List: Transgender

Poems about the emotional and physical unrealities of being transgendered.

• X + X = Why Not?

  to sleep within her layers
  

  35 lines, 4 comments, on May 22 11:33 AM. In Contemporary, Transgender
• friction

  they held their secrets intimate,

  44 lines, 5 comments, on May 16 1:53 PM. In Contemporary
• image: freezing a slice of air

  of a morning
  these quiet stones bleed faith-

  25 lines, 12 comments, on Mar 29 6:35 PM. In Contemporary
• dream of self

  Come the dawn,
  spider webs and dreams

  54 lines, 8 comments, on Mar 28 12:07 PM. In Contemporary
• core

  wide awake and dreaming-

  26 lines, 6 comments, on Mar 25 1:03 AM. In Contemporary
• push

  the mid-wives agree:

  42 lines, 7 comments, on Mar 22 1:13 AM. In Contemporary
• night rising

  50 lines, 8 comments, on Mar 21 11:35 AM. In Contemporary
• so soft for all their weight

  a fissure grows,

  25 lines, 7 comments, on Mar 16 11:03 PM. In Contemporary
• of geometry and abstract art

  the geometry of her skin can be fashioned

  30 lines, 6 comments, on Mar 7 4:45 PM. In Contemporary
• this sky is merciless

  54 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 7 1:57 AM. In Contemporary
• raining over cotton fields that never were

  74 lines, 6 comments, on Mar 6 4:06 PM. In Contemporary
• childhood, age 7

  21 lines, 7 comments, on Jan 25 9:02 AM. In Contemporary
• Vampires inside the Sun

  There are vampires inside
  the sun.

  36 lines, 5 comments, on Jan 24 1:27 AM. In Contemporary
• these nipples would salute if they had hands

  50 lines, 18 comments, on Jan 16 9:09 AM. In Contemporary
• Stained Glass Butterfly

  Some mornings at the chapel's
  Mirror, I catch a stained glass

  30 lines, 7 comments, on Jan 8 12:09 PM. In Contemporary, Transgender
• the moon keeps secrets well

  winter is not sad, just empty

  56 lines, 11 comments, on Jan 5 2:21 AM. In Contemporary
• Pivot

  Cold and tired, this winter is careful with light.

  52 lines, 8 comments, on Jan 4 4:05 PM. In Contemporary
• Taboo

  23 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 2 12:48 PM. In Contemporary
• Possession by Gypsy

  39 lines, 11 comments, on Dec 21 10:02 PM 2007. In Contemporary
• A snow angel inverts

  as thawed flesh stands.
  A glance back to cookie-cutter

  16 lines, 10 comments, on Dec 19 12:03 AM 2007. In Contemporary
• All Silk Eats Its Own

  26 lines, 9 comments, on Dec 13 10:25 PM 2007. In Contemporary
• Bile on your Shoes

  Bright shadows take turns to stagger across this room,

  28 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 11 2:24 AM 2007. In Contemporary
• Dancing over Blue

  26 lines, 10 comments, on Dec 10 11:07 AM 2007. In Contemporary
• ripe

  41 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 8 1:01 AM 2007. In Contemporary
• Russian Dolls

  A Russian doll wears her masks layered. Honesty reveals a deeper face,

  40 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 7 11:51 PM 2007. In Contemporary
• Reflections by Pagan Light

  Her skin becomes woad, pigments painted

  36 lines, 7 comments, on Dec 7 10:17 PM 2007. In Contemporary
• life between moments of pink and black

  43 lines, 18 comments, on Nov 30 9:05 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Transgender, Loss
• stocktake in chamber

  In this quiet room of praise and counting coin, a lady waits

  41 lines, 8 comments, on Nov 29 8:14 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Transgender
• we are all bad poetry

  When water is less fluid than bone
  and clockwise hands hold us

  55 lines, 6 comments, on Nov 28 9:28 PM 2007. In Contemporary
• stones cast at water

  Deep fingers cup pools of missing
  flesh and silence-

  42 lines, 9 comments, on Nov 27 10:27 AM 2007. In Contemporary
• climbing ember of unborn tree

  Seeds do not combust-
  there is no sense of flame,

  49 lines, 8 comments, on Nov 20 2:40 AM 2007. In Contemporary
• by the sound of white, recycled light

  57 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 17 3:35 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Transgender
• forge

  &n

  24 lines, 8 comments, on Nov 17 10:53 AM 2007. In Contemporary
• in the company of women; still looking in

  sometimes speech-bubbles hover

  26 lines, 8 comments, on Nov 16 11:31 AM 2007. In Contemporary, Dark, Humour
• wisdom found between stop and start

  this absess
  fed between

  40 lines, 23 comments, on Nov 11 9:23 AM 2007. In Contemporary
• nomadic

  it happens
  as dreams and distractions

  37 lines, 11 comments, on Nov 3 3:16 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Transgender
• stubble

  she nibbles remorse
  with tiny teeth,

  31 lines, 16 comments, on Nov 2 7:23 AM 2007. In Contemporary, Transgender
• heart-shaped womb

  a womb gives warmth

  22 lines, 7 comments, on Oct 31 6:08 AM 2007. In Contemporary
• chalk marks of a dying boy

  28 lines, 16 comments, on Oct 17 3:51 AM 2007. In Contemporary, Transgender
• candy says ...

  125 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 7 9:50 AM 2007. In Adult, Personal, Thoughts, Prose, Humor, Life, Transgender
• butterfly totem

  carry my murmuring pause
  tucked into your wind,

  38 lines, 27 comments, on Sep 5 1:40 PM 2007. In Life, Hope, Struggle, Spiritual, Transgender
• sticky with style

  46 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 16 11:28 AM 2007. In Adult, Humor, Transgender, Lesbian
• dutch ceramic

  her leaking lips ablate -
  a blur of why spills hollow;

  50 lines, 16 comments, on Aug 6 10:38 AM 2007. In Personal, Spiritual, Confusion, Hope, Transgender
• fractures in self resonate

  fractures in self resonate,
  sealed

  60 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 3 1:28 PM 2007. In Dark, Life, Pain, Transgender
• Rambutan Girl

  this Rambutan Girl has bits of male scattered

  28 lines, 7 comments, on Aug 2 9:12 AM 2007. In Thoughts, Society, Transgender, Nature, Spiritual
• Unclean

  It's all whispers of dirty secrets / & sidewise glances / [ unmaking layers /  

  66 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 31 2:12 PM 2007. In Society, Dark, Hope, Transgender, Judgement
• shimmer-lost

  father - how we walked salt / flats, guided by / your vigilance / each lost /

  48 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 31 9:42 AM 2007. In Life, Spiritual, Recollection, Bittersweet, Transgender
• Buried In Jasmine

  mother - how you climb each / nerve, drowning me / among your perfume stain / [ it hovers round me still / &

  57 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 29 1:57 PM 2007. In Life, Nature, Spiritual, Transgender, Transition, Change
• Midsummer Dreaming [ Double Tanka ]

  Midsummer dreaming - / cold light breaks a reverie / of transformation, / slid

  23 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 29 1:52 PM 2007. In Life, Spiritual, Pain, Transgender, Confusion
• flesh worn within

  27 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 29 10:17 AM 2007. In Society, Adult, Life, Pain, Transgender
• while he slept [ she lived his dream ]

  I. / last nights' garden spread its green / in

  60 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 6 5:15 AM 2007. In Pain, Sad, Hope, Life, Transgender
• My Rare Bloods' Chatter

  I claw deeper than my rare bloods' chatter - / seeking tissue warmth; torn inside-outside; / a cat-caged rat? -- a string stained tatter?! ... /

  30 lines, 2 comments, on May 31 6:08 PM 2007. In Pain, Confusion, Transgender, Dysphoria, Angst, Dark
• in lip and lash

  I. / hooked by edge of sharp - / sensations walk though dirt of spin

  57 lines, 4 comments, on May 20 10:02 AM 2007. In Personal, Life, Hope, Transgender, Fragments of Personality
• of umbral uncertainty

  I. / she is umbral - / stealing through landscapes / once luminous, left /

  60 lines, 6 comments, on May 20 6:45 AM 2007. In Personal, Hope, Sad, Spiritual, Transition
• looking forward to Kate

  35 lines, 2 comments, on May 19 10:06 AM 2007. In Personal, Adult, Fear, Transgender, Self-Acceptance
• paper lanterns and unlit origami

  / never content with ordinary lies / she falls into short exhalations / &nb

  23 lines, 12 comments, on May 1 4:52 AM 2007. In Life, Dark, Thoughts, Sad, Pain, Confusion
• a blur within an echo of myself

  
  

  77 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 21 1:29 PM 2007. In Angst, Personal, Transgendered, Dark, Humor
• 5 faces of unshame

   
  chalk sets

  23 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 17 2:36 PM 2007. In Society, GBLT Rights
• a geometry of feeling sketched in wonder

  I was sketched in wonder once:
  straight curves and rounded lines

  57 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 15 1:41 PM 2007. In Love, Denial, Transgender, Regret
• frogs in throat

  38 lines, 6 comments, on Apr 4 5:55 AM 2007. In Adult, Dark, Sad, Transgender, Love
• the brief history of her sexual ambiguity's demise

  75 lines, 9 comments, on Mar 29 5:23 PM 2007. In Adult, Society, Life, Trasgender, Transition
• Bouncing on Concrete (Rework in Progress)

  
  

  35 lines, 20 comments, on Mar 29 12:19 PM 2007. In Society, Life, Transgender, Denial
• The Tangle of String

  
  she fled -

  54 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 22 4:30 AM 2007. In Society, Life, Transgenderism
• Flowering

  no man's land:
  arid ground cracking,

  5 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 21 4:28 AM 2007. In Spiritual, Life, Transgender
• Boy or Girl?

   
   

  14 lines, 7 comments, on Mar 20 3:20 AM 2007. In Society, Life, Transgenderism

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