Poems I Have Written Since Emancipating My True Gender and Sex

By Anunnaki Ray Marquez 

 Poems for 2015 

1. This World Will Not Disgrace Us For Intersex Awareness Day, Oct. 26th, 2015. 

2.  Why do I feel like A Visiting Alien? For Intersex Day of Solidarity, Nov. 8th, 2015.

3.  Reflections from my husband: You are Not Broken To Me  For The Transgender Day of Remembrance, Nov. 20th, 2015.

4.  Maybe, Just Maybe, It is time to (Un)Know Gender Nov. 24th, 2015.

5. Breaking From the Kingdom of Isolation  Thanksgiving Day in the USA.  Nov. 26th, 2015.

6. It Works For Them  Dec. 2nd, 2015.

7. What Happens when they Raise a Boy, a Girl? Dec. 7th, 2015.

8. HUMAN RIGHTS   For International HUMAN RIGHTS DAY: Dec. 10th, 2015.

9. Nothing Takes Away that kind of Pain, or that Kind of Loss  Dec. 13th, 2015.

10. Here is the joke about being me; LGBTQIA+  Dec. 22, 2015.

11. All I Want for Christmas.   Dec. 25, 2015. 

12. I Promise to be your voice: New Years Resolution, 2016  Dec. 31, 2015. 

Poems for 2016

1. And Once the Storm is Over, I was Buried Alive Jan. 3, 2016.

2. An Intersex Poem of Freedom: I Will Sing My Song Jan. 18th, 2016 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day).  and Poem: I Will Sing My Song (revised: March 12, 2016)

3. Too filled with sorrow to cry anymore Feb. 7th, 2016

4. Can You Think Outside This Male and Female Box?  Feb. 9th, 2016

5. My Plea to This Earth; My Poem: I Have A DREAM  Feb. 15th, 2016

6. Dear Dad, Invisible is No Way to Live  Feb. 28th, 2016

7. I Am A Man March, 4th, 2016

8. My Poem: THE Female PENIS March 8th, 2016

9. Memories of Week 14, 2015: Set Free to COME HOME for the FIRST TIME March 23, 2016

10. Poem: Why did you want me to die? March 24, 2016

11. Poem: I am not….. I am….. April 3 2016

12. Another Intersex Poem: It is sad when it takes bravery to be my friend. April 14, 2016

13. Poem: I hide my rage! April, 18th, 2016

14. Poem: Parts are Parts, and Venus and Mars can get over it. April, 20th, 2016

15. This is a Broken World that I emerge into. June 2, 2016 

16. I want a better world, so I climb this mountain alone. June 21, 2016

17. Poem: Where did you all go? Was it all because of a penis? July 7th, 2016

18. Poem: I was never in the wrong body (With Six Intersex Flags)  July 19, 2016

19. Poem: Somebody Stepped Inside My Soul August 16, 2016

20. Poem: My sweet child, you’ll be blessed. September 2, 2016

21. Poem: My thoughts about your Open Mind September 8, 2016

22. Poem: IMAGINE being erased September 21, 2016

23. Poem: Precious child, that came into my life October 22, 2016, Written at the HEA Conference.

24. Poem: Don’t you see your lie?  November 21, 2016

25. Poem: Androgynous November 26th, 2016

26. Poem: The Alien and the Empty Bucket December 14y, 2016

Poems for 2017

1. Poem: The Sun Must Set to Rise  January 19th, 2017 

2. Poem: I am a Boxphobe!  February 8th, 2017 

3. Poem: STOP the Unthinkable! March 1, 2017

4. Poem: Stop Cutting us with Steel  March 21, 2017

5. Poem: Over 50% would have died. April 5th, 2017

6. Poem: SHAKE IT OFF! May 18th, 2017 

7. Poem: Dear child, born like me June 25th, 2017 (June Pride Month) 

8. Poem: Somebody else was in control July 18th, 2017

9. The Alphabet of HUMAN SEXUALITY: A through Z August 24, 2017

10. My Poem: I am the Storm  (As Hurricane Irma Approaches) September 9, 2017

11. Poem: My Rocketship October 30, 2017

12. Poem: Little Baby in Africa November 8, 2017 (Intersex Day of Remembrance and Solidarity) 

13. Poem: I am a cliff climber  November 27, 2017 

14. My Plea to this World on New Years Day 2018.   December 31, 2017, New Years Eve

Poems for 2018  

1. Poem: My heart  January 29, 2018

2. Poem: I exist and I am here…. February 18, 2018

3. Poem: Your Open Mind March 10th, 2018

4. Poem: I am a Gender Pirate April 13, 2018

5. Poem: You couldn’t protect me, they erased me May 30,  2018

6. Poem: The Underground Rainbow Railroad, LGBTQIA+ June 7th, 2018, June Pride Month 

7. Poem: Getting over the Grief of Abandonment July 24, 2018 

8. Poem: I am whole August 25, 2018 (3rd Anniversary for my blog)

9. Poem: My Ship has Finally Landed! September 29, 2018

10. You will not Erase Me! October 26th, 2018; on Intersex Awareness Day! 

11. Poem: Was it my penis? November 13th, 2018 

12. Poem: My Intersectionality November 22nd, 2018; on Thanksgiving Day in the United States.

13. Poem: The Invisible Space Boy December 16th, 2018

Poems for 2019

1. My New Year’s Resolution for 2019

2. Poem: Together we are stronger LGBTQIA+; with Martin Luther King Jr. and his gay friend Bayard Rustin. January 21, 2019, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

3. Poem: I will try to heal this pink and blue sick world. February 12th, 2019

4. Poem: Don’t say you Care, you don’t!  April 3rd, 2019

5. Poem: This is my planet too  May 3rd, 2019

6. Poem: June Pride when Born Intersex. June 25th, 2019

7. Poem: Institutionalized approved torture July 30th, 2019 

8. Poem: Our Broken Intersex Community August 15th, 2019

9. Poem: When two lonely aliens become brothers September, 24th, 2019

10. Poem: Her, him and me. October 11th, 2019 

11. Poem: Systemic Erasure of a Class of People November 24, 2019

12. A Sad Christmas Haiku   November 27, 2019, for December

13. A Zen Koan: The winter of my life. November 10th, 2019 (For my 52nd Birthday) 

Poems for 2020

1. Poem: Here we go again in 2020 January 1, 2020

2. Poem: Human Diversity & Your Prejudice For February, 14th, 2020; Valentine’s Day 

3. Poem: A Service Dog’s Perfect Love March 11, 2020 

4. POEM: COVID 19 War Zone, No April Fools Day! April 1, 2020

5. Poem: I am sick, too. April 15, 2020

6. Poem: Nocked Down While Locked Down May 16, 2020

7. Poem: No, you will not take my power away. May 25, 2020

8. Poem: Can one be two? Yes! | June Pride Month 2020   June 11, 2020 

9. Poem: I am a Hermaphrodite July 6, 2020

10. Poem: The Forest Doesn’t know the Genocide July 10th, 2020 

11. Poem: Two Loti Flowers | Our 25th Silver Aniversary August 5th, 2020

12. Poem: The Monster was you all along! August 16, 2020

13. Poem: Life is Suffering for all Life September 26, 2020

14. Poem: My heart breaks but I have to be strong for him October 13, 2020

15. Poem: Being used to help change this world. November 28th, 2020

16. End of Year Haiku: 2020 December 30th, 2020

Poems for 2021

1. Poem: It’s 2021, will love prevail?  January 8th, 2021

2. Poem: How to live against all odds  January 19th, 2021

3. Poem: I had to prove I could exist  February 15th, 2021

4. Haiku: Cishet Tears  March 22nd, 2021

5.  Poems: His Leukemia April 30th, 2021

6. Poem: Mr. Vagina, Mrs. Penis, and Mx. Hermaphrodite  May 12, 2021

7. Poem: Father’s Day is Your Day  June 20th, 2021
   

8. Poem: My Sex Traits Don’t Create My Gender Identity July 29th, 20201

9. Poem: Mom, please don’t let them kill me.  August. 16th, 2021

10. Poem: Help me end Cultural Dysphoria. I exist & it is okay.  September 23rd, 2021

11. Poem: Endosexism October 1st, 2021

12.  Poem: A Right of Passage November 6th, 2021

13. Poem: EXPLOITED! November 12th, 2021

14. Poem: I am a MAN with a Vagina December 5th, 2021

Poems for 2022

1. Haiku for January 1st, 2022 January 1st, 2022 

2.   Poem: You are a man, I am a man.  February 21, 2022

3. Poem: Empty Nest of Compassion March 22nd, 2022

4. Poem: Hey, Haters! April 1st, 2022

5.   Poem: A Gestational Father on Seahorse Day! May 8th, 2022

6.  Poem: No coming No going June 11th,  2022

7. Poem: Interbeing, so precious with Thay July 3rd, 2022

8. Exploited, too! August 11th, 2022

9.  Poem: Your Lofty Bigot Friends Won’t Save You August 26th, 2022

10.   Poem: Shamed into silence – eugenics September 16th, 2022

11. Poem: The leaves fall with my tears October 27th, 2022 (After IAD 2022)

12.  Poem: My First Christmas without you  December 24, 2022 (Christmas Eve)

Poems for 2023

1. Poem: When Suffering ends, life ends too. January 13th, 2023

2. Poem: My Broken Family January 30th, 2023

3. Haiku: Split into two February 26th, 2023

4. Poem: Strength is arriving when you want to die March 18th, 2023

5.  Poem: March Forth, without you.. March 27th, 2023

6.  Poem: Hater – The way of love April 25th, 2023

7. Poem: On this 5th Month Without You May 10th, 2023