Queer Poems should be out a bit ahead of schedule, possibly in October 2014. So... here it's what it is all about:
Queer Poems is a collection of poems about 'queer' people, feelings and situations. It is about the soul of the downtrodden, the disenfranchised, the sufferers of this world, Queer Poems, often dark and intense, includes texts about LGBT issues, androgyny, polygamy, domestic violence, rape, homelessness, and more.
Intense imagery and hinted rhymes play with the rhythm and structure of the poems, by the author himself described as 'following the way T.S. Eliot's 'Preludes' opened'.
Shadow Whisper
Behind the bleeding veils of coarse Corrosive cords of linen stiffened In the breath that freezes stars And chokes the Moon in solitary Nights, the blighted cries of voices Moist with poisoned spells Of Hell Are drawn on charcoaled canvas cut And torn by time When echoes shadow sparks In embers stifled under scars Like drops of thought that thaw in thick Black holes devouring dry, deserted Worlds with wanton words of woes And stares - Behind the curtains no one cares.
(A poem on domestic violence inspired by Kamille Freske's painting Shadow Whisper, which will appear in the collection, courtesy of the artist).
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Queer Poems should be out a bit ahead of schedule, possibly in October 2014. So... here it's what it is all about:
Queer Poems is a collection of poems about 'queer' people, feelings and situations. It is about the soul of the downtrodden, the disenfranchised, the sufferers of this world, Queer Poems, often dark and intense, includes texts about LGBT issues, androgyny, polygamy, domestic violence, rape, homelessness, and more.
Intense imagery and hinted rhymes play with the rhythm and structure of the poems, by the author himself described as 'following the way T.S. Eliot's 'Preludes' opened'.
Shadow Whisper
Behind the bleeding veils of coarse
Corrosive cords of linen stiffened
In the breath that freezes stars
And chokes the Moon in solitary
Nights, the blighted cries of voices
Moist with poisoned spells
Of Hell
Are drawn on charcoaled canvas cut
And torn by time
When echoes shadow sparks
In embers stifled under scars
Like drops of thought that thaw in thick
Black holes devouring dry, deserted
Worlds with wanton words of woes
And stares -
Behind the curtains no one cares.
(A poem on domestic violence inspired by Kamille Freske's painting Shadow Whisper, which will appear in the collection, courtesy of the artist).
View the painting Shadow Whisper>>
In exclusive for The Cult of Me, 'Dusty Grins' from Queer Poems, a poem dedicated to the homeless, is available, thanks to Michael Brookes, here>>
It goes without saying that you'll get a complimentary copy.