Deep Song: A Gay Poem

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bout death and love, risen out of the ancient depths of Spain, from tribal and Moorish and Roman gypsy immigrants from the east. Spanish Recognitions. Mary Lee Settle. 2004. P287.This poem reflects how I continue to miss my husband Gregory after he died in 2015 due to complications from Dementia, most likely Alzheimer’s Disease.With thanks to Frederico García Lorca, who wrote many “Deep Song” poems and was born in 1889 in Spain. Throughout his life, he worked as a playwright, a theatre director, and a poet. Many people don’t recognize Federico Garcia Lorca as an LGBT poet. His homosexuality was something that he struggled with throughou

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t his whole career. Occasionally, it appeared in his work, but wasn’t an identity he could proudly share. As an article from The Independent explains, “for decades Spain’s literary establishment, and even his own family, refused to acknowledge that the country’s best loved poet, Federico Garcia Lorca, was gay.”Lorca’s biographer, Ian Gibson, also explained that his “works were censored to conceal his sexuality.” In fact, it wasn’t until nearly 45 years after his death that his sexuality was widely acknowledged and accepted. As Gibson said, it was because “Spain couldn’t accept that the greatest Spanish poet of all time was homosexual.”</article></body>

A Lament for My Dear Husband

Federico Garcia Lorca, Gay Poet. Image by Ciudad Crepuscular

A Deep Song Filled with sadness.

A Deep Song Filled with heartache.

A Deep Song Filled with loneliness.

A Deep Song Filled with loss.

A Deep Song Filled with frustration.

A Deep Song Filled with the fear And the joy of death.

Deep Song is usually a lament about death and love, risen out of the ancient depths of Spain, from tribal and Moorish and Roman gypsy immigrants from the east. Spanish Recognitions. Mary Lee Settle. 2004. P287.

This poem reflects how I continue to miss my husband Gregory after he died in 2015 due to complications from Dementia, most likely Alzheimer’s Disease.

With thanks to Frederico García Lorca, who wrote many “Deep Song” poems and was born in 1889 in Spain. Throughout his life, he worked as a playwright, a theatre director, and a poet. Many people don’t recognize Federico Garcia Lorca as an LGBT poet. His homosexuality was something that he struggled with throughout his whole career. Occasionally, it appeared in his work, but wasn’t an identity he could proudly share. As an article from The Independent explains, “for decades Spain’s literary establishment, and even his own family, refused to acknowledge that the country’s best loved poet, Federico Garcia Lorca, was gay.”

Lorca’s biographer, Ian Gibson, also explained that his “works were censored to conceal his sexuality.” In fact, it wasn’t until nearly 45 years after his death that his sexuality was widely acknowledged and accepted. As Gibson said, it was because “Spain couldn’t accept that the greatest Spanish poet of all time was homosexual.”