Category Archives: my poems

I HOARD;I COLLECT; I RESCUE THE REMNANTS/THE PRECIOUS THINGS. THEREFORE, I AM. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on June 16, 2020 by decayetude

A POEM! {FREE VERSE….ish } I Collect ALL things; I represent multitudes (of Lps and books and cds); I am reparative; I give all these phantasmagorical lovely things their rightful place in eternity; I save the traces of precarious capitalism. … Continue reading →

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TOWARDS AN UNKNOWN REGION:A POST/ASLANT-COVID (AUTO)NARRATIVE(CONTD).AND ALL-ABOUT-DATING…BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on May 9, 2020 by decayetude

“Next morning, all geography lay snowbound”(Leif Enger, Peace like a River”) “Flotsam from the city’s shipwreck” (“Bookshops, Carrion, 2013) I am also-citationally-indebted to the opening sentence of Bernhard “Concrete”(1982); whilst I am not (currently) writing a biography of Felix Mendelssohn(though … Continue reading →

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MORITZ MOSZKOWSKI:A PAEAN. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on November 22, 2019 by decayetude

Moritz, you Gay-ify The dull World, with Your harmonic Twists and Turns.   I lOVE YOU; (And your Music); My fave F O R G O T T EN Composer.   Forsaken By the Musical Self-pro Claimed “Est-ab-lish-ment”. But NOT … Continue reading →

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TRANSCENDENTAL VIRTUOSITY, MICHAEL PONTI AND THE QUEST FOR THE INEFFABLE.IMPROVISATION . BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on June 1, 2019 by decayetude

“Ineffable”- too great or extreme to be expressed in words” “not to be uttered”.   The two definitions are contradictory:”not to be {uttered”} sounds like a forbidding (of even SAYING the thing that is NOT to be named; presumably an … Continue reading →

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TWO YOUNG MEN TOGETHER SITTING. BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on May 23, 2018 by decayetude

{Hommage to Walt Whitman, celebrant of male beauty} Two Young Men Together Sitting. Green top, Orange pumps.   Good Eye Contact; Probably “Just Friends” (But you Never Know!).   Conversing with Phones and Each Other   Glimpsed Moments.   Am … Continue reading →

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INTERNATIONAL LOVE. THE DAY BEFORE LIVERPOOL LGBT PRIDE, 2017.BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on July 28, 2017 by decayetude

What format for this? poem/polemic/rant?? It is all too weak. The subject is unwieldy, too poignant, too ANGER-INDUCING:BEYOND words.. That lgbt people in Uganda are IMPRISONED, sometimes, for loving someone of the same sex (nomenclatured as “carnal knowledge against the … Continue reading →

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MY WRITING STYLE AND HOW IT HAS DEVELOPED, PACE NAYSAYERS.SELF-REFLECTIVE AND META.(ONGOING).BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on July 24, 2017 by decayetude

My writing style has developed (for good or ill) IN DESPITE of a minority of others who proclaim their impatience/judgement of it. They do this for motives the nature of which I am unclear. Either: they just do not understand my … Continue reading →

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“YOU ARE ALWAYS GOING ON ABOUT BEING GAY/IT”.A CATHARTIC( {NOT VERY}CONTROLLED :p) RANT.BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on February 15, 2016 by decayetude

CAVEAT! This is NOT addressed to any of my friends/partner lol; take it psychosociologically if you will:) ——————————————————– They say Repeatedly: “You are Always Going on about Being GAY” {MY Capitals}:   I am GAY; Proud of it; No apol- Ogias; … Continue reading →

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THE ELEPHANT.WRITING EXERCISE(MULTI-GENRE)WORDCOUNT.BY STEVEN BENSON. FOR LGBT CREATIVE WRITING GROUP, MERSEYSIDE

Posted on February 10, 2016 by decayetude

The poor elephant, LUMBERED with all the baggage of metaphorical, allegorical, symbolic resonances, as we negotiate its colossal labarynth of meanings and figurative extensions of meanings. He just wants to get on with his life but is encumbered with conceits … Continue reading →

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“NEWS FROM NOWHERE” AT 40:RAINBOW COLOURS. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on June 1, 2014 by decayetude

Yes, I Remember “News from Nowhere” in 1985 In Whitechapel, Where, NOT Unwontedly, I often Stopped To Devour the Vast (To me!) Array of Gay mens’ Writing; And bought What are Now Rareities and Classics….. Yes, I Remember My Beloved … Continue reading →

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