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Poems about homosexuality celebrate the diverse expressions of love, desire, and identity within the LGBTQ+ community.
These poems explore the experiences, joys, and challenges faced by individuals who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. They may delve into self-discovery, acceptance, and the pursuit of authentic relationships.
Poems about homosexuality often challenge societal norms and discrimination and promote inclusivity and equality. They celebrate the beauty and complexity of same-sex love, depicting the profound connections and emotional depth shared between individuals of the same gender.
These poems offer a platform for self-expression, empowerment, and representation, encouraging understanding, empathy, and acceptance of diverse sexual orientations and identities.
Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market,’ narrates the fantastical tale of Laura and Lizzie, delving into sin, redemption, and sisterhood.
Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
“Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
In Olga Broumas’s ‘Calypso,’ the speaker conjures up a dreamy world, imagining sensual women to fulfill her sexual desires.
I’ve gathered the women like talismans, one
by one. They first came for tarot card
gossip, mystified
by my hands, by offers
Duffy’s ‘Warming Her Pearls’ explores the restrained lesbian desire of a maid for her mistress through the pearls of the mistress’s necklace.
Next to my own skin, her pearls. My mistress
bids me wear them, warm them, until evening
when I'll brush her hair. At six, I place them
round her cool, white throat. All day I think of her,
‘Howl’ is Allen Ginsberg’s best-known poem and is commonly considered his greatest work. It is an indictment of modern society and a celebration of anyone living outside it.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
‘Homosexuality’ by Frank O’Hara looks at the way the homosexuals were treated in the 1960s, looking at ideas of judgment and acceptance.
So we are taking off our masks, are we, and keeping
our mouths shut? as if we'd been pierced by a glance!
The song of an old cow is not more full of judgment
than the vapors which escape one's soul when one is sick;
‘He Told Us He Wanted a Black Coffin’ by Jackie Kay is a heart-wrenching poem narrated by a mother whose son passed away from AIDs.
and he cried when Gavin moved to Aberdeen
‘A Supermarket in California’ by Ginsberg seeks America’s essence and Whitman’s spirit amid consumerism’s glow.
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
‘Twenty-One Love Poems XIII’ by Adrienne Rich is a poem about same-sex relationships and how couples experience a new, uncharted love.
The rules break like a thermometer,
quicksilver spills across the charted systems,
we’re out in a country that has no language
no laws, we’re chasing the raven and the wren
‘From Stranraer, South’ by Jackie Kay explores themes of love, regret, and family tension, as the poet reflects on lost love and a mother’s disapproval.
Looking back, I can say, with my hand on my heart
that my mother got sick the day I said I was in love
with a girl who lived round the corner
and never got better.
‘At Pegasus’ by Terrance Hayes is a powerful poem about identity that uses a youthful memory and a contemporary experience to speak about life.
How could I not find them
beautiful, the way they dive & spill
into each other,
‘A Mark of Resistance’ by Adrienne Rich is a poem about individual resistance. The poet voices her solidarity with those who face discrimination from society.
Stone by stone I pile
this cairn of my intention
with the noon's weight on my back,
exposed and vulnerable
‘Darkness and Light’ by Stephen Spender is a complex, abstract poem in which a speaker battles with two sides of himself.
To break out of the chaos of my darkness
Into a lucid day is all my will.
‘Love Nest’ by Jackie Kay depicts the difficulties that same-sex couples face and society’s cruel infiltrates their relationships and homes. The poet uses a skillful, multilayered extended metaphor in this piece.
The mice come first. In our bedroom
‘Oh Who is that Young Sinner’ by A.E. Houseman is an important poem that addresses the fear and hatred of homosexuality in England in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?
And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists?
And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air?
Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
‘Being your slave, what should I do but tend’ presents one speaker, neck deep in love, tending on the hours of his lover’s absence.
Being your slave what should I do but tend
Upon the hours, and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend;
Nor services to do, till you require.
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