SUEDE the poet

Joined November 2025

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English Teacher by Day. Poet by Scarlight. Tattooed Storyteller. Trying to make beauty out of bruises and meaning out of madness. I write at the intersection of faith, psychology, philosophy, and the human condition.

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Outlaw Infant
He does not come with banners— no brass, no cavalry of angels clattering down marble steps. He arrives like a rumor whispered
By SUEDE the poet2 months ago in Poets
Litany of Coal
I keep coming back to the fire after it has stopped being impressive. Not the blaze people gather for, not the heat that earns applause,
By SUEDE the poet2 months ago in Poets
The Room that Remembered. Content Warning.
He woke on cold stone, cheek pressed against grit. A throb pulsed behind his eyes—deep, steady, like a slow hammer striking bone. When he tried to move, pain shot through his shoulders. His wrists were bound behind him with coarse rope, tight enough to bite.
By SUEDE the poet2 months ago in Fiction
Somehow
Some nights, I lie still beside you and listen to the way your breathing soothes the dark— like you're stitching the torn places in me
By SUEDE the poet2 months ago in Poets
Prayerodox
The clock breathes heavy and slow— as if fighting for its next respire. The ceiling hums like tired bones, my spine folds into the mattress
By SUEDE the poet2 months ago in Poets
Sermon Without Witness
This morning the sanctuary glowed like nothing in the world was burning. Sunlight braided itself through stained glass, the choir breathed out hope in less-than-perfect harmony—
By SUEDE the poet2 months ago in Poets
Silence in Transit. Content Warning.
I’m sick of headlines written in blood, lives reduced to hashtags, daughters turned to cannon fodder— sacrificial lambs led to slaughter
By SUEDE the poet2 months ago in Poets
Metaphysical Conceits, Donne Anew
Let them recite our faults—let them declare that love like ours was forged too hot, too fast, that vows we made in youth could never last,
By SUEDE the poet2 months ago in Poets
The Night After the Fire. Runner-Up in The Last Flame Challenge.
The night does not speak— it only circles the dying fire, waiting for what must finally end. Even the wind keeps its distance, as if my hands
By SUEDE the poet3 months ago in Poets
What the Fire Knows
I used to think endings were loud— doors slamming, bridges cracking, the final flare of something too stubborn to die quietly.
By SUEDE the poet3 months ago in Poets
The Devil of the Daily
It isn’t the beast in the feast of abomination that breaks us— not the shadowed sins dressed in revelation, but the gnawing grin of repetition,
By SUEDE the poet3 months ago in Poets
Lament of a Teacher
I didn’t sign up to be a saint. I signed up to teach. To crack open books and brains, to hand young minds the keys to doors
By SUEDE the poet3 months ago in Poets

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Outlaw Infant

Litany of Coal

The Room that Remembered. Content Warning.

Somehow

Prayerodox

Sermon Without Witness

Silence in Transit. Content Warning.

Metaphysical Conceits, Donne Anew

The Night After the Fire. Runner-Up in The Last Flame Challenge.

What the Fire Knows

The Devil of the Daily

Lament of a Teacher

Achievements (2)