Poetry by Rowan Evans

Author’s Note

Nocturnal Waltz captures a moment I can’t stop imagining: the instant a femme-fatale vampiress meets her human lover for the first time. It’s a collision of worlds—dangerous, intoxicating, and utterly irresistible. I wanted to write the kind of encounter where time collapses, where every glance and touch feels like a promise and a warning all at once.

There’s something thrilling about the first spark of desire, the delicious tension between curiosity and caution. In this poem, the night becomes a character, the shadows a partner, and the music of attraction a rhythm that no one can resist.

This is for anyone who has felt the pull of someone who is simultaneously terrifying and magnetic, for those drawn to the edge of their own desire, and for readers unafraid to let the darkness brush against their fingertips.

— Rowan Evans

Nocturnal Waltz
Poetry by Rowan Evans
(June 9th, 2024)

Fangs and bat wings,
She was a Gothic dream.
With lips, redder
Than the river Styx.
She was Nyx,
Goddess of the Night.

Her dress, woven from shadows,
Flowed like ink in water,
Each step she took,
A whisper in the darkness,
A promise of secrets untold.

And she was enticing,
Had me in a trance—
Watched her move,
Elegant and slow,
As she eyed everyone in the room.

The air was thick with the scent of jasmine,
A fragrance that clung to her like a ghostly shroud,
Wrapping me in its intoxicating embrace,
Binding me to her, body and soul.

Now, her eyes,
Fixed on me. I couldn’t even move.
In an instant,
She was towering overhead.
I was shaking,
But I was smitten to the core.

She took me by the hand,
And we danced—
As everything faded from view.
It was her and I,
Nobody else in the room.
And we danced—

Her touch, a silken noose,
Binding me in a dangerous embrace.
Her eyes, twin pools of midnight,
Held stories of centuries past,
Of loves lost and battles won.

She was gone,
As quick as she appeared.
She was a Gothic dream.
With lips, redder
Than the river Styx.
She was Nyx,
Goddess of the Night.

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