malkoetan ezkutatuta, euriaren ondoren larruazal bezain distiratsu.

Nire esentzia mugitzen da Bilboko itsasertze bizkorra laztantzen duten olatuen xuxurlan. Han, dardarka dabilen argiaren azpian, zabaltzen naiz — taupada sekretu bat, oroitzapen eta otoitzaz egindako gorputz bat, munduak berriro ukitzeko gogo biziz.

Haiku and Tanka, Lull Harmony and Power in Japanese art by Hikari and Gabriela Marie Milton in now #1 Top Release in Canada

After being the #1 Top Release in the USA and still a bestseller, the #1 Amazon Bestseller in Japan, Haiku and Tanka: Lull, Harmony and Power in Japanese Art, published by Literary Revelations, is now a #1 Top Seller in Canada too. Australia, how are we doing? Thank you to everyone who bought our book.

A Reminder

Please do not forget to check my new #1 Amazon Bestselling book, co-authored with the fabulous Japanese painter Hikari, Haiku and Tanka: Lull, Harmony and Power in Japanese Art.

Publisher: Literary Revelations

My deepest thanks to those of you who bought the book and left, or are going to leave, reviews on Amazon!

My books (Only English)

#1 Amazon bestseller, Passions: Love Poems and Other Writings (Vita Brevis)
#1 Amazon Bestseller, Women: Splendor and Sorrow (Vita Brevis)|

#1 Amazon bestseller, Haiku and Tanka: Lull, Harmony and Power in Japanese Art – co-authored with Hikari (Literary Revelation)

Thank you to all my followers who reviewed my books.
Please read other reviews here:

November Hues – a poem by Gabriela Marie Milton & an update on Haiku and Tanka: Lull, Harmony, and Power in Japanese art.

My dearest followers, I wish you a beautiful and magical November.

The purpose of this post is two fold:

A poem by me
An exciting update on Haiku and Tanka: Lull, Harmony, and Power in Japanese art by Hikari and Gabriela Marie Milton.

Let’s start:

November Hues by Hikari and Gabriela Marie Milton

Somewhere in Northern Europe – My Photo

In November’s breath, the law of beauty sleeps — a hush of gold dissolving into dusk.
Even the dying light adorns the world, as if farewell itself was made of grace.

An update on Haiku and Tanka: Lull, Harmony, and Power in Japanese art.

Literary Revelations is pleased to announce that Haiku and Tanka: Lull, Harmony, and Power in Japanese Art by Hikari and Gabriela Marie Milton is scheduled for publication at the beginning of December, just in time for Christmas presents. Please read more about the book and perspectivism in art HERE. If you go to that post, you will also have the possibility to write haiku or tanka on a new fabulous picture by Hikari.

Thank you, everyone, and I will see you soon!

My books (Only English)
#1 Amazon bestseller, Passions: Love Poems and Other Writings (Vita Brevis)
#1 Amazon Bestseller, Women: Splendor and Sorrow (Vita Brevis)

Thank you to all my followers who reviewed my books.
Please read other reviews here:

Short Poem by Gabriela Marie Milton, and do not forget Haiku and Tanka: Lull, Harmony, and Power coming soon at Literary Revelations

A happy and productive new week to all my followers and subscribers. I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween! A short poem/poetic prose by me, and do not forget Haiku and Tanka: Lull, Harmony, and Power coming soon at Literary Revelations – an exceptional art album co-authored by me and our artist in Residence, the fabulous Hikari. Please check Literary Revelations Journal for updates and follow on X and IG @lr_publisher

Poem by Gabriela Marie Milton

Your breath forgets to move,
lingering like silk in amber,
caught between the smell of leaves and memory,
where touch burns slow against the skin and time,
heavy with wanting.

photo: Gabriela Marie Milton

My books (Only English)
#1 Amazon bestseller, Passions: Love Poems and Other Writings (Vita Brevis)
#1 Amazon Bestseller, Women: Splendor and Sorrow (Vita Brevis)

Thank you to all my followers who reviewed my books.
Please read other reviews here:

Basque Lore – Witch (Sorginak)-Short Prose – Poetic Prose by Gabriela Marie Milton

Amaia moved as if the earth itself exhaled her name. The cup before her shimmered with fern, salt, and a shard of the sea’s first bone—the one that once wrapped around her ankles like a lover unwilling to let go. She broke the root of a tree between her fingers, and the scent of sap rose, thick and sweet as memory.

Her dress slipped from her shoulders, pooling at her feet like dusk surrendering to night. Naked, she began to dance—slowly at first, then with the rhythm of wind through stone, of rivers through veins. The air bent toward her, the mountains listening. Mist gathered around her skin, luminous and alive, her hair trailing down her thighs like spilled ink.

We were children, hidden beneath the bed, breathless. Through the slats, we saw her summon the world back to itself—one movement, one whisper, one trembling note at a time.

Reminder

Please do not forget that in November Literary Revelations will bring you a splendid art album (7X10) by Hikari and Gabriela Marie Milton.

Title, Haiku and Tanka: Lull, Harmony, and Power in Japanese Art

Authors, Hikari: Paintings and Tanka.

Gabriela Marie Milton: Haiku

To those of you who are my friends here, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your likes, comments, and support. Love you.

My books (Only English)
#1 Amazon bestseller, Passions: Love Poems and Other Writings (Vita Brevis)
#1 Amazon Bestseller, Women: Splendor and Sorrow (Vita Brevis)

Thank you to all my followers who reviewed my books.
Please read other reviews here:

Sacred Autumn – short prose, poetic prose by Gabriela Marie Milton

Sacred Autumn – short prose, poetic prose by Gabriela Marie Milton

Those nights of autumn—when the chill did not wound but healed, when the air itself seemed to breathe through us, cooling the fever of our restless hearts. Our eyes, heavy with the weight of constellations, closed like petals surrendering to the dusk. The city stirred beneath our footsteps, its silence trembling awake, its shadows turning to watch us pass.

Your lips traced, in the tender blindness of night, the outline of my fingers as though reading a forgotten scripture.

And in those evenings, we learned what few ever do—that desire, once it transcends the body, becomes sacred. We had crossed that invisible threshold where touch dissolves into essence, and what we shared was no longer flesh, but the luminous echo of it.

Reminder

Please do not forget that in November Literary Revelations will bring you a splendid art album (7X10) by Hikari and Gabriela Marie Milton.

Title, Haiku and Tanka: Lull, Harmony, and Power in Japanese Art

Authors, Hikari: Paintings and Tanka.

Gabriela Marie Milton: Haiku

To those of you who are my friends here, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your likes, comments, and support. Love you.

My books (Only English)
#1 Amazon bestseller, Passions: Love Poems and Other Writings (Vita Brevis)
#1 Amazon Bestseller, Women: Splendor and Sorrow (Vita Brevis)

Thank you to all my followers who reviewed my books.
Please read other reviews here:

A beautiful painting from Hikari for me and a poem by me – Gabriela Marie Milton – for Hikari

My gorgeous followers.

I was absolutely overwhelmed with joy when I learned that Hikari had crafted a stunning piece of art just for me. Her incredible generosity and unmatched talent brought tears to my eyes. The way she wielded those masterful colors struck a chord deep within me, igniting an emotional blaze that I couldn’t contain. I wept, and in the throes of that powerful inspiration, I penned a heartfelt poem dedicated to Hikari.

Painting by Hikari

Poem by Gabriela Marie Milton

Concentrated smell of roses
Blooms in the night of white spirits
Heavy perfume on midnight’s skin
Thorns soft like tongues in prayers

Why do you think my love
You know the secret language of roses –
The secrets they carry in soft petals’ glow.
The legend speaks of tears and blood
Of the day when the Goddess ripped her clothes
In the bourns-
Who told you, darling that roses are love
They are nightingales caught in blue fingered thorns

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My books (Only English)
#1 Amazon bestseller, Passions: Love Poems and Other Writings (Vita Brevis)
#1 Amazon Bestseller, Women: Splendor and Sorrow (Vita Brevis)

Thank you to all my followers who reviewed my books.
Please read other reviews here:

Eleusinian – Poem by Gabriela Marie Milton

My dear readers,

For you, a poem and a photo from my travel, which will continue for a few more days. Thank you for reading.

Eleusinian – Poem by Gabriela Marie Milton

Beneath the silence of the heated rocks,
Demeter harvests her lost tears,
Tonight, you will be hers, my dear,
Your body arting stones and souls

The ears of the corn will grow in silence,
Secrets of red sweetened lips
Falling to your knees
You’ll drink from my cupped palms
The supplication prayers
Of those you’ve never met

Unknowing who I am,
The goddess’s veil will fall—
Revealing all that once was hidden,
Blooms of blushed and bluish mornings
That once were sacred
and now sleep
Inside the drunken silence
of museums

Eleusis, Greece, August 2025