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My featured poet and artist for November is  Dyana Jean.


Dyana's Biography

JUST DREAM

Dyana Jean, the youngest of three, grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She turned 30 at the beginning of this year and ever since then she says that her life "has been absolutely, completely unpredictable."

For Dyana Jean, her wildest dreams of being an influence in the global gay community are starting to become a reality. She has embarked on a journey that she is unwilling and refusing to give up on.

Most of Dyana's writings were born between the fall of 2002 and the present. After a painful break-up with a long time girlfriend, she moved back to Philadelphia in order to get back to her "roots." She says, "I was in dire need of feeling that love and support that only my family could give me and it was all I needed at that time to help me get through it. I left the comfort of Napa, California in order to remind myself of who I am and what makes me who I am." After she moved back home to Philadelphia she says that her journey of self discovery has been one that "can't seem to be denied... no matter how much i have tried to run away from dealing with my issues."

"One night after a painful break-up, I was sitting up in my room in my mom's house. She had gone to bed earlier that night and so it gave me a chance to just be with myself. I was alone on my bed, with only the company of my thoughts. I reflected on what I was going through and knew I had to get it out of me somehow, so I started writing... I had never felt more free and independent than I had at that time. I suddenly saw who I was, who I am. Somehow, I found the courage to write it all down. It took an absolutely painful experience to drag me into a warm white light, although I wished the process had gone faster. Time heals all wounds they say... I am a definite work in progress but that kind of awareness is something I take great pride in. "

MY LYRICS

"I never intend to write something in order to touch someone else. I write in order to be one with myself. I have never been one to run away from my feelings, and Ive never been been one to hide from self-expression... my life began when I came out of the closet and expressed the deepest part of who I am and for me, that starts with what I love....

My lyrics are about the pain and love that I have experienced in my relationships with other wymyn. Although I am a lesbian, I believe that pain and love do not know privilege. Everyone, gay or straight can relate to what it's like to have a broken heart or when you fall madly in love with someone. I am willing to share what's in my soul to anyone and everyone if, in the end, it helps give them courage to be one with the madness and joy of it all. Relationships are about the yin and the yang. Celebrate all of it, honor all of it, even the bad, because there is something to be said of what is born from Chaos.

I have included self portraits in this project as well. I believe that if my lyrics are as raw as they are sometimes, then I must be honest about how naked it feels to be at love's mercy....."

~Dyana Jean