Poetry Sharing Thread
Posted: 04 Apr 2023, 22:55
So, it's April which makes it National Poetry Month, or in the US anyway.
So, I'm subscribed to this prompt a day email and I'm trying to write a poem a day.some are bound to be terrible.
But it got me thinking, y'know, I can't be the only person on Anime League writing poetry.
So, I looked and didn't see a thread for this already. So, if you too write poems, let's share. Compare. Strengthen and build each other up.
Because, I find writing can be a very lonely and demoralizing business sometimes when you don't have a great network to hype you up and make you strive to be better.
I'll even start by sharing one of mine. I finished this one a few months ago and I'm still quite impressed with how it came out.
Anyways, I'd love to see what others are writing! Also, let me know if you want to see more of my stuff (yeah, I know... But I like showing off)
One of the Boys
I ran with the boys in high school.
Biked around town like we were hot shit.
Played Magic: The Gathering and D&D,
while binging on Taco Bell
and shotgunning Mountain Dew.
I was jealous of
thick shoulders and unshaved legs.
I envied the freedom
to change their bodies:
shaggy hair in wild colors,
tattoos on forearms and calves,
pierced noses, tongues, and nipples.
“Amy,” my grandmother tsked,
“they’ll never be hired looking like criminals.”
I wore my jeans loose and my shirts
too big, afraid of my own flesh.
I wanted checkered canvas Vans,
only available in the boy aisle.
And ball caps too crass for a young lady.
Stewing in my skin, unable
to express how my body failed me.
I had never heard the word “trans”.
That moment,
Where it all coalesced--
Andrew said, “I’m gay.”
Ter’s casual reply,
“So Amy can teach you
to suck dick
and you can teach her
to wear a dress,
like a real girl”
I still carry the sound
of their laughter
in my ears.
So, I'm subscribed to this prompt a day email and I'm trying to write a poem a day.some are bound to be terrible.
But it got me thinking, y'know, I can't be the only person on Anime League writing poetry.
So, I looked and didn't see a thread for this already. So, if you too write poems, let's share. Compare. Strengthen and build each other up.
Because, I find writing can be a very lonely and demoralizing business sometimes when you don't have a great network to hype you up and make you strive to be better.
I'll even start by sharing one of mine. I finished this one a few months ago and I'm still quite impressed with how it came out.
Anyways, I'd love to see what others are writing! Also, let me know if you want to see more of my stuff (yeah, I know... But I like showing off)
One of the Boys
I ran with the boys in high school.
Biked around town like we were hot shit.
Played Magic: The Gathering and D&D,
while binging on Taco Bell
and shotgunning Mountain Dew.
I was jealous of
thick shoulders and unshaved legs.
I envied the freedom
to change their bodies:
shaggy hair in wild colors,
tattoos on forearms and calves,
pierced noses, tongues, and nipples.
“Amy,” my grandmother tsked,
“they’ll never be hired looking like criminals.”
I wore my jeans loose and my shirts
too big, afraid of my own flesh.
I wanted checkered canvas Vans,
only available in the boy aisle.
And ball caps too crass for a young lady.
Stewing in my skin, unable
to express how my body failed me.
I had never heard the word “trans”.
That moment,
Where it all coalesced--
Andrew said, “I’m gay.”
Ter’s casual reply,
“So Amy can teach you
to suck dick
and you can teach her
to wear a dress,
like a real girl”
I still carry the sound
of their laughter
in my ears.