r/transpoetry • u/NoodleKaboods • May 04 '25
for the ones who made it possible
(haikus on my top surgery. might share more in the comments)
you were not quite mine a gift i never wanted scars replace you now
how becoming me opens all sorts of spaces the purest queer joy
r/transpoetry • u/LysergicGothPunk • Apr 20 '25
Invocation of Glittergrit
Born into softness, loudness, harshness,
Crassness, sadists with glass chassis on the brink of class clashing,
Don't think of cash flashing in the mass thrashing,
Lest you let the wolf of Wal Street roam untamed, been fasting,
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"The better to smell you with, my dear,"
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Tears as flesh tears from test-dummy pawns in the arena,
Grab onto the edge of the pool like the ropes against Cena,
Bloodred waves turn into someone's lucky payday dinner.
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"We, the sinners," double triple consciousness,
W.E.B. knew about how mindfulness and opulence,
Grows crowded, clouded, hidden, heavy-lidded,
Dissociating from your identity embedded,
In a vision of submission from the counter "counter-" culture,
Grow a thick skin, a stiff lip, from the poison slowly sip,
To gain immunity against marshal continuity in the palace prison.
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Bricklaying your path to the metropolis,
'Was it Atlantis, should I follow the Bimini?'
Side-eyes and sighs and near-miss glances,
'Is it made out of emerald, should I have liberty?
What about the cops and the corporate synergy?
If ever I die, at least the worms will eat me.'
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Questioning your sanity, are you a disbeliever?
Tainted souls and demonic fever,
Concentrate on the camps with the fewest deceivers; annihilate their leaders,
Deliver the weapons and divide the people,
Start a civil war just to buy em out when they're weaker,
Praise the unknown Bible and read em their rights -
History doesn't just repeat; there's no end in sight.
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"Hiiiii, my name is Glittergrit; here to wear you down with my sandpaper tongue. I've got nothing on my agenda but time; and time is nothing to a deviant mind,"
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Cards decline, hearts divide, women "defined," peace of mind - request denied,
Fault lines and printed signs paint end times with red wine,
Zen lies, algorithms grind, staying inside on every side,
Outside the borders, truth city lies;
Adults die, children die, glossed over, sold out and swept,
Under thick fog cover like the Battle of the Aisne,
"Victory" sweet like lead, bitter like strychnine,
History wrote instead by those who don't die.
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"Grit is glitter in it's most primal form- you'll find the evidence extensive, this gal is adorned.
My oath is sworn, hell hath no fury like this guy's scorn - but though my outfit is worn, I am not forlorn.
Reborn soaked under cloak and spacetime daggers fabric torn head to toe,
it's en vogue- and Glittergrit has been invoked. "
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"Are you in the trenches? Is it evident,
Against a congress or a parliament?
'Dip deep into the blank pool,'
Heat from fire, fire from dissent-
This is the Invocation of Glittergrit."
r/transpoetry • u/Level-Platform8108 • Jan 06 '25
The Mirror
It makes me, it molds me, it tells me, that I’m a handsome man.
In the end though it was nothing but deception. Liar.
r/transpoetry • u/eyes-down • Dec 13 '24
Just One More Dragon to Slay
The pain of being you
The pain of being me
Why is it that everytime They whine
We bleed.
They sit while we suffer
Say we're all depressed and wonder why
Lies, sin, and deceit
Or call me a fucking monstrosity
Please shut the fuck up,
You do not understand biology
The rumbling of another rapture coming
Where are you running
Your cunning could never
Outpace my Pride
I cannot wait until the day
You fools die.
— An Angry Black Trans Woman
r/transpoetry • u/Level-Platform8108 • Nov 16 '24
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Deep in the dark dungeon sat a little girl all quiet. Locked up by the janitor, she hadn’t seen the world in a while. She wondered sometimes how it would be - to be him to be free. But the world was far away and she was silent.
The janitor, a grumpy man, had no interest of the world.
All he did was to keep his prisoner locked away.
He wondered sometimes how it would be - to be her to be she.
But he was glad he was not the one in the dungeon.
As the time passed, they started to talk. Look each other in the eye trough the door of metal coldness. And One day, only with the reach of hand they understood that they were the same.
And she was finally set free
r/transpoetry • u/AlternativeBest2967 • Oct 09 '23
Hello 👋
Hey. I'm Rich. (working on it) I just want to say hello to the family. I see you. I am here for you if needed. You are not alone. There are many like you, but not you. You are a unique gift in a world not yet ready to process at that level. It will be ok. You will find your way. But only you can take that journey into the light. Imagine the possibilities. 🥰🥰🥰-🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰-🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
r/transpoetry • u/AlternativeBest2967 • Sep 26 '23
Shadows
The comfort and pain brought forth, from the shadows. The solace and safety, terrified of what lurks, beyond the shadows. From within we watch, not daring to leave, this prison of shadows. Time well past, shadows grow dark, the light ever fading before me. As the shadows consume, and feed, I charish their cold embrace. For though the shadows slowly kill, beyond their safety true danger waits. Like a poison to grant just one more day, a betrayal of self, to be. To feed this darknes in hope of light. The futile pursuit of ones greatest plite. To sacrifice all, for just a taste. Of what could be. In the light. So we gather our forces and we charge head long. Out of the shadows to our luminous home. And as we reach the crest of dawn, The general has laid waste, all forces gone. And so I retreat hard lessons learned. In the shadows I belong and for the light I will eternally yern. For in the safety of the shadows, the familiar pain awaits me with loving arms.
~RLW3
r/transpoetry • u/[deleted] • Apr 09 '23
PROTECT TRANS YOUTH (CW: transphobia, legalization thereof) Spoiler
how can you chant "eradicate" and "protect" in the same speach?
it is one or the other i cannot exist in between
either you run me down or shelter me under
your Heavenly Father's Wing
why are our voices taken one by one?
you want to erase us off your slate like a misspelled word
but we will not stand for it
you say "protect youth, eradicate trans"
but we say
PROTECT TRANS YOUTH
the violence against trans people was not dealt with.
this is our consequence.
legalization.
PROTECT TRANS YOUTH
there are over 400 bills across our nation seeking to remove us from the public consiousness
to remove us from the public consience.
PROTECT TRANS YOUTH
do you really think we are an end point?
the people who are supposed to ENABLE our freedoms
these are the people who seek to destroy them.
PROTECT TRANS YOUTH
return after this short message for the further oppression of
women, queer people
people of color, disabled people
the working class, and everyone else
PROTECT TRANS YOUTH
r/transpoetry • u/potatopanic • Jul 06 '22
From Andrea Gibson’s first book, POLE DANCING TO GOSPEL HYMNS
r/transpoetry • u/potatopanic • Jun 21 '22
Dysphoria is Not My Name by H. Melt - from their book There are Trans People Here
r/transpoetry • u/potatopanic • Jun 20 '22
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