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Your Sorrow is Not Your Own, by Angela Harger
What can you do when your bone-deep sorrow is turned against you by the very ones who covenanted to mourn with those who mourn? When they...
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- Jun 7
- 2 min
Free, by Zoë
i. cover up. you shouldn’t show your knees, your shoulders, or your chest. otherwise, you run the risk of making men uncomfortable. and...
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qmwproject
- Jun 7
- 1 min
The Shadow, Anon
The shadow follows me everywhere in the form of a black cat. Lonely and desperate. Longing for attention. Sad and miserable. Soulless....
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qmwproject
- Mar 28
- 1 min
Rainbow Parade, by Sierra Larson
Let your light so shine A light on the hill Lit up in rainbow colors For the world to see All my life I was told it’s a sin To indulge...
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qmwproject
- Jan 18
- 2 min
"house // home," by anonymous
you’re homesick for a place that doesn’t exist— they call this hiraeth, a word which sounds all too pleasant for what it means— for what...
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qmwproject
- Jan 18
- 1 min
Not All Blood is Sacred, by A. Lux
It is 2 pm and my mind is loud I know only one way to silence it. I tear my skin apart, This skin that fits too tight I run the blade...
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qmwproject
- Sep 13, 2021
- 3 min
Fish, Anon
this is where everyone comes to meet their bird of paradise, the posters say in fine printed blood. you tremble. this is where everyone...
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qmwproject
- Sep 2, 2021
- 1 min
In Remembrance of His Body, Anon
If the church is the body of Christ, Then I am a sliver that the body slowly expelled. I think slivers want to stay in the body. Little...
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qmwproject
- Aug 31, 2021
- 2 min
Five Poems, The Wrong Order by Ari Glass
Poem Number 1: The Wrong Order They messed up my order, I'm not a girl. I must have someone else's body. The fit is all wrong, too tight...
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qmwproject
- Aug 6, 2021
- 1 min
snakes with hollow teeth, anon
if somehow, what I know in my gut to be true and what God has told me Himself speaking to my soul to be true ends up being a falsified...
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qmwproject
- Aug 2, 2021
- 8 min
Jubilation, by Kit Hompstead
I’m only seven when I hear it first. “My mom says that my uncle can’t come over anymore because he’s gay.” “What’s gay?” I rub the corner...
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qmwproject
- Jul 30, 2021
- 1 min
Both and Nothing, by Anon
“Mom, how do you know what gender a baby is?” She looked up from the dishes I didn’t like that look “Oh, moms just, know!” “But how?” And...
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qmwproject
- Jul 29, 2021
- 2 min
Hidden Truth, by Julie
I didn’t come out again this weekend. I defended people who do. I’m not really in the closet. Everyone who matters and most of the people...
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qmwproject
- Jun 2, 2021
- 1 min
Swimming Lessons, by Kerry Pray
I tried to write a sad poem because the ache had gone from my head to my chest and I Couldn’t remember why it was I’d decided to take a...
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qmwproject
- Apr 7, 2021
- 1 min
Elephants Worship the Moon, by Jaclyn Foster
Elephants worship the moon Or so I've been told, waving branches and boughs in their holy places. The moon never answers back, of course,...
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qmwproject
- Mar 28, 2021
- 1 min
Lilith, by Elle Mae
You would do anything for me, sure You never loved me the way I loved you You only love me when I'm gone He only loves me when I'm here...
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qmwproject
- Mar 26, 2021
- 1 min
Linear Time, Anon
A thousand years ago I stood on the passenger seat of your car, head through the skylight, arms high up in the darkness, hands waving at...
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qmwproject
- Mar 26, 2021
- 1 min
My Wish, by Sariah Starr
I wish I could understand it. I wish I could explain it. When he’s here the grief is overwhelming. The grief that it’s not her. The grief...
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qmwproject
- Aug 13, 2020
- 2 min
Subtle, Shifting Symmetry, by Merida
Her smile mirrors my emotion when I share my moments of joy that are mile markers in my struggle. She travels with me in and out of the...
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qmwproject
- Aug 13, 2020
- 2 min
My Crown of Glory, by Melissa King
I was born with my crown of glory A beautiful curly, kinky, queer mass of blackish-brown I was born with my crown of glory Its bounce,...
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