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.
Deceived by His Beauty and Strong Embrace
A gothic lyric confession steeped in shame and seduction, this poem traces the aftermath of forbidden passion. When beauty deceives and trust turns to torment, love becomes its own kind of hell.
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I Ceased to Be Seen
A haunting poem of grief, invisibility and emotional exile. After the death of a singular connection, one speaker watches themselves fade from a world too distracted to care.
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Your Gentle Whisper Promised We’d Not Part
A tender and sorrowful lyric poem about the loss of a best friend. Through whispered promises and fading light, this elegy captures the beauty of a bond that death could not break.
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My Dreams Floated Inside Your Aroma
A sensual lyric poem tracing the arc of a tender but damaging love. Wrapped in bruises and perfume, one boy's dream dissolves into morning regret, and the ache of believing too much.
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Tears Bled
A lyric poem of longing, resilience and love denied. Through sensual memory and cultural pain, two men rebel against repression — only to be torn apart by the forces that still decide who may love and who must hide.
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Conquered by His Fierce and Tender Love
A lyric poem exploring the beautiful duality of gay love - fierce and gentle, healing and erotic. In his arms, the speaker finds not just desire, but salvation.
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Denied the Queer
A lyrical battle cry from centuries of gay oppression. Through violence, exile and shame, this poem stands tall — a tribute to those who were denied and those who still rise in colour and truth.
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Big Daddy
A heart-wrenching lyric poem about father loss, neglect and the quiet devastation that followed. Through strangers and shadows, one boy tried to replace the love he never received — and never forgot.
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