Gay poems of love
Leave Me Alone
Heartbreak Poem by Teens
Hi. My name is Iain, and I am sixteen years old. This is the first poem I've ever written. It is about my feelings toward a guy in my school and how I can never own him because he is straight. I want to not feel this way about him, but I can't help it, so it's like an sentimental war raging inside my chest. This was my way of expressing it.
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© Iain McCormick
Published by Family Friend Poems January 2012 with permission of the Author.
I see you.
I need you.
I need you.
You are forbidden.
I crave your touch.
I yearn for your lips.
You don't want me.
So why do you stay?
I see you.
Everyone sees you.
I want you.
NO,
I want these feelings
to leave me alone.
My heart aches,
breaks, and shatters
when you are near.
When aren't you?
LGBTQ Poetry
Explore the rich tradition of gay, lesbian, bi-curious, transgender, and gay poets and poetry by browsing a selection of poems & audio. For more essays, video, and ephemera, inspect out our Self-acceptance Month roundup.
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The Poem That Changed My Life: Ross Gay's "Bringing the Shovel Down"
Not so very long ago—five years perhaps—I opened the pages of a book and began to read a poem that entirely reconfigured my notions of what a poem can perform. The poem was Ross Gay’s “Bringing the Shovel Down.” And, as is so often the case with world-transforming revelations, the encounter also hit me with the force of profoundest remembering: Here was an instance, a glorious, exfoliating instance, of all I had always hoped and believed about the ways and wherewithal of art. “Because I love you,” begins this poem, “and beneath the uncountable stars / I have become the delicate piston threading itself through your chest, // I wish to tell you a story I shouldn’t but will…”
Because I love you. The stakes are high, at once both intimate and mysterious: Who is this “you”? Who is speaking to the “you”? What has either of them to do with me? Everything, says the poem, as it moves through the vastness of the starry sky to the inwardness of the pulse in the breast with the hook that reels me in: a story. And, optimal of
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sthandwa sami (my beloved, in isiZulu) by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Written by 37-year-old queer English scribe Yrsa Daley-Ward, who is of both Jamaican and Nigerian descent, this stunning love poem encompasses the excitement of dreaming about a life together:
“I can see the home on the hill where we flourish our own vegetables out back
and drink warm wine out of jam jars
and hum songs in the kitchen until the sun comes up
wena
you build me feel love myself
again. Myself before I had any solid reasons to be anything else.”
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Jamaican-American poet June Jordan has an entire book of affection poems, aptly called Haruko/Love Poems. Poems fancy Poem for my Lovewould be a lovely part of any ceremony. There is also a beautiful couplet from the poem, Update:
“Still I am education unconditional and true/Still I am burning unconditional for you.”
For the Courtesan Ch’ing Lin by Wu Tsao
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