Friday, 4 October 2013

G-A-Y (Another) Triumph of the Spirit

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Some readers may be interested to know that have posted Chapter 1 of a new serial, Catching Up with Murder: a novel in three acts on my fiction blog. Hopefully, those readers who enjoyed Predisposed to Murder will also enjoy meeting up with many of the same characters and discovering how they first came together.

Catching Up with Murder is available in paperback from amazon and could well be described as a black comedy in parts; it is not a gay novel as such, but has a strong gay story line that becomes clear and takes off in Act II:


No matter how the less enlightened among the heterosexual majority might try, you can’t keep a free spirit down…

G-A-Y (ANOTHER) TRIUMPH OF THE SPIRIT

Once I was scared to admit I am gay,
for falling victim to a parental dismay
that might see me retract what I say

In nightmares, I’d confess I am gay,
family disowning me, driving me away;
friends, too, let ignorance win the day

Alone I would struggle with an identity
taunting me with its desire to be free,
haunting me with a passionate cruelty

I was hostage to the old misconception
that would trust a blinkered perception
of life and love than the  heart’s intuition

Then I met you and learned to see again
as if through a sweet-smelling misty rain,
tears of Earth Mother nurturing her own

My heart, it opened its petals to the sky,
heaven glad to absolve a sorry soul its lie,
let truth, to these lips, unashamedly fly

Though some condemn us for being gay,
love and friendship will always find a way
through seasonal mists, come what may
  
[From: On the Battlefields of Love by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books 2010.]


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