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Notices by Steven Cudahy (stevencudahy@mastodon.scot)

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    Steven Cudahy (stevencudahy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 02:59:47 JST Steven Cudahy Steven Cudahy

    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.

    In conversation about a year ago from mastodon.scot permalink
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    Steven Cudahy (stevencudahy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 06:30:19 JST Steven Cudahy Steven Cudahy

    I crept into the studio. The old Steinway was scattering notes through the building and I'd followed the trail from my office. A hunched figure sat at the keys. It hit a wrong note and stopped, sighed, played the part again, slowly, over and over.

    "In or out," the figure said.

    I moved closer.

    "Never could get this bit right. This was my piano, you know. Originally."

    "It's from 1864," I whispered.

    "Well, practice makes perfect."

    #wss366 - practice.
    #MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic

    In conversation about a year ago from mastodon.scot permalink
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    Steven Cudahy (stevencudahy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 05:11:54 JST Steven Cudahy Steven Cudahy

    every
    single
    person
    who has ever
    fucked me over
    looked like me
    had pale skin
    was born here
    wore a uniform
    or a suit
    and fitted right in
    every
    single
    person
    who has ever
    stolen from me
    was successful
    exemplary
    loved the flag
    and was wealthier
    by far than i am
    forgive
    me
    then
    if i refuse
    to hate
    the people
    i'm expected
    to hate

    #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 8th February 2024 - foreign.

    In conversation about a year ago from mastodon.scot permalink
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    Steven Cudahy (stevencudahy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 06:45:58 JST Steven Cudahy Steven Cudahy
    • Aethelshane

    make your five jobs work
    but why is that how it is
    who does this work for

    #575prompt #senryu #haiku #poetry #SmallPoems #Writing

    With thanks to @aethelshane for the prompt - 319 - hustle.

    In conversation Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 06:45:58 JST from mastodon.scot permalink
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    Steven Cudahy (stevencudahy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 05:50:35 JST Steven Cudahy Steven Cudahy

    no one says anything

    later, we forget
    exactly where the grave was
    if that's not too grand a name for it

    a scrabbled hole in sun-cracked soil
    scraped with sticks
    and the rusty trowel we found

    dusty tiny corpse

    did we all dream something
    in that blasting heat
    reddened and irritable
    but still capable
    of hope

    perhaps that shadow of quick wings -
    remembering through act -
    that fever dream wasn't mine alone
    and so worth something

    #Poetry #Writing #vss365Today prompt - 11th December - volant.

    In conversation Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 05:50:35 JST from mastodon.scot permalink
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    Steven Cudahy (stevencudahy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 06:06:39 JST Steven Cudahy Steven Cudahy

    and the sky was art
    remember
    it looked intentional

    one of us
    was stung by a bee
    in the aching afterwards
    hidden in long grass

    like petrol
    on a puddle
    that sky
    raw bleeding poppy
    through bruised fushia
    lightening to lavender
    on its way to bluebell

    we found the bee
    a gorgeous little furry corpse

    "perhaps pollution"
    one of us said of the sky
    as if we even knew what that meant

    we buried the bee
    beneath the gentle grass

    #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt #vss365Today prompt - 24th Nov - lavender.

    In conversation Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 06:06:39 JST from mastodon.scot permalink
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    Steven Cudahy (stevencudahy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 06:18:01 JST Steven Cudahy Steven Cudahy
    • Aethelshane

    the whole of you gone
    shadowed in raw folds of cloud
    pale moon resurrects

    #575prompt #senryu #haiku #poetry #SmallPoems #Writing

    With thanks to @aethelshane for the prompt - 295 - renew.

    In conversation Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 06:18:01 JST from mastodon.scot permalink
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    Steven Cudahy (stevencudahy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 03:24:28 JST Steven Cudahy Steven Cudahy

    i'm everything
    stars had no use for
    the waste product of a cosmic joke

    against the deep blue you can see them laughing

    and so
    here we are

    enough, maybe
    for now

    so small in the blink
    of our quick borrowed carbon
    fuzzy energy
    ambling

    but how are you everything
    and how do you convince me
    i'm anything and something
    and not nothing

    for a blink
    give or take
    for the space and time
    of a smile

    Thanks @FrostPoem for the prompt - complex.

    #MicroPrompt #Poetry #MicroPoetry #Writing

    In conversation Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 03:24:28 JST from mastodon.scot permalink
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    Steven Cudahy (stevencudahy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 04:16:03 JST Steven Cudahy Steven Cudahy

    slow to get the point
    sleep deprived
    my laughter mania-trimmed

    what was hiding in the darkness
    when i was a child
    was preferable to nothing

    at least a monster
    would wake me for a reason
    unlike my traitor mind

    and so here i am
    fuzzy and out of focus
    to myself

    Thanks @FrostPoem for the prompt - dozy.

    #MicroPrompt #Poetry #MicroPoetry #Writing

    In conversation Friday, 10-Nov-2023 04:16:03 JST from mastodon.scot permalink
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    Steven Cudahy (stevencudahy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 02:43:12 JST Steven Cudahy Steven Cudahy

    let's leave a pile of words here
    i don't know if you need them
    but look-
    they fit together
    whimsical velvet owlflight swoop
    or focused 'how are you?'
    a re-run race round rubies radiant ribboned
    machinery to build a house from skeins of clotted letters
    spiders dancing in snow
    or my hand open if skin will help
    infinite opportunity
    no spells here though
    just play - you choose
    and okay, if we're lucky, yes
    magic(ish)

    Thanks @FrostPoem - tact.

    #MicroPrompt #Poetry #MicroPoetry #Writing

    In conversation Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 02:43:12 JST from mastodon.scot permalink
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    Steven Cudahy (stevencudahy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 15:13:42 JST Steven Cudahy Steven Cudahy

    dash the ivory flood
    across the kitchen floor
    and the glass turned to diamonds
    or the fangs of an ice dragon
    no one is crying over this
    a plate is next
    combatants revelling, almost
    in a release neither wants
    to admit enjoying

    forgotten by them
    beneath the table
    too scared to chance
    that distant crashing thunder
    and howling storm
    the white blood
    of the ice dragon
    is reaching
    slowly reaching
    for me

    Thanks @FrostPoem for the prompt - milk.

    #MicroPrompt #Poetry #MicroPoetry #Writing

    In conversation Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 15:13:42 JST from mastodon.scot permalink
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    Steven Cudahy (stevencudahy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 17:31:20 JST Steven Cudahy Steven Cudahy

    days eat their own tails
    and i think each time
    if i can just sleep
    if i can remember a ring
    made from daisies
    on a summer day
    before i dreaded
    the cycling crushing
    repetition

    as a child
    i often dreamt of bread
    within which lurked living wires
    which would infest my body
    coil round my heart
    when i took a bite
    eventually they escaped my dreams
    and my waking became haunted
    instead

    and so it continues
    yesterday eats tomorrow

    Thanks @FrostPoem - ring.

    #MicroPrompt #Poetry #MicroPoetry #Writing

    In conversation Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 17:31:20 JST from mastodon.scot permalink
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    Steven Cudahy (stevencudahy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 17:22:19 JST Steven Cudahy Steven Cudahy

    every waking is a shock
    as if sleep is forgetting

    four-something if i'm lucky
    and adrenaline everywhere

    sitting on the bed edge
    sorting which splintered ghosts are real
    and which are real, but dreamt

    reassembling myself
    because

    i'm not sure
    habit, i suppose

    monsters were no easier
    when they were under the bed
    than now they share my skin

    though as a kid
    i wasn't afraid to ask for help
    and still believed it could come

    Thanks @FrostPoem - early.

    #MicroPrompt #Poetry #MicroPoetry #Writing

    In conversation Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 17:22:19 JST from mastodon.scot permalink
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    Steven Cudahy (stevencudahy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 05:10:52 JST Steven Cudahy Steven Cudahy

    i don't remember
    declaring war on my heart
    but what else explains
    the violence i do myself
    laying siege to its chambers

    Thanks @FrostPoem for the prompt - heart.

    #tanka #MicroPrompt #Poetry #MicroPoetry #Writing

    In conversation Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 05:10:52 JST from mastodon.scot permalink
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    Steven Cudahy (stevencudahy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 22:07:21 JST Steven Cudahy Steven Cudahy

    distilled from the blood of others
    this thing you get showered with
    big shining teeth
    and hunger insatiable
    raise the glass, toast the past
    prove yourself an ass
    drink the weakness of the weak
    as you ooze among them
    while the strong are buried in early graves
    if they're lucky
    named on lists somewhere
    perhaps even carved in cold stone
    if recorded at all
    drink deep the gilded light
    drink the glory
    i hope it chokes you

    Thanks @FrostPoem - glory.

    #MicroPrompt #Poetry #MicroPoetry #Writing

    In conversation Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 22:07:21 JST from mastodon.scot permalink
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    Steven Cudahy (stevencudahy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 05:23:09 JST Steven Cudahy Steven Cudahy

    delivering
    six prompt poems
    per day

    is much harder
    on some days than
    others

    my creative
    machinery
    falters

    near exhausted
    and yet doesn't
    quite fail

    perhaps i'm just
    bloody-minded
    enough

    to keep pushing
    against the tide
    hopeful

    although for what
    i'll admit i
    don't know

    Thanks @FrostPoem for the prompt - delivery.

    #MicroPrompt #Poetry #MicroPoetry #Writing

    In conversation Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 05:23:09 JST from mastodon.scot permalink
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    Steven Cudahy (stevencudahy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 15:27:12 JST Steven Cudahy Steven Cudahy

    Too long for character limit.

    Also, it's possible this is the most nonsensical thing I have ever written. But I sort of love it.

    #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt #vss365Today prompt - 21st October - see.

    In conversation Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 15:27:12 JST from mastodon.scot permalink

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    Steven Cudahy (stevencudahy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 05:34:46 JST Steven Cudahy Steven Cudahy

    please don't trap me deep in the dark earth
    to come visit and mourn my past worth
    place no stone on my head
    to make sure i stay dead
    showing name and dates of death and birth

    Thanks @FrostPoem for the prompt - inscription.

    #limerick #MicroPrompt #Poetry #MicroPoetry #Writing

    In conversation Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 05:34:46 JST from mastodon.scot permalink
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    Steven Cudahy (stevencudahy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 06:44:28 JST Steven Cudahy Steven Cudahy

    is it beverage
    or meal, kitchen chimera
    tasty confusion

    Thanks @FrostPoem for the prompt - soup.

    #MicroPrompt #Poetry #MicroPoetry #Writing

    In conversation Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 06:44:28 JST from mastodon.scot permalink
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    Steven Cudahy (stevencudahy@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 06:09:17 JST Steven Cudahy Steven Cudahy

    the breath when it's done
    regardless what 'it' might be
    is the day's best breath

    Thanks @FrostPoem for the prompt - relief

    #MicroPrompt #Poetry #MicroPoetry #Writing

    In conversation Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 06:09:17 JST from mastodon.scot permalink
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    Person of disinterest. Here to imbibe new things and, hopefully, learn some stuff along the way.He/him.Profile pic is a balding white man with a beard and glasses. You know the type.I work for a large and largely uninteresting organisation. No, not that one. Not that one either. You're probably wasting your time trying to guess.Opinions are my own, obviously. Unless I've been possessed, in which case they're those of whichever deity is test-driving my brain.

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