SMILE AT A STRANGER
https://thelavendergaze.com/2017/01/smile-at-a-stranger/

We crave connection. Yet, we live in a world that is so scared of it ...

#Connect #GayWriter #Life #QueerMastodon #QueerWriters #ReflectionsOnLife #VulnerableWriting #WritingCommunity

NOWHERE
https://thelavendergaze.com/2025/07/nowhere/

Always seeking
never finding.

Always nowhere
never arriving ...

#DarkPoetry #Existential #GayWriter #Nowhere #Poems #Poetry #QueerArtist #QueerMastodon #QueerPoetry #QueerWriters #VulnerableWriting

SHACKLED
https://thelavendergaze.com/2022/06/shackled/

There was a boy
who became a man.
Almost – not entirely.

Part of him would remain
in that space in-between ...

#Gay #GayWriter #GrowingUp #Guilt #LGBTQ #Poems #Poetry #Queer #QueerArtist #QueerMastodon #QueerPoetry #QueerWriters #VulnerableWriting

OUR DAILY BREAD
https://thelavendergaze.com/2009/03/our-daily-bread-2/

Give us today our daily bread …
today and every day.

A bread called emptiness ...

#DarkPoetry #Despair #GayWriter #LGBTQ #Poems #Poetry #Queer #QueerArtist #QueerMastodon #QueerPoetry #QueerWriters #ReligiousTrauma #VulnerableWriting #WritingCommunity

UNDRESS ME
https://thelavendergaze.com/2009/02/undress-me/

Undress me.
Let me lie naked before you
as I am
without protection or masks …

#AuthenticSelf #FreeVerse #GayLove #GayWriter #LGBTQ #LGBTQLove #LGBTQPoetry #Poems #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Pride #Queer #QueerArtist #QueerLove #QueerMastodon #QueerPoetry #Sensual #VulnerableWriting #WritingCommunity #Sex

Smile at a stranger

https://thelavendergaze.com/2017/01/smile-at-a-stranger/