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Steve Silas Hendrickson

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30 year old introvert and bachelor. 🌈🇵🇭 Mamunduong tawo Autodidact | Folklorist | Lyrical | Mytho-confessionalist | “I shall never love you even in death.” Codora-kai || Haine🦋 || Chūdoku-sha (中毒者) || Kurage (クラゲ) ||

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Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 8d

@malformed-poetry.bsky.social #MPPrompt #poetry #Writing #WriterCommunity

The Hollow Man

Never trust an avoidant
To keep their promises—
They waver and never keep their word,
Weak praises— weak nature,
Their fraud disguised in smiles,
Their actions backed by fear—
A fear they cast on others
Poor things they tear asunder.
A missing piece in their demeanor,
Is a victim they can unravel—
Until they're hollow just like them...
Just like I was.....

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Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 6h

Not a poem this time, but a sneak peak into a part of my culture that resonated with me a long time ago.

#Bicolano #philippines #thoughts #language #folklore

I remember a local phrase from where I live:

“Mamunduong tawo.”

It’s used to describe people like me.

When I once asked my professor about its origin, he told me it came from an old belief:

that sadness is born from worldly things, and that only by letting go of them can one enter heaven, where true happiness exists.

So when someone is sad, they say that person: the “tawo”, becomes tied to the world, the “mundo”, and weighed down by it.

It’s a Bicolano belief, likely influenced by the early spread of Catholicism in our region, but I was never able to ask for clarification, and its authenticity.

It does make some sense however.

Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 21h

The storm has just left.
I peeked through the blinds, and I
Sighed in great relief.

#poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #poetrycommunity

Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 1d

Healing is never linear...

#poem #poetry #BlueskyPoetry #SkyPoetry

Teatime

The kettle is barely hot, even to my touch.
I placed some leaves inside, not ruminating—
You're there laughing and smiling, it's too much.
I'm here, still living, breathing, unpacking.
Just grabbed a book and sat beneath a tree,
You're sharing pics and smiles with friends.
Can't let this story die, but wanted to be free—
I'm happy with my purchase but....it sends
A message that I can't be with you, it hurts.
Oh well, my tea is ready. Let me pour a cup.

Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like I missed out on a lot of Filipino gay authors that now I'm gonna have to play catch up.

*adds to cart, checkout every single book I fancy....*

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 1d

Was sick of being
An accessory to your
Excessive wasting.
#blueskyrelay #accessory #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

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Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 1d

It's been ages since I last revisited my love for reading. I tried to do it a few months after my first ex broke up with me but I didn't have the mental clarity to stay focused back then. Now, I do.

I'm excited for Red White and Royal Blue especially!

#books

A set of four books:

The Emperor of Gladness- Ocean Vuong
Heartstopper Volume 5- Alice Oseman
Great Japanese Short Stories- Paul Morikawa
Red, White, & Royal Blue- Casey McQuiston

Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 2d

While you scream one final outburst
That lasted hours into a final riot

#MPPrompt #poem #poetrycommunity #writing #WriterCommunity

Flowing Deeply

Finally, your heat is dissipating,
It's flowing seamlessly outside my vision.
Bright ember making way for quiet scintillating—
Your heat is making way for calm—revision
Of views beyond passion and into quiet

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Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 2d

I wanted to lean
On someone steady, sturdy.
Like trees, calm and tall.

#poem #poetry #haiku #senryu

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Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 2d

We have a storm passing my area this weekend....

Time to pack clothing just in case we get flooded like last year's tropical storm Kristine.

Forecast track of Tropical Depression Ramil as of Friday, October 17, 2025. It will strengthen into a tropical storm by October 18, 2025 before slamming into the Bicol Region as a tropical storm by afternoon of October 18.

Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 2d

Someone help me....

I can't stop writing...

I should be sleeping...

Ahhhhh

a close up of a person holding a cat

Alt: a close up of a person holding a cat

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Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 3d

All promises no action,
All sunshine, no warmth.

Don't need... don't want....

#MPPrompt #poem #poetrycommunity #writing #WriterCommunity

Sections

Love how I was rearranged into
The monster you made me out to be.
If I'm the one who has to say sorry,
I'll do it once your sunshine fades into
The nothingness you sent me, truly.
Your inkblots a stain on pristine skin—
It's an eternal mark I cannot section
Like how you played me like a PlayStation,
Incredible how little you did but you
Destroyed me— all promises no action,
All sunshine, no warmth.... I don't need...
I don't want....a new...shade of blue....
Another....direction.... that's....what....
Deep—breaths—hands—shake—this—ache—des—pise
Tight—chest—it—hurts—ox—y—gen—rea—lise
Sit—down—pa—per—bag—re—set—me—now
Pres—sure—spikes—chest—tight—give—space—fight

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Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 3d

The rain patters on—
I hugged the closest thing to
Me, myself, pillows.

#poem #poetry #haiku #senryu

Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 3d

Time to head out for work.

View of a city on a bridge taken while riding a motorcycle.

Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 3d

Today....

Isn't starting well for me already, so I'll just cuddle with my pillows before I go to work....

Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 3d

You can repost it, yes, but if I have missed any trigger warnings please let me know so I can add them retroactively as a comment or something perhaps.

Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 4d

This is probably my most personal, and by extension, my darkest work yet. Please read with discretion.

TW: su*cide, mental illnesses

@malformed-poetry.bsky.social

#MPPrompt #poem #poetrycommunity #writing #WriterCommunity #mentalhealth

When I Finally Forget

I thought I was thinking
About that interaction we had
But I could barely recall blinking,
I didn't think it would be this bad.
I reach for wisps I cannot touch—
Small fragments I couldn't hold,
White walls around me keeping me clutch.
OD they said, another attempt, I'm told.
But I don't remember—it's too hard
To try to keep recollecting.

If the sun refused to shine—
Today it didn't, I don't even know
What the sun feels like.

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Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 4d

If the sun refused
To shine, would I be in your
Mind when it all ends?

#poem #poetry #haiku #senryu

Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 5d

When your offense at my boundaries ruined my point of view.... I'll question why I let you into my life.

@malformed-poetry.bsky.social

#MPPrompt #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #WriterCommunity

Mind Loom

You lingered and you whispered—
Your ghost of a kiss, still tapered.
Still thinking about our interaction
For the last few weeks, all your actions
Sinking deeper in the depths of my
Memory keeper, I only know your lie—
And if it all ended tomorrow, pretending
I'm pressing play— when you were yelling
How unfair I am for asking boundaries,
They all flare up inside the foundries—

This useless memory-keeper
Why did I even allow you inside this page?

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Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 6d

I should be working but....

I managed to write four poems within the span of two hours.

Help. 😂😭

Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 6d

@malformed-poetry.bsky.social

#MPPrompt #poem #poet #poetrycommunity #writing #WriterCommunity

Where Does The Sky Start?

Where sadness breaks and sunrise starts—
Until I lose the storm I'm forced to bore.

Where Does The Sky Start?

Where storms make way for sunshine,
The stars peer through the clouds,
They're something I can reach, the line
Where I can remove the shrouds
I wore upon myself, a veil that parts
And reveals the stone mask I wore—
Where sadness breaks and sunrise starts—
Until I lose the storm I'm forced to bore.
Where does the sky start?
It started when the sea made way
For mist to vanish and stars had lingered—
A contrast peeling the beauty, made way
For startling sparkles, my gaze have flickered

Beyond what I have felt within the moment,
Set sail for starry futures the ocean lent.

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Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 6d

I woke up early,
Loud voices screaming loudly
I sigh in defeat.

#poem #poetry #haiku #senryu

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Edward Lee @edwardleepoetry.bsky.social · 8d

#poetry #poems #poet #poetrycommunity

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Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 8d

And no, I don't need to sleep now, I just woke up from a five hour...sleep... 😅

Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 8d

Working the graveyard shift has done wonders...damage to my sleep schedule but it has its merits.

I've been awake since 1 AM ish, and I did my waking rituals (eating, brushing teeth, baths), then I sat for three hours writing...

And now it's almost 4:33 in the morning. 😂😱

Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 8d

@malformed-poetry.bsky.social #MPPrompt #poetry #Writing #WriterCommunity

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