The Gospel of Poetic Frolic - Signed 1st Edition

This is the author signed and hand numbered 1st (limited) edition of The Gospel of Poetic Frolic. Some people leave your life and remain in your senses. A change in the weather. A familiar scent. A silence that suddenly feels occupied. There are feelings we carry long before we find the language to understand them. 2026 Readers’ Favorite International Book Award Finalist — Poetry: Love/Romance 2026 BREW Readers’ Choice Award Winner The Gospel of Poetic Frolic: Darkness & Romance enters that unspoken territory. In this illustrated collection of poetry and lyrical prose, Sergio Melicio de Bel explores the private ache of longing alongside a larger, unsettling question: how do we remain ourselves when so much of the world wants to possess us? Across two connected movements, the collection travels from confrontation towards connection. It opens in the shadows. A gift shop becomes a nightmare of surveillance. Technology takes on a sinister hunger. Poems of anger and resistance confront the machinery of political power, while recurring daemons give shape to buried fears and the pressures of a digital age. Body, ghost and soul offer a threefold vision of the self. Grief, memory and alienation press against the will to question, to resist, to claim a life as one’s own. As the book turns towards romance, that struggle becomes intimate. Desire brings its own surrender, its own uncertainty. Lovers speak across the distance between them. Devotion meets the fear of exposure; warmth carries the possibility of hurt. From Tokyo’s neon streets to the landscapes of Iriomote Island, love takes shape through breath, touch, longing and the difficult beauty of allowing another person close. Throughout these pages, nature carries the emotions that conversation cannot contain. The seasons…