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dullgun · 2 months
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YOUR FATHER / MY FATHER by 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. ] 
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firewoodfigs · 8 months
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— the observer | eri (firewoodfigs)
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maxwelldpoetry · 4 days
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Follow @maxwelldpoetry for more words.
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nashira · 4 months
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"The Philippines is the 169th country with the highest suicide rate, with 2.2 suicides per 100,000 people."
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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!
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byronicist · 5 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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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 · 7 months
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Pour rassembler les continents (To bring together the continents) de Rodney Saint-Éloi (tr. André Naffis-Sahely)
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houseofache · 5 months
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tell me i’m your national anthem. repeat the things i’ve said that replay in your head into the darkness of your bedroom, like i’m a lifeline that unmoors your anxieties from your aching body. sing my name proudly into the soft sunlight at the break of dawn. say my name like you say a promise: gingerly, delicately, as if you’re afraid to break it.
love me like a soldier loves his countrymen, like freedom loves the light as it breaks open into a new day. need me like a god needs their followers, like the sun needs the moon, like a guiding hand needs a delicate shoulder to grasp.
think of me like i’m your favourite colour: ever-changing and beautiful. like i’m enough to soothe the frayed edges that have cut into your soul. like i’m your lover bathed in sunlit pride at the warmth of your presence. like i could be the love of your life. think of me, always. i hope you think of me.
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manribs · 1 year
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PERSEPHONE’S GRAPEFRUIT by mak kram
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dullgun · 2 months
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Fluorescent Dinosaur by 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. ] 
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firewoodfigs · 9 months
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a year’s worth of hunger settling in flesh — eri (firewoodfigs)
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maxwelldpoetry · 7 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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nashira · 1 year
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♡ we encourage all to join & engage w/ Black literature✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻
♡ sign-ups for each workshop close 24h prior
♡ Workshop 1 - Saturday, February 4 @ 2 PM EST
♡ Workshop 2 - Saturday, February 11 @ 2 PM EST
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