National Poetry Month: What It Takes

What It Takes Will the day break cold? Shattering all regretful aches? Will the world turn old? Will I remain steadfast bold? Do whatever consequence takes? Will the day break cold? Will I dance in sunshine gold? Or drown in all the bitter stakes? Will the world turn old? What am I fated to behold?... Continue Reading →

National Poetry Month: Now You Tell Me

Now You Tell Me After the roses After the smiles Now you tell me After the kisses After the promises Now you tell me After the late nights After our dreams Now you tell me After the ebb and flow After the tears Now you tell me After our life together After all of your... Continue Reading →

National Poetry Month: Passengers

Passengers   Steel-encased community ready for an airplane odyssey soaring from gravity, yet... only another mundane odyssey Noise and crowds, dour faces waiting for the next departure packed like sardines, embarking on their daily train odyssey Far from the Aegean, bobbing on the sea like a crumbling cork pleasure cruising, seeking existential solace on a... Continue Reading →

National Poetry Month: Something Else

  Something Else Is it malaise? No, not that. Is it discontent? A little, perhaps. Is it disappointment? In part. I think... it is something else Something bigger A sensation A vibration Of the world turning Of the world burning I can’t shake it and I can’t fake it anymore. © A. F. Stewart 2017... Continue Reading →

National Poetry Month: Lie until Broken

Lie until Broken Ignorance is bliss Ignorance is lie Lie is happiness Lie is illusion Illusion believed Illusion becomes truth Truth exists Truth fades Fades from sight Fades from telling Telling fibs Telling silence Silence is normal Silence is fear Fear lives Fear breathes Breathes inside Breathes change Change lanes Change perspective Perspective bends reality... Continue Reading →

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