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lil  ·  4081 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Today's Writing Prompt: I'd Like to Be Whoever I Damn Well Please

    I think to truly become comfortable in our bodies we have to accept them
or change them and then accept them. In any event becoming truly comfortable seems to take time and experience living in our bodies. This is one area that affects individuals regardless of gender -- but particularly affects transgendered people who feel VERY VERY uncomfortable in their own skin.

Your sonnet is very moving - Is this from a series of sonnets?





_refugee_  ·  4081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, it is. One summer I wrote 50 sonnets. From those I pulled out a collection of 5 that I called my "Starvation Suite." They were published online but unfortunately the magazine has now gone defunct, so I don't think the other four are available for reading anywhere. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

lil  ·  4081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Good for you - 50 sonnets wow. That must have been a summer of longing or a summer of love. Which was it?

_refugee_  ·  4080 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It was actually a summer where I forced myself to write sonnets and only sonnets as a form of poetic exercise. I thought I was falling in love that summer, too, though, so it helped.