#aro poet

[trickstersaint]

i want to introduce you all to a project that is very close to my heart... or lack of one. anyway. for anyone who has ever wanted to play a poem. i'd like you to meet aromanticism

(link opens itch.io - she'll run on html in your browser! please be nice to her!)

[vulpinesaint]

do you have any aro poetry recs? or places you (general you) can find some?

i've been thinking about this ask for a while (part of why it took so long to get back to you) and while i don't currently have any recs or more widely-known aro poets to point you to, i do have places to find work within the community!

obviously i always have my personal poetry about aromanticism!

i have a tag for aspec art on @knifearo (#aspec gallery), and when i come across aro poems i put them in there :)

@aroworlds has a post with a collection of aro and loveless poetry :)

the tags #aro poetry, #aro poet, and #aromantic poetry are all fairly well-populated on here!

as far as other community-sourced poetry, allpoetry.com has a fair amount of user-written aromantic poems to go through.

my current favorite poems that have nothing to do with romance (but aren't particularly about aromanticism either): not horses by natalie shapero / monet refuses the operation by lisel mueller / salvation by keaton st. james ( @boykeats ) / cut by sylvia plath

[imgayandiwrite]

Bloodlust & lies: 

I could say that every time I hear a love song I think of you, but that would be fake. A simple lie. 

The songs speak of a draw to someone else, they speak of love.

 Yet, darling, I find myself going back to the quotes about love; 

How they speak of tasting the flavor of you, but I don't think of sweet kisses. 

I think of canines because we have teeth for a reason. 

When I say I love the taste of your love, I am not talking about your lipstick or perfume.

I am thinking of teeth on the skin of your body, I am thinking of the taste of matalics and iron. 

When I tell you that I think you're sweet I am not talking about personality because sweetness you may taste of candy,  but you are bittersweet at best. 

Your blood is that of venom, so I'll bite first because my teeth are sharper than yours. 

This is not love, I won't tell you that, but it is that of Blood. 

We were formed out of bloodlust and lies and I won't back down first. 

[trickstersaint]

an aromantic person is someone who (fill in the blank here) // april 10 2024

[trickstersaint]

and other words for "aromantic" by bracken valentine // published in the Spring 2025 edition of the 318 Journal

[trickstersaint]

swear on it // october 2 2024

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aromanticism // april 29 2022

[trickstersaint]

it's just not the same, i'm saying // april 18 2023