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This poem has already appeared on the blog twice; the last time was in July 2010. However, so many readers have asked me to post it again that LGBT History Month here in the UK seems as good a time as any. It is posted again today especially for ‘Marc and Tony’ - ‘Steve and Ron’ - ‘Samir and Hassam’ - ‘Axel and Kristian’ - ‘Inez and Ingrid’ + ‘Alice amd Siobahn’; also for a teacher, Mick, who says, ‘[I] wholeheartedly support the idea of LGBT issues being discussed in schools instead of being avoided as if being gay, lesbian or transgender was still some kind of taboo.’
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KISS AND TELL
Your first kiss stripped my conscience bare
and reconstructed it, layer by finer layer
Your next kiss peeled away guilt of a Youth
that never quite came to terms with truth
More kisses instilled in me a peace of mind
my heart often warned I might never find
Other kisses showed me a brave new world
then took me there, its humanity revealed
Your mouth, it lit in me a bonfire of passion
reducing life’s agony to a smouldering ruin
Your kisses flood me with beautiful dreams
where nightmares once tore at life’s seams
Each kiss leaves my heart soaring like a dove;
where it sang the Blues, now it sings of love
Your kisses taste like rose-hip on my tongue,
our bodies, like petals, in spring’s arms flung
No kiss leaves me but yearning for another;
no matter the bigotry, we have each other
Your mouth teaches me even more each day
how to live and love, unashamed to be gay
Copyright R. N. Taber 2008
[From: Tracking the Torchbearer by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2012]
This poem has already appeared on the blog twice; the last time was in July 2010. However, so many readers have asked me to post it again that LGBT History Month here in the UK seems as good a time as any. It is posted again today especially for ‘Marc and Tony’ - ‘Steve and Ron’ - ‘Samir and Hassam’ - ‘Axel and Kristian’ - ‘Inez and Ingrid’ + ‘Alice amd Siobahn’; also for a teacher, Mick, who says, ‘[I] wholeheartedly support the idea of LGBT issues being discussed in schools instead of being avoided as if being gay, lesbian or transgender was still some kind of taboo.’
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Gay couples, like couples the world over, don't deserve to be mocked or scorned for a simple public show of affection. Yet, even in this 21st century of ours, we continue to be mocked and/or scorned the world over...not only in closed societies either; homophobia remains alive and kicking in the western world too. Socio-cultural-religious arguments against such simple public shows of affection - by couples of either sex. sexuality are an anachronism; bigotry by any other name...
KISS AND TELL
Your first kiss stripped my conscience bare
and reconstructed it, layer by finer layer
Your next kiss peeled away guilt of a Youth
that never quite came to terms with truth
More kisses instilled in me a peace of mind
my heart often warned I might never find
Other kisses showed me a brave new world
then took me there, its humanity revealed
Your mouth, it lit in me a bonfire of passion
reducing life’s agony to a smouldering ruin
Your kisses flood me with beautiful dreams
where nightmares once tore at life’s seams
Each kiss leaves my heart soaring like a dove;
where it sang the Blues, now it sings of love
Your kisses taste like rose-hip on my tongue,
our bodies, like petals, in spring’s arms flung
No kiss leaves me but yearning for another;
no matter the bigotry, we have each other
Your mouth teaches me even more each day
how to live and love, unashamed to be gay
Copyright R. N. Taber 2008
[From: Tracking the Torchbearer by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2012]
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