Makebelief
Once beliefs and dreams came true, when in nineteen hundred eighty nine a wind of change could crumble walls and poverty would wane. Maybe we forget too quickly though. There […]
Once beliefs and dreams came true, when in nineteen hundred eighty nine a wind of change could crumble walls and poverty would wane. Maybe we forget too quickly though. There […]
Today when summer’s stained, a gown from lacerated clouds; It’s bruised as painted smirks on sobbing clowns. When flower beds lay decomposed Today when neither sleet nor sun embrace the […]
I am cold, even though the heat of early summer is adequate. I am cold because I cannot find my heart. Sebastian Barry from A long long way I shiver […]
The score was set in lento major A for a woodwind forest, mountain brass and river timpani, But through the second movement chainsaws, dynamite and profits fortified arrangements into minor […]
Each day, a journey lacking purpose, still envied footsteps washed with wordless waves. The sea looks different when dressed in grey. Cajoled, the pine-tree sentinel clings boldly onto cliffs. Pilgrim, […]
Writing about living in two places (and times)
Poems & Stories from The Author Stew
practising for a whole life
haikai poetry matters
Running in the slow lane
The view from here ... Or here!
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
chronicling my quarter life crisis