“In the end, everyone is aware of this: nobody keeps any of what he has, and life is only a borrowing of bones.”

Pablo Neruda

“I could take up residence in your hair. I could weep and turn to dust, or light, or poppies in your arms, for I have been a ghost, a shroud of smoke. I could take up residence in you.”

D. Rubin Green

“There’s a boy kneeling in a house with every door kicked open to summer. There’s a question corroding his tongue.

Dearest Father, what becomes of the boy no longer a boy? Please — what becomes of the shepherd when the sheep are cannibals?”

Ocean Vuong

“If anyone asks: ‘How do the clouds uncover the moon?’

untie the front of Your robe, knot by knot, say:
like this.

If anyone asks: ‘How did Jesus raise the dead?’

kiss me on the lips, say:
like this.”

Rumi

“In the blue light
in the air we suddenly leave our selves
and watch two salt-starved bodies
lick the sweat from each others’ lips.”

Christopher Gilbert

“You are sea-foam, pure with the star’s loveliness,

Not mortal, a flower, a fairy, too fair for the beauty-shorn earth,

All wonderful things, all beautiful things, gave of their wealth to your birth:

O I love you so much.”

Claude McKay

Today’s #HomoPoetry is An Offering by SA Smythe, in honour of our siblings for #TDOV.

“We have always been on the move.

Lithe and wild and dangerous, we grow new lungs,

Spread our palms across the dirt and tend to new leaves.”

The full reading is at http://Instagram.com/_joshrivers 

Happy birthday, #EssexHemphill.

“A field of flowers blossoms
where we gather in empty warehouses.
Our seed falls
without the sound or
grace of stars.
We lurk in shadows.
We are the hunger of shadows.
In the dark
we don’t have to say
I love you.”

#HomoPoetry

One of my favourites, Leonard Cohen.

“I loved you when you opened
Like a lily to the heat
I’m just another snowman
Standing in the rain and sleet
Who loved you with his frozen love
His second-hand physique
With all he is and all he was
A thousand kisses deep.”

#HomoPoetry