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

my mother's suffering drowned my eyes

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Heterovert

your slur—my ceaseless derogation

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Blood Burning

queens snorted and screamed

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Tormented Love

shame covered me with the filth you sowed

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Lipstick Boy

resisted your masculine pressure

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In His Embrace, I Slowly Died

where your love left me exiled

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Perverse Satisfaction

that brief moment when God could not see

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Murderous Seduction

deep within the haunted wood

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Rescued Me

fear of abusive men soon decreased

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Twisted Carcass

perverted desires and poisoned words

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You Took Away My Voice

cultural cancellation controlled me

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Thunderous Trumpets Blew

whispered your sweet name into the dark

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