Tag Archives: time

I So Truly Hate the Fire of Time

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Gene Stewart

I so truly hate the fire of time Burning all we’ve come to know Taking cherished lives away Removing marks they made in snow Crushing carvings stone by stone Obliterating every trace of us Unplanned, stochastic obsolescence Devouring mindlessly duration’s … Continue reading →

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Brighten Up

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Nothing hidden is lost.  Nothing found is new.  To reveal is to re-veil what is found, to put it into a new guise.  Reality is a solid, eternal amidst the flicker of firelight and thought. —  Frater Aujen Tetari, erro … 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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Resting His Head On Her Tombstone

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Gene Stewart

I still want to hear I still want to know I still want to cuddle To talk in the dark I still want to be with you I am still always here I am afraid of moving I am yours, … Continue reading →

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Free From Before Free To: Late Night Thoughts

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Gene Stewart

I grew up poor but never wanted for anything, so it’s always puzzled me why I feel such gnawing anger and outrage. It hits me now, at age 54, that I got this way not because I was oppressed, although … Continue reading →

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Speak Carefully, It May Be Forever

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Gene Stewart

Carl Sagan wrote, “What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind … Continue reading →

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