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Sucker for Love.
Francesca and PaoloDante Gabriel RossettiAuguste RodinGustave DoreAry SchefferFrancesca da Rimini was a contemporary of Dante, who placed her and her lover, Paolo Malatesta, in the second upper realm ...
Constantine Cavafy.
GBG's 7th video.
This comes from Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17-27) and is one of Shakespeare's most famous soliloquys....
Yet another video by GBG
Hi! I just want to tell you all that I think you're wonderful. If somebody in the flesh world hasn't told you this today, then throw them a curve ball and pay them the compliment. I discovered that if...
Meet a cool YouTube friend.
Brendan, from Ireland, puts forth the best poetry videos on YouTube. His voice is rich, and his readings carry me through the poetry of great Irish poets. Brendan's use of visuals is excellent. So, as...
Possessed
Hi, friends. Here, Gay Bipolar Guy makes his 1st foray into reading poetry, which is something we wanted to do in learning vlogging. We really hope you enjoy!...
No Text Saturday
Alexandr Pushkin
Alexandr PushkinRussian1799-1837Sweet boy, gentle boy,Don't be ashamed, you are mine forever:The same rebellious fire is in both of us,We are living one life.I am not afraid of mockery:Between us, the...
Love, Devotion, Fidelity.
Ruth Loved Naomi as Adam Loved Eve The same Hebrew word that is used in Genesis 2:24 to describe how Adam felt about Eve (and how spouses are supposed to feel toward each other) is used in Ruth 1:1...
A Poem by Staggo Lee
Dan Now, since you have all the people of your genre of the world spread wide before you like an amphitheatre watching you low brow loud content complacent and congenial—flush and filthy ...
Paul Anthony Ramsden
We last met with Paul Anthony Ramsden through his first guest post on August 15th. It was a wonderful combo of brilliant poetry and excellent drawing, each perfectly complimenting the other. I find hi...
Our Freedoms
To the StatesbyWalt Whitman To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey littleOnce unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,Once fully enslaved, no natio...
A Poem and a Recital
Hi, friends!I'm back from Portland, Oregon. Today, the day after Labor Day, marks the first unofficial day of post summer. Schools are open once again, and vacation time has ended. The tourists are go...
An Essay on a Poet
Walt Whitman In these times of angst—the feeling of anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression—and a national definition of a person’s worth in terms of wealth, power, ima...
A Poet and a Music Video
Just out of the blue, I once commented to a dear friend, “It’s just going too fast,” and he replied, “Yes.” This caused me to think of Housman. A. E. Housman (March 26, 1859-April 30, 1...
Paul Anthony Ramsden
Friends--Please give a warm welcome to Paul Anthony Ramsden. I think you will appreciate his wonderful talent as much as I. Enjoy!*****Pencil drawing and poem created by Paul Anthony Ramsden, an artis...
Monday the 13th (When Suicide...
Monday the 13th (When Suicide is an Option)* so it simply is—the flush of cold ice chemicals from behind my head— from the back around my clot of brain chilling any co...
A poem by Constantine Cavafy--A Brief Essay
Constantine CavafyConstantine Cavafy (April 29, 1863-April 29, 1933) is one of my favorite poets. Born in Alexandria (now Cairo) to a prosperous family, Cavafy spent his early formative years in Engla...
poem by gay bipolar guy
Swing Time Mostly, I endure inside adiscarded cardboard roll lessworthy than the toilette paperit once served, but I do sneakout sometimes, unexpectedly...
My Most Recent Break.
The Phone sleep refuses, but dreams come piling onto me, big bodies slamming onto me, jostling, smother me, sweat—calling, beckoning, cackling through a maze of holes and tunnels in my sku...
Sappho
It is not possible to overstate the profound influence Sappho (~630-570 BC) has exerted on literature and Western culture. The daughter of aristocrats, she lived on the near-mythic island, Lesbos. Pre...
Poem
'Ask Me' Ask me about our hyper-sex glue-like compulsions strong sticking sticky pull apart thick rubbery ropes stretch out between our bodies from every point of possible contact until tired of...
Poem by Staggo Lee
In joy with you is dreaming.It doesn't last; it never does.But when the sun is direct andCool and warm, and shadows of greenGrasses stretch down across the packed park;When we possess t...
A poem by Frederico Garcia Lorca
Frederico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) was a gay Spanish poet. He was executed during the Spanish civil war, because he was homosexual. His executioner later bragged that he emptied two bullets up Lorca's...
A Poem by Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) was a gay poet. I think his poetry is gorgeous, gentle, deceptively simple with undercurrents of memory and emotion. I hope you enjoy this one.Here Gay Bipolar Guy goes again....
Poem by Staggo Lee
we splash sin & povertychildren in a wading pool& have no right to gloryin tinkling dark nakedgiggling in cold warmflesh damp eyes sparklingblack stray locks clingingcross diamond powdered browsbreath...
Poem
Michaelangelo was the ideal Renaissance Man. He was famously homosexual. This poem by him represents longing, one of the core themes of love poetry, gay or str8. J. A. Symonds, the translator, was als...
Poem
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