Esperanza_Hidalgo
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I'm going to try this thread and hope others participate. I love poetry, photography and art, especially when it has a queer perspective. I'm going to post queer art and poetry from time to time, and hope others post their poetry, and/or art. Also, the poetry or art of others as long as we do not violate copyright. There are other forums for doing so--in the poetry forum and the AH, but none that focus on a GLBT perspective. No porn folks (nothing against it--I like porn), but I'd hope the focus to be more on the art. If there's no interest, I'll let this thread die a slow and painless death. A later addition--posters do not need to be queer, nor does the art need to be all GLBT, just stuff that's pleasing and different.
PS--Anime is fair-game, as long as it has queer perspective.
I'll start with Walt Whitman
from Calamus
When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been
receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy
night for me that follow'd,
And else when I carous'd, or when my plans were accomplish'd,
still I was not happy,
But the day when I rose at dawn from the bed of perfect
health, refresh'd, singing, inhaling the ripe breath of
autumn,
When I saw the full moon in the west grow pale and disappear
in the morning light,
When I wander'd alone over the beach, and undressing bathed,
laughing with the cool waters, and saw the sun rise,
And when I thought how my dear friend my lover was on his
way coming, O then I was happy,
O then each breath tasted sweeter, and all that day my food
nourish'd me more, and the beautiful day pass'd well,
And the next came with equal joy, and with the next at evening
came my friend,
And that night while all was still I heard the waters roll slowly
continually up the shores,
I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands as directed to
me whispering to congratulate me,
For the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same
cover in the cool night,
In the stillness in the autumn moonbeams his face was inclined
toward me,
And his arm lay lightly around my breast - and that night
I was happy.
I found this poem http://www.leewind.org/2008/04/celebrate-gay-poetry-walt-whitmans.html
Simple, yet powerful. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is one of my favorite books.
PS--Anime is fair-game, as long as it has queer perspective.
I'll start with Walt Whitman
from Calamus
When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been
receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy
night for me that follow'd,
And else when I carous'd, or when my plans were accomplish'd,
still I was not happy,
But the day when I rose at dawn from the bed of perfect
health, refresh'd, singing, inhaling the ripe breath of
autumn,
When I saw the full moon in the west grow pale and disappear
in the morning light,
When I wander'd alone over the beach, and undressing bathed,
laughing with the cool waters, and saw the sun rise,
And when I thought how my dear friend my lover was on his
way coming, O then I was happy,
O then each breath tasted sweeter, and all that day my food
nourish'd me more, and the beautiful day pass'd well,
And the next came with equal joy, and with the next at evening
came my friend,
And that night while all was still I heard the waters roll slowly
continually up the shores,
I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands as directed to
me whispering to congratulate me,
For the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same
cover in the cool night,
In the stillness in the autumn moonbeams his face was inclined
toward me,
And his arm lay lightly around my breast - and that night
I was happy.
I found this poem http://www.leewind.org/2008/04/celebrate-gay-poetry-walt-whitmans.html
Simple, yet powerful. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is one of my favorite books.
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I like em all. 
