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gunbf · 3 months

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YOUR FATHER / MY FATHER by Mal Fawzy

#writing #poetry #web weaving #poets of color #mal fawzy

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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. ]

#danez smith #my upload #dark academia #classic academia #light academia #black academia #cottage academia #poetry #lgbt poetry #poets of color #black poetry

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firewoodfigs · 9 months

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— the observer | eri (firewoodfigs)

#poetry #poem #writing #poets of tumblr #poets of color #the observer

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maxwelldpoetry · 25 days

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Follow @maxwelldpoetry for more words.

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wheatfieldspoet · 16 days

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as isaac, on the walk home

please, won’t you look at me, father? i can’t erase the memory of the surrender in your eyes if i keep staring at your back.

you held my hand as we climbed the mountain. i felt your pulse through my palm, your grip tight against the sweat. God has called us, you said with urgency, yet you took your time as we ascended.

i can’t remember what i feared more: the blade, the flame, or the aftermath.

who would have made the bigger sacrifice if there was no ram in the thicket— you? me?

or mother?

is there no test of faith more agonizing than to forgive?

but even in my final breath, i would have. i love you even though i may never understand it, if only you would tell me. i don’t ask for much—

father! please. soothe my shivering. i’m afraid the next time i see a knife i might think it’s love.

— Jade A.

escapril day 3: eye contact

@adventurerswritingguild day 3: hand / god / knife

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byronicist · 6 months

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"I came into this world already scarred by loss on both sides of my family. My Indigenous side; my European side. My father and my mother were the kind of damaged people who should never have had children. But of course, they had me, and so my first language was loss."

Deborah Miranda, When Coyote Knocks on the Door (2021)

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nashira · 5 months

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"The Philippines is the 169th country with the highest suicide rate, with 2.2 suicides per 100,000 people."

#poetry #spilled ink #poetry tumblr #poet side of tumblr #writeblr #poets of color #filipino #filipino artists #filipino poetry #recovering catholic #poets on tumblr #asian writers #asian artists #artists of sea #eldest daughter #eldest daughters

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poetryorchard · 3 months

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Join @nashira in her first writing workshop of the year on LIST POEMS! (this is my first time facilitating in 4 months 🥹💚 come write list poems with me?)

🎟️Tickets £1+ Attendance NOT required! Feel free to sign just for the materials!

Sign up here 💚

#list poem #list poems #poetry #poetry community #poetry workshop #poetry prompts #writing workshop #writing prompts #creative writing #poets on tumblr #poetry tumblr #poetry side of tumblr #poets of color #writers of color #wlwocpoetrynet #queer poets #lgbt poets

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fleabagwatchonline · 2 days

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i think all i do and anything i ever will do, or have done is this wide eyed, desperate, pituful attempt at getting my parents to love me again like when i was young

#web weaving #poetry #mother #father #words #spilled ink #female rage #poets of color #writers and poets #family

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opalagetribune · 7 months

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poetry is not a luxury // Audre Lorde Sun Edition / July-August 2023 I dream of Opal Age

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bones-ivy-breath · 8 months

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Pour rassembler les continents (To bring together the continents) de Rodney Saint-Éloi (tr. André Naffis-Sahely)

#pour rassembler les continents #Rodney Saint-Éloi #quote #typography #poetry #aesthetic #dark academia #light academia #french academia #frenchblr #literature #poets of color #haitian poets #André Naffis-Sahely #light

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gunbf · 3 months

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Fluorescent Dinosaur by Mal Fawzy.

#poetry #poets of color #writing #whatever #web weaving #mal fawzy

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typewriter-worries · 2 years

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The Prestige, Hanif Abdurraqib

[ Text ID: the poem begins not where the knife enters / but where the blade twists. ]

#hanif abdurraqib #my upload #dark academia #light academia #classic academia #black academia #black poets #poets of color #literature #poetry #the poem begins not where the knife enters but where the blade twists

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firewoodfigs · 10 months

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a year’s worth of hunger settling in flesh — eri (firewoodfigs)

#poetry #thinking of making a wee chapbook of sorts…#writing #poets of tumblr #poets of color #honestly trying to be a poet in this day and age is so demoralizing lmao everyone is just like how u gonna pay the bills 😵‍💫😭#and everyone is right i have bills to pay and nothing figured out 😵‍💫

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maxwelldpoetry · 8 months

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I will claw myself out from underneath this rubble and grow in spite of you.

Only I am allowed to be the death of me, and I will not perish yet.

- maxwelldpoetry

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wheatfieldspoet · 16 days

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angels are real, mine lives in chicago

when people ask how i survived 3 years in a graveyard shift, i tell them it’s because i have friends on the other side.

i threw a line out the sea and ended up being found, your tug on the invisible string pulling everything into place.

more than half a day away, but time stands still for us enough to fit years of stories in the palms of our hands.

even if we’ve only shared smiles from afar, your wings cross oceans to carry your laugh to me.

when i make it to you, you’ll give me a place to rest, tangible to match the astral one you’ve already granted.

distance and time zones are nothing at all when i carry you in my pocket, guardian dear.

now, like sun and moon, we trade waking hours. still, i fall asleep holding your goodnight text-shaped hand.

— Jade A.

escapril day 2: change of state

napowrimo.net day 2: write a platonic love poem

for @darlingwendy

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