Tea

writing about sapphic women and haunted houses • #indigenousart • #vss365 • 🌈

[Tea @soteariffic]

Do not mistake the blackness inside of me for emptiness or fear. I am made up of ashes from fires that burned so brightly they gathered the entire spectrum of color to take with them as they fizzled out. And I will light on fire again. #vss365

[Tea @soteariffic]

Seven days ago, I cramped and bled.
That’d be the simplest terms for it -
but it was so much more than. I flushed
my dreams, masked as large clots.
I birthed pieces of you, seven months
before “you” were even recognizable.
And now, the #space in my uterus is
haunted. #vss365

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[Tea @soteariffic]

Okay @Netflix, I don’t think the buffering is my fault… you can stop “testing” internet now. #NetflixFight

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

For far too long, our nation has encouraged one path to success: a four-year college degree.

As president, I will get rid of the unnecessary degree requirement for federal jobs.

[Tea @soteariffic]

I've fallen
off the planet.
A fire once burned
inside my throat,
turned my words
into weapons and
warmth.
flames now #extinct,
shiver among these
outer worlds
places I don't know -
but I've never been
scared of rebirth.
I will burn
again.
#vss365

[Tea @soteariffic]

@JessyBear2555 I did too at 23, after 7 years with them. But looking back on it, it started the best, most exciting adventure of my life.

It hurts and sucks to lose someone you love, but I hope you explore every niche of yourself and take time to imagine what you want your new future to be.

[Scene Queen @scenequeenrocks]

Lol sometimes I forget that women don’t automatically know I’m 💅🏻 and then I’m casually talking to a man and they’re like “what’s going on here?” thinking I wanna steal their man and I have to be like hey I know the sorority attire would lead you to believe this but ur bf is ugly

[Tea @soteariffic]

on your birthday I imagined
the oceans we were gonna sail
to get away somewhere you could
love me out in the open, wouldn't hide me.

on your birthday, I pretended
it had been a #kraken underneath us,
but even a monster would have been kinder
than another day with you.
#vss

[Tea @soteariffic]

the sky lit aflame
and #motes of ash, ember, and irridescent colors
danced in its wake.

now that you're gone
this ethereal shattering of the universe
feels like your way
of saying hello.

- is this where we meet again?
#vss365

[A. A. Rubin @TheSurrealAri]

My fellow writers, continuing yesterday’s theme, we have another tiny, clever poem, this one by Margaret Atwood.

“you fit into me
like a hook into an eye

a fish hook
an open eye”

Your Oct 12 #vss365 #Prompt is #Eye.

[Tea @soteariffic]

Her droning was the worst
an #endless screeching sound
plucked from her lungs
and shucked onto my plate
like something worth devouring
as if I’d taste anything else
of you - as if I hadn’t memorialized
the rotting stench of you already.
take your screams.
drown in them.

#vss365

[Scene Queen @scenequeenrocks]

Putting “professional hot girl” on my resume

[Tea @soteariffic]

Watching the Gilmore Girls mausoleum episode and remembering that my ex husband’s grandma gifted us grave plots for our wedding. 💀

[Tea @soteariffic]

ocean lapping at the condo
my grandparents owned
on the #east coast,
until they moved to AZ
to retire, to lay to rest
I wonder if Grammie missed
dolphins in the morning
or if cactus candy soothed her
instead. I wonder if I had
gone to her funeral
would it have soothed my grief?

[Ian Kitley @IanKitley]

home
I'm supposed to have one
but
I don't know
none of them feel right
whether where I am
or where I came from
north or #south of the equator
is it me
just not knowing where I fit
or something else
too deep inside
which cannot decide
what to be
#vss365 #poetry #poem #vsspoem

[Tea @soteariffic]

You seem to have me confused with some warm-blooded damsel in distress. 🌱🌿 (hello from DragonCon!)

[han !! (they/them) @hannahvburrows]

Listen pal, NO-ONE knows who the “you” is in my poems. not even me

[Taylor Rae 🦊 @mostlytaylor]

you ever just sit there & wonder what it's like to be neurotypical & remember deadlines/what day it is, or make calculated gradual progress, or actively plan for your own future instead of existing in chaotic bursts

yeah me either 🛹 do kickflips over ur existential dread

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[Tea @soteariffic]

she hides me in #oleander bushes
flowers pushed in my face, sickly
sweet and just as vicious as she.
I overhear the conversation
"No, I barely know her." another flower
"No, I never loved her." inside my teeth
"No, no, no." just wreck me -
replace the sting from my heart.
#vss365