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A girl sits at a brown desk using her right hand she's meant to use to write in Neat joined up letters. The girl next to her and the girl next to her does the same. Except the first girl uses her pencil to draw Greyscale Flags and hearts around a fourth Girl's name. One Lash. And a Dunce. But what they see as Punishment she sees as a Crown A crown to paint Pink, Orange and White. A gym line up for Boys and Girls. But a boy with a forced on dress has to stay with the girls. The girl next to him and the girl next to her are confused about why The boy uses his voice to protest against Blue and Pink bibs and separation of genders when he Is a boy Two Lashes. And a Dunce. But what they see as Punishment he sees as a Crown A crown to paint Blue, White and Pink. A person sits on a church pew using their hands to clasp together in Prayer for a partner. The boy next to them and the girl next to him wish for the same in theory. Except the person uses their hands to pray against Ever having a partner and marriage and *** when they Don't feel in that way. Three lashes. And a Dunce. But what they see as Punishment the person sees as a Crown A crown to paint Blue, White, Yellow and Orange. Because you see, A Punishment is never a punishment at all if we combat it with PRIDE.
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15h ago
Jun 4, 2026 at 12:23 PM UTC
1 Dunce per Flag
i will never understand why there is so much hatred towards a community so built on love that it can be seen in every color of our rainbow red is the blazing fire the all-consuming passion our heartbeats pounding in unison orange is the citrus the shared snack basking in the tangy sugariness juice running down our faces yellow is the sunshine the light the joy of being who we are and letting ourselves shine through the grey green is the emerald the precious gem we found underground and buried in stone while at our deepest and darkest blue is the sky on a cloudless summer day serene and undisturbed peaceful indigo is the flood the unstoppable force breaking down walls and transcending all barriers violet is the flowers and butterflies and beautiful moments we thought were out of reach for us the reality is there will always be people who choose to hate us for our electric love but at the end of the day they're the ones missing out because they've made themselves blind to our screaming color
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4d ago
May 31, 2026 at 11:44 PM UTC
rainbow
you say that you have to reconcile living with being single, but here take my hand, we'll make it worthwhile– the time we have, drinking cheap beer, and sharing secret touches under the table. nobody here judges its just us two, no need for labels dance with me, bro, they're playing the beatles on the jukebox, volume low, our tanned skin brushing like needles
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7d ago
May 28, 2026 at 5:12 PM UTC
worthwhile
One day, The world will hear my name. See my success, And I will use my fame To support the poor. Give some to charity, And then a bunch more. The world will hear Of a psychologist An artist A queer Muslim An author And I will hear it all Proud of myself Of who I am Who I was And who I will be. Some day, I will be proud of myself. One day. And a child will see me Reading my name on a book Or watching a bit of TV And inspiration will flood her mind And the world will hear my name.
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May 25
May 25, 2026 at 8:23 PM UTC
Fame.
She kissed me first beside the river, where the watter carried branches south. I remember her hands were trembling. She wore her mother’s little silver cross, darkened near the chain. When I touched it, she moved away. She would not meet my eyes during liturgy. She stood stiff among the candles. I watched the old women bow their heads. I watched wax gather at the saints’ feet. Outside, the bells went on ringing. There were women outside selling poppies wrapped in newspaper. Their fingers red from the cold. I bougth flowers for my grandmother and carried them like an apology, when I wanted to take her hand. She began walking home on the opposite side of the road. So our shoulders would never touch. I used to think, if I loved her gently enough it would stop frightening her. But fear raised her. It sat beside her at supper. It slept beside her childhoud bed. It followed us through every narrow street lit blue with evening. Once, in winter, she pressed a parcel into my hands, a little painted Mary. I understood her then. And I kept it hidden Inside a schoolbook for years. Last spring I saw her by accident lighting a candle for the dead. I looked at her. Not with anger. And for one foolish moment I am fourteen again. standing beside her in her gloves. Watching snow gather in her dark hair while neither of us says, what we cannot survive saying aloud.
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May 21
May 21, 2026 at 1:15 PM UTC
Forgive Me, Father, For all my sins
hm i don’t feel that bad about him leaving and why would i? he never wanted to be with me, said he didn’t say a lie when he said he won’t date a believer. i just wanted to see whether this would come late at night or early in the morning. midday is such a strange time to cut your line.
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May 13
May 13, 2026 at 10:01 AM UTC
eulogy
Ahora entiendo por qué el acto de escribirse cartas es entre mujeres era la forma en el siglo de antes de esconder el amor que había entre dos mujeres dónde las palabras decían más que las acciones Escribimos cartas con mensajes ocultos donde dos personas enamoradas se consuelan
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May 9
May 9, 2026 at 10:46 PM UTC
Cartas con mensajes
Going back, I keep seeing the same sight, And living now, it still feels so **** right, To live my life like I really want, Without feeling every corrected pronoun as a taunt, I just want others to see me for what I am, But even this sole request, for them it’s like a **** exam, Which they didn’t bother to study for, It was a subject they just wanted to ignore. The more I think about it, the more I end up in despair, Longing for someone to at least somehow care, Having no one, I somehow wanna hope, One day I can be who I want, without having to cope.
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May 4
May 4, 2026 at 12:36 PM UTC
My sight
Valley's low and mountains high Blotched with forests wheat and rye. Ivory canvas maps unfurl. Perfect skin makes not the girl.
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May 3
May 3, 2026 at 5:54 PM UTC
Skin and Hair
harry, you’re the one i need to be mine, i robbed the love in your eyes by my selfish works, coves of deep serpentine, sparkling in anticipation for something more than we were took you into the bathroom and left in different states do you ever regret the true ending of our fate? i don’t know, but when i see you, you talk to me the absence of your kiss my eternal lent can’t you see? thunder rolling as i write this poem, clouds obscuring, miss the shot, miss the sun covered up by my lies
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May 3
May 3, 2026 at 10:30 AM UTC
harry
The pondwater turns my face blue in the reflection as it spins it in absurd circular patterns. Half-sunken, the way a duck might with their duck siblings, I swim in ripples double my duck height. I waddle like a duck I quack like a duck but my feet aren’t webbed and I quack without a beak so I must not be a duck.
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Apr 28
Apr 28, 2026 at 8:15 PM UTC
Duck
Deep beneath the surface of my brown eyes lies a shunned woman dressed in red silk with purple striations laced with venom. She swims in the dark pool of my pupils, waiting to be plucked from her prison. The water was supposed to be pink, but she knew it had been born blue. Deep beneath the burdens of boyhood lies an enigmatic girl who wants to be seen, so she plays the endless theatre dance—until she’s cast as man. The pool beckons her to merge from day one—the devilish snake comes nearer as her body deforms into an ugly, hairy monster. He sinks his fangs into her wrist; spools of venom release and she never lets him go— filling my pupils with oceans of her blood, my eyes turn from brown to blue.
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Apr 12
Apr 12, 2026 at 12:17 AM UTC
The woman in my eyes
i despair, darling, over the littlest things i do wrong. did i overstep? starling, i dread to think i did, profaning you. but then you arise with words that clash with my self-inflicting lies and your eyes that watch over me begging on my knees for you to give me that release of forgiveness
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Apr 8
Apr 8, 2026 at 8:27 PM UTC
09/04 - sacrifice holdaway
I cannot let myself wither under the Sun, He keeps me warm. I mustn't shielf myself, Even if it kills me. I let His rays burn my flesh, Because that is how it's meant to be. I long for the Moon's attention, but She's just as scared as me. We don't see eye to eye, We never will. My heart longs for Her - But the Sun stands in my way. Still, Her presence sends a tingle through my body And around Her, I cannot think properly They say the Sun owns me - But you wouldn't understand, I know the Moon can love me better than any Sun can.
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Oct 20, 2025
Oct 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM UTC
Wither under the Sun.
If you turned me inside out, Perhaps I'd fit into heaven. Take my limbs apart, Drench them in bleach, Strip away my sin. Drown me in your water, Suffocate your own daughter, Strangle her - With the cross necklace you bought her. Hold me - Hang me high upon a star, let my stinging body dry. Satisfy your voyeuristic tendencies Of watching thy neighbour die.
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Apr 5
Apr 5, 2026 at 9:28 PM UTC
Hate thy neighbour.
i hate that once upon a time your presence meant perfection for me for now i have been across the other side, and have seen that your eden, with neon green artificial vines and leaves, is like you're Skegness compared to his Botany Bay his inward beauty doesn't leave me after i go to sleep at 2:12am like you once did
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Apr 1
Apr 1, 2026 at 3:15 PM UTC
north kent blues
babe, let me swear over that sacred altar where sacrifice and sin are ne’er left levied. your hair falls down onto your aquamarine eyes, framing them like a sycamore window. let me swear to you, to be yours, lows and highs, now and evermore. let me be your man and if you will, be mine too. who cares what my parents think? ‘what God has joined, let no man put asunder’ as the liturgist says, yet what my heart desires most is to be under you
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Mar 31
Mar 31, 2026 at 4:15 AM UTC
aquamarine
too quick to be your lover too slow to make my escape into the inky irises, cover, hide under trees and run over landscapes and i know that the Lord will take you away, despite my pleas and begging 'til my knees are bruised and bleeding my hands pattering down the glass. that word, that filthy word 'conceding' is not mine, seen plainly when i see your *** i can say it many different ways, my lover, hear: i dont know, i don't have an answer, words sweet to your ear and sour to my lips. my prideful, boastful lips you bless with your fingertips
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Mar 30
Mar 30, 2026 at 12:24 PM UTC
conceding
Even if you don't want a knot tying our hands together or papers in a calligraphic font, I still want to be with you, forget the tether You, you can't understand the flowing amber trickling down my ***** and you can't begin to withstand the rushing lava on my head, uncrowned. My books and tradition is swept aside like dust for your sake, handsome. And why? i dont know
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Mar 29
Mar 29, 2026 at 6:37 PM UTC
Jeriaise Fields of Green
I want to feel those rose-thorns in my hand, digging into my flesh, skins peel. Your skin is without blemish and perfect till I come unto your soul like Brendan searching for land and instead finding your whole bunch of letters, stacked slightly on a table supported by wellwishing. I find myself imagining you tightly wrapped around my finger, never fishing for compliments but for true love. Lover, let me love you as I have been whether this will work has not been seen.
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Mar 27
Mar 27, 2026 at 9:09 PM UTC
clonfert whistlers
I wish you were real, Your sweet scent, Your sweet words, I want to hear more. I look at you, Sometimes, You're so cruel and cold now, Where have you gone? You're in my dreams, Every night, I miss you dearly. I see us laughing, Being happy, You bless me, Give me advice, Listen. I don't want to wake up, I want to see, The angel in my dreams. Don't wake me up, Don't leave, Please. I want to see the angel in my dreams. I'm scared of reality, I'm scared, To face the person you've become. I'm scared you'll hate me even more. Just be my angel, Don't leave my sight, Don't just tell me it'll be alright. I want your kindness, Your sweet, words of grace, I miss you in real life. Don't leave me, Stay the angel of my dreams, Forever and ever. I'll pray for your presence every night, Now till forever.
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Mar 26
Mar 26, 2026 at 4:56 PM UTC
Angel in my dreams
Shoulder to shoulder with you Rather than shoulder to shoulder with my reflection in the window I scored true love but I guess I never really win though Beautiful months with you-- where's all the time? But I guess the butterflies went with the wind flow. Facetime call after an hour of text I was blushing through my dark skin-- You saw little specks-- Little chili pepper sprinkles all over my cheeks You're the chili flake on my pizza, I needed a piece. Visiting your abode more than once and seeing your dog I can't be done Your mountain of covers and the weighted pillow you know I like-- The tray of ashes next to your bed but our love was never dead The Nike slides beside you but you never got up and left The socks I received after I stepped in your dogs *** I never caught myself remembering details but when it's you The finest hairs are visible. "You are 15"-- "What do you mean...love?" Flip around the numbers... That's the area my mom thinks I'm in when I mention love. Grey rainbows Black sun Cold lava Soft bamboo I am too taboo.
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Mar 23
Mar 23, 2026 at 7:35 PM UTC
I am sure.
three days and four nights, i had him free and for me, but why do i care love is a strange thing, i never did like my ex when i dated him but, somehow four days made me like a swooning dog cursed be love, cursed be myself for trusting St Julian 'all shall be well', i feel like i'm going to explode into three pieces: my heart, my body and my fourhead because Lord knows three or four nights in heaven isn't enough for a sinner like me eating from the tree of life, and for what? kicked out of Eden, cut off from him.
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Mar 20
Mar 20, 2026 at 3:32 AM UTC
eden
refreshing that friend request page, murmuring prayers that don't get answered in the way i want i don't get it, he has my number, my snapchat account, my admiration why would he contact me through roblox? keep looking up his account to see if he's online, he never is. like a ghost he just haunts the hallways of my mind a wilting wreath of roses upon my soul, compliments he gave me - that i could not get rid of - and yet sicken me now
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Mar 20
Mar 20, 2026 at 3:14 AM UTC
wreathing