This is not only a very: This is not only a very poignant poem, it is also a wise analysis of unfortunate circumstances and of the way to get to the triumphant situation described in the final stanza. Applause to you for writing and sharing this with all of us on PostPoems. I believe your poem can give hope to those who, otherwise, might live part of their lives without it.
Hello. A message to let..: Hello. A message to let you know I've dedicated a poem to you. It's titled 'Who are you?' and was created 3 days ago. I'd be curious to know what you think of it. Thanks.
This poem very elegantly: This poem very elegantly describes the contours and difficulties of my three worst years, but your languages articulates the experience much better than I have ever been able (or ever will be able) to do. I still have nightmares about them once in a while. However, the poem is comforting in that it reminds me that the experience is not so singular as it, at times, seemed---when I was far too mature to put it into the context of a long view.
In that time and place found: In that time and place found long sleeved shirts to hide the scars well enough. Until the time that scars were seen as badges of surviving battles and war, a kind of honour.
Decades ago, when I was an: Decades ago, when I was an undergrad History major, I wanted to be able to write with the kind of inromative power that you have put into your analysis of Stonewall riots and their antcedents in recent History; unfortunately I was never able to command that kind of style. Even my senior thesis, required for the degree and worked over for a couple of months, was not as well polished as your words above. I applaud your mastery of both poetry and prose.
You were certainly up to the: You were certainly up to the challenge. The senses were ignited with frantically vivid and very effective illustrations of "self-work", and you added a welcome splash of humor as well. Good stuff. You have a gift! Enjoyed.
It’s so true..: It's so true
After the winter comes the spring
But here's the thing
Summer saying after the spring
Comes the fall!
Whoever's saying that is very dumb
Everyone knows it's not the fall
That comes after spring
Of course, it's autumn!
Wait..
Have I gone mad and lost my reason?
I don't know what season follows what season!
Summer saying I should shut up
I know it! I just forgot ok?
A senior moment!
This is embarassing!
Let me get back to you...
By the way, I liked your poem!
I think more of late as in: I think more of late as in the last 5000 years... I like your perspective. Couldn't agree more. Great expression rich and illuminating.
I know the history of the: I know the history of the movent and where it started Although the Stonewall riots of 1969 in New York are popularly remembered as the spark
that produced a new movement, the origins predate these iconic events.[17] Resistance to police bar-raids was nothing new: as early as 1725, customers fought off a police raid at a London homosexual molly house.[18]
Organized movements, particularly in Western Europe, have been active since the 19th century, producing publications, forming social groups and campaigning for social and legal reform. In the early 1890s, the trial of Oscar Wilde was widely reported in Germany and spurred discussion of homosexuality, leading to the homosexual emancipation movement in Germany, the first modern gay rights movement.[19][20]
Drags dont need to read books to children or give teenagers lap dances End of story, now going to an old folks home? That's community service! And yes piggy backing off the movement. Because the rest automatically gained status because they made a bill that lumped everyone into one group well that one large group is no longer a minority or marginalised and therefore the expansion into indoctrination and exposing children to sexualised ideas before they need to or have the capacity to form a sexual identity of their own is not kind or necessary . Gender is different is it not? It isn't about sexual preference. And any obsession of preference no matter how amoral is now suddenly legit to let pedofiles into the rainbow alphabet family.? There are also moves for incest to be accepted, whats the rule for beastiality, necrophilia ? so where is the line? Is there one? The drag queens know who they are no problem there. Fluid gender and fluid preferences that's just immature. We all regularly choose masculine or feminine actions ideas all the time without calling yourself one sex or the other to suit. From wearing shorts to wearing jewellery, watching an action movie eor a romantic comedy There is room for everyone, but not everything. Children do not need more confusion and influences and grooming. Yes there are piggy backed ideas that were no where near the original movement. There are many good people doing good things but I am happy to call out the bad and the bad deeds. Sometimes you just can't get away with whatever you want. Anyone who wants to recruit an army of children to what end? Its not ok and its not right to do this to people who cannot control what happens to them, or understand complex ideas. End of story. Drag is an ancient tradition. Maybe you should read it again. FYI drag is not legitimately a sexual preference. Shock horror! Although welcomed into the rainbow of diversity they are not an official sexual preference. Only gay drag queens/kings can qualify in terms of the terms. Interesting isn't it? Either way I am talking about the destruction of the notion of family, blood ties and a whole gamut of social revolution. This is the piggy backing I am calling out here But as it expands into facism and controlling language and ideas of the other its time to crush the over step or else only one type of social norm is allowed. Once freedom and children are involved the walls go up. Nothing good can come of a diet of what's good for me is good for you. Its simply not.
"for its links to the counterculture of the time (e.g. groups like the Radical Faeries) and for the gay liberationists' intent to transform or abolish fundamental institutions of society such as gender and the nuclear family,[7] regardless of whether they had anything to do with the actual principles of gay rights.[11] In general, the politics were radical, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist.[12] In order to achieve such goals, consciousness raising and direct action were employed. While HIV/AIDS activism and awareness (in groups such as ACT UP) radicalized a new wave of lesbians and gay men in the 1980s, and radical groups have continued to exist ever since, by the early 1990s the radicalism of gay liberation was eclipsed in the mainstream by newly-out, pro-assimilationist gay men and women who stressed civil rights and mainstream politics.[3]"
Yes well. Sometimes you really have to know alot, see alot, think alot research alot experience alot
Like did you know if a male who wishes to transition doesn't allow their member to grow fully the reassignment surgery cannot be performed successfully and with blockers given early mean this surgery is not possible to complete to a functional standard. Most trans regret which there is a lot of is unsupported and rejected by the rainbow family and government. Reversal is not funded and this is a cruel by product of over zealous progression to build numbers.
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