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Steve Silas Hendrickson
@phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social
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"Mamunduong tawo" 🌈🇵🇭

| Vocabularian | Folklorist | Filipino (Bicolano) Poet |

Featured on One Line October Anthology 2025. 🖋️

Working on my first book "When My Purple Met Your Blue" 💜 🩵

Let me be the worst in the most beautiful way possible!
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Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 7d
It's an honor to be a part of this collection. 😊

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And I can't get along with you right now...

#MPPrompt #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #SkyPoets #writer #WritingCommunity
Notepad I'm trying to write right now While you're streaming on TV... Watching you, a clown yourself Baby I could write for free. And all it took from me to walk at least a little farther, Seeing you mock me online.. And I keep seeing you cry online tearing that you have no friends, Maybe that was my mistake.... Maybe you were my mistake.... And all of my pills Went missing again.. That's what happens when you have to heal. And all of the times, You left me here behind.. I tell myself I only need to heal... And I can't get along with you right now... Maybe I'm the problem. Maybe I should write this. Maybe I should paint this. Maybe I.. maybe I... Maybe you're the problem..
December 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Heartbeats and heart skips
Your brain waves and thought weaves—

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Drag to Wonderland Just give me what I'm due for, The heart you took from my core, My body's shaking even more My fingers trembling so.. Heartbeats and heart skips Your brain waves and thought weaves— This frisson I've been dipping A static through my skin.. Ahh, I can't forgive! I can't forgive! A bunch of useless humans you are! I can't forgive! I can't forgive! I cannot! Ahh, delinquent thoughts! Gasping through hands Breathing, breathing Eyes moving sideways Ahh I can't forgive! I can't forgive! I'll drag you down here, too! Yeah, you were my star, My ge—ge—genesis. You were everything once to me, My darling everything Now, you're afar My ne—ne—nemesis. May a hundred hands frisson you inside!
December 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Beneath the glamor and sheen..
I'm just alone in my bubble.
Who is he now?

#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #SkyPoets #writer #WritingCommunity
Alone In My Bubble There's this tumultuous boy... Who had a tumultuous life And a tumultuous home Built on hundreds of lies... And I thought I would be Eventually.... Live happily with a spree Beyond my mother's hurt And my father's crimes.... And I'll expand my bubble To those who saw my trouble, And thought it was doable To keep this lonely boy... In the end, they all faded out, And left my shiny bubble.. And in me grew my doubt— Inside I was almost about To pop my tiny bubble... No longer shining or gleaming... And eventually, and probably... I will let myself creatively Allow people inside my bubble— And so much of me could live again, Alone in my bubble, I'm never subtle.... Soon, I'll let it pop...
December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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You only said I'm sorry,
When you knew I'd grieve with worry

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Fade Out I'm better off fading out. Ending Stream wasn't a goodbye, That was just another lie. The messages followed don't deny— With every time you'd cry, You only said I'm sorry, When you knew I'd grieve with worry, For you only wanted to bury, What we had so you can scurry. Yes, the farewells and instant blocking Did leave in me a scarring, But at least there's no more warring, And peace I have been living. Yes, I guess it was good of me, I'm better off fading out.
December 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Hot daddy ogre 🥵

Also, not Tentacle (the octopus plushie) silently judging me 😭

Btw, this is from I Got Reincarnated As A Slime. I'm binge watching anime as of late, I finished Bofuri, now moved to Slime, and currently watching Campfire Cooking every Wednesday.
A scene in I Got Reincarnated As A Slime featuring Benimaru, an ogre.
December 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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It's a grand, brand new flock,
Without my old lock.

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Deus/x Crisis It's a pity worlds like these are both Ugly and beautiful, a border— I played around with the concept of My cunning and alchemy— (for me) It's a darkness I'm willing to face. May my endeavor be easy to ace, Drown out their noise! It's a whole brand new world! A brand new canon. A litany I'm willing to verse, My crisis trance. It's a grand, brand new flock, Without my old lock. It's a definition of a world remade, Indicted by nobody— It's my Deus ex trance, Advance! Balance the old world, Dance in the new world. See through the old world, Embrace the new!
November 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Finally, after a year of trying over and over again, I finally got a perfect shot of Mayon Volcano while riding a bus.

My previous attempts always had clouds covering it, destroying my chances.

This was taken somewhere in Guinobatan, Albay.

#nature #volcanoes #mayon
Mayon volcano, also known as the volcano with the perfect cone.
November 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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About me:

I'm just a Filipino poet with random thoughts and an appetite for anything I fancy.

I love video games, Japanese indie rock/metal, Lofi, and classical music.

Here are four characters/people that best describes me.
Tasmanian Devil from the Looney Tunes Wan Shi Tong from Avatar, the Last Airbender Yui Hirasawa from K-On! Yoshiatsu from Dadaroma
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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*grabs my blanket and cries* 😂😭
rayhourigan.bsky.social Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 5d
Still mourning the loss
Of the thorn in my side, a
Punishment glutton.
#Haikufeels #thorn #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
November 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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One is crying over his ex even though he's in a relationship, calling his ex an avoidant, etc, when he made her stay to be friends.

The other is still crying about the issues of the Vtuber community.

Good riddance.
It's funny when people think you were the problem... but you're no longer in their life and they still have the same problems.
November 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social
It's an honor to be a part of this collection. 😊

Please grab a copy whenever you can! It's an amazing collection of our craft and beauty.

buymeacoffee.com/anneapart/e/...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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I have a scheduled procedure tomorrow regarding the benign growth they found in my colon...

I'm used to hospital settings, but, it doesn't make them less nerve wracking.
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social
I thought I had no tears left to cry... But....

Turns out there were more left....

I cried to a river but turns out I am a waterfall...

I need a moment...
November 27, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Wishful Thinking

I don't wish.... I don't wanna start...
It's a painful affair...
It'll wound my heart.
We're worlds apart....

There was a boy I knew...
And I loved him so...
Found someone new..
He said I do.

I'm not that boy.....

#poem #poetry #freeverse #SkyPoets
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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There are no benches,
You're always in the front row!

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House of Grief The house, it's haunted! Is a messy home full of mirrors! Echoing distracting me with views from my past! Each one, so ugly, My tears have never been so clearer! Cigarettes, Zolodin litter the floor! AHHH It rattles, With each scream and each chatter, Reflection of my battles Relentless and better, With every day, a crying day, It cackles, Inside its halls, no falter, It doesn't need to tattle on, It just goes on, No need to burn.... There are no benches! You're always in the front row! A train ride passing each scene in full front view! Kitchen, with no pots, Only boiling my regrets. Spice racks, ovens bursting with steam... It's a horror stan's love affair. With a full ride and budget fair.... There is one rule, you cannot stare... You must ride on the train to share...
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Late night wishes always reflect what the heart wants but the mind knows is impossible.

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As If Forever Exists To the one who loved me, There were things I always wanted... Our words exchanged always haunted My nightmares, see... Why can't fate keep us both? Why can't love persist our troubles? Was our romance doomed like bubbles, I thought we swore an oath... Your tears melted me. My frozen heart see... I thought we're a we... You were my degree... As if forever existed now, It's a foolish thing I thought before.. I really believed it even though It's foolish! You're already out the door! My wish joined my tears on the floor!
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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My weekend so far:

-I watched Wicked: For Good, surviving 18 hours of no sleep.
-Woke up six hours later, started cooking for my coworkers catering (she paid).
-Volunteered at a nun's kitchen for their outreach program.

I am beyond exhausted at this point. But it's worth it.
November 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Provide unto others what you want others to provide....

#MPPrompt #poem #poetrycommunity #writer #WritingCommunity
Rest I'll bleed for you, while I'm loving you.. Rest in peace, I'll give your peace for me... it's true.. I'll let myself walk processions While chanting my confessions— They're filled with divine intentions, Provide unto others what you want others to provide.... In peace and quiet we'll meet with pieces, And lease our heaven without the heathens, For now you'll rest away from mortal danger, I'll bear your casket so we will be together. I'll weep for you, while I'm loving you... Rest in peace, Just leave your peace for me, to do... And I will drape your bed with leaves You love.. And then we'll meet... Again!
November 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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I watched Wicked: For Good today and...

Wow...

That was an experience and an emotional whiplash I haven't felt in months...the pleasurable kind.

Time to sleep now. I've been awake since 11 PM and it's now 4:20 PM for me and your man need sleep!

#WickedForGood
It's me. Hi! The movie theater before the start of the film. The movie credits, with the name Gregory Maguire on the screen.
November 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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I caught the lie you made, venom for me,
And you should know.

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Words Meant For Me I left from the liars that watered the fire I know I ignited myself... I know I can't fight their evil and nightmares And I...never asked for their Hell... You've got nerve... No, we're not meant to be Together.... So you planned it all, All the lies, unto meee... Words of yours, But I don't want your words for me. I don't want it. Please...your words for me Venom to me. Words for me, venom to me.. Please... your words for me, None for me... I caught the lie you made, venom for me, And you should know.
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Lately I've been talking about how I'm smiling and happy as of late...

That I never get to talk about the days I still wake up randomly from flashbacks, followed up by crying fits right after, then I fall asleep.

I feel like talking about that is taboo, and I don't know how else to parse it.
November 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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I'm avoiding all social media at the moment so I can avoid any spoilers for Wicked 2.

I want it to be fresh for me when I watch it this Sunday.

Good luck to me....
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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It's funny...

Before I'm always booked with activities daily with barely enough time for myself....

Now I have too much free time and...idk what to do with it other than well....do what I do all the time...

Which is mostly nothing these days...
November 18, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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This is meant for a certain someone...

#loss #grief #poem #poetrycommunity #folklore
The Weighing Of The Heart I have prayed for your safe passage Through the confines of my mind. Is it the way I held you tightly, Or is it I cared too much? I don't want you to lose this message, I know you, you're not that blind, This is the place you must tread lightly, The place where gods themselves can touch. Within the scale our hearts are weighed And broken into what our mind Perceives it to be a hindrance, and Protects it, even if we're apart. All I see are tears to the ground While we are judged with grazing eyes, I'll protect you from their ire Until they start the weighing of the heart.... When our spirts die, may this be a judgment of the mind. When our spirits die, may this be a judgment of our past. Love is ......
November 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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I heard today was World Unfriend Day.

I was the one that got unfriended but...

Therapy helped me see through the exploitation and other subtle things they did.

So.... I guess.... thanks for doing that? 😂
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 AM