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Uranian poetry

Uranian poetry is a special type of poetry that is all about love between two men or two women. It’s like when you have a best friend and you really like being with them and caring for them, but instead of just being friends, you love them like a boyfriend or girlfriend. In Uranian poetry, the poets write about this kind of love and the feelings that come with it.

This type of poetry started a long time ago in the late 1800s and early 1900s when it was not very common for people to talk about love between two people of the same gender. The poets who wrote Uranian poetry wanted to show that this kind of love was just as important and beautiful as any other kind of love.

Uranian poets used a lot of beautiful and flowery language in their poems, just like when you describe something really pretty and use a lot of descriptive words. They wrote about things like the beauty of nature or the brightness of the stars in the sky. But the most important thing they wrote about was love between two people of the same gender.

Today, people still read and enjoy Uranian poetry because it shows that love is love, no matter who it’s between.