everything is how it’s supposed to be even the reds and oranges ripe of autumn so far away the night you died i was singing till the morning the night i die i will be dancing to the tune i heard from you defining memories behind i emerge from a blue seashell seeing who i have become in the angles of the freckles on her arms measured out to be exact in certainty every word and every movement calculated to be correct by a design her and i fall happy victim to just laughing and kissing all underneath the golden rays of sunlight and tucked out away by vines and branches her eyes reflecting an image of the landscape within my heavy gaze i felt the turn of the earth pulling towards autumn so far away for now how the clocks tick in all our favor not just her and i an excited, loving whisper falls from heaven and travels towards us on the wind “everything is how it’s supposed to be” the privilege of love given and returned brings bright smiles to our faces and we are singing together in honor of you

everything is how it’s supposed to be
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#eroticpoetry #lesbianpoetry #sapphicpoetry #girlove #romance #sensualpoetry #poetsofinstagram #erotica #lesbianlove #sappho

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Lesbian Heaven All the girlfriends you ever went with are together now, and they're all getting along.

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after the storm, the air still shakes in me my hands remember lightning as a need i learned to count the quiet between texts to read the hum where wanting learns to wait i loved like weather trained to never rest each charge a plea, each spark a risk to take i mistook burning fast for being held and paid in ash for every promise made i feared the dark would swallow me alone or worse, i’d live unknowing who i was so i kept standing in the electric afraid that calm would mean i’d disappear then something warm met static without fear no grasping hands, no prophecy of storms just presence steady as a grounded wire that let the current soften as it stayed now love feels like the sky just after rain still bright with charge, but finally safe to breathe

Static Aftermath
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// The question by itself seems so surreal. I found friendship to be a woeful might - to talk together of our wants and fears, and chatter with each other through the night. To cry together all the painful tears, and reminisce of lovers in our years. The bond we made became our spirit shields, and hours spent online became our spears. You tempt my soul with what I long to feel. To talk of parents lost who gave us life, of siblings gone despite our sacred fears. You’re my chosen sister of whom I write, who gives me butterflies when you come near. Are we platonic? It seems so unclear. Maybe I weaken with romantic zeal, and my spirit struggles when you come near. You tempt my soul with what I long to feel. Whatever happens in our darkened night if our friendship turns even more unclear our language grows to more than butterflies the friendship vibrates, rage-filled, nuclear We’ll cry together all the painful tears and slay the monsters with our hardened steel placed with friendship upon our heart-shaped speers You tempt my soul with what I long to feel. Will you support me if a mutineer? The question by itself seems so surreal - hold my hand through another bitter year? You tempt my soul with what I long to feel. 28 lines three stanzas of eight lines followed by a quatrain (or four-line stanza) called an envoy (or envoi) rhyme scheme: ababbcbC/ababbcbC/ababbcbC/bcbC final line of each stanza is a refrain each line is usually comprised of eight or 10 syllables (flexible, but consistent within the poem)

// The question by itself seems so surreal.

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December likes you, don’t you see
she she sat with you
learning your pauses
memorizing the way safety sounds

she does not rush
she stays
hoping one day
you’ll notice
she is already here

December likes you, don't you see.

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Sweet,
crumbly,
messy—

we were a coffee cake:
delicate,
delightful in the hands and mouth,
disintegration our fate.

In the end,
we dissolved
into nothing
but crumbs of memory:
clinging to our fingers,
sticky with grief.

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Cycle Sync — A lesbian love poem the secrets we keep

soil and scents
are not the secrets
we keep. sometimes,
we spill beyond
sheets...
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it’s in my heart to be bad i overturn a new leaf see it has insect bite holes in fact, the whole garden has been eaten i let it happen let the bugs have their feast there are people i know who have had no issues with the growth or the harvest too many old things are embedded in i buried the seeds and watered frequently but the whole garden has been eaten and so yeah, i let it happen let the bugs have their feast that’s what was meant to happen, i guess i know it’s in my heart to be bad it’s etched in like words in marble part of who i am forever i won’t be like the people i know who have had no issues i can grow it all again one day, maybe, there will be a harvest for me for me

the growth and the harvest
#lesbianpoetry

there is a natural innocence that emanates from your heart you wear your good fortune on your sleeve in my bitterness and jealousy i wanted to transform myself warped images of your face dissolving fast around me yet this is what carried me into my adulthood i ate every delusion like candy and grew underneath your influence in catching fireflies on a summer night and forgetting to release them carelessness becomes disappointment becomes guilt i went to my friends’ houses i spent many nights on couches and i drove home alone but you were with me

good fortune
#lesbianpoetry

Omotara James wins at Lambda Literary Awards 2025 Omotara James’ poetry collection Song of My Softening won at the Lambda Literary Awards 2025 in Seattle, USA on Sunday, October 5, 2025.

Omotara James wins at Lambda Literary Awards 2025
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My debut poetry collection is out now!!

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“Hungry for Androgyny” LIVE with Leilah Jane King Coming to you live from the Spoken Word stage at Out and Wild, the UK’s biggest festival for lesbian, bi, trans and queer women and those who are non-binary! This conversation with the delightful Leilah King has everything you could hope for: laughing, rhyming, swooning, and a whole lot of poetry reading. Tune in to hear Leilah speak about gender nonconformity in football, her journey as a neurodivergent performance poet, and how being half-Iranian affects her experience as a queer woman. CW: mental health, manic state, gendered violence   References: Midnight Picnics in Tehran (2019) We Are Hungry for Androgyny (2023) Polari Press Mary Oliver Sam Kerr Audre Lorde’s Zami Travis Alabanza John Steinbeck’s East of Eden The Grapes of Wrath Charles Bukowski Ivan Coyote’s The Tomboy Survival Guide James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room John Betjeman Philip Larkin Soft Butch Time of the Month Gay on Wye   Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: -      Leilah reflects on being a writer as well as a performer. How does performance affect her writing? -      What was Leilah’s open mic night called and why did she set it up? -      Who are some of the writers that have inspired Leilah? Who inspires you? -      Leilah speaks about her intersecting experiences of being queer, neurodivergent and half-Iranian. How does your queerness relate to other parts of your identity?  

📣 New Podcast! "“Hungry for Androgyny” LIVE with Leilah Jane King" on @Spreaker #andorgyny #gender #gendernonconformity #gnc #lesbianpoetry #lgbtqiapoetry #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #neuroqueer #outandwild #performancepoetry #queerfestival #queerpoetry #queerspokenword #sapphicfestival

More than enough. "Reason Enough to Love. You" by Dorothy Allison. #lesbianpoetry

Don't miss this opportunity!
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I haven't been feeling up to much writing and performing recently. I managed to write two poems last night.

This one is a lovely lesbian story.

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What a night for gathering inspiration!! Thank you to my wonderful girlfriend who looked after me when I was a bit worst for wear. This poet will be writing some new material soon. Especially based on being a sardine on the train. Thank you West Midlands Railway. #lesbianpoetry #poetrysky #poetry

Today marks 200 days since my last incident. This is quite an important milestone in my #Recovery.

#poetrycommunity #poetrysky #poetry #lesbianpoetry #PoetsOfBlueSky #anthologyofpoems

Today is #transdayofvisibility

I am here to show the world that I am visible in a world that tells me I shouldn't exist.

I'm hated for being me because I am living authentically. It scares people.

#TDOV2025 #transpoetry #lesbianpoetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetry #transisbeautiful

This is the kind of day that I have had. Up the #MalvernHills one moment, the next moment in a secluded garden in #Birmingham. Definitely a day of gathering inspiration.

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After a week of not being able to finish any poems, I wrote and completed four poems today. None for #Recovery but hopefully it will be like a springboard to finish the collection.

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Today marks 84 years since #VirginiaWoolf died. She wrote a letter to her husband before she died.

This is my poem based on her last letter to her husband.

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#LittleOldMe from Dear Listener on Thursday night at @scripthavenltd.bsky.social

Thank you @cybergeekgirl.bsky.social for recording me

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Another night of poetry. Performing at The Verve Open Door. Video has been done of my set but editing needs to happen before I want to share.

Next one is on Thursday.

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Some good news whilst I'm off work for being so angry at myself. Well I'm angry at some other human being.

I have found out that I'm going to be in my fourth poetry anthology of the year. This one is going to be monstrous.

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I have seen loads of posts from cis women about standing up for Trans Women in regards to the London gym. IYKYK.

However, as a woman with transgender experience, I thought I would share what I have to do. I also want to add #Transwomenarewomen

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Performed four poems tonight at Bottles Wine Bar in Worcester.

Three poems were from #Recovery I speak about important issues what people go through when facing their demons.

The fourth one was #RootedInChosenFamily

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