Please help me give Author, Forrest Stepnowski, a warm welcome here at Words To Captivate. Forrest is a fellow member of RAVE REVIEWS BOOK CLUB which I featured in a recent blog: A GREAT LITERARY COMMUNITY: #RRBC #RWISA. Forrest is on a blog tour with his book “BOUND’ED BY CHAINS” which is one of the ways that #T
About the Book:
BOUND; The Lost Romanticism and Eroticism of Gay Men. Allow yourself to give in to your deepest fantasies, desires, and sensual dreams, BOUND is a collection of poetic works exploring the world of eroticism, romanticism, and fantasies of gay men of all ages. Walk through the mind inspired by fantasies, the hopes for romance, the desire to be swept off ones’ feet, and the longing to be touched through this anthology filled with lost romance and passionate memories. Escape into a world that allows you to be one with your desires, feel the heightened sensations and passion through random rendezvous and engagements.
Poetry Excerpt from Bound: The Lost Romanticism and Eroticism of Gay Men:
In the beginning…
I stare in the mirror for hours
looking at my aging face, my graying hair
Alone, lost in a world where I no longer fit in, nor am I desired
I live in the memory of what was once a handsome face
A beautiful body, a real sexual being
It started when I was the age of seventeen
The not quite so legal but young, dumb, and full…
You get the picture
I lived through endless sexual encounters
A sensual but conservative body, but unhinged in the sheets
Amidst the blue-green skies under a palm tree I lay
A soldier sat next to me and attempted to graze my leg
Confused and aroused
The life of a teen entrapped in a confused state of being
An innocent being, trapped in an adult world of unexplored seduction
I stare in the mirror for hours
looking at my aging face, my graying hair
Reduced to only the memories of my conquests and seductions
The temple of manhood with an internally trapped siren singing songs that lure the hungry and feed the thirsty
But now a relic trapped into the history of older gay men who remain silent in their insecurities
About the Author:
Forrest Robert Stepnowski is an advocate, a writer, a social worker, and a performance artist in the Pacific Northwest. He has been writing poetic works and prose for most of his life. He realized how important is to share his work with others who have dealt with similar pathways of self-hate, self-deprecation, and self-loathing in the hopes they find they are not alone, as well as help them realize they are not deviants, nor are they against “human nature.” They are part of a collective of misfit toys on an island where being different is beautiful. We all have a voice, and the world should hear it. Forrest is a proud member of Rave Reviews Book Club.
Social Media Links:
Website/Blog: https://www.forresttakesajourney.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forrestrobertstepnowski
Twitter: https://twitter.com/frstepnowski
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/forreststepnowski
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07S1MLFGD/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
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