There are friends who belong to ordinary seasons. They come with laughter, with ease, with dinners, with bright plans made under a harmless sky. They are good gifts, and the heart should not despise them. Life needs the joy of simple companionship, the unguarded hour, the joke repeated until everyone…
Tag: Love
Contemplation and writing on the subject of love. Love can be agape (selfless love), Philia (friendly love), or eros (romantic and passionate love).
Memoir & Life 
The People We Lose by Living
We begin life surrounded. Before we know our own name, others have already spoken it with hope. Hands lift us, feed us, wash us, carry us from room to room. We arrive into a world already occupied by faces bending over us. Mother. Father. Grandparents. Siblings. Neighbors. The first truth…
Love, Romance & Eroticism 
When Intensity Pretends to Be Destiny
There was a time when I believed that the depth of a feeling revealed the truth of it. If love struck with enough force, if longing rearranged the inner weather, if a face returned again and again in silence, if the heart suffered with a devotion it could not explain,…
Memoir & Life 
For Avik, on Your Hundredth Day | A Letter to Our Son
To our dearest Avik, Today, April 12, 2026, you are one hundred days old. That is such a small sentence for something that has felt so immense. A hundred days ago, you arrived before the world expected you, at thirty-three weeks, and nothing about your beginning was ordinary. The room…
Love, Romance & Eroticism 
The Hunger Beneath Everything: Why Humans Need Love and Sex
There are needs so basic that we rarely pause to name them. Air. Water. Food. Shelter. Their absence announces itself quickly. The body begins to fail, and no philosophy can argue its way around the fact. But there are other needs almost as deep, though easier to dismiss because they…
Memoir & Life 
From First Date to Forever: Celebrating 10 Years Together
My Neha, Today marks ten years since the beginning of our relationship. Back in January 2014, during the snowy MLK long weekend, we chose to begin our relationship with a scenic train ride through upstate New York. It was our first out-of-state trip together as a couple. Somewhere in that…
Love, Romance & Eroticism 
Thoughts on Love: What is Love?
What is love? That is a question that has been posed to us thousands of times, and it is one that humans do not seem to be able to answer. I’m not sure if there’s an actual scientific definition for the word ‘love’ since its usage varies from person to…
Love, Romance & Eroticism 
Our Romantic Wedding Vows
I wrote my wedding vows and shared with my love and to-be-wife. I spoke it first at our wedding. While writing, I could feel my heart and a deep sense of love within but I could have never predicted how it will feel at the time of the wedding. To say the least, it…
Memoir & Life 
9 Quotes On Love, Life, Travel, and More
In this blog, I am simply sharing some of the quotes from The Naked Soul. Read, think, ponder, enjoy, and share with your friends. I love New York City. Walking down Park Avenue, I could not help but think about the economy, globalization, wealth inequality, immigration, religious extremism,…
Love, Romance & Eroticism 
100 Reasons Why I Love You | A Letter To My Sweetheart On Her 30th Birthday
My Love, My Heart, Soul of My Soul, As we grow old together on this earthly journey, I wanted to take this moment and write to you on your 30th birthday to tell you how much I love you and how much you mean to me. Without you, I am…
Philosophy & Spirituality 
Naked Soul Meaning: What Does It Mean To Be A Naked Soul?
Naked Soul Meaning As an observer, writer, wanderer, and storyteller, I believe that to be naked is to show up, to be present, to express my truth in life. It’s to overcome my own self-imposed limitations and to transcend external influences that are often authoritarian or fear-based. To me, this expression…
Love, Romance & Eroticism 
Female Vs. Male Perspective On The Erotic Visual Art | The Nudes, The Paintings, The Photographs
Maja by Goya (ca. 1803)When we think of representations of the erotic in the art, the first thing that comes into our minds is the classic nudes which were an object of fascination for many male painters throughout history. It’s not accidental that I made a clear gender emphasis here….
Books & Literature 
Compilation of 221 Erotic Poetry Books Published in the Last Century (1920-2020)
A compilation of 221 erotic poetry books published between 1920 and 2020. It took a lot of effort to put this list up. If you find a book or title is missing, please comment. Title Author Year of Publication Erotic Love Poems: Poems of Diverse Amatory Moods Citadel Press 1946…
Love, Romance & Eroticism 
The Erotic Poetry of Kamasutra: A Treatise on Pleasure
There is perhaps no literary work as tantalizingly erotic as the Kamasutra. When you visualize this book, you may only think of the sexual imagery contained inside. The truth is that this book while sexual in nature also has a rich history and contains beautiful poetic language. Kamasutra: A Treatise…
Love, Romance & Eroticism 
Erotic Poetry And Literature: Do People Prefer It Over Other Art Forms?
There is something particularly delightful and passionately engaging about reading erotic poetry. We all can agree to that. But, do people prefer it to watching erotic films or admiring the eros in other arts such as sculptures or paintings? Let’s look a little dipper into this question in this blog…
Love, Romance & Eroticism 
Spirituality and Eroticism: An Erotic Perspective
I’ve recently been looking into the history of spirituality and eroticism. Since the antiquity, there has always been some overlap and deep connection between the two great muses of human pursuits. Spirituality and Eroticism From my research, what I have found that either the religion has tried to suppress the…
Love, Romance & Eroticism 
Broken Boundaries: Most Striking Erotic Poems of All Time
Erotic poetry has always occupied a charged and unstable place in literature. It draws on desire, beauty, longing, the body, fantasy, shame, tenderness, and transgression. Sometimes it is lush and metaphorical. Sometimes it is raw. Sometimes it barely names the act at all and yet feels more intimate than explicit…
Love, Romance & Eroticism 
Top 10 Most Celebrated Erotic Poets and Their Most Famous Erotic Poems
Erotic poetry has always lived at the edge of literature’s oldest energies: desire, longing, beauty, memory, the body, and the ache of human intimacy. At its best, it is not merely provocative. It is charged language. It is sensuality shaped into music. It is longing made memorable. Any list of…
Memoir & Life 
What is Friendship? Who is a True Friend?
On my thirtieth birthday, I found myself thinking not only about age, but about the people who had carried me into it. Thirty is a strange doorway. You are still young enough to feel the fire of becoming, but old enough to know that life is not built by ambition…
