Category Archives: Poetry

Unheard Echo & Oblique Re-Entry

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Gene Stewart

How to be free from Contingency When distant edge Is all I see? How to catch up to Family Who rush into Complacency? How to be seen, to Simply be? This ghost existence Murders me. Please notice me. /// /// … Continue reading →

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A Pine Knot’s Sparking Snap

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Gene Stewart

I dipped my rose into your blood To stain it with our monthly love; Unfathomable scents entwined To render us our own intoxicants. Dispelling qualms, our skin aglow In ember light, its warmth suffused With whispers shared, our smiles In … Continue reading →

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Late Night Sneak

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Hope: It’s eternal; An unwound watch spring. A weapon, a tool. A sucker’s bet A manipulator’s best friend. Watch out for hope; Let it in only provisionally. What you hope reveals your illusions. –W B Kek

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Ex Nihilo, Ad Nihilo

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Take their pleasures as they find them Safe behind a numbered door Take their measures as they’re given Find their lovers on the floor Consequence restores renewal Contemplate aftereffect Make their statues where they conquer Waif will huddle in their … Continue reading →

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Excerpt From a Work In Stasis

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Damned kids So desperate to be big threats in their world of hostility and alienation. —welcome back, loser — He swayed, trembling inside, at a street corner. waiting for the light to let him cross. On a bumper sticker he … Continue reading →

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A Tickle of Cavern Echoes

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Our terrors purge our need to conjure demons, to draw threats, to find things we flee from so we can imagine a scorched respite snatched from the fire of simple survival. In this way dim light is cast, a glow … Continue reading →

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Slower, Colder, Darker: Love in the Time of Entropy

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Gene Stewart

The sky is in the water, The water is in the sky. Mountains are coming out of the water. They probe through the frost lines. The sun is shrunken and the wind expanded. We walk the reflections with our eyes … Continue reading →

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Wagging Doggerel

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Strength is weakness when abused Innocence is guilt accused Benign neglect is choice refused Certainty is doubt confused Before you get yourself enthused Remember, rhymes leave us bemused — W B Kek

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Plastic Rap

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Sequestration Perpetrates Devaluation Enervates Our education Penetrates Our dying nation Like a knife. Regulation Mitigates Exploitation Promulgates Equalization Watergates Equivocation Relegates Prevarication Promotes life. /// /// ///

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Passenger’s Lament in Applicant Terms

Posted on July 24, 2013 by Gene Stewart

From whom do you ask permission to write a poem? What department clears the metaphor and simile? Is there a group who approves any meanings that may accrue? Is intention noted and focused will parsed? Do logbooks exist that tally … Continue reading →

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