i used to hold on to you like you were my life raft, like you were the only thing keeping me afloat when all i wanted was to sink but i couldn’t count on you being there when things got rough, i couldn’t trust that in you, i’d find safety because i never felt safe with you i thought it was sand that slipped through the hourglass but now i feel it’s more like water, cold and powerful and sacred until the moment it pours from your hands

#poetry #poem #vss365 #water

freedom is nice the ability to do what i want when i want to, without having to confer, consider, compromise or quarrel i like being alone to choose what i eat and watch and read, i like to do things on my own terms but then i think of your hands and the way your fingers fit in mine and wrapped together like puzzle pieces, we were skin twins, we couldn’t tell where you end and i begin now look at us, drowning in the mess we made, trying to swim off in different directions away from that safe harbor, learning the secret: nothing about this was ever safe, rescue was never coming

#vss365 #hand #poetry #poem #poetryofbsky #poetsofbsky

give me free a poem

A poem on a cold winter morning when I'm all alone and sad.

#poem #poetry #poetryofbsky #poetsofbsky #heartbreak

Bobby drives me to the dentist a prose poem

#prose #prosepoem #witd #writinginthedark #amwriting

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. - Theodore Roosevelt

My grandma died yesterday morning, after being bed-bound for over a year, and in discomfort, then pain, for far too long.

I love her so much and miss her so much, but we all look at this as a blessing.

Tell the people you love that you love them. A lot. Make it weird.

#quotes #quote

I'm having a really hard time with the word "woke" being used in a derogatory way.

Bounty We called the sea bountiful, as if it had chosen to give. Nets closed like parentheses around the sentence of a shoal. The deck filled with silver fragments of grammar. No promise had been made. Only a word entered the ledger. bounty. And with it the quiet belief that taking was the gift.

Here’s one for today’s #vss365

Love it.

It's funny how every once in a while when I'm making images for my website I have to tell Nano Banana "I'm not that fat" when referencing myself.

Sad, actually.

I was that woman at the pharmacy today who had to pick and choose which prescriptions I was picking up because I couldn’t afford them all at once.

Yay Murica.

#healthcare #enshittification

"All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand." - George Orwell

#writing #writingcommunity #writinglife #writersofbsky #onwriting #amwriting (All the things about writing are on my brain today)

i know you really think you’re nothing much, but you don’t know how fast my heart starts beating when you walk into the room with those maroon shorts and tee shirt looking as comfortable as if this were your home - oh, wait - you don’t think you’re special but i’ve always been crazed over you, there are no excuses for the things we’ve done all in the name of love for me and all in the name of preservation for you, we want to live through this, we have to get through this, we have to remember we’re still the same lovers who met by chance or fate or pure luck but which kind, we ask, which kind?

#poetry #poetryofbsky #vss365 #crazed #veryshortstory #poem #poems

I post them every day on my website, usually first thing in the morning cause I get up at 5

cheney.me

I don't plan on publishing them, if that is what you mean, and so far none of them really tie together.

I am just a sucker for "don't break the chain" challenges. I've been writing a page a day in my journal every morning for 441 days!

I plan on going to 1,000!

I paid for the upgrade version of dailyprompt.com and I use their daily prompt almost every day, unless it's something I feel like I really can't get a story from. But usually it's a hit!

I'm almost to day 50 of posting a 100 word story on my blog.

I'm almost a 10th of the way to impressed with myself.

#writing #amwriting #writingcommunity

I wanted to thumbs down your comment but it seems you agree and don't like it, so thumbs up!

Minuscule you would have been 96 today 
had you lived, had covid not gotten you
alone in a hospital bed 
back in the beginning when 
no would could be with you when you passed for some people, their grandfathers
are just old, creepy people who
are annoying to visit and have to hug to some, they’re a minuscule part of life 
but for a time, you were my world you were my only safe man and
maybe you’ll always be my only safe man
and I sure do miss you even 
after all this time isn’t six years a long time?

#poem #poems #vss365 #poetry #poetrycommunity

crumbling into your arms this whole world could be falling to pieces could literally be crumbling under our feet and i would still think of nothing but you and the way it feels when i wake up and roll right into your arms so you can hold me nothing else on earth can soothe me like you do when you wrap your loving arms around me and when i’m not looking you put the heart back that you ripped out of my chest like i never felt it in the first place copyright cheney meaghan cheney.me

#vss365 #poem #poetry #poetsofbsky #poetryofbsky

when only your arms will soothe me when only your hands will hold me when only your lips will kiss mine i am yours and no one can take you from me because i am holding on tight and will never ever let go

#vss365 #veryshortstory #poetry #poem

Does anyone else at this point think we're just going to NOT have elections in 2028?

i feel like a rather strong woman yet i still quiver at your touches, i still feel like i need them every day to feel safe and loved by you maybe, now, this isn’t a good thing, maybe you’re tired of how much i want to hold you and be held and you’d rather i didn’t so much but that’s like asking me to breathe less air or make my heart beat less beats in a day, it’s not something i can control, my wanting you so much until, i suppose, you make me feel unwanted and then hands off, and we’re off- i can’t live that way Copyright Cheney Meaghan - cheney.me

Here's a little #vss365 #poem and the word of the day was #quiver

unlike other things in life my love for you will never wane there will never come a time when I’m not in the mood to hold you and when you need me, i will always be right here to stand with you and for you you may be the moon who’s pulled my tides toward you like the magic we need to sustain us but you’re also my star the brightest thing in my life that I look up to and count on keep shining, you sweetest pea, i’ll love you until all the stars burn out Copyright Cheney Meaghan

Here's my latest #vss365 #poem, and the prompt today was #wane

#poetry #poetryonbsky #poems #lovepoems

Angry woman yelling "WHAT?" into a phone

I forget that to get people to pay attention to you, you actually have to keep posting things on social media and remind them that you exist and you're doing things.

#100wordstory #microfiction #flashfiction

cheney.me/the-forsaken...

we were both on different paths when we met and veered off track and you never would do this now knowing what you know if you knew then where we’d be today you wouldn’t be here anymore you would have been stronger and you would have saved yourself instead you feel the need to save everyone else but you, you always put yourself dead last in any situation or circumstance and frankly, it’s hard to watch it makes me feel so sad that you’re robbing yourself of joy

#poetry #poem #vss365 #veer #veryshortstory #microfiction #flashfiction

Thank you :-)

Haha, thanks for the laugh! Awesome!

that night when we were drinking on your front stoop and getting up to other things we shouldn’t have that was the closest i ever came to taking my own life i don’t know what made me shut the car door and not jump out onto the highway and in front of the truck but if i had to guess it was the truck driver who ultimately saved my life i’m burden enough to those who make the mistake to love me

It's another #vss365 very short story and one that got dark real quick.

Please note - It was a long long time ago.

#poem #poetry #poetryofbsky #poetsofbsky

A picture of my perfect cat paper standing and posing for the camera

Look at this perfect cat, Piper. There would be no reason to try to remember (see what I did there?) to post #apiperaday or #dailypiper which is actually better cause I’ll catch all the people searching for “daily paper” 👍

#cats #catsofbluesky #catsofbsky #dailycat

Oh hi, remember when I wrote poems here?

#amwriting but just forgetting to share.