when the lightning strikes me back
and my cracked-cup mind can no longer hold
all the subtle fire it’s meant to contain
find me at the edge of a cold, dark place
i wanted to be the lightning,
not simply the bearer of it,
but sometimes both dream and nightmare
outpace me and i cannot find my way home
so if the world begins to slant
remind my parched mouth
that i am both cupbearer and bitter wine
reforge both sides of my twisted spine
when the lightning
strikes
me
back
-Allēna 7/31/2025
Tag: poetry
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“to be the lightning”
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I call this one “song of experience”.
you claim that i'm better than you, when in reality
i’m nothing but a practiced poor player
who knows how to call fire and gold from nothing but words
i stand before you and strut and fret my hour upon the stage
in much the same way i did since i was a child -
and when i became a teenager i found the voice of a haunted pipe organ
that only increased in volume and resonance with time and skill
and when i was 24 i unsexed myself and learned to roar
got some damned spots on my hands
(i roar about them, too)
i learned the difference between hard and soft, between open palms
and hidden knives
and built a cathedral for my pipe organ voice
burnt out like a caravan or a candle a time or nineteen
so don’t ever think you’re better than me
learn to screw your courage to the sticking place
dust off the keys, call the fire
and sing
07/28/2025
-Allēna -
“an exhumation”
your vast hymnals to my divine madness
fail to capture the sum of me -
for I AM theology, but pressed into stretches of silence
the wind rattling the wire
shared secrets between friends, spinning arms,
and if you cannot find my pain, then no -
you cannot have my joy at all.-Allēna, 7/18/2025.
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I found a cool as hell prompt series/poetry competition hosted by @poetchaotique on Instagram, and this is my response to no. 13, (a)live. I call it “letter to theseus”. -Allēna
#mythology #PoetryTraps2025 #queerpoet #transpoet #poetry #traumacore #queercore #spilledink #pridemonth
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I think I may be dice cursed, or something.
For whatever reason, I think the universe is determined to have me write insanely compact poetry because whenever I do a round of my poetry TTRPG alone, most of the time, stuff like this comes out: -Allēna #poetry #readingcommunity #readerswanted #shortpoem #transpoet #queerpoet #queerauthor
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I ran a round of my poetry TTRPG with Sheik and this was my result.
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Doing a little writing this morning.
This piece is called “pound of flesh”. I wrote it using this tool I also made: https://opensorceryy.itch.io/infinite-poems-almost-infinite-combinations. -Allēna #poetry #queerpoet #transpoet #books #amwriting #amwritingpoetry #writingcommunity #readerswanted #writerswanted
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A new poem I’m calling “1.618:1”.
My chosen brøther requested that I write about trees. So (with a little creative license) I wrote about trees at like 5:30 this morning, lol. -Allēna #poetry #bodyimage #growingup #writingcommunity #transpoet
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This is “20 January 2025”. I must be in my glow cloud era artistically, I guess 🤣 -Allēna
#poetry #transpoet #writingcommunity #transartist #digitalart #amwriting #amwritingpoetry #readingcommunity #poetryloverswanted #fucktrump #protestpoetry #fuckmusk #protestart #transmasc
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Some art and words for you in these trying times.
Sad poem for what is so far shaping up to be a lemon of a day. If you enjoyed this piece, “no one’s fault but mine” appears in my newest very queer chapbook, which can be found here: https://opensorceryy.itch.io/easy-to-hate-like-everything-you-love -Allēna #poetry #poem #queerpoet #sadpoem #transpoet #writingcommunity
