I’m a queer-for-short Black American who is doing their best.
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makes me cry What we're doing to our planet. Well, I say that as a general "we," but for decades it's been the large corporations putting the onus on us to stop using plastic straws as they dump toxic waste in the drinking water
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Here are some more poems I've done for NaPoWriMo! 20 We worry too much To dream today. "There's much to do," He used to say Stomping. We insist on a schedule But I demand breaks, Resting. I'm weak for it, probably, you
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I looked up to you As my favorite superhero (Behind Storm) Because being rich With a lot of time on your hands Seems a lot more plausible Than being powered by the sun You seemed more real and honesty, I'll trust A Vigilante more than A fucking cop-
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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'
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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
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'
Raintree Ruckus
Was bitten by the Harriet the Spy writing journaling craze, hopped on the Internet, and never left.
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