#napowrimo2023

[torrentialmonsoon]

i want to breathe you in rhythmically, with gravity on my side. i want you to pull me in, passionately, be the ocean that inhales my tides.

[adventurerswritingguild]

Please give a warm welcome home to the Adventurer’s Writing Guild! The Guild is a writing community exclusively open in April & August! Public invites close in 2 weeks; check the bio to enter. #AdventurersWrite

What is the Guild?

Well in 2020, @nashiraa and @shylovrs started a writing Discord server called “let’s ⁠escapril” in dedication to the April challenge by Savannah Brown. We’ve grown a loving, warm community in the years since…but we've since decided to write our own narrative and created the AWG to welcome every writer from every creed! After all, it’s dangerous to write alone. ⚔🛡

You can join us by checking out our pinned post or by clicking our discord invite link!

*Creatives who make/share NSFW content are welcome. However, we do not permit/share NSFW content on the server or our social media.

[salovie]

The rain falls and it

is simple;

(I could compare you

to the rain or me

to the flowers or)

I could just say that I love

you,

and let it be simple.

[getcareless]

City Flowers

City flowers on my mind

all the street lights glow.

I planted seeds,

now the memories grow.

I think of you,

something about your eyes.

The neon jungle groans.

There’s petals and

all the love for you, I

feel it in my bones.

JEP

[archivingheartbeats]

The skies are soft and gentle there,

And rarely flash a smile -

Here they are fierce, excitable,

And sunny all the while.

I've grown to know how cherry trees

Embrace the Springtime rain,

While here the bright azaleas

Are coming out again.

[peakogreen]

April 2023

Peako Prompts

—

1. blisters from a magic lamp

2. couldn’t keep looking back

3. puddle of wax

4. a life interruption

5. thick line that runs through me

6. felt you on the tips of my fingers

7. bags too heavy to carry

8. but it fell out of me

9. left in the dust

10. quiet music in the hideaway

11. rinsing out the cell

12. a new moon away

13. oxygen to a collapsed lung

14. sharp accusations

15. stuck to the shadows

16. sour soap

17. the key to me

18. instead of the worst case scenario

19. you were my bookmark

.•.peako green•.•

—

Feel free to use the prompts however & whenever you’d like. Use any peako-related tags too. :)

[jasminesuntrell]

I Had Some Tough Feelings Today (2/30)

I had some tough feelings today and, like usual, I'm doing all that I can to have other ones.

It's crowded as hell in my head.

But I keep on performing. I keep stacking the nachos on my struggling plate. I keep making new feelings To stand on top of all the ones I have to face

My heavy ass feelings Sinking to the soles of my feet Making it hard for me to walk, Knowing how much I wished Knowing if I could, I would fly away. and look for new highs to have new feelings and make less room for the ones I want to forget.

[crow]

number 30

flat water churning sandtide returning beachto beach wetter and colderi remind myselfthat this is the same oceani grew up with in californiabut here on this gray dayon this gray sandit is alien sea

[napozombo]

4.2.23

you have an unkind thought.

the shock is bitter-rich as you bite your tongue,

determined to keep cruel thoughts in because no-one

asked for this, no-one asked for you and the way

you think is not a polite gift.

so this thought you keep, this and all the others, this you tamp down

deep and you do not open the mouth

because then no one will be happy, and when you are not polite

you are not a gift.

and yet. there is a bow atop your dumpster inferno,

there is wrapping paper around this manic pixie disaster

and you are giving everyone everything that you can

as soon as you can give it.

there is a chorus of voices to greet you when you feel good

when there is air in your sails

when there is pep in your step

when your balloon is inflated

when you forget there is another shoe

and it drops like your stomach does

as these mouths open to share their unkind thoughts:

that you are (a disappointment)

they are (disappointed)

you are (disappointing)

and each time you are angry but you change nothing.

you pour yourself in, folded into velvet batter

as you hear another variation from a woman you look up to

telling you that you are a disappointment, and they say this

because the gift of you they received

they deemed was not enough.

you bite your tongue.

you will learn, closer to your last heartbeat than you would prefer

that you are not supposed to be a gift. that anyone would tire

also on the quest for external validation.

just because the self-help books are trite

doesn’t mean they are wrong and you shouldn’t cry at kindness because you are not a gift but your joy is and you are not a gift because you are not a thing.

you take a moment to give nothing

and dwell in the womb of unproductive silence.

you, the gifted child who grew into the average adult, take some time

to be nothing, to be raw and needing,

and to allow the occasional unkind thought.

[mianimasenpoeticus]

[torrentialmonsoon]

your body is an archipelago overlooked by others, yet to be explored by me. let me delve into each element of you, let me become stranded at sea.

[adventurerswritingguild]

Please give a warm welcome to the Adventurer’s Writing Guild, a writing community exclusively open in April & August! Public invites close in 2 weeks 🔮

🦋🔗Join us here! 🔗🦋

In 2020, @nashxra and @shylovrs started a writing Discord server called “let’s #Escapril” in dedication to the April challenge by Savannah Brown. We’ve grown a loving, warm community in the years since…but there’s a fork in every road, adventurers. We’ve decided to rebrand to the AWG to welcome every writer from every creed ⚔🛡

Check out our About page for more info, but here's a quick breakdown of what we provide:

An Inclusive Discord Server: Discuss your writing ventures & share your work 

Prompts & Challenges: Curated to inspire your writing adventures

Community-curated Playlists: Sate your daydreaming needs

Exclusive Workshops: Held in collaboration with @poetryorchard

Collaborative Annual Anthologies: Free & featuring work from members of the guild

Dedicated Co-writing Sessions: Work on projects with fellow adventurers

[salovie]

The moon is near now—

a shield against the darkness,

a foothold for hope—

a hand stretch away, moored high,

steady beacon in wild sea.

[getcareless]

The Other Me

The other me is a liar

while I just pretend to be.

Where he gets to go higher;

I had to spend the fee.

The other me is a smoker,

he'll take away your breath.

The real me is a joker,

I'll make you laugh to death.

The other me, no, the other me,

he's the one you want

and he's the one you seek.

He's the one breaking promises

every week, even as we speak.

JEP

[archivingheartbeats]

Susan's Second Adolescence

4/25/23

Of course we don't react the same

When our throne's a broken memory,

And the golden dream vanishes

In the cold grey English morning.

My kind and practical girl,

You wore your shining flowers

With gentleness and grace,

And tried to lead the best you could

While kingdoms sought your hand.

You've been a woman grown before,

And you want to be one among the cobblestones

Just as you were in the forests.

It's just the rules are different here.

Is it abandonment to move forward

Once the door has closed behind you?

Do you paint yourself into a fantasy,

Or make up with battle armor?

[peakogreen]

inner flex

—

feeling out of place

happiness is

but a taste

I was mediocre in everything I wrote

but I can be content in my growth

I can

exercise patience,

build the strength to listen,

sculpt this disposition,

turn gratitude

to muscle memory

.•.peako green•.•