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aweivanessa · 23 hours
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desideriooskomsky · 2 days
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poemsonmars · 2 days
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i don't want to
want her anymore.
i am tired of
breaking my own heart.
i spend all of my days
wishing she was mine
and all of my nights
hoping she never finds out.
i guess this is my curse;
unrequited love,
unreciprocated desire.
it consumes me whole.
it always has.
i am nothing if not a fool.
-mars
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strrenmeisje · 9 months
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real estate, richard siken (2020)
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makingqueerhistory · 7 months
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Queer poetry? Both modern and historical please!!
Queer poets from history to look into:
Yona Wallach
Ifti Nasim 
Langston Hughes
Assotto Saint
Anderson Bigode Herzer
Yosano Akiko
Sappho
tatiana de la tierra 
Walt Whitman 
Sophia Parnok
György Faludy 
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī
Modern poetry books to check out:
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World Kai Cheng Thom
God Themselves Jae Nichelle
IRL Tommy Pico
Homie: Poems Danez Smith
Sacrament of Bodies Romeo Oriogun
Disintegrate/Dissociate Arielle Twist
I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry Halsey
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color Christopher Soto
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"in the old world, before the body / awoke and ruptured, / you followed your father shirtless / through the yard, grass bloody knees, / one of the men in your small cowboy / boots and muddied hands."
Purchase a copy | Reblog for a larger sample size!
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sweatermuppet · 6 months
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my friend, sol rios, released her debut collection of poetry this month, ghost of my ghosts, & i was given the high honor of writing the foreword for it. you can get a copy here + log it on goodreads
i posted one poem, blessed be, in full if you'd like a preview
here are two other quotes for a further taste:
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from in conversation with the ghosts that have followed me
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from i am in the gym everyday training to hold as many cats as possible
thank you so much for checking it out + sharing! any attention directly supports independent & transsexual creators 🩷
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typewriter-worries · 2 years
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acknowledgments, Danez Smith
[ Text ID: and how many times have you loved me without my asking? / how often have i loved a thing because you loved it? / including me. ] 
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its-fnaf-time-bitches · 5 months
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I love you nonbinary people.
I love you nonbinary people who use pronouns associated with the binary, i love you nonbinary people who use they them, I love you nonbinary people who use neo pronouns, I love you nonbinary people who use a combination or all.
I love you nonbinary people who never want to medically transition, I love you nonbinary people who want to medically transition, I love you nonbinary people who want to transition to look like the opposite of your agab, I love you nonbinary people who want to transition to look like a mixture, I love you nonbinary people who don't know yet what they want from medical transition. I love you pre-op, post-op, and never op.
I love you nonbinary people who feel no association with their agab, I love you nonbinary people who feel very close with their agab, I love you nonbinary people who have a complicated relationship with their agab.
I love you amab nonbinary people, I love you afab nonbinary people, I love you intersex nonbinary people.
I love you nonbinary people who choose to keep their birth name, i love you nonbinary people who choose to change their name, I love you nonbinary people who chose to do an interesting unique thing with their birth name.
I love you nonbinary people who are masculine, I love you nonbinary people who are feminine, I love you nonbinary people who are androgynous and I love you nonbinary people who are beyond all of those definitions.
I love you all. In these trying times, you all deserve so much love. Peace and love on planet Earth.
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[Image description: a gibbon perched on a rock, their arms crossed, and their legs folded, giving the appearance of them just relaxing. They are surrounded in pink hearts and sparkles, as if indicating they are relaxing whilst feeling love. End description.]
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arcanumb · 4 months
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Jesus Calls From The Mouth Of The Cave — Sol Rios
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Please wash my hair for me.
Lay out an outfit you know I love,
And gently paint my nails.
Brush the tangles from my hair.
Braid it back,
Like my mother used to do.
Hold me while I fall asleep.
Whisper sweet lullabies,
And repeat how you love me.
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poemsonmars · 4 months
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you told me that daisies
are your favorite flower
and i had to fight the urge
to plant a bouquet
of them in my lungs.
i want to cough up
petals and stems
when you smile at me.
i want to be so full of
your favorite things
that i forget how to breathe.
-mars
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androgynealienfemme · 11 months
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"Night on the Town
When I step into my red silk panties and swivel into the matching strapless bra my butch bought for me for Valentine's Day
When I slide on my black mesh stockings with toes pointed, sitting on the edge of the bed like some Hollywood movie queen
When I shimmy into my spandex dress that sparkles and turns over the tops of my thighs like a disco ball over a snappy crowd
When I puff on my pink clouds of blush, brush my eyelashes long and lush, smear my lips and nails richer than ruby red
When I step into my sky high heels, snap on some shiny earrings and slip seventeen silver bracelets halway up my arm
When I dab my shoulders and neck, earlobes and wrists, cleavage and thighs with thick, musky perfume
When I curl my hair into ringlets that dip over one eye and bounce off my shoulder like a Clairol girl gone wild
When I turn from the mirror, pick up me purse and announce to my butch that I'm ready to go
When I see her kick the door shut, hear her declare, "We're not going anywhere, tonight"
When I whine and say, "But we never go out," following her back to the bedroom, my lips in a pout
When I give in and let her have her way with me pretending that wasn't my plan all alone"
"MY LOVER IS A WOMAN" by Lesléa Newman, On Butch and Femme: Compiled Readings, (edited by I.M. Epstein) (2017)
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i-indigo · 1 month
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We're strangers now.
It's strange
To pass you by on the street,
When last year you would bathe me in kisses.
I Wanted To Accompany You To The Bus Stop
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xavierocean · 2 months
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we don't have to be lovers
we can be just friends
I'd hate for us to make it this far
only to have the same end
I thought it could work
but feelings don't just go away
the amount of tears I've shed for you
is inexplicably more than I can say
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sweatermuppet · 2 years
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cis people asking cis questions by silas denver melvin (@sweatermuppet)
[Text ID: did you cut the blood out yourself & try again? have you told your doctor? your daddy? what do you think your mother will say? is your body normal as i want it to be? can you define normal? do you mind my asking? can i ask some more? have you found a god who approves? does the church board their windows? do boys wilt when you kiss them? did you cut the blood out yourself & try again? what do you look like in your dreams? are you sexed? do you want to be? does your dog still come when you call his name? are you virus or wine? is your name more important than the one you were born under? how phantom is your [ ]? when did you learn to dress your shame? do you wear it well? do strangers find you fuckable? do you want them to? are you more rot or riot? do you think you belong in sports? or television? how about the world? are you wanted? did you cut the blood out yourself & try again? did you try again? did you try again? /End ID]
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