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Scheduling Death

Ever just sat around wasting time because it's too soon to leave for your appointment but too late to start a new task, so you just kinda end up staring out a window or mindlessly scrolling through social media?

When I learned that my breast cancer had metastatised, a meeting was scheduled with death.

Now I can't stop waiting for my appointment.

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#cancer #terminal #free verse #poets on tumblr #original poem

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joy-the-poet · 7 days

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Dramatic

I will never annoy you again

I'll never eat, laugh, cry, sing, talk, or breathe

Too much

For you

Ever

Again

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#free verse #original poem #short poem #queer poets on tumblr

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joy-the-poet · 14 days

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When I met the Dragonlady, she was a force of kindness I was unfamiliar with. A strange social landscape of healthy acceptance and understanding.

I'm grateful for her everyday.

Thanks for adopting me you magnificent madwoman.

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#Dragonladyjjstar #poets on tumblr

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joy-the-poet · 20 days

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Poetry and Cat Videos

My poetry will likely never be eloquently read to rooms of language scholars,

Or gathered by greedy publishers as they proclaim a poet's worth,

as if it's possible to become the arbiter of value judgements.

No.

My poetry is for my fellow insomniacs.

My people of the "Other".

Our faces faintly illuminated,

by blue light streams,

in the small hours of the night.

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#original poets on tumblr #free verse #poetry #queer poets on tumblr #short poem #sapphic poetry

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joy-the-poet · 1 month

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My Brother's have not read "Little Women"

By Scarlett Curtis

We sailed to Treasure Island

Became Lord of the Flies

We saw ourselves in Holden C.

Damaged, sad and wise

We gave our time to Oliver

Our hearts to Spiderman

Followed Charlie to the factory

Took flight with Peter Pan

Your words are universal

Your characters are true

Your stories transcend gender

But women write books too

#feminism #poetry #handwriting #calligraphy

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joy-the-poet · 2 months

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Unlikely home owners

As a child, my Dad hated noisy footsteps, so I learned to walk on my tip-toes.

I stomp around my place like own the joint. Because I do. Own it. I never thought I would own a home after the GFC (yes, some of us living relics were there).

But thanks to generational wealth, I had life insurance. So, yeah, here I am. Stomping around my house.

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#queer poets on tumblr #Advanced Breast Cancer

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joy-the-poet · 2 months

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Updated with video

It's nice here, can I stay a little longer?

With you

That's where I want to be

Wrapped in your warm embrace

Soothed by your gentle soul

Heaven.

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*Sorry for the bad framing*

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joy-the-poet · 2 months

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I like it 🤩🏳️‍🌈

I haven't seen this version anywhere so I made one!

#lesbian #trans #Fuck TERFs

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joy-the-poet · 2 months

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Unproductive

I'm the product of a society

trying desperately to smooth away

My sharp edges

Only to find an angry panda at my core

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#free verse #minimalist punctuation #short poetry #queer poets on tumblr

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joy-the-poet · 2 months

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Kids

Please know

You are loved

And, wherever you may roam

You have a safe place

to come back to

No questions asked

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#free verse #poetry #poets on tumblr #original poem

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joy-the-poet · 2 months

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Small Talk

People love to talk

Their words, unconsidered

Arbitrary

So many fear silence

But without the quiet, one cannot hear their heart

And "It is only in the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." *

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#free verse #minimalist punctuation #original poem #poets on tumblr #poetry #little prince

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joy-the-poet · 2 months

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Ancient Cat Lady

I remember being young and feeling sorry for her

Now, I am her

Your pity, however, is not needed

You see my ancient silhouette

Peaking out of windows

And suppose that I long for freedom

That I weep with loneliness

What you fail to realise is, I don't long for your piles of gold

I just want you to fuck off so I can watch birds in the eucalypts

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#birdwatching #loneliness #free verse #poets on tumblr #original poem #minimalist punctuation

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joy-the-poet · 2 months

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You may see nothing wrong.

I see a country so crippled by greed that it's failing to meet the bare minimum of food, shelter, and water to the masses.

Poisoning us.

Then blaming the individual.

Who gives a flying F if Tay Tay is using her private jet as a mobile home, when oil and gas companies are spewing pollution all over the joint?

#taylor swift #climate change

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joy-the-poet · 2 months

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my first video edit!

Blocks

Kneeling at your feet

your pedestal,

under scrutiny,

was pyrite

Earthed

Surrounded by it

Upon high

you only saw dirt

So, I made garden walls

Protected my sanctuary

one block at a time

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joy-the-poet · 2 months

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Valentine's Day is too often used as a day for big romantic gestures, only to excuse a year's worth of bad behaviour.

#fuck valentine's day #toxic masculinity

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joy-the-poet · 3 months

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joy-the-poet · 3 months

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It's 3am

I rest to the gentle rhythm of your breath

Your presence in the darkness

A treasured gift of love

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