[Archaeopteryx.]

Share this cat's favorite queer poem! Can be one you've made, or one you really like.

Ends July 25th at rollover (25th to 26th)

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[b]Username:[/b]
[b]Cat Name:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Rank:[/b]
[b]Clan:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Prompt:[/b]

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Name: Hyacinthblush
Gender: queer (he/they/it)
Rank: prowler
Clan: clan of the broken night
Description: black silver ticked tabby with low white
Age: 48 moons
Edits: [nr] accessories, expression [c] whiskers,
tooth [uc] long tail, mid fur, short ears
Owner: Vinson

[sweathie]

Username: sweathie
Cat Name: tickbite
Gender: nb (he/they/it)
Rank: warrior
Clan: bugclan
Age: 6 years
Prompt:
i choose to read this like a poem, but felix gonzalez-torres never explicitly claimed it as a poem. it was written in a letter to his lover who was dying of AIDS and was later immortalized in his piece, perfect lovers.

Don't be afraid of the clocks, they are our time, the time has been so generous to us. We imprinted time with the sweet taste of victory. We conquered fate by meeting at a certain time in a certain space. We are a product the time, therefore we give back credit were it is due: time.
We are synchronized, now forever.
I love you.

[Vinson]

Username: Vinson
Cat Name: Hyacinthblush
Gender: queer (he/they/it)
Rank: prowler
Clan: clan of the broken night
Age: 48 moons
Prompt:

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

“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 tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”

[nio]

Username: nio
Cat Name: Gentlebreeze
Gender: nonbinary, they/them
Rank: knight
Clan: bayguild
Age: 41m
Prompt: a fragment from a Sappho poem -
“sweet mother, i cannot weave –
slender aphrodite has overcome me
with longing for a girl”

[prettypinkstar]

Username: paranormalpar
Cat Name: Mothtail
Gender: buggender and masculine-aligned xenogenders :)
Rank: rankless but spends their time catching fireflies to use as light (they're terrible at it)
Clan: ▪ Moonclan ▪
Age: four years
Prompt:
A bit from Hair by Francisco Aragón

"I love
breathing
him in

my fingers
raking
his chest"

[yutashu]

Username: yutashu
Cat Name: Hailsong
Gender: she-cat
Rank: warrior (tbd)
Clan: Stubclan
Age: 3 years
Prompt: a quote from I Sing the Body Electric by walt whitman:
"I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough,
To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,
To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough,
To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then?
I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea."

[christine,]

Username: christine,
Cat Name: Fallowfoot
Gender: Male
Rank: Warrior
Clan: WillowClan
Age: 2 years
Prompt:
"Deaf LGBTQ Community," an ASL poem

[FeatheredLocust]

Username: FeatheredLocust
Cat Name: Asmodeus
Gender: Agender, they/it/he
Rank: Sin
Clan: The Spades
Age: 2 years
Prompt: Their favorite poem is a short one that they stole borrowed from their poet colleague. It reads:

The moon greets them with a wide grin,
As they fight beneath stars again.
Thunder in the distance, booming
Sounds, illuminating dark sky,
As they push away what they feel
And what they know, in favor for
Denial and lies that only
Serve to make them feel much better,
As if heartbreak was never there.
I can see it deep in their eyes,
And everyone else can as well.

(Written by me!)

[Archaeopteryx.]

Username: Vinson
Cat Name: Hyacinthblush
Gender: queer (he/they/it)
Rank: prowler
Clan: clan of the broken night
Age: 48 moons
Prompt:

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

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OOGH.... thank you all so much for the poems!! they were all so great to read and a couple of them actually made me cry

congrats, vinson! i think i have a new favorite poem now. and awarding an hm to FeatheredLocust!

[nio]

WAHHH congrats!!! i love mary oliver 🥺