Gay-Themed Poems

 
Please also visit Desert Sons, Into This World We’re Thrown and Stealing Some Time no closer match once, when young and innocent i found another way— derivation, from consensus, from the norm. the tumult that ensued caused much wringing of their hands, 'our child is no more hidden in the guise of young demeanor.' they said tainted, you were baited, you will mourn your too young entry to a world of primal feelings dark with lust. hear their anger feel their fear, guilty, i touched flesh! they whisper, i have fallen into a pit of fire. but i've come of age now and know just what i did. i touched him lost my breath— i'm attached no closer match. they were wrong i still hang on— i am witness of exactly how to love. 9/81 learning love when the sun passed from aquarius into the water sign i finally learned at last the grief from loss of love. i placed high expectations too far above my head and tho i knew they'd fall real soon i felt i should be learning to deal with misplaced love. was cold and rainy out that night. i went into the street and shed my tears— feeling like a fool for longing love. now i know the password yes, caution is the key. now the grief is gone yet my love goes on and on. seems love is not emotion like i thought before i learned. my god, a state of consciousness is evident with love! 4/83 enraptured with the grace of his touch you awaken at last to the longing deep from your heart. you melt as if one feel the desire the union turns sadness to gay. captured, enraptured, connection at last. they can boil in their anger, they can seethe to no end. you know different, no one else, does it better quite like him. 7/82 toujour gai you're frightened now i'm sure. when i touched you was nothing less than bliss to you and me. but virgin as you are you turned scared you couldn't bare to touch me back. not so long ago i, too, was fearful of the love that we must hide. but day, by week, by month i reached out further still to still the trembling heart there on my sleeve. and now you too can see awakening of prime ecstasy past agony, anxiety, you, too, must choose with who you'll do. 11/82 lay with me i saw you there in faded jeans and tassled hair; a smile that etched into my mind. looking up from where i sat you were there and looking back if only you could say to me 'please lay with me.' you're in my head, you come alive in daydreams and not so dry at night. i want you here i need you— come lay with me. i know that romance just can't be all i want is just to feel your body next to mine come lay with me. 12/82 love strangers our eyes become our mirrors deep within our souls i saw, he saw, a love that once was cold. soon passed on the chill the ice did melt away. i came, he came, to realize was meant to be this way. no one could feel the passion that we felt when then no fright could scare us two apart. love stranger, while together we feel it flowing from our hearts. 11/81 enamorado so excite thoughts of you send surges thru my blood never felt this way before— head over heels. feel a sharpness in my breath from a simple light caress i'm in a daze, i'm in a wonder over you. feeling tired but just can't sleep. feeling hungry, but just can't eat. you're in my heart, you're in my life you touch my soul. i go reeling in amazement that our love could be like this. i look forward to our journey just begun. 6/83 taboo i saw you talking with your friends tho peering past them all. your eyes are focused far away while your laughter is for them. 'cross the room is your attention you look so nonchalant. crossed arms tell for sure that you'd love to leave your buddies and say hi. but— the taboo is much too strong. so you stay within the throng. perhaps to catch a glimpse or maybe two. 4/83 charades so magnetic, so attracted as he watches all i say. is the twinkle in his eye, is the grin there on his face that gives away his feelings... yet are they just my own? he gives no indication in his conversations alludes no further action past the talking that we do. must be wishful thinking, both of us won't say so liaisons meet just fantasy until another day. Feb 89 how it all started he opened up the spelling book to a chapter way in back that had the biggest words i ever saw... he pointed to the margin there a note was scrawled: 'meet me by the fountain on the playground after lunch.' later, when i found him his eyes were far away he said he had a secret he would share with only me. tho a little daunted at the mischief on his face i knew right then adventure'd come my way. eyes blinded by the wind we ran into the woods then jumped a fallen tree that long had lost its bark. we pushed thru thick green branches and stepped across a stream to find a pile of boulders taller than us both. we stood atop the mound and shouted to the sky-- defiant little boys us both that day-- the mountains in the distance covered low with snow were, in our minds, right beneath our feet. we became like brothers that day there in the woods we'd crossed a raging river, climbed miles into the sky, to see what it was like to be up there so high. Nov 1989 aegean heart was a south wind blowing gently 'cross the threshold of the shore as we sank into the sand amongst the stones. smiling with a warmth like the summer sun just rising you pulled me even closer to be near. once the mothership crossed beyond the waterline you kissed me on the cheek and i grew flush. i gently touched your face with a firm and calloused hand and made you look me right into my eyes. i whispered there again with passion, as last night, that i wish to spend my days with only you. you spoke aloud the words— your voice is rich and resonant— 'we should be as one as you have said.' my head was full of fire, i ached as not before; you took me there; we loved until the morning turned to noon. Jun 1993 legend of love lover of a thousand nights tho far away with others near your countenance is with me still won't let me fall asleep. i lay awake imagining the thousand nights we've had— and breathe your scent that lingers on the pillow 'neath my head. we've spoken our desire that the other stay forever. ah, we can be together for a thousand thousand nights. i sigh and fall asleep dream, with passion, for your love. in the morning, you are there not a dream, not a dream, my love, with you, i share. Jun 1990 icedance breath is hanging, boots are squeaking, just ahead's the pond. noses reddened, cheeks feel frosty, our skates are shining in the sun. snow surrounds us, but i'm warm now, as he holds my hand. he is smiling, i am laughing, now we hug again. winter's solid frozen surface calls us to behold. laces tightened off we go now who cares if it's so cold? twisting, dashing, dodging quickly a feign that seems a lunge. gliding, skimming, spinning wildly, we abandon all but fun. Nov 1987 little dark haired guy they can never know the pain the pining, or the strain to have to hide a love that needs another. you see it on his face it's plain there in his eyes. he sees it too in you yet there's nothing you can do. must it be this way? to never chance some breathless bliss even if it's only for a moment, for an hour, or only for a night. Nov 1989 Ryan's Light he galvanized our love he showed us with his courage-- it's more in line with life to speak the truth. he stood up to their fears he changed the way the law was laid tho speaking as a voice of innocence. archetype of hope persecuted, run from town, even virgin death... we never will forget the spirit in your eyes your hard won smile, your willingness to live. we're wise to heed the lesson that you demonstrated well: we must live our lives with hope despite the fight or flight, and draw justice out in spite of all the spite. now your test is over but you'll never go away. you live inside our hearts where you're never very far. April 1990 (to Ryan White upon his death) one more kind of love you revile us with your silence then hoist your thirsty ax cutting us in two without a word. at first the pain was searing a white-hot hole collapsing to black and perfect heat. now we're over it. we're past your perfect quietude, that's filled with tacit lies you take as truth. blunted is your ax of death, we force you from the chrysalis that hides your eyes-- from what? all we wish to do is cherish love live love's grace. something you once wished that you could do. Jan 1991 stage was a script from a classic play, two lovers in their day, called it quits to one night stands and fell in love. no more tears from emptiness, with their love came happiness, was a bond that ran so deep sent shivers up their spines. now they spend their time together, their lives so rich and full. thru scene and act they give it all past the final curtain call. 6/83 All poems copyright Mark Ian Kendrick 2006Desert_Sons.htmlITWWT.htmlStealing_Some_Time.htmlshapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1shapeimage_3_link_2