by Warren Gaston | Apr 26, 2020
Where I am from there is no river. There is a river, but that’s not where I’m from. Where I am from there is no mountain. There is a mountain, but that’s not where I’m from. Where I am from there is no ocean. There is an ocean, but that’s not where I’m from. Where I...
by Warren Gaston | Apr 24, 2020
Nice people like me ruin the world. You wouldn’t think so, but it’s true. People who can start wars often do and nice people say they shouldn’t. But when called to come, nice people go. Nice people don’t get rich by robbing banks. But people who own banks get...
by Warren Gaston | Apr 22, 2020
The poem Reading a Poem was posted on PBT April 21, 2020. In RED below are some of the thought I put into the poem. Maybe this will help readers get your thoughts out.. If you read a poem and like it, don’t worry. Read it again. ‘Like’ is a lightweight...
by Warren Gaston | Apr 21, 2020
If you read a poem and like it, don’t worry. Read it again. If you read it again and still like it, give it a rest, then read it again. If, on the third try, the word ‘like’ does not does not strike you as poorly chosen and wrong, throw the poem away. Don’t read...
by Warren Gaston | Apr 20, 2020
Last evening [4/19/20] a friend of mine gathered a group of her socially distancing friends together through Zoom for 70 minutes of following the poet Mary Oliver’s Instructions for Living a Life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. After a...
by Warren Gaston | Apr 16, 2020
I watch a slow drain reluctantly swallow water in my bathroom sink. The water seems to sit, appears to wait. Then, a swirl dips center down into a whirlpool of descent, In the pit of my being, a sinking feeling rises, time’s gravity swallows everything...
