—not that they’d admit it before<br/> when time would make them liars. — Stephen T. Kennedy “Unspoken, Denied, Ignored”
Post Type Archives: Poems
Untitled #448 (2013)
I’d rather be star-struck<br/> -than sorrow stuck — Stephen T. Kennedy “I’ll Give You One More Ring”
Untitled #447 (2013)
a scream, a real scream,<br/> runs like wildfire,<br/> livin’ in a kettle spout,<br/> it’s whistlin’ like it’s time for tea, — Stephen T. Kennedy “Supernova”
Untitled #446 (2013)
In third grade, I kissed him,<br/> And he was beautiful,<br/> And I never told him that.<br/> _Inscrutable. — Stephen T. Kennedy “Moby Dick”
Untitled #445 (2013)
I watch the sun come out, and I go for a smoke.<br/> and I’m here picking at my nail-polish, picking at my memories.<br/> I take another drag and taste the filter, time to stamp it out. — Stephen T. Kennedy “Sixteen Watercolors in the Western Tradition”
Untitled #444 (2013)
this is the calm,<br/> the absence of storm. — Stephen T. Kennedy “Cold”
Untitled #443 (2013)
<a href=”http://cherokeeghostwriter.tumblr.com/” style=”text-decoration:underline;”>cherokeeghostwriter</a>: write a poem about confessions Father, we ain’t been much for talkin’ ’n I’m a heartbeat from walkin’, but I’m tired. so damned tired. how many hail marys, how many acts of repentance?dammit father, ain’t bein’ a fag enough? ain’t watchin’ her enough? ain’t losin’ him …
Untitled #442 (2013)
<a href=”http://www.zaharaesque.com/” style=”text-decoration:underline;”>viperslang</a>: write a poem about a kiss. Lightning creates a plasma approaching 28,000 Kelvin, rain drops go pitter-pat, ’n lightning snaps, sizzles, zaps. You kiss like explosions sound, ’n I want, god I want, I want slow motion replays, I want Icarus burnin’, in your lightning temp. lips in your slidin’ against …
Untitled #440 (2013)
I have not slept, not since you told me, wrapped in my arms, my hand on your belly, cradling something no one else could see.what could, what could, what could be.your soft even breath, warm on my arm-hair. I will not sleep. what could, did not, is not. in the moment I drove stake …
Untitled #44 (2015)
there’s that moment when they just keep pushing–the little pry,the half-heard bar.‘n then the damn dam comes crashing down. ‘n with fidget fingers you clutch the ragged ruins,clutching at the clatter sprawl–groping for the pieces of the fall. ‘n they don’t get the damage done, …
