Ink, Ache and Intention: How to Pen a Love Note
A gothic guide to writing letters that bleed with romance, longing and the kind of words that the soul remembers.
In a world of vanishing texts and fleeting DMs, the love note remains deliciously defiant—ink pressed to paper, destined to be kept in a drawer, beneath a pillow or between the pages of a well-worn novel.
National Love Note Day (Sept 26) invites us to resurrect this ritual. For romantics, and/or anyone with an ache too heavy for the screen, the art of the letter is both spell and surrender.
Before we get into our how-to guide, we reflect on history’s most enduring love notes that remind us why ink endures where breath cannot.
Bound in Season: Fall/Winter 2025 Reading List for Every Goth Archetype
Although we are all darkly inclined, some of us haunt boardrooms in full black tailoring while others write poetry at 3 a.m.
Whether you’re an Heiress, a Dark Academic, a Brat or a Whimsy Goth, your bookshelf should be as personalized and iconic as your wardrobe.
Here’s your goth-coded Fall/Winter 2025 reading list, handpicked for each archetype—with new and upcoming releases, cult favourites and deep cuts that speak to your specific font of poetic shadow.
Witch-Written: 7 Female Poets Who Hexed Us With Their Words
Some women write to soothe. Others write to awaken.
And then there are the ones who write like they’re reaching into your chest, curling their ink-stained fingers around your heart and daring it to beat truer.
These are the literary witches—femme sorceresses whose verses hex, haunt and seduce.
Whether whispering love spells or shrieking grief, the seven poets below didn’t just tell stories, they invoked something deeper.
The Goth Girl’s Guide to Canadian Poets
Canada is home to soul-splitting poetry composed by a host of talented poets from coast-to-coast.
If you’ve ever wept into your black satin sheets, scribbled in a leather journal by candlelight or whispered a memorable verse to yourself as a compass lost in thought, this guide is for you.
Whether you’re into slow-burning lyricism, sharp-tongued rebellion or grief in a black lace veil, these Canadian poets deliver the goods with gothic flair.
Ink That Outlives Us: 10 Classic Poems Every Goth Romantic Must Read
Love. Death. Longing that lingers beyond the grave.
There are some verses that do not age. They haunt. They seduce. They outlive.
For the romantic goths who find solace in ruins and rapture in the ache, these are your literary bloodlines.
The poems that read like slow kisses in candlelight, whispered elegies between silk sheets or final confessions scribbled before the blade falls.
These ten works are not merely classics—they are heirlooms. Inked by hands that understood the exquisite sting of being human… and beautifully doomed.
Love Hurts: 5 Poetry Collections That Will Help Heal Heartbreak
Because why shouldn’t the cure be as exquisite as the wound.
There’s something sacred about reading poetry after heartbreak. It’s a ritual in itself—one hand on her chest, the other tracing the curve of verse as if it might contain the secrets of her agony.
These five poetry collections won’t try to fix you. They’ll sit beside you in your silk robe, pour a glass of something dark and hold your hand while black eyeliner-stained tears stain your cheeks.
Because healing isn’t always gentle—and love takes its pound of flesh.
Each book below comes paired with a ritual or scent. Because recovery, like romance, should be decadent.