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a WLW poetry collective; children of the Tenth Muse; links

[deconsecration-deactivated20170]

i’m a good person i don’t deserve to be mistaken for a heterosexual

[april]

im very glad that women

[quantumshade]

the year is 1347. my husband just died from “the plague” and i’m moving in with my female “companion” in a secluded mansion in the european country. we have no kids and two dogs and we seem unusually close. i call her my wife but historians call her my best friend. little does everyone know, she’s both.

[kibberswrites]

Indie Blu(e) Publishing is currently accepting submissions of poetry and art for This is What Love Looks Like. Poetry by Women Smitten with Women. This Anthology will celebrate love, attachments, and attraction between women. Submit up to five pieces with no charge for submission. The deadline to submit is June 16, 2019. Visit this link for more information and to submit your work!

[sapphosquad]

Prompt: plastic flowers

Store bought or found on the floor

Of a shitshow or a school dance

Spot the difference

Bouquets at Vegas weddings

Caught by bridesmaids forever

Caught in the infinitum of

Always the bridesmaid but never the 

Brides are like flowers

Picking and plucking until they find love

Loves me loves me not loves me

Lots of thoughts, second and otherwise

Like knickknacks in the racks of my

Brain-dead, but still picking flowers

Found on the ground

Wound in the crown of the

Queen of teenage infinity

[eroscestlavie]

HEY ALL: my beautiful girlfriend made a zine about my cat (who loves to eat paper) and our big gay love (which has been blessed by the aforementioned paper-eating cat.) She’s a student working and going to school full time so if any of you want to support her by checking out her store and ordering a zine, you should! This zine is available for the low low price of five bucks!

Find it here:

https://www.lowdowndirtyrotten.com/listing/643383436/this-cat-will-eat-your-documents-and

And, since tumblr has prevented all posts with links from showing up in searches, if you like the idea of this zine and want to boost, that helps so much! 

[plz-plz-me-deactivated20190117]

Maybe I’m really gay but the thought of going to a pumpkin patch with a cute girl and picking out a pumpkin to carve together sounds like a 15/10 recommendation. Idk tho.

[lemonzmac]

🌞🌻🌝🌼✨💫🍍

[sapphosquad]

Week Three Prompts

i. Friday night blues

ii. Coca Cola tears

iii. Teddy bear hearts

[femmociraptor]

“Femme Fatale” by Susan Kane

[From The Femme Mystique, ed. Lesléa Newman]

[arugulalover]

summer’s ending | by c.b. 8.15.18

for @sapphosquad prompt “doe eyes”

[sapphosquad]

Week Two Prompts

i. Entangled

ii. Plastic flowers

iii. Ska band Polaroids

[lesbijkas]

inspired by this week’s 1st & 3rd prompt 

[sapphosquad]

Week One Prompts

i. Doe Eyes

ii. Swallowtail butterflies

iii. Crystalline

[castalyne]

ROSES ARE RED

I LIKE LONG WALKS ON BEACHES,

[damazcuz]

Euphoria+: LGBT+ Poetry Zine Application

For LGBT+ poets to write about their lives, love, and happiness.

Calling LGBT+ poets! I am seeking 15-20 poets to write for Euphoria+, an upcoming zine. The theme is LGBT life, love, and happiness. Any LGBT+ poet can apply! 

The zine will be funded through pre-orders or crowdfunding. I’m hoping to gather enough interest that we can sell ~100 copies. I’d like to create some merch to go with the zine, but that depends on how successful the applications process is, and how participants feel about making merch. Participants would split the profits of the zine and related items.

Overall this project is still just a baby bud! I’d like to release the zine by the end of 2018, but that all depends on this getting some attention and me getting a lot of applicants.

SO, if you’d like to buy or participate in a zine of LGBT love and happiness by LGBT+ people, please reblog, share, send to your gay friends, and apply! I have also set up a Tumblr and Twitter account for this project! @euphoriaplus on both!  Follow and interact! 

All LGBT+ people welcome!*

(*No Terfs MAPS or nazis, obviously.)

Applications close 8/31, selection process begins 9/1.

(Cover mockup!)

[boxdyed]

IV. The forth time we got lost in the mountains we pulled the world apart at the seams / You stomped your feet and I dug my heels in until we ground the whole damn thing to dust / Honey stick your finger in / Lick it clean / Steal a car to die in / When people turn up Gone in the mountains it’s no one’s fault / Not Girls not Gods not Landslides / The worst thing that could happen is blacklung and that’s my favorite poem so you could at least try to make this fucking romantic for me/ I sat with my knees on your chest and begged you to start from the beginning when this was still home.

V. The fifth time we got lost in the mountains the sun forgot to rise / Or maybe she didn’t she just knew better by then / Sometimes it’s so dark there’s only one thing to blame named heartbeat / so I did and I do and I will / You should have called me beautiful that night / it would have been so easy with your mouth full of white water / and my crooked crown of mouse bones in the moonlight / I didn’t scream and I didn’t cry / you just got bored with no heat to starve by.

VI. The sixth time we got lost in the mountains the ribs of the world just sighed / I stared at your feet and told you there’s no place I’d rather be / than the guts of Appalachia and perfume for gasoline / Maybe someday I should offer to drive / I’ve only been learning my whole life / You write in the dirt “something’s gotta give” and I remember your sad eyes the first time / Happy saints day / I love you / this just isn’t what forever was supposed to mean.

-The beginning of this poem was lost in the fire.

Inspiration drawn from @bisasukes and @julykings