DO YOU LIKE S&M?
https://thelavendergaze.com/2017/01/do-you-like-sm/

S&M: sadism and masochism – two words that elicit a range of reactions from disgust and judgement to curiosity and excitement ...

#Abuse #BDSM #GayWriter #Guilt #Power #QueerMastodon #QueerWriters #ReflectionsOnLife #Religion #Writing #WritingCommunity #Sex #Sadism #Masochism

PAIN MUST AND WILL COME
https://thelavendergaze.com/2016/11/pain-must-and-will-come/

We try to avoid pain. We surround ourselves with comfort. We invest in our future ...

#Existential #ExistentialQuestions #GayWriter #Life #Pain #Philosophy #QueerMastodon #QueerWriters #ReflectionsOnLife #WritingCommunity #Writing

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

FOR NOW
https://thelavendergaze.com/2009/04/for-now/

You chose to sail through stormy weather,
unchartered waters and raging seas.

You could run away
live life as many do:
as “normal” guys – ...

#ComingOut #Gay #GayLove #GayWriter #LGBTQ #LGBTQLove #LGBTQPoetry #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Pride #Queer #QueerArtist #QueerLove #QueerMastodon #QueerPoetry #QueerWriters

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

INTENSE RELEASE
https://thelavendergaze.com/2009/02/intense-release/

Touch me –

bring me to the edge.

Moaning I withhold
that which you let me retain
waiting for that cry of release ...

#Gay #GayLove #GayWriter #LGBTQ #LGBTQLove #LGBTQPoetry #Poems #Poetry #Queer #QueerArtist #QueerLove #QueerMastodon #QueerPoetry #QueerWriters #Sex #Sensual #Pride

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

THE LIFE OF A CAFÉ LATTE
https://thelavendergaze.com/2025/10/the-life-of-a-cafe-latte/

You look at the two tall transparent glasses in front of you. A shiny metal stirrer rests between them ...

#ComplexityOfLife #Death #Existential #ExistentialQuestions #GayWriter #Philosophy #QueerArtist #QueerMastodon #QueerWriters #ReflectionsOnLife

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