Absentia's Saved Poems

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TitlePoemPoet
Wild Geese

Wild Geese


You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will...

Mary Oliver
The Warden Whose Name is Depression

When the warden whose name is Depression
Makes a prison of your mind
And the walls are barred all around you
Mirroring all you've left behind

No matter how good your behavior
You will never get out on parole
Because the warden will never be...

Charena Hylton
Transphobia is unacceptable

I don't stand by transphobes....

Emily T Wright

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