Lullabied
We bonded over walking, wide and farwhen over mountains, meadows, moors we paired you let your hair be wind-blown, sun-kissed, freewandering on forgotten paths towards the sea; and when we […]
We bonded over walking, wide and farwhen over mountains, meadows, moors we paired you let your hair be wind-blown, sun-kissed, freewandering on forgotten paths towards the sea; and when we […]
We carried the weight of our dreamsinto the dawn, into daylightand twilight they bitterly screamedentangled in bedsheets we’re doomed repeating the nightmares againand carry the weight of our dreamsforever tethered […]
Manifoldly mirrored,me in many partsor canvas oneness-art that drills belowmy complacent skininto my manic mindkaleidoscoped in fourpoint one dimensions,but when I squeezemy eyes, my focusinto two unfolds, andI am one, […]
May is perfumed with memories, the bird cherry bloom takes me back to the days I left high school, of leaving youth and childhood behind, drunk on cheap wine and […]
Sentenced after false confessionskidnapped into custody,deprived of citizenship, being forcedupon himself the burdenof a country, he’s denounced,being forced to carry on his backthe crimes of others. Once he published booksfrom […]
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
Now we see through a glass, darkly