stevencudahy

stevencudahy, 25 days ago to poetry

stones worn smooth by waves
warmed by sun
we build small settlements
for scuttling things

but you are no rock
to be worn to be ground
to paperweight or doorstop
or safe remembrance

if i could replace your broken spines
with something as worthwhile -
but the wild is once and done
and it would insult you

i speak carelessly
uncover your edge for a cutting moment
only not careless but desperate
for any kind of traction

#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 5 May 2024 - preserve.

stevencudahy, 25 days ago to poetry

decay deep covered
beneath skin so plump and smooth
they hope no one notices
their sweet corruption
and no one does - a fragile
mind fist and language fractured
haunted by almosts
possessed by musts, shoulds, and nots -
has built from kicked-in windows
a rain of keen blades -
all that fertile soil poisoned
to grow lying heavy plants
overripe, slick, bursting

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

stevencudahy, 25 days ago to poetry

fingers intertwined
a grabbed hold, a salt thirsting
the room half lit by streetlight
focused race towards
somewhere we both have to be
familiar yet new again

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

stevencudahy, 26 days ago to poetry

something like falling
a rushed blossoming downward
limbs flailing - panicked heart thrum -
some witchcraft - your eyes,
twist of lip, of voice, dancing
skin, bone, blood - i'm lost, found, owned

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

stevencudahy, 26 days ago to poetry

slip into quicksand
as if into a warm bath
a deliberate choice made
to sink beyond sight -
if only - peaceful deep dirt
an escape from the chaos -
no one sees me here
a darkness like a gullet
swallowed to drift to pieces
and then to nothing -
nerves no longer pain-shredded
but no kisses on soft skin -
claw back to the light

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

stevencudahy, 26 days ago to Haiku

too hot for sleeping
i kneel before your temple
offer ev'rything

#DailyHaikuPrompt - 17 May 2024 - summer moon.
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stevencudahy, 26 days ago to Haiku

exhausted by the heat
but air needs to stroke your skin -
and who can blame it

#DailyHaikuPrompt - 16 May 2024 - breeze.
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stevencudahy, 27 days ago to poetry

faster than lightning

there are caves
sand-floored recordings of sea noise

did you see the eagle
i know you didn't -
you're asleep, it wasn't a dream

faster than breath or blink
or the space between heartbeats
hammering with panic
after learning the world is fragile

afterwards weeping
could make glue strong enough
to bind it back how it was

everything normal hurts now
spiked, edged new

time heals, they say, but time has ended

#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 3 May 2024 - quick.

stevencudahy, 27 days ago to poetry

it's not - it can't be
yet somehow is
we laugh but shy, as if someone adult
might take it from us -
the moon perhaps, though she's allied
to lovers, traditionally - or some lurker,
hedged, patient, primed to spring
we both carry that fear bonewise,
running the body's rivers
seared in the deep red meat of us
how even if we get this moment that's not
but somehow is, somehow it isn't,
and won't, can't, mustn't be, or ever have been

#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 2 May 2024 - perfect.

stevencudahy, 27 days ago to poetry

as if reality
ends at our skins
they claimed
we should engage it more
as if we aren't spent
rock-boned
sludge-blooded
maelstrom'd of mind

as if reality
has to be shareable
but portable
for ease of capture
treasure hoarded
to end sharing

and if reality
could be touch-gifted
what would they do
when we kissed their lips
and gentle mountains
collapsed upon them

#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 1 May 2024 - engage.

stevencudahy, 27 days ago to poetry

they talk about their
journey's - gentle, enriching,
vastly fulfilling epics -
i've taken back roads
skirting bloody accidents,
animal attacks, sinkholes,
unexplained blazes
surprise meteorite strikes,
cold false dawn after false dawn,
failed and successful
rebellions, riots, warfare
open and guerilla, all
to get nowhere slow

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

stevencudahy, 27 days ago to Haiku

flashing reminder -
when we could sacrifice kings
for the common good

#DailyHaikuPrompt - 15 May 2024 - kingfisher.
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stevencudahy, 27 days ago to Haiku

violet buttonholes
owning jokes about your name
a white gown, waiting

#DailyHaikuPrompt - 13 May 2024 - peony.
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stevencudahy, 28 days 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, 29 days 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, 29 days 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, 30 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, 30 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, 30 days ago to Haiku

cooperation
better living through open
communication

#DailyHaikuPrompt - 7 May 2024 - ants.
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stevencudahy, 30 days ago to Haiku

sustenance, shelter
boundary guards unsleeping
small quiet musics

#DailyHaikuPrompt - 6 May 2024 - green reeds.
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stevencudahy, 30 days ago to Haiku

long dreams incarnate
ghosts of future memories
balloons float away

#DailyHaikuPrompt - 5 May 2024 - children.
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stevencudahy, 1 month 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, 1 month 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.
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stevencudahy, 1 month 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, 1 month ago to Haiku

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

#DailyHaikuPrompt - 4 May 2024 - rainbow.
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