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Today’s poem was written in 1999 and has not appeared on the blog since February 2009. One of few gay-interest poems that have been published other than in my collections, it appeared in The Classic Collection of Sonnets, Anchor Books (Forward Press), 2000. Readers ’Yves and Javier’ have requested it today as they are celebrating the anniversary of the day they first met six weeks ago to this very day; also ‘Yuri and Vladimir’ simply ‘because we love each other.’
Here’s a BIG HUG from me (extended to all readers).
[Note: Some 600+ poems have appeared in general poetry publications worldwide other than my collections but barely 5% have been on a gay theme. What does that tell you, eh?]
Now, sometimes winning is a mixed blessing; it can mean taking risks; it may well be a case of win some, lose some, and never more so than in a multicultural society where there may well be socio-cultural-religious barriers to overcome, not least for those whose respective families and friends may well disapprove of their choice of friends, lover, career...whatever.
Better though, surely, to follow our instincts, hearts even...be true to ourselves and how we see
the world than be in denial or lie? [Did I say it is easy?]
Love is beautiful. Never let anyone tell you that gay love is any less so.
WHO CARES, WINS
Love is all - to live and die for, yet
some would say, often bitterly,
one kind better to ignore, forget,
even in the 21st century
Our love took root, grew tall and fair
in a shady corner of Eden;
many who looked and saw it there
begged a cutting for their own garden
Most folk simply walked straight past,
believing it best for everyone;
others took sticks and stones to cast,
any excuse better than none
In the sun! Behold gay love, its beauty,
though none so blind that will not see
Copyright R. N. Taber 2001, rev. 2011
[Note: First published under the title 'Who Dares, Wins' in Love and Human Remains by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2001, rev. 2011]
Today’s poem was written in 1999 and has not appeared on the blog since February 2009. One of few gay-interest poems that have been published other than in my collections, it appeared in The Classic Collection of Sonnets, Anchor Books (Forward Press), 2000. Readers ’Yves and Javier’ have requested it today as they are celebrating the anniversary of the day they first met six weeks ago to this very day; also ‘Yuri and Vladimir’ simply ‘because we love each other.’
Here’s a BIG HUG from me (extended to all readers).
[Note: Some 600+ poems have appeared in general poetry publications worldwide other than my collections but barely 5% have been on a gay theme. What does that tell you, eh?]
Now, sometimes winning is a mixed blessing; it can mean taking risks; it may well be a case of win some, lose some, and never more so than in a multicultural society where there may well be socio-cultural-religious barriers to overcome, not least for those whose respective families and friends may well disapprove of their choice of friends, lover, career...whatever.
Better though, surely, to follow our instincts, hearts even...be true to ourselves and how we see
the world than be in denial or lie? [Did I say it is easy?]
Love is beautiful. Never let anyone tell you that gay love is any less so.
WHO CARES, WINS
Love is all - to live and die for, yet
some would say, often bitterly,
one kind better to ignore, forget,
even in the 21st century
Our love took root, grew tall and fair
in a shady corner of Eden;
many who looked and saw it there
begged a cutting for their own garden
Most folk simply walked straight past,
believing it best for everyone;
others took sticks and stones to cast,
any excuse better than none
In the sun! Behold gay love, its beauty,
though none so blind that will not see
Copyright R. N. Taber 2001, rev. 2011
[Note: First published under the title 'Who Dares, Wins' in Love and Human Remains by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2001, rev. 2011]
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