Queer Lit Cats · @QLC
143 followers · 6559 posts · Server mastodon.roitsystems.ca
Peanut Hamper · @anjune
171 followers · 1662 posts · Server linuxrocks.online

“identity”

put me, master, to some good use
using up the eight lives left as
near the faint horizon leer the
huddled figures waiting for my
next mistake, so cheerfully concerned

fettered forever for better and worse
barred from beauty, all windows walls
a midget in a rage of angels bared to all yet no one knows the
mirror monster, sorry sight
an affront to light in a fight unearned

you’ll put me back down in my place
you’ll snip snip snap me out of it
make me get over it, let go of it
such a fine butcher will that graceless ballerina be

#englishasasecondlanguage #smallpoems #poetry #MastoPrompt

Last updated 1 year ago

Peanut Hamper · @anjune
171 followers · 1662 posts · Server linuxrocks.online

“identity”

put me, master, to some good use
using up the eight lives left as
near the faint horizon leer the
huddled figures waiting for my
next mistake, so cheerfully concerned

fettered forever for better and worse
barred from beauty, all windows walls
a midget in a rage of angels bared to all yet no one knows the
mirror monster, sorry sight
an affront to light in a fight unearned

you’ll put me back down in my place
you’ll snip snip snap me out of it
make me get over it
such a fine butcher will that graceless ballerina be

#englishasasecondlanguage #smallpoems #poetry #MastoPrompt

Last updated 1 year ago

Peanut Hamper · @anjune
171 followers · 1662 posts · Server linuxrocks.online

“identity”

put me, master, to some good use
using up the eight lives left as
near the faint horizon leer the
huddled figures waiting for my
next mistake, so cheerfully concerned

fettered forever for better and worse
barred from beauty, all windows walls
a midget in a rage of angels is
all exposed yet no one knows the
mirror monster, sorry sight
an affront to light in a fight unearned

you’ll put me back down in my place
you’ll snip snip snap me out of it
make me get over it
such a fine butcher will that graceless ballerina be

#englishasasecondlanguage #smallpoems #poetry #MastoPrompt

Last updated 1 year ago

Peanut Hamper · @anjune
171 followers · 1662 posts · Server linuxrocks.online

“identity”

put me, master, to some good use
using up the eight lives left as
near the faint horizon leer the
huddled figures waiting for my
next mistake so cheerfully concerned

fettered forever for better and worse
barred from beauty, all windows walls
a midget in a rage of angels is
all exposed yet no one knows the
mirror monster, sorry sight
an affront to light in a fight unearned

you’ll put me back down in my place
you’ll snip snip snap me out of it

such a fine butcher would that graceless ballerina be

#englishasasecondlanguage #smallpoems #poetry #MastoPrompt

Last updated 1 year ago

TJ · @tjanekane
104 followers · 123 posts · Server strangeobject.space

I got rather confused after reading 'she bottomed out' in a sex scene description of a sapphic romance novel for the first time because I imagined this as lifting one's butt (as in 'taking one's bottom out of the action that is taking place underneath') and it didn't resonate with the actions described before and after this phrase. Only after I looked it up and it turned out to be an idiom meaning 'the bottom of the car hitting the ground' did it start to make sense 😆.

#languagestruggles #englishasasecondlanguage

Last updated 1 year ago

Johannes Valouch · @jvimedia
15 followers · 33 posts · Server appdot.net

Would it be better to use “which” in this context ?

#englishasasecondlanguage #english

Last updated 1 year ago

On Friday our local State MP, Tim Read, popped in to the Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre to meet our team, hear about our education and community development work, and view our beautiful community garden!

Here we both are inspecting our compost!

We have a big community composting program that reduces organic waste going to landfill and we sell the compost back to the community for $5 a bag.

#communitydevelopment #englishasasecondlanguage #sustainability #auspol

Last updated 1 year ago

Maddy · @littleragdollcat
145 followers · 162 posts · Server mastodon.scot
em · @tamsen
80 followers · 130 posts · Server mastodon.art

Dear People Who Have English as their non-primary language:

Much to my dismay, I only speak English. Growing up I spoke a tiny bit of French, but that's it.

Your English Is FINE! You're doing great! If someone criticizes you, they should try to hold the entire conversation in the language of your childhood!

I've seen this twice this morning and trust me: you're good!

#english #englishasasecondlanguage

Last updated 2 years ago