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No longer a young man (in my 70's now) but still a shameless romantic, I was thrilled to discover a Doris Day album called My Heart available on cd with songs from 1985/1986 that I had not heard before. Doris was in her 60's then (turned 80 now) her voice as magical as ever.
Ah, but it's GOOD to know this clinical, sceptical Age of Technology has not killed off love and romance, and hopefully never will....
Now, readers sometimes get in touch to ask why I don’t publish my poems on a gay theme separately rather than include them in broader collections. ‘Mark’ complains that I am ‘letting down the gay minority by pandering to the straight majority.’
Oh, and how...?
As a gay man, I hope gay readers will enjoy many of my poems, and not just the gay-interest ones. I also hope that many straight readers will enjoy some of my gay-interest poems as well as those on other themes. We are, after all, a common humanity, so why publish a volume of gay-interest poems that will only be read by gay people? There is, surely, a greater need to educate the gay-unfriendly among us then preach to the converted?
As for the poem below, it is a poem about the spiritual as well as physical nature of love for which neither the gay minority nor heterosexual majority worldwide can claim to have a monopoly while those that condemn gay relationships plainly know little or nothing about love anyway. I am posting it here simply because feedback suggests many gay readers (all ages) who visit this blog (still) adore our Doris. Hopefully, though, it will be likewise enjoyed by the mixed gay/straight readership following my Google+ site.
EMBRACE
Your body engages with mine
in a purposeful embrace destined
to last a lifetime
Your tongue paints over graffiti
daubed on my flesh by other lovers
for the hell of it
Your lips promise nothing less
than a fine re-working of passion’s
greater artistry
Your hands re-work my body,
exploring its potential, overlooked
by amateurish brush strokes
Your desires make new inroads
where previously only sex has left
muddy prints
Your love re-writes the bible
of sex passed down to me by lesser
mortals
My body engages with yours
in a spiritual embrace destined
to last a lifetime
Copyright R. N. Taber 2010
[Note: First published under the title 'Engaging with Love' in On the Battlefields of Love by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books 2010; rev. version in e-format in preparation.[
No longer a young man (in my 70's now) but still a shameless romantic, I was thrilled to discover a Doris Day album called My Heart available on cd with songs from 1985/1986 that I had not heard before. Doris was in her 60's then (turned 80 now) her voice as magical as ever.
Ah, but it's GOOD to know this clinical, sceptical Age of Technology has not killed off love and romance, and hopefully never will....
Now, readers sometimes get in touch to ask why I don’t publish my poems on a gay theme separately rather than include them in broader collections. ‘Mark’ complains that I am ‘letting down the gay minority by pandering to the straight majority.’
Oh, and how...?
As a gay man, I hope gay readers will enjoy many of my poems, and not just the gay-interest ones. I also hope that many straight readers will enjoy some of my gay-interest poems as well as those on other themes. We are, after all, a common humanity, so why publish a volume of gay-interest poems that will only be read by gay people? There is, surely, a greater need to educate the gay-unfriendly among us then preach to the converted?
As for the poem below, it is a poem about the spiritual as well as physical nature of love for which neither the gay minority nor heterosexual majority worldwide can claim to have a monopoly while those that condemn gay relationships plainly know little or nothing about love anyway. I am posting it here simply because feedback suggests many gay readers (all ages) who visit this blog (still) adore our Doris. Hopefully, though, it will be likewise enjoyed by the mixed gay/straight readership following my Google+ site.
EMBRACE
Your body engages with mine
in a purposeful embrace destined
to last a lifetime
Your tongue paints over graffiti
daubed on my flesh by other lovers
for the hell of it
Your lips promise nothing less
than a fine re-working of passion’s
greater artistry
Your hands re-work my body,
exploring its potential, overlooked
by amateurish brush strokes
Your desires make new inroads
where previously only sex has left
muddy prints
Your love re-writes the bible
of sex passed down to me by lesser
mortals
My body engages with yours
in a spiritual embrace destined
to last a lifetime
Copyright R. N. Taber 2010
[Note: First published under the title 'Engaging with Love' in On the Battlefields of Love by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books 2010; rev. version in e-format in preparation.[
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