Lyric Poem
These poems are songs without music: intimate, immediate and soul-deep. The lyric form captures a single voice in its most vulnerable state, echoing desire, grief, awe or ache. This is the heartbeat of poetry: personal, pulsing and unafraid.
When emotion becomes melody on the page.
The Night Everything Broke
A quiet, devastating lyric poem about a boy witnessing the moment his family began to fall apart. Christmas Eve brings not comfort, but the first tremor of lifelong grief.
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Heterovert
You wore my mask and whispered my pain as yours. But I knew. Even behind your smile, I smelled the rot of erasure. Your queer was my gag—But I sang anyway. I flew anyway. I remained whole.
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The Selfie That Stole My Soul
Each click of the lens snatched a piece of light. Lucifer waits behind every pose. What if the image reflects not what we are but what we’ve lost?
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Gay Gossip Junkies
While shallow hearts pumped for equality, queens snorted and screamed their hypocrisy. A searing poem about betrayal, gossip and the dark undercurrents of toxic friendships within gay circles.
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Tormented Love
I laid all my bets on men I hadn’t met; strangers on the street, and hoped they wouldn’t cheat. This poignant lyric poem captures the aching contradiction of longing for love after being emotionally ravaged by it.
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Lipstick Boy
He whispered with confidence but craved rosebud lips. A lyric poem of masks, lust and the lipstick boy who turned domination into desire.
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In His Embrace, I Slowly Died
He gave me what my father never could—then tore it away in the night. Beneath his caress, bruises bloomed. His words bewitched the ghosts of my heart. In his embrace, I withered, unseen by the world.
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Perverse Satisfaction in Pain
A lover’s betrayal becomes a quiet addiction, where kisses steal dreams and love wears chains. A confessional poem of desire, regret and pain disguised as intimacy.
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Murderous Seduction
Beneath the moon’s deceitful glow, love coils around its prey — a dark waltz between devotion and the knife.
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Rescued Me
When the brutal world fractured his soul, one man dared to step into the shadows, breaking chains with tenderness and healing a heart others feared. This is the story of being rescued by love—and reborn through it.
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Twisted Carcass
A spectral monarch speaks from a crumbling tower, cut off by ambition, betrayal and a heart long turned to frost. This poem drips with decay, not just of power, but of connection, longing and trust.
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You Took Away My Voice
A fierce, defiant protest against forced silence and psychological abuse, this poem exposes the cruelty of control, the violence of censorship, and the quiet war waged against a soul struggling to speak.
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