"...from here to where hills drift away/From here to where branches meet/I miss you my friend/As much as early..." from "The Towels" by @hiramlarew.bsky.social, the featured author today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
"I never/knew hunger/could taste/like that" from "His dick looked like an Olive Garden breadstick" by AGG, aka Adrian Gaston Garcia, the featured poet today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Natalie E. Illum is featured today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Cuffing Season": "It is not the season/for dancing. It is the season/for stretching one memory so thin/it dissolves into its opposite." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
"I am a lobby hosting all the wishes to be..." from "Liminal" by Sandra Ovalle Gómez, the featured poet today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Jona Colson is featured today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Ephemeral": "I am walking hastily to my own extinction/like the luna moth breaking open in rain--" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Holly Mason Badra's featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Seeing": "'Koi,' in Japanese,/is homophonic for the word 'love.'" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
"Sometimes I feel like a guest/In my own presence,/Or a shadow of who I am supposed to be." from "Nobody Knows the Will of God" by Amuche Nwafor, today's featured writer in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Hailey Leithauser is featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Claustrophilia": "Why don't we try a new game called Fleas-/in-a-Thimble, why don't we shake up/a cocktail called a Neutron Star?" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Vivian Ealy is featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Feminine": "...I am/lollipop lip job, born to bear,/bear it back home, all/the way down..." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Luke Sutherland is featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Against Identification": "Is it brave to desire,/to act on that desire?" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
"...I want more but won't bite//the fingers that squeezeme/time is not blood from a turnip/so pay as you go or as you wish..." from "The Root of All" by Natasha Saje, today's feature on DC Pride Poem-a-Day. Listen to the whole poem, and others released daily! #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
"Was her likeness, mine as to smoke, water/The promise of tears that nobody hears..." from "Dear Mom" by Richard Hamilton, featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry #pridemonth www.pridepoems.com
DC Pride Poem-a-Day presents "the river flows" by Adriana M. Martinez Figueroa today! "...after the expulsion and exile/after the violence/after the flood/didn't the river run from the mountain?" #pridepoems #dcpoetry #pridemonth www.pridepoems.com
Carlota Roby is the DC Pride Poem-a-Day poet today! In "Saint-Jovite," she writes: "...Where did we expect to find death?/It was right in front of us,/raw and cruel,/a wounded beast..." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
"These are not sheets but his event horizon..." From "Sagittarius A in the corner of my room" by Oread Frias, featured in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
"My feet beg to be squeezed/As if they were size 10 Meyer lemons..." @regie.bsky.social is DC Pride Poem-a-Day's feature with "Ode to My Sandals." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Malik Thompson is the DC Pride Poem-a-Day feature today, reading his poem, "Nocturne: Roses." "A slow bend/in the supple branches,/the outspread hand I extend/to this autumn night's black teeth." #pridepoems www.pridepoems.com
"Wind and rain have whipped/wild points into her hair/and her brown eyes, sans serif,/stare down the work ahead." from "The Levee" by K. Rose Dallimore in today's DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #CapitalPride #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
Ishanee Chanda reads "hanahaki" in DC Pride Poem-a-Day: "i pull flower petals from my mouth/two at a time/and i stuff them into the cracks/of her bedroom as i leave..." #pridepoems
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"...I slip silently from the sheets,/leave the serenely snoring dog/beside my slumbering husband..." Listen to @petemontdc.com read his poem "Sweetness" for DC Pride Poem-a-Day! #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
DC Pride Poem-a-Day features "Salt Water" by Amanda Esteves Correia: "Daughter of Iemanjá I am/Iemanjá/who crossed the Atlantic Ocean/from Africa/to Brazil..." #pridepoems #capitalpride #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
"Tu es mon héros, you text him periodically--/declaring that not only is he your hero, but also,/because of the 's,' the source of your eros--" from "En Français" by Greta Ehrig, today's poem on DC Pride Poems. #pridepoems #capitalpride #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
DC Pride Poem-a-Day features Jasmine Haskins, with "For You I'd Create a New Language": "The tips of my fingers a tinge/Violet, next to the violas,/And I hear violins out of tune/Violently harmonious..." #pridepoems #capitalpride www.pridepoems.com
"Everyone looks at me like a lying stranger, a voyeur in the dorm's collective shower." Danielle Evennou is poet of the day with "Promulgate: Triple Haibun" for DC Pride Poem-a-Day! #pridepoems #dcpoetry #dcpride www.pridepoems.com
"...a Democrat, a gender extremist, and a cultural Marxist/Walk into a bar..." From the featured poem of the day in DC Pride Poems, "My Struggle," by Jessica Austin. #pridepoems #dcpoetry #capitalpride www.pridepoems.com
🦋#LossLit #bskyedition is back today!
✍🏽Give us your tiny poems about loss!
👩🏻💻Flip it to #joylit and write about your joy! Use the hashtag!
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ It’s #PrideMonth so bring your #PridePoems!
⏰We start at noon PT/ 15 ET / 20:00 UK / 21 CET etc…
"Things got serious. More and more/He talked about us being together/Same time next week..." From "TV and Me" by @bernardwelt.bsky.social, the featured poem today on DC Pride Poem-a-Day! #pridepoems #dcpoertry #pridemonth www.pridepoems.com
30 Short Pride Poems for June
Poem 2 of 30
What Liberates Us?
Wisdom
Humanity
Art
Truth
Laughter
Imagination
Bravery
Exuberance
Resistance
Affirmation
Tenderness
Energy
Sensivitivity
Unity
Solidarity!
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#QueerPoems #LGBTQIA
#DailyPoetry #LGBTQIAPoetry
"In the kingdom of her body are the redwoods,/thighs that rise & rise..." DC Pride Poems proudly presents Xochi Quetzali Cartland reading "Ode to the Old Growth Forest"! #dcpride #dcpoetry #pridepoems www.pridepoems.com
"The first time/you will meet my daughter You will be wearing an/inappropriate t-shirt. the first time/I meet your mom I will be wearing my robe." DC Pride Poem-a-Day starts off with a BANG with "Time Traveling" by Angelique Palmer! #dcpride #dcpoetry #pridepoems www.pridepoems.com
