Personal Poetry

All of my non-fandom prose poetry, normal poetry (whatever that is), and, for better or for worse, prosey vent pieces. 30,620 / 104

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Gen | for rofitzie, villsie | 938 words | 2024-10-07 | Personal Poetry

I don't know what my perfect story looks like. Do I want to?

Journaling, Inspired by Music, Source: Bruce Springsteen

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Gen | for rofitzie, villsie | 469 words | 2024-10-05 | Personal Poetry

I've got to start talking back to myself, it seems.

Journaling

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Gen | for jdn0158, rofitzie, villsie | 333 words | 2024-09-30 | Personal Poetry

endless possibilities - that's all they are.

Rhyme, Self-Improvement, Therapy, Stream of Consciousness, Train of Thought

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Gen | for jdn0158, rofitzie, villsie | 333 words | 2024-09-29 | Personal Poetry

all that i am for was then. now is only nothing.

Listlessness, Maturity, Self-Concept

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Gen | for villsie, rofitzie | 307 words | 2024-09-20 | Personal Poetry

take a picture, it'll last longer
it'll last forever
it'll never die

Photographs, Memories, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Rhyme

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Gen | for meownacridone, niftyplantlife | 965 words | 2024-09-09 | Personal Poetry

An essay on the expectations we have for others' expectations.

Employment, Meritocracy, Bias, Ableism, Queerphobia

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Gen | for dukeofdumbass | 999 words | 2024-09-08 | Personal Poetry

maybe this year's gonna be my year. or maybe i'll just learn to live with being alone.

Anniversaries, Superstition, Independence, Loneliness, Freedom

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Gen | for villsie, rofitzie | 666 words | 2024-09-03 | Personal Poetry

this is such a fake Ass quote

Exhaustion, Grief, Love, Gilbert and Sullivan References, Stream of Consciousness

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Gen | for meownacridone | 273 words | 2024-09-03 | Personal Poetry

out with the in with the

Rhyme, Silly

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Gen | for waffliesinyoface | 551 words | 2023-01-31 | Personal Poetry

waffliesinyoface asked:

hello! i was going through my ao3 bookmarks the other day and i noticed that all of the ones written by you had been archived into a collection, inaccessible. Can I ask why? Is it just a temporary precaution, or are they gone for good?

Community, Creativity, Manifesto

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Gen | for outlookpark | 393 words | 2024-09-01 | Personal Poetry

wouldn't you, too, like to know something new?

Poetry

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Gen | for rofitzie | 777 words | 2024-08-21 | Personal Poetry

You realize that grief is perhaps the last and final translation of love. That this is the last act of loving someone. And you realize that it will never end. You get to do this - to translate this last act of love for the rest of your life. [*]

Grief, I've learned, is really just love...love with no place to go. [*]

Grief, Love, Exhaustion

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Gen | for villsie | 87 words | 2024-08-19 | Personal Poetry

I keep trying to articulate - a message, no recipient; have I failed?

Snippets

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Gen | for NathanaelBorger | 155 words | 2024-08-19 | Personal Poetry

i've got to be what i'm trying to be. i've got to see what it's like to be me.

Rhyme

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Gen | for villsie | 333 words | 2024-08-18 | Personal Poetry

Everybody always says: we take you as you are.

Self-Expression, Unconditional Love, Rhyme

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Gen | for villsie | 444 words | 2024-08-13 | Personal Poetry

To get where? To get here.

Loneliness, Self-Pity, Rhyme, Gimmick, Nursery Rhymes

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Gen | for villsie | 444 words | 2024-08-13 | Personal Poetry

What kind of sick imperative is this?

Coming of Age, Adolescence, Trauma Recovery, Independence, Isolation, Family, Rhyme

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Gen | for villsie | 375 words | 2024-08-04 | Personal Poetry

as plain as the tears on my face

Community, Sense of Self

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Gen | for villsie | 222 words | 2024-07-26 | Personal Poetry

I'd love to be able to just drop it. But it's heavy, you know.

Community, Miscommunication, Helplessness, Isolation, Unconditional Love

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Gen | for captainharlock | 518 words | 2024-07-25 | Personal Poetry

young people. we're all just young people.

Grief, Pain, Trauma, Adolescence, Loneliness, Crying, Inspired by Art

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Gen | for villsie | 318 words | 2024-07-23 | Personal Poetry

Everything hurts so much more and so much less than it's supposed to.

Conditioning, Grooming, Psychological Abuse, Trauma Recovery, Independence, Freedom

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Gen | for Amaranths, niftyplantlife | 76 words | 2024-07-09 | Personal Poetry

Twenty Africans were brought to Jamestown to be sold into bondage, the first Africans brought to Britain's North American colonies.

The Virginia House of Burgesses was formed, thus creating a body to record and enforce contracts between servants and masters.

A ship load of women were brought in to be servants.

Racism, Slavery

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Gen | for niftyplantlife, Amaranths | 76 words | 2024-07-09 | Personal Poetry

Not what I identify as. What I identify with. What I speak to and what speaks back to me.

Identity, Community

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Other | for meownacridone | 555 words | 2024-07-08 | Personal Poetry

I assume you know everything I feel, by everything I do. That there is no other avenue available to me.

Love Languages, Attraction, Agoraphobia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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Gen | for villsie | 509 words | 2024-06-29 | Personal Poetry

So messy. So discomposed. So ungovernable.

Trauma Recovery, Conditioning, Unconditional Love

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Gen | for niftyplantlife, meownacridone | 965 words | 2024-06-26 | Personal Poetry

An essay on the expectations we have for others' expectations.

Family, Community, Bias, Homophobia, Transphobia

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Other | for meownacridone | 222 words | 2024-06-25 | Personal Poetry

It's an out-and-out open secret. It's something too trivially obvious to be spoken.

Transphobia

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Other | for villsie, jdn0158, SienaStrings | 222 words | 2024-06-25 | Personal Poetry

What are the tips of our fingers for, if not feeling? Prints infinitesimal, which do all the thinking for us.

Cynicism

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Other | for meownacridone | 205 words | 2024-06-15 | Personal Poetry

Let me tell you what I'm worried about (but it won't stop the rain).

Phobias, Hypochondria, Rhyme, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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Gen | for villsie | 204 words | 2024-06-12 | Personal Poetry

Do you fancy yourself a humorist?

Aphorisms, Originality, Rhyme, Memory

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Gen | for villsie | 123 words | 2024-05-31 | Personal Poetry

on courage

Family, Imagery

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Other | for SienaStrings | 123 words | 2024-05-31 | Personal Poetry

on power

Family, Prose

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Gen | for jdn0158 | 123 words | 2024-05-31 | Personal Poetry

on wisdom

Family, Rhyme

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Gen | for outlookpark | 129 words | 2024-05-28 | Personal Poetry

A litany for moving forward.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Rhyme

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Gen | for villsie | 309 words | 2024-05-19 | Personal Poetry

if i concentrate hard enough, i can fall fast in love with what has been and what may be.

Family, Freedom, Gratitude, Romanticizing the Mundane

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Other | for villsie | 151 words | 2024-04-29 | Personal Poetry

We cannot stop straining and crying to be enough.

Adulthood

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Other | for meownacridone | 129 words | 2024-04-28 | Personal Poetry

sunday's hope is monday's gush; lest we not forget, amid the rush

Self-Knowledge, Contentment

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Other | for villsie | 413 words | 2024-04-28 | Personal Poetry

Attemptedly artful, but in execution...not so much.

Alienation, Self-Respect, Community

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Gen | for villsie | 569 words | 2024-04-27 | Personal Poetry

A train of thought on the boxes I keep myself in.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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Gen | for villsie | 427 words | 2024-04-27 | Personal Poetry

Why is my own obstinance the sternest task?

Radical Love

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Gen | for villsie | 133 words | 2024-04-15 | Personal Poetry

It's a difficult thing, gravity.

Hugs, Kindred Spirits, Old Souls, Affection, Rhyme

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Other | for meownacridone | 353 words | 2024-04-13 | Personal Poetry

i've seen real lesbians, in my life now.

Coming Out, Role Models, Societal Expectations, Labels, Lesbian Identity, Homophobia, Transphobia

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Other | for villsie | 281 words | 2024-04-11 | Personal Poetry

Sometimes there really is a chance that extends, gleaming, forever.

Personal Growth, Loyalty, Dedication, Unconditional Love

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Gen | for villsie | 107 words | 2024-04-09 | Personal Poetry

Creeping out to lay our shadows, boldly we must go.

Celestial Symbolism

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Gen | for villsie | 373 words | 2024-04-06 | Personal Poetry

And love is always leading forward, too brave ever to be falling back.

Unconditional Love, Confessional, Manifesto

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Gen | for villsie | 144 words | 2024-04-04 | Personal Poetry

Very limited in scope. There may be more, later.

Trauma Recovery

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Gen | for villsie | 126 words | 2024-03-27 | Personal Poetry

This evaluation should be a note of love - not just have, but be.

Rhyme, Repetition, Gimmick, Friendship

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Gen | for villsie | 143 words | 2024-03-26 | Personal Poetry

It never leaves me. I cannot leave.

Stream of Consciousness, Depression, Exhaustion

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Gen | for villsie | 101 words | 2024-03-21 | Personal Poetry

neither here nor there but a secret third thing

Loneliness, Fulfillment, Purposefulness

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Gen | for villsie | 101 words | 2024-03-21 | Personal Poetry

who will emplace me? who will provide the permission?

Loneliness, Fulfillment, Purposefulness

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Gen | for villsie | 411 words | 2024-03-17 | Personal Poetry

This is what I was taught. This is what was very nearly forced upon me.

This is what I have learned. This is what I cannot discard.

Harmful Rhetoric, Abuse Recovery, Internalized Conservativism

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Other | for villsie | 300 words | 2024-03-15 | Personal Poetry

I want a drink...to wash all the filth that is deep in my guts.

Grief, Trauma Recovery, Prose

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Other | for villsie | 272 words | 2024-03-11 | Personal Poetry

"They call it longing because it takes forever."

Longing, Repetition, Gimmick, Prose Poem

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Gen | for villsie | 619 words | 2024-03-05 | Personal Poetry

We know so little. We trust (we hope) so much.

Animals, Trauma Recovery, Compassion

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Gen | for villsie | 181 words | 2024-03-03 | Personal Poetry

What a beautiful goal: to be glowing.

Prose, Humanity, Compassion, Love

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Other | for villsie | 451 words | 2024-02-25 | Personal Poetry

Only in this manner may desires be permitted.

Prose Poem, Musicianship, Vulnerability

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Other | for villsie | 808 words | 2024-02-21 | Personal Poetry

There should be some word for it, in that ever-relevant dictionary of obscure sorrows: the feeling of getting hopelessly lost in an empty room.

Romanticization of the Mundane, Modern Living, Young Adulthood, Yearning, Prose

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Gen | for villsie | 673 words | 2024-02-20 | Personal Poetry

Take it to the end of the measure. Come on, sing it, now.

Preemptive Grief, Found Poetry, Prose Poem, Stream of Consciousness, Inspired by Tumblr

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Gen | for villsie | 237 words | 2024-02-14 | Personal Poetry

I'm told I give wonderful hugs. Who's there waiting for me?

Humanity, Hugging, Physical Contact, Prose Poem, Rhyme, Self-Love, Compassion

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Other | for villsie | 293 words | 2024-02-08 | Personal Poetry

Be serious, now. Be real.

Sense of Self, Career Success, Masking, Rhyme, Allegory

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Gen | for villsie | 101 words | 2024-02-05 | Personal Poetry

(teaching as a metaphor for love)

Proverbs, Gimmick

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Gen | for villsie | 103 words | 2024-02-03 | Personal Poetry

There are certainties, on this earth.

Metaphor

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Other | for villsie | 210 words | 2024-01-25 | Personal Poetry

Think about it.

Gimmick, Rhyme, Prose Poem, Honesty, Candor

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Gen | for villsie | 423 words | 2024-01-22 | Personal Poetry

Indulge me the melodrama - it's all I have to give.

Note to Self, Priorities, Regrets, Candor, Love, Humanity, Shakespeare References

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Gen | for villsie | 183 words | 2024-01-20 | Personal Poetry

Good things don't come easy.

Repetition, Friendship, Prose Poem

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Gen | for villsie | 325 words | 2024-01-16 | Personal Poetry

We fit as naturally as anything. Oh, boy, do we.

Gimmick, Prose Poem

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Gen | for villsie | 116 words | 2023-12-28 | Personal Poetry

All love, all closeness; a pressure and a release.

Platonic Love, Hugging

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Gen | for villsie | 188 words | 2023-12-27 | Personal Poetry

Things we know to be true. Things we don't dare to hope. And one forges the other.

Rhyme, Friendship

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Gen | for villsie | 189 words | 2023-12-26 | Personal Poetry

Almost there...forever.

Friendship, Rhyme, Musical Metaphors

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Other | for villsie | 99 words | 2023-12-20 | Personal Poetry

Uncomplicated affection may be the idyll, but it's not the rule.

Rhyme

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Gen | for villsie | 162 words | 2023-12-19 | Personal Poetry

Time alone, watching the flow.

Rhyme

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Gen | for villsie | 111 words | 2023-12-13 | Personal Poetry

It has always been true that beautiful things grow where we let them.

Celebration of Life, Rhyme

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Other | for villsie | 187 words | 2023-12-09 | Personal Poetry

Animals, trapped in bodies with overthinking minds.

Disorientation, Metaphor, Simile

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Gen | for jdn0158 | 329 words | 2023-11-03 | Personal Poetry

Or, poetry in motion.

Prose Poetry, Found Poetry, Adoration, Animal Symbolism, Flower Symbolism

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Gen | for jdn0158 | 498 words | 2023-10-31 | Personal Poetry

"You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here."

Family, Maturity, Communication, Isolation, Dissatisfaction

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Other | for jdn0158 | 222 words | 2023-10-08 | Personal Poetry

You know you're not special, right?

Inner Child, Independence, Solipsis

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Gen | for SienaStrings | 206 words | 2023-08-28 | Personal Poetry

Now this, my friend, is living!

Independence, Whimsy, Paranoia, Political References, Rhyming

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Gen | for NathanaelBorger | 200 words | 2023-08-23 | Personal Poetry

(To be read, perhaps, in the voice of Dr James Grime)

Academia, Rhyming, Double Drabble, Silly

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Gen | for villsie | 256 words | 2023-08-21 | Personal Poetry

Something of a...note to self.

Growing Up, Loss of Innocence, Inner Child, Self-Love

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Gen | for SakuraPrincess | 100 words | 2023-08-18 | Personal Poetry

Why wouldn't we be proud of you? You do so many good things.

Rhyming, Drabble

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Other | for SienaStrings | 100 words | 2023-08-17 | Personal Poetry

how can i describe the place where the light gets in? it's dark

Synaesthesia, Drabble

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Gen | for SienaStrings | 127 words | 2023-08-14 | Personal Poetry

should be - and someday, is

Determination

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Other | for SienaStrings | 202 words | 2023-08-11 | Personal Poetry

Don't tell me you ever saw someone who was told to do something, and was happy about it.

Grief

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Other | for SienaStrings | 100 words | 2023-08-10 | Personal Poetry

we must learn to ask this.

Fortitude, Drabble

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Other | for SienaStrings | 101 words | 2023-08-04 | Personal Poetry

over, and over, and it's over again

Disillusionment, Apathy, Drabble

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Gen | for TheGhostInTheMachine, outlookpark | 10 words | 2023-03-05 | Personal Poetry

An old one, on a whim.

Orchestra, Haiku

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Gen | for SienaStrings | 202 words | 2023-07-10 | Personal Poetry | AO3

"would that we all were excited about the small things and didn't have to suffer innocently"

Orchestras, Metaphors, Humanity

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Gen | for villsie | 222 words | 2023-06-16 | Personal Poetry | AO3

The justification is as follows, for blathering on and on:

Affection, Loyalty, Prose Poem

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Gen | for villsie | 100 words | 2023-06-13 | Personal Poetry | AO3

(hope you don't)

Trauma

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Gen | for villsie | 210 words | 2023-06-05 | Personal Poetry | AO3

But what it has got...is pretty good, I'd say.

For a Friend

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Other | for meownacridone | 100 words | 2023-06-03 | Personal Poetry | AO3

Another experiment. Another attempt.

Apathy, Repetition, Haiku

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Gen | for villsie | 365 words | 2023-05-28 | Personal Poetry | AO3

I didn't have to...but I wanted to.

Writing Exercise

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Gen | for villsie | 93 words | 2023-04-19 | Personal Poetry | AO3

My dearest, dearest friends.

Affection, Symbolism, Prose Poem

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Gen | for villsie | 136 words | 2023-04-02 | Personal Poetry | AO3

(royalty in purpose)

Self-Sacrifice, Contemplation, Prose Poem

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Gen | for villsie | 127 words | 2023-04-02 | Personal Poetry | AO3

so great, to feel so small

Farewells, Found Family, Prose Poem

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Gen | for villsie | 300 words | 2023-03-01 | Personal Poetry | AO3

how're you doing?

Self-Determination

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Gen | for SienaStrings | 254 words | 2023-02-23 | Personal Poetry | AO3

Handset, with love.

Prose Poem

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Gen | for villsie | 155 words | 2023-02-21 | Personal Poetry | AO3

It's all that matters.

Love

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Other | for villsie | 567 words | 2023-02-04 | Personal Poetry | AO3

(Some things aren't topical enough for Tumblr.)

Coming of Age, Vent Piece

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Other | for AngryPurpleFire | 666 words | 2022-01-28 | Personal Poetry | AO3

It's so nice to agree.

Jealousy, Vent Piece

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Other | for meownacridone | 200 words | 2021-11-11 | Personal Poetry | AO3

Everyone likes a consonant cadence. ...right?

Prose Poem, Experimental Style

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Gen | for NathanaelBorger | 155 words | 2021-10-03 | Personal Poetry | AO3

Just a silly little thing - but aren't those the most important, in the end?

Poem

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Other | for brianychen | 217 words | 2021-10-03 | Personal Poetry | AO3

I suppose it's rather too late for that now, though.

Poem

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Other | for niftyplantlife | 166 words | 2021-10-03 | Personal Poetry | AO3

or, of math and men

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