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kinder than man, athea davis

#poetry #poem #other people’s writing #althea davis

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— Laura Gilpin, The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe (1977)

#poetry #poem #other people’s writing #laura gilpin #alchemy

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“To the man standing on the corner holding the sign that said “God hates faggots.” I’ve never seen, exactly who it is that you paperclip your knees, meld your hands together and pray to But I think I know what he looks like: I bet your God is about 5’10”. I bet he weighs 185. Probably stands the way a high school diploma does when it’s next to a GED. I bet your god has a mullet. I bet he wears flannel shirts with no sleeves, a fanny pack and says words like “getrdun.” I bet your god—I bet your god—I bet your god watches FOX news, Dog the Bounty Hunter, voted for John McCain, and loves Bill O’Reilly. I bet your god lives in Arizona. I bet his high school served racism in the cafeteria and offered “hate speech” as a second language. I bet he has a swastika inside of his throat, and racial slurs tattooed to his tongue just to make intolerance more comfortable in his mouth. I bet he has a burning cross as a middle finger and Jim Crow underneath his nails. Your god is a confederate flags wet dream conceived on a day when the sky decided to slice her own wrists, I bet your god has a drinking problem. I bet he sees the bottom of the shot glass more often than his own children. I bet he pours whiskey on his dreams until they taste like good ideas, Probably cusses like an electric guitar with Tourette’s plugged into an ocean. I bet he yells like a schizophrenic nail gun, damaging all things that care about him enough to get close. I bet there are angels in Heaven with black eyes and broken halos who claimed they fell down the stairs. I bet your god would’ve made Eve without a mouth and taught her how to spread her legs like a magazine that she will never ever ever be pretty enough to be in. Sooner or later you will realize that you are praying to your own shadow, that you are standing in front of mirrors and are worshipping your own reflection. Your God stole my god’s identity and I bet he’s buying pieces of heaven on eBay. So next time you bend your knees, next time you bow your head I want you to tell your god— that my god is looking for him.”

— Rudy Francisco, Your God (via cloudyskiesandcatharsis)

#poem #poetry #other people’s writing #judy francisco

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night bird

#poetry #poem #other people’s writing #danusha laméris

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josé saramago (tr. margaret jull costa) / traci brimhall

#poetry #poem #other people’s writing #josé saramago #traci brimhall

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I’m too young to feel this old

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think it's trans day of visibility today which is neat but i also completely forgot so uhhhh

reblog if you think trans people are cool

#trans day of visibility #trans

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Seeds

I think the world is full of shoddy metaphors

...okay, maybe not all of them

But mine always seem to come out, half-baked

So far, I think my least bad one is about hope

I think that hope for me is a lot like growing seeds

They start out as nothing, little things full of possibility

And sometimes, most times there is nothing

For a while

And you feel a little like giving up

But you don’t

Maybe it’s because it’s the last thing you’ve got going for you

Maybe someone told you to hold out a little longer

Maybe you don’t have the energy to get rid of it

But you don’t get rid of it

And over time, you move on

Life goes on

But someday, maybe days, months, a year, two

Someday you come back and there’s something new

Something green and there

And that nothing becomes something

It’s not much

It’s not big, it might still die

But it’s something

And that’s what plants do:

They grow

#poem #poem of the day #hopes and dreams #poetry #hopeful poem #shocking

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The Future

The past is full of terrible events, and terrible people

And we’ve still got a lot of terrible events and terrible people, right here right now

And there will probably be more terrible events and terrible people, terrible in ways we can’t imagine

But I’d like to hope that the future is better

And maybe that’s naïve

But my parents named me wisdom

A name flowing through Greek to Latin to French to English

And sometimes it means learning

Because I learned to recognize my name in big words

And the one I find it in most now is Philosophy

And sometimes I find philosophy dumb

But I’ve been a cynic, and I’m trying to be realist and one day I want be an optimist

And maybe those are the glasses that taint past present and future in rosy light if you’re not careful

But I think only seeing the worse of things might be just as bad

And maybe that’s not the wisest thing to think

And maybe there’s no way of being an optimist without pretty pink making red flags just look like flags

And maybe I’m better off with cold clinical realism

But I’d like to hope

That just as the past has good sprinkled among the bad

And the present has people helping among those hurting

That the future might not be all bad

#poem #poetry #writing #poem of the day #word of the day #future #not really the word of the day

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God, The Day I Die

One day I will die And god will ask me “Why do you see it fit To do the things You have done With the existance  I let you have   One day One day, I will die And on that day I will ask god “Why do you see it fit To make me exist”

#poem #poetry #God #writing #poem of the day #short poem #short poetry #Short Writing

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Insouciant

I miss being weightless

I miss how light I could be

I miss being floaty, fuzzy

(I miss being happy)

#poetry #poem #short poem #word of the day #insouciant #short writing #short poetry #writing #poem of the day

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Pareidolia

I think I’m going insane

Trying to find patterns in the chaos

Trying to find patterns in the patternless

Certainly everything must mean something

#Word of the day #pareidolia #poetry #poem #short poem #short poetry #Short Writing #writing

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Sometimes I Forget There Are Supposed To Be Pieces Of God Within Me

#poem #poetry #short poem #short poetry #Short Writing #writing #god

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We Act Like Falling Is A Choice

Like I’m Not Destined For Hell

For What Was The First Sin

If Not A Want Of Knowledge?

#poem #poetry #short poem #short poetry #Short Writing #writing

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I Cannot Believe In God

I refuse to believe in God

I am Catholic, a bad one at that, a Catholic in the technicalities and in ways that get decried by ‘true’ followers of God

I am Catholic, and I do believe there is a God above

I am Catholic, and I believe there is a God, but I do not believe in him

I am Catholic,

And I have been taught to love, to love everyone, to love equally, to love fairly

And I do, I care, I care, I care

(I care and it bleeds out wine red like sacrifice)

And I have been taught to believe in Saint Mary, Mother of Christ

And I do, for She was mortal, and she was kind, and she loved

(And that, that I can believe in)

And I have been taught to believe in, to worship, God

And I believe he is there, but I do not believe in Him

I do not have faith in Him

I cannot have faith in Him

(I cannot have faith in something I cannot see)

(I cannot condemn for someone I’ll never meet)

(I cannot condemn for an infallible fallible entity)

#poetry #poem #religious imagery #i think #Word of the day #belief #believe #god #writing #poem of the day

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This is

This is teenagedom, this is queerdom

This is thinking in due dates, instead of actual dates

This is being left behind because everyone else is going on dates

This is procrastination, and perfectionism, and posed peace

This is waiting, this is searching, this is plotting

This is 2 years, 6 months, 2 weeks, til graduation

This is 2 weeks til we finish vacation

This 2 months, 3 weeks until our next break

This is waiting for me to break

This is googling symptoms of depression

This searching anxiety disorders

This is googling ADHD in Girls

This is making your skin crawl to learn what’s going on in your own fucking head

This is staying up as revenge for strict schedules and strict parents

This is trying not to drown

This juggling get a job, and join clubs, and keep your grades up, and get hobbies

This is trying to keep your room clean

This is not even trying to get clean

This is being too young and too old

This is I’ll tell them once I graduate

This is I’ll tell them when I move out

This is I’ll tell them once I transition 

This is I’ll tell them never

This is never being yourself

This is only being yourself

This is hiding

This is learning to love the ugly parts, the fucked up parts, the weird parts, the dark parts

This is learning to love being you

This is learning to love never loving

This is expectations, and not following them

This is whispered wants

This is Scientist, Doctor, Engineer

This is wanting to be a writer

This is wanting to own a small shop

This is wanting to be a translator

This is wanting a small life

This is wanting to move out, move away

This is fitting the old with the new

This is teenagedom

This is messy, this is gross, this is changing, this is learning, this is wanting

This is queerdom

This is fucking hard

This is temporary

This is life

#poetry #poem #kinda rhyming poem #Word of the day #not really the word of the day #this is #teenagedom #queerdom

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Farm of animals, Farm of humans

Old Mr Jones had a farm, working hard

With jobs and space and work for many

And animals coming from yard to yard

All just trying to get their piece of plen’y (plenty)

But it doesn’t work that way

For the pigs take more than they make

And the horses tax hay

And the mules are pushed more’n they can take

The fat cats take advantage of the birds

They know not to make a fuss

But head my words

For the animals are us

How should we expect to be better

If animals can follow our footsteps to letter

#shakespearean sonnet #poetry #school assignment #poem #poem of the day #Word of the day #not really the word of the day #farm #based on animal farm #animal farm