#poems about aromanticism
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i want to introduce you all to a project that is very close to my heart... or lack of one. anyway. for anyone who has ever wanted to play a poem. i'd like you to meet aromanticism
(link opens itch.io - she'll run on html in your browser! please be nice to her!)
#literally please be so so so fucking niceys to her i am so nervous about this for no reason#it's literally fine it's gonna be perfectly functional. I Am Going To Lose My Mind#i can always make another post if it gets fucked up somehow... i can always make another post...#anyway. hi. this is aromanticism. i made her for class. and then revised her for class. and now she's like my child#losing my miiiiiiiind#poetry#kind of like a uquiz too. to be honest haha#except i can make you read more somehow (long questions instead of long answers)#it's a little choose your own adventure......#poem#poems#poets on tumblr#poems and poetry#poetsandwriters#poems about aromanticism#aromantic#aro poet#aro poetry#aro#aromanticism#aroace#arospec#aspec#itch.io#GOD OKAY I'M JUST POSTING IT.#other writing
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how do you think aromanticism can be expressed visually? im not talking flags or anything else as an ID, i mean the experience through art // an aro asking an aro
like.. can you think of the symbol or trope or metaphor of how aromanticism can be expressed? im an artist who has the opposite of artblock rn so i think of such questions a lot sometimes :D i can think of anatomically gorey correct heart or the lack of attraction/"pull" like an anchor
its interesting to hear a writer's pov of the same question :]
before i say anything else i would like to say the idea of aromanticism as an anatomically correct heart is so fucking sick and i love this.
to me the first thing i thought of was... aromanticism as seeing the world through a slightly different color palette? almost like looking at things from behind a pane of vaguely tinted glass. you can see things happening, but they don't appeal to you the same way they do to everyone else. you can imitate it but it sort of feels like you're miming.
other images that came to mind (depressing)...
the center of mass in a binary system. the two stars are doomed to orbit closer and closer until they collide and go supernova, and despite being in the middle you are sort of just there, invisibly.
a black hole.
a knife.
a train where each passenger keeps getting off until you are the only one left sitting.
snow. a wintry landscape.
a dream.
other images that came to mind (less depressing)...
a plant!! maybe a tree. maybe a full canopy.
a notebook.
a rope used for rappelling.
pandas. i don't know why but they seem so aromantic to me.
a long drive at night on the way to pick up a friend.
the beach in the evening. if you listen to a seashell you can hear the ocean of your identity inside, just as sure as the waves that wash over your feet.
#🌃#an anchor... something without pull... yes yes you're so right... a neutron... a liminal space...#makes me want to write another poem about this#SAVORING this question i'd love to hear more of your thoughts omg i hope your art is feeling so inspired and expressive and fulfilling#also in terms of music i think aromanticism would be a minor seventh chord. or maybe dissonance.#OH OH POMEGRANATES LIKE IN THE MYTH OF PERSEPHONE#KAFKA'S METAMORPHOSIS#AND i figured out why pandas. it's the colors. black white and bamboo green...
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really funny to me how all the aromantic people on tumblr pass around the same like. twenty posts. and not even because we're all mutuals we will just get a post to the Entire community through various causeways in the span of a couple weeks. sitting around watching the aro mutuals reblog from this sideblog of mine wondering if they know it's me...
#same for my poetry. someone will reblog a poem about aromanticism and then a post from this blog#do you know... that tumblr users trickstersaint and knifearo are one and the same... tumblr user vulpinesaint too for that matter...#if you follow this blog you almost certainly do i am always reblogging my own poetry but. y'know. the thought of it.#many people who i am mutuals with as bracken vulpinesaint though will reblog posts from this blog#and like... wow... the circle of aromantic life brings us all back together in ways we do not even recognize...#talking
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#social awareness#thedashproject#lets talk about it#non profit#aroace#aro#ace#aromanticism#aromantic#arospec#poems on tumblr#poetry#asexuality#asexual#pride#pride month
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Cryptic Affection
ㅤin summary, this is a digital "book" of poems ㅤinvolving about the experiences of a teenager ㅤ( the person with facial hair that is us ) with ㅤㅤbeing queer, mostly about aromanticism and ㅤasexuality, tertiary attractions and types of ㅤㅤrelationships.
ㅤ1st chapter ㅤ2st chapter ㅤ
#book of poems#original poem#poems and poetry#poems on tumblr#about our queerplatonic partner and our personal experiences as a queer persons#queerplatonic#alterous attraction#tertiary attraction#aromanticism#asexuality#asexual#tutelary attraction#aesthetic attraction#platonic#cute#transneumasc#trans 4 trans#masc aligned#et cetera
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What is this thing called love?
If nobody had told you, would you still be able to feel it?
~by me
#hello I'm supposed to be sleeping but i had thoughts🫡#also I'm crying about this a bit too badly but wtv wtv🙏💀#johnny's little poems#poetry#aromanticism#aromantic poetry#poems#queer poems
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Flowers for Me
Every day, year-round, roses bloom. Vibrant red buds—always red—burst in full display, tended to by doting gardeners, their sweet aroma permeating the air. Every day, year-round, roses bloom, bushes brightening up the streets, rose care tips everywhere you look, like the whole world revolves around these little clusters of crimson petals. Every day, year-round, roses bloom— and I hate each and every one.
From a distance, they aren’t so offensive, I might even call them pretty— even if, I say, they’re not my thing. But at that, the gardeners always shove their bouquets right into my face, that cloying, acrid scent burning itself into my lungs. They insist that I must be mistaken, that surely theirs are to my liking, that I can’t hate roses, because everyone likes roses! Regardless of their words, the flowers repulse me. I sputter, stumbling away, sick to my stomach.
I travel through streets lined with scarlet, not stopping ‘til my front door closes behind me, and a new scent replaces the tang in my lungs. The orchids in the kitchen window bloom lush, their golden petals a balm on red-sore eyes, and I know I’m somewhere I belong— somewhere I’m understood. Kind arms wrap around me, a familiar voice settling over my shoulder. “Hey,” it greets. “Long day?” February’s always full of them. I nod, returning the embrace, fatigue melting away, safe and known, settled and warm. Across the room, the orchids grow.
Every day, year-round, roses bloom, but orchids do too, and they’re the flowers for me.
#friday chats#friday's poetry#aromantic#aromanticism#another poem that's ''aromanticism through a flower metaphor'' lol#tried to make this one even more straightforward so ppl couldn't argue it was about pining for a friend and being scared to ask them out#this is also the end of my backlog#(i mean. there is one more. but idk if i'll post that one here. all the others have been fictional or based on common experience#and that one (the first one i wrote) was based on actual nostalgia and life stuff. it'll probably go on my site though)#(so keep an eye out for that if you're interested)
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today has been one of those odd little days that felt like i was in my own slice-of-life movie, probably french. everything tiny happening was being perceived at the scale of a massive event, and then it was nighttime. also i was watching cleo from 5 to 7.
#me#personal#i found something i thought id lost#i hung out my bedding and changed the sheets/duvet cover#i stepped on a sewing pin (yes that really fckn hurt) and i pulled it out#i did a lot of cleaning and ordering of my room after it had been covered in bits of a half-finished project that im taking a break from#i wrote to a sibling i havent spoken to for a year and got a reply#i wrote a letter to my estranged dad (but havent sent it yet)#i edited a poem i was writing about aromanticism#i filmed the view outside my window#i watched a play i had downloaded#im going to make a cup of tea and watch another movie before bed i think that's the thing to do#that or star trek.... tough choices
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knocked out three poems for the night. not caught up entirely but getting to where i need to be! and where i need to be is. asleep in my bed. got work tomorrow haha
#feeling good about it though :) i love writing about aromanticism#get ready for bunch of poems reblogged here a bunch of times :)#valentine notes
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unfortunately i think im a little in love with you
ive always been someone who loves obsessively
like a fish out of water
gasping for air
i was so grateful for my fishbowl
but i could not turn around in it
at least i could breathe, i suppose
but now!
now i swim in an ocean.
over 200 million fish are killed per day
you must cry awfully often.
im sorry i will be added to a neverending list of names that dont exist
i really didnt mean to fall in love
i guess i just tripped and hit the ground
when you get down to it,
earth and water arent really so different.
i find myself awfully desperate
its shameful, in some ways
ive always been a freak
and i dont want you to see that in me
i worry my love is stupid
and that you will laugh when i tell you
but i dont know how to take it back.
ive started watching the sunset and thinking of you
there is no turning back.
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I am proud (heh) to announce for Pride Month I will be writing a LGBTQIA+ Themed Poem per day
Here is the schedule for those interested:
Week One Themes:
- 1st: Lesbian
- 2nd: Gay
- 3rd: Bisexuality
- 4th: Transgender
- 5th: Queerness in general
- 6th: Intersex
- 7th: Asexuality / Aromanticism (two poems in a day aren’t you guys lucky)
Week 2 Themes:
- 8th: My personal experience with my Gender
- 9th: Non-Binary as it means to me
- 10th: Genderfluidity as it means to me
- 11th: Nex Benedict memorial poem (also just in memory of lost trans lives in general)
- 12th: A poem about Closets
- 13th: Rainbows!!! And other queer symbols!
- 14th: My transition goals
Week 3 Themes:
- 15th: I’ll be seeing my therapist, and they’ll tell me to write something to build my self-esteem, so something about being proud of oneself
- 16th-21st: I will be hosting polls with what identities you want me to write poems about
Week 4 Themes:
- 22nd: A poem about closets and leaving them
- 23rd: I will have gone to my first Pride Parade, so It’ll be about that
- 24th: Homophobia (and why it pisses me off)
- 25th: Transphobia (and why it pisses me off)
- 26th: Repression of myself
- 27th: Transfem Blues
- 28th: Transmasc Blues
- 29th: Transneutral Blues
- 30th: I will have gone to a concert from my favorite queer artist so it’ll be about that
#lgbtqia#lesbian#gay#bisexual#transgender#queer#intersex#asexual#aromantic#nonbinary#genderfluid#nex benedict#rainbow#pride parade#transfem#transmasc#transneu#holy fuck#that’s a lot of tags#poetry#poem
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an aromantic person is someone who (fill in the blank here) // april 10 2024
#dunno how the image quality is gonna turn out on this one i had to smallen the doc to fit it all in one screenshot#bear with me. haha#poetry#poems about aromanticism#aro poetry#aro poet#aromantic poet#aromantic poetry#aromanticism#aromantic#DELIGHTFUL tags i always forget i can use haha#poem#poems#poets on tumblr#napowrimo#poems and poetry#escapril#poetsandwriters#aromantic thoughts on love
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aromantic thoughts
in one book about transness i read, the author said that even if you go through transition, even if you accomplish everything trans related you wanted, the feeling, the years, of sadness and alienation just don't go away and are always somewhere deep inside you. you may still compare yourself to cis people and still not feel enough. even if transphobia magically evaporated, your transness wouldn't - even if you had a perfect life with no transphobic incidents.
and it's exactly the same with aromanticism. i generally feel good. but there are days where i just can't understand why i can't feel the same way as other people do. why i can't understand that one (supposed to be universal) beautiful poem about love. why most people's values are a bit different than mine. why i can't be truly happy in a queer club, because there are people in love everywhere and my friend's talking to me about her love problem with a guy and the people next to me are all flirting with each other and a girl's hitting on me but i'm afraid bc she'll probably stop when i say "hey, i don't wanna go on a date. ever. but we can kiss if you want". (don't even know if i actually like doing that).
many times i feel like that while talking about friends. life. attitude, not necessarily towards relationship things. it doesn't have to be anything romantic. bc romance as a norm goes so deep you're reminded everyday you're different, and that your difference - if you show it to others - is a rather bad thing in their morality spectrum. everytime i think about that i wonder if i'm not confusing aromanticism with sth different, but i do think aromanticism falls under that category too.
the author of the book i mentioned said that when she first realized she was trans, she was terrified of the thought that was how her life was gonna look like - after all those awful years, it'd only go downhill (realization, transition process etc), this time bc of her own actions. similarly, i know the way i live now is the best for me (probably). but i do that deliberately. i could stop anytime and try to go against myself, caring for someone the way my friends seem to be able to. i long for that, simultaneously knowing i wouldn't last a minute.
#aromantic#wanna puke i dont like this#the author is maja heban if u want. she's not translated into other languages i think (yet?)#but yeah have this rant brought to you by fanfiction lmao. and other things too#if this keeps on going i think ill have to cross fluff out entirely from my fics lol#aromanticism#okie byeeeeeee gonna eat sth#i dont like ranting eh but had to get it out. and maybe sb feels a similar way#hate talking abt emotions god#rant#(<< if u feel similarly don't be afraid to text me or send me an ask...)
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🛏️🧍<— aromanticism
#i find it very fun how many of us have an immediate connection between being aromantic and not sharing a bed.#many interesting things to say about the social expectation of sharing a bed and sharing a life and partnership#but also. that’s my bed. i don’t have to share. aromanticism to me#need to find my poem about not sharing my bed and my closet space as a celebration of aromanticism#talking#aromantic#aromanticism#arospec#aroace#wish the non-binary person emoji wasn’t so plain 😭#welcome ton non-binary ism. you can’t be pink or blue so you are banned from color entirely
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Aaaaaaaa i feel so awkward asking this but I want to make sure that I interpret his character right and don’t mess up already scarce representation for aromantic people sooo
How does Orlam experience/express/feel his aromanticism? I’ve been doing a little bit of reading about to to educate myself more since I’ve realised my understanding of what romantic attraction is(as opposed to other types of attraction which I find easier to define) is embarrassingly surface level. From what I’ve gathered, I’ll attempt to phrase my understanding of Orlam in this aspect and all I want you to do is correct anything im wrong about or add anything else you think is important to him in this regard ty!!!
I’m assuming Orlam uses the term aromantic literally, and not as an umbrella term? Ofc I may be wrong, and I’m not requiring giving him additional labels because they’re always optional-I just want to make sure that he doesn’t experience romantic attraction like, at all? Or are there exemptions?
In the case that he doesn’t experience romantic attraction at all, I assume he enjoys what would otherwise be considered romantic gestures(since he oftentimes displays these as a character) for reasons that don’t involve them actually causing feelings of attraction for him? Like he enjoys traditionally romantic things like flirting, flowers, writing poems(maybe, idk, he seems like the type from how fancy he likes to talk, esp to Iggy in his routes) but they don’t cause him romantic feelings?
Perhaps he enjoys making others feel romantic attraction/fuzzies in general while not experiencing it personally himself? Or does he enjoy romantic reciprocation in a way that isn’t inherently romantic?
I’m trying to think of anything else to ask but this ask is already long af and probably complicated to unpack so I’ll leave this here. Once again sorry if I sound uneducated(because I admit, I have long ways to go in properly understanding the topic >.<) thank you so much in advance, I just want to make sure I properly understand Orlam as an aromantic character
orlam doesn't use any labels, I'll be honest LOL he hates labels in general (like he doesn't even see himself as "bisexual" either). but if I gave him one it would be grayromantic, mostly because even he doesn't really know or understand how he feels when it comes to romantic attraction (and he doesn't want to understand, he just wants to live however he feels like it at any point in time without labeling it)
it's hard for me to describe in detail something like an orientation like this because it's all very complex. and particularly with Orlam he's very capricious. I think that he enjoys classy romantic gestures because he's a classy theatrical guy and doing stuff like that is fun for him. he loves to be dramatic and over the top. and he likes to make others feel good too. does he also get some romantic thrill out of them? unsure. even he is unsure. but he does know that the ways he tends to feel about other ppl, even those he's attracted to, seem to be different from how he's heard others describe and talk about, or the ways he's seen others act. but he doesn't really know (or care) in what way. and he forms connections in his own way
I feel like this is a vague answer and that's honestly because I don't really know a better way to explain it and him 😅 but that's just how I've always felt about Orlam as a character
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@poemsofanentomologist is doing poems everyday for the month of june and I decided I'd do that too, but only one day- being the aromantic day. I wrote lyrics for a song I plan on making, about Aromanticism. I've had this idea for a while but now that I'm actually getting better at writing and music making, I made the lyrics for the song. It's called: A Love You Feel
A Love You Feel
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A love seated beyond the edge of time
A rose of endless love and regret shines
A feeling so deep in humans you feel.
A love you feel….
Romance you feel from the start of your life.
The demure creator filled it with strife.
A soft calling to the engine of how life goes.
Oh but who knows?
Cuz’ Shining crystal balls illuminate the room.
As ephemeral dates go by and ensue
This social norm that’s all the rage
A Love you feel that I just don’t gauge.
Cuz I’m not a romantic.
I’m not a romantic.
I’m not a romantic.
I’m not a romantic.
I’m not a romantic.
I’m not a romantic.
I’m not a romantic.
I’m just aromantic.
Pretty cool instrumental ensues
Cuz’ Shining crystal balls illuminate the room.
As ephemeral dates go by and ensue
This social norm that’s all the rage
Extravagant, Euphoric, Ethereal thangs’
You describe like a pain in your heart
But a good pain?
A good pain?
NO!
I’m perfectly happy where I am
My romantic status is always damned
But that's alright.
That's alright.
Cuz I’m not a romantic.
I’m not a romantic.
I’m not a romantic.
I’m just aromantic.
#non daily#aro#aromantic#poem#song#aromantic song#aromantism#alloaro#lyrics#aromantic poem#aromantic lyrics
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