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Oct 04

IceGalaxy

i know

that people dont like me
people talk behind my back
whispers follow me
down crowded hallways
and i keep my head high
pretend i dont notice
pretend it doesnt bother me
put on a mask
play dumb and
act along
liar/fake/anythingelsemymindcallsme
i pretend to be
academically smart though
i struggle to keep up.
i pretend to be
socially dumb though
i know more than people think
because i listen
i watch
i look for the hidden cracks
i can crawl into
and vanish
no one notices im gone.
from my little peephole
i watch and
see emotions and
lost stares.
i listen and
hear near-silent whispers and
soft confessions and
backstabs.
i wait and
hold my breath
moment frozen in time
let it go
world resumes
keep walking
head up
ignore
ignore
ignore
but dont forget
words clipped with steel

Posted: 10.04.21

Oct 02

poem, rant

Aster

relief

can you just TELL me if you-
wait, what?
really?
Y-you really do like me?
i- you-
yes.
thank you.
thank you.
and...

i'm sorry too.

but i love you.

Posted: 10.02.21

Oct 01

rant

Aster

~

honestly

all i want to know
is

why?

Posted: 10.01.21

Sep 24

poem, rant

Aster

my people

why aren't you talking to me?!
i could scream
i just miss you

i do want you in my life!
i love you
i just
can't
hold all this up on my own.
if you don't want to help me carry this,
then just tell me!
maybe then I won't
be talking to
the wall.
see you later then
maybe
why do i even care?
you guys left me homeless
you guys left me
without my people
do i have to remake every friend i've made?
but i still love you,
that's why i'm
still trying right now!
stop pretending you still like me
if you don't!
all you're doing is rubbing salt in the wound
no,
more like
bleeding heart flowers.

Posted: 09.24.21

Sep 23

poem, rant challenge: Six Words

Aster

6

six words
is really
not enough

Posted: 09.23.21

Sep 21

rant

infinitelyinfinite3

Rejection is Better Than Silence

I'm not even going to pretend--I know it's difficult, not knowing me, barely aware that there could be a face behind the words you've read online, the pain and ecstasy and everything in-between. I suppose I've written in first-person so often, it's numbed you all to the fact that I'm not writing about someone else--it's me. God, of course, it is. I can't be anyone else--I could never write or laugh or smile or cry or scream like someone else. I could never, ever be someone else, even if I cut myself open and pried my flesh apart, picked my brain from my skull and switched it out, scratched and tore at my face until it wasn't mine, couldn't be mine. Bled through my flesh, rebirthed from the blood on my skin--someone new, someone better, someone who got everyone and everything she liked. So, today, right now, whoever comes across this gets to see exactly what I write--and know who it is on the other side.

Posted: 09.21.21

Sep 13

rant challenge: Folklore

frankoceanwhere...

The Truth About Hawaii

Did you know that the reason Hawaii is part of the US is because the President of the United States married the queen of Hawaii? Well, that's not true. When I was younger, my brothers would always mess with me. "If you come into my room one more time without knocking, I'll tell Spider-man to take away your toilet paper privileges," "If you don't massage my back then I'll tell Mom to leave you at home with Grandma while the rest of us are on vacation," "Voldemort was real and the government tried to cover it up." Things like that. And as a gullible 6 year old, I believed all of them. On our way to Hawaii, I was talking with them and I asked them how it was part of our country if it wasn't connected on the map. And you can guess what they told me. I don't think they thought I believed them, but when we got to the hotel, I became friends with another kid in the lobby. I told her "the truth" and she, also being gullible, believed me.

Posted: 09.13.21

Aug 19

rant

Mrs_Mango3340

Brace Face

I got braces a few weeks ago.
It's a BIG change.
I can no longer bite into a burger or hot dog.
I cant chew things with my front teeth.
I have to take an extra fifteen minutes to brush and floss.
I'm not embarrassed because nearly every kid in my grade has them.
When I'm eating food in a restaurant I catch people staring at me.
I see little kids giving my braces big bug eyes.
It's not a good feeling.......
My teeth HURT and yet I know its because they are working.
It's kind of scary to think that just a few weeks ago, the first day of the next 2 years of my life, happened.

Posted: 08.19.21

Aug 10

rant

CrystalWaters

Nothing serious just writing my feelings down

My dad moved out and well I'm pretty sure he's not moving back in and at this point I want my parents to get divorced I don't even care anymore, I'm FINALLY getting rid of my toxic friends which feels awesome, Finding more out about myself every now and then, Im tired of everything, I found a few true friends, middle school sucks, brother is going to college, I'm not really happy but I can't tell my mom because she already has a lot going on and I don't want to add to that besides I'm not really open with my feelings so this is hard for me, I tried asking for a therapist but all I did was cry and I couldn't get a word out, found out I'm pansexual so.., I had a panic attack in the middle of a store cuz of my social anxiety, got anime merch :), I hate everything except my friends, sleep, anime, and food. I wanna do volleyball but people are pressuring me to do track because of my "long legs".

Posted: 08.10.21

Jul 26

opinion, essay, rant

Yellow Sweater

New Pollen, Old Soil

Growing up, I didn’t realize there was such a thing as a conservative intellectual tradition, or, to be honest, even a moderate one. I assumed (in a similar vein to people on the far right) that all real thinking was being done outside the mainstream. In the bubble I was raised in, people read Noam Chomsky and Charles Eisenstein like the bible, attended conferences on Ecoterrorism and how to build your own permaculture communities, embraced the idea of defunding the police before it was an Instagram slogan. The New York Times was a fine place to get basic news, but if you wanted a real perspective you had to go to The New Republic or Mother Jones. Anarcho-Communism was not a radical ideology, rather a natural and necessary next step for human civilization.

Posted: 07.26.21

Jul 22

poem, opinion, rant

Yellow Sweater

To Lorca's Missing Grave, To Franco, To Those Who've Left the American Flag a Bloodless/Bloody Blue and Black

Okay, so I am a bit embarrassed because this is like the fifth ode to Lorca I have posted on here. But sometimes you need obsessions. They are something through which you can channel your passion.

True patriots always die because it is dangerous to love something so easily set on fire.

(Love is something easily set on fire.)

Oh, Lorca, you loved your country, but your country gored you on the horns of its bulls,
of its sacred beasts of cruel geometry, who knew nothing of the ritual that created them.

Can’t you love yourself and love your country and love the country that exists inside yourself?
Can’t you love the dirt and love the water and love the wind that leaves new pollen in the streets?
Can’t you love a man and love the church and love the candles that turn into burning pillars?

Passion is more than its fiery culmination. Lorca’s Spain was more than its murder.

Posted: 07.22.21

Jul 08

poem, visual/photos/art, fiction, essay, song, rant challenge: Create Challenges 21

ZoeBee

Words

Every single person on earth is the embodiment of a different word. How would a society like this function? What would you be?

Posted: 07.08.21

May 24

rant

liquidz

A concept of time.

I have come here to share and decipher things of philosophical interest to me, and hopefully to you. Things that I have considered for a long time, but have only recently began to truly analyze. To begin I will explain a philosophical idea, that I consider and truly believe to be factual in every concept of reality.
These two rules are a fact that determine many of my more complex philosophies:
There is only one possible future, and there is no possible way to change that fact.

Posted: 05.24.21

May 20

rant

EverlastingWaves

writers block

I want to write.
And yet here I am, deleting the same line over,
and over,
and over.
It feels like sometimes, words simply...
f
l
o
w
from us.
And the other times, words come to a
s
t
o
p.
We can't control it. Maybe others can. I can't. It's something so uncontrollable, and yet so unnoticeable. When the words flow, writing is so simple.
I have a friend who says she can't write. I have multiple friends like that, who spend hours on a small haiku because they can't break that dam that stops the flow of thoughts and words and everything in between.
The dam can be repaired, of course. But sometimes, once broken and rebuilt, it's easier to break again.

Posted: 05.20.21

Apr 19

rant

roxyforthewin

Remarkable: A Reflection on the Twenty First Century

If I was born in the fourteen hundreds, I might have been burned as a witch. As a queer, mentally ill, autistic Jewess, there would have been no chance for me. If I was born in the sixteenth century I might not have lived very long, for I was born three weeks early and had jaundice. In the 1800s, I might have been comtitted to a sanatorium and left to wander empty halls alone and more crazy then when I started out. In the '50s, I might have recived an ice pick lobotomy at the hands of some uncaring doctor and left with my frontal love scrambled. In the '70s, I would have lived through the passing of the American's with Disablities Act and how disabled people had to fight and fight and fight to ahve their voices heard.

Posted: 04.19.21

Apr 16

poem, rant

The second mouse

Stability

The present we live in is as unstable as the future we walk into.
One second, one minute, one look, one scratch, one wave of emotions different and I wouldn’t be here.
Everything has been set up so beautifully yet horrifyingly perfect so that we experience this second in the moment for each of us. And that scares the shit out of me.
What happens if I look the wrong way, forget my keys, look at my phone?
We play a game of Russian Roulette with a million guns already shot a million times, and we do so willingly to the point we’ve forgotten the bullets even there
and I don’t know if that’s a blessing or a curse

Posted: 04.16.21

Apr 15

rant challenge: Nostalgia

Morgan D

Younger me nostalgia

When I was a younger child I used to get up every morning on the weekends and watch the show Courage The Cowardly Dog. Now that I’m older I know that it was quite disturbing and I have no idea why I liked it so much. If I was given the chance to watch it again I probably would but I might not like it as much. It is about Courage the dog who has to survive all of these weird scenarios. The one I remember the most is when courage and his owners were transported into the painting at a painting museum. Anyway I miss the show and might watch it again.

Posted: 04.15.21

Apr 05

poem, opinion, rant challenge: Repeated

Roses

Hate Worthy For The Gods

We were made for the gods, for petty entertainment.
We were made for the gods, we fight their battles.

They will laugh their shallow laughs,
watch in amusement of our blood baths.
We were made for the gods, sculpted and shaped.
We died for the gods, in an attempt to escape.
We were made for the gods, and learned to hate.
but
mortal wars are far worse
disagreement becomes a curse.
fatalities and crying mothers
all because of hating others.

human hate.
limp on a puppet string, dangling from perpetual power.

How I wish it would stop.

Posted: 04.05.21

Apr 03

rant

Geri

The World Wants

Snoopy’s obsessed with his French girls, and Clario wants Sofia. Jane pines for Bingley, and Trump always needs more. Gandhi strove for peace, Eve a fruit. Slaves want freedom, and birds need wings. Lucy chases Schroder and Romeo loves Juliet. The ocean needs a shore and a shore needs the ocean. The hills need the valley and the valley needs the hills. We need the world but the world doesn’t need us. We want space but space doesn’t want us. We need each other but we push each other away. Killers bring Death but Death is their downfall. Mirrors show reality but reality shatters. Poets need words and words are made for them. We want what we can’t have and take for granted what we do. We come together only to break, and break only to come together. Time tears and time heals. We search for the truth but we lie. We live only to die. We laugh only to cry and cry only to laugh. We live only to die, we live only to die.

Posted: 04.03.21

Mar 31

rant

IceGalaxy

screaming in my head

i just sent a message
to someone who i can't say the name of
because they hurt me
and now i'm screaming
because i can't talk to them
and no one knows i sent a message
so i'm in a full-blown panic
because i'm scared they hate me.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Posted: 03.31.21

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