stevencudahy

stevencudahy, 14 hours ago to poetry

your eyes like bruises
injuries you don't recall
which shine angry regardless
glowing like sunsets
supercharged with pollution
gorgeous, but not worth the pain

#Sedoka #Poetry #Writing #vssPoem Thanks @worded_art for the prompt - livid.

stevencudahy, 1 day ago to poetry

all the stars were born
to illuminate this night
draw you clean from the darkness
a liberation
amidst the scraps of our world
the light needs to kiss your skin

#Sedoka #Poetry #Writing #vssPoem Thanks @worded_art for the prompt - ray.

stevencudahy, 1 day ago to Haiku

bedding on the line
sun and breeze, though, not enough
to clean memories

#DailyHaikuPrompt - 10 May 2024 - airing out.
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stevencudahy, 2 days ago to poetry

shake your made money
jingle pockets full of change
but for all your wealth
and haunted machinery
there will always be
a kid with dried gourds on sticks
filled with sun-dried seeds
dancing the rain of pummelled
skins stretched on wood frames
weaving patterns of counter
and pulse, free, beyond your claws

#Choka #SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 29 April 2024 - maracas.

stevencudahy, 2 days ago to poetry

your arms around me
except not
and the absence is robbery

touch taken
against desire
a departing tide

days i can't remember
if i am a person
and if i am, in what contexts

and the worry, always
that i am claiming a humanity
undeserved or stolen

and your fingers on my skin
and your body pressed close
and i remember i am

#Poetry #Writing #vssPoem Thanks @worded_art for the prompt - discontent.

stevencudahy, 2 days ago to Haiku

cooperation
better living through open
communication

#DailyHaikuPrompt - 7 May 2024 - ants.
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stevencudahy, 2 days ago to Haiku

sustenance, shelter
boundary guards unsleeping
small quiet musics

#DailyHaikuPrompt - 6 May 2024 - green reeds.
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stevencudahy, 2 days ago to Haiku

long dreams incarnate
ghosts of future memories
balloons float away

#DailyHaikuPrompt - 5 May 2024 - children.
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stevencudahy, 3 days ago to poetry

your skin to my skin
as if closeness is safer
fingertip tracking your buzz
afraid of the shock
even as i ache for it
your sweet blade, your smiling eyes

#Sedoka #Poetry #Writing #vssPoem Thanks @worded_art for the prompt - wary.

stevencudahy, 3 days ago to poetry

raw acceleration
hunched to spring
fleeing your scene

all this green
and the sun blessing
or cursing, depending

just 'cause nothing
you see is a threat
my running's not wrong

your simpleton song
lulls you secure
falsely, perhaps - we'll see

Thanks @FrostPoem for the prompt - rabbit.
#MicroPrompt #Poetry #MicroPoetry #Writing

stevencudahy, 3 days ago to poetry

such ordinary
ambitions - for cold gold's gleam
and fire rolling free
embellishing night's edges -
tattered scales glinting
beneath moss centuries deep
as if your slow dreams
seeped through lazy armour
to cosset you deep,
deeper into forgetting
absent, avoiding
the way the world failed to match
your terrible majesty

#Choka #SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 28 April 2024 - dragon.

stevencudahy, 3 days ago to Haiku

hold light to your skin
wet from the storm - refracting,
sky declares its love

#DailyHaikuPrompt - 4 May 2024 - rainbow.
#haiku #senryu #poetry #SmallPoems #Writing

stevencudahy, 3 days ago to Haiku

flowers amidst grass
hugged in the slow river's curve
fiefdom of field mice

#DailyHaikuPrompt - 3 May 2024 - meadow.
#haiku #senryu #poetry #SmallPoems #Writing

stevencudahy, 8 days ago to writing

The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 8 May 2024 is:

#ash

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.

If you're including an image please do include alt-text so I can boost your post.

#Writing #SmallPoem #Poetry #Fiction #MicroFiction #SmallStories

stevencudahy, 15 days ago to poetry

controlled expression
of uncontrollable loss
we dance mirror-polished floors
shunning eye contact
as if gaze could transmit plague
strong enough to rend facades

#Sedoka #Poetry #Writing #vssPoem Thanks @worded_art for the prompt - demeanor.

stevencudahy, 15 days ago to Haiku

gravity reclaims
terminal velocity
hold tight, deny ends

#575Prompt #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #SmallPoems #Writing

With thanks to @aethelshane for the prompt - 422 - free-falling.

stevencudahy, 15 days ago to Haiku

fresh beneath blue skies
stretching for indiff'rent sun
the mower growling

#DailyHaikuPrompt - 1 May 2024 - young grass.
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stevencudahy, 16 days ago to poetry

you multiply me
from almost gone to human
some softer magic
hidden in the words you shape
or the fact of you
crouched between light and darkness
afraid of nothing
save anything for yourself
sunlight edges you
begging your elements home
do we smile, perhaps
touch, unsure whether to fear
we're unreal or real
silent, we become, an end
a beginning, more than us

#Choka #SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 27 April 2024 - result.

stevencudahy, 16 days ago to poetry

folk wisdom decrees
sometimes the key's time passing
claiming prisons decay, but
lock, key, are echoes
of the same half-heard singing
a flipped coin always spinning

#Sedoka #Poetry #Writing #vssPoem Thanks @worded_art for the prompt - key.

stevencudahy, 16 days ago to poetry

nailed down
we howl as we re-form ourselves
to circumstances
beyond control
(the ordinary difficulties of life)
every breath a thunderhead
and the gnawing frost claws
gouging our churned guts
just numbingly agonising enough
(little troubles medicalised)
and so what, to them, if the little pills
are all that keep us from the darkness
so what if they let us distend and tear
until we're close enough to pass

Thanks @FrostPoem for the prompt - stretch.

#MicroPrompt #Poetry #MicroPoetry #Writing

stevencudahy, 16 days ago to Haiku

let me remember
your face dancing in laughter
rough wind tearing leaves

#575Prompt #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #SmallPoems #Writing

With thanks to @aethelshane for the prompt - 421 - tremendous.

stevencudahy, 17 days ago to poetry

choosing abundance
over limits, i locked up,
froze in the face of options
i did not believe
i could possibly deserve
somewhere, though, a drip, a thaw?

#Sedoka #Poetry #Writing #vssPoem Thanks @worded_art for the prompt - paralyse.

stevencudahy, 17 days ago to poetry

overthrow myself -
it seems unreasonable
to face a foe familiar
with my defences
but here we go again - sun
rises, darkness falls, we brawl

#Sedoka #Poetry #Writing #vssPoem Thanks @worded_art for the prompt - unfair.

stevencudahy, 17 days ago to poetry

face my enemy
fingers stained with metal stink
and quick transferred muck
from pockets hands and purses
through each of thousands
of transactions difficult
as the month's last spend -
choose food or heat - or light as
whim-bought shop coffee
to use up jingling shrapnel
rather than carry
it home - no wonder monarchs
(engraved foe faces)
don't carry the stuff - the weight
of memories would end them

#Choka #SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 26 April 2024 - obverse.

stevencudahy, 17 days ago to poetry

certain of himself
beyond any evidence
a trail of heart's blood his wake -
do not say "because"
though - rather say "in spite of
his best efforts, they chose death"

#Sedoka #Poetry #Writing #vssPoem Thanks @worded_art for the prompt - righteous.