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Albi

I’m a queer-for-short Black American who is doing their best.

📍 That East Coast https://albinanigans.nekoweb.org

18: To Be A Cat

Today's prompt is "write a poem in which the speaker expresses the desire to be someone or something else, and explains why." And a surprise extra prompt from Day 16. Kinda? Eh. Let me have a life of no worries, something devoid of capitalism and racism

17: Demons

Day 17: Demons (Doja Cat's "Demons" song.) take 1 I can float above. But sometimes, when they go low We all go to hell. take 2 Not nearly enough clout or anything to have haters or anything, Until you count those in power Installing rules, not

Catching up (Random Days)

Here are some more poems I've written this month so far! I usually try again with prompts I find interesting, and leave room for revisiting concepts I like. And I hope you like these! For more inspiration, visit the official National Poetry Writing Month blog! Day 1 w/

Day 12

Today's prompt is to tell a tall tale... I took this opportunity to dabble into some of my favorite concepts. The Grey Princess Scientists call xir an Anomaly. Somehow born and lost to time, Xie managed to find the way Here, but Not 'sideways' As our

Things to Write on the Bathroom Mirror After We Move In (with dry erase marker, of course)

Today, we’d like to challenge you to write either a monostich, which is a one-line poem, or a poem made up of one-liner style jokes/sentiments. GOOD MORNING すてきだね x (a heart is drawn, "ey/em" in the middle) "You're six feet above ground.

Two.

This one, to get it out of my head untitled There were bright colors in my fear. Once I am lured in by song The movie slowly turned, Entrenched by darker hues Falling from the shadows of malevolent flight. There's nothing delicate In fighting back, this time. Retaliation

If I Could, I'd Meet You Again

I wrote it this morning, and it just so happened to also fall into today's prompt: "a poem that centers around an encounter or relationship between two people (or things) that shouldn’t really have ever met." As for the others out-of-order, I'll post

"How did NaPoWriMo Find Ya?"

It found me fine, I think. I have not written nearly enough poems for a poem-a-day goal (only 3-4 so far). The difficulty is to sit down and quiet myself, to listen to my inspirations long enough to actually write something. Stressors can get in the way of that. But

The Airing of Grievances

Bloganuary Prompt: What do you complain about the most? The one thing I bitch about the most? Heteronormality. Nah, scratch that; it's how binary everything freakin' is. No, wait! How I'm expected to be androgynous because I'm non-binary. No, wait, it's

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