Poems
Original Poetry by Warren GastonThe Whispers
we are receivers receivers all receivers satellites (envying stars) zing through atmospheric windows distant scenes battering eyes ideational sounds...
The Vantage Point of Age
I live downstream from what I have made of my life. In the repose of age, I sit by the stream of memory and watch all that I have saved of my original self and all that I have lost of my original self float by.
Hard to Believe
Many things are hard to believe. Truth is one of them.
My Best Friend (for PY)
Who could imagine that you, that I, that we would share earth together for this decades stretch of time? What are the odds? Not 50-50 even. A million-to-one? A vast complexity of accidents gone right. One micro-miniscule choice, one slight deviation from desire, one...
Loaded Words
You think baked potatoes are loaded. And they are. Can be. Chives. Cheese. Sour cream. Bacon bits. But words, oh my god, words. Words are loaded. Every word full of itself and much more. Words come into our mouths dragging the soiled roots of family trees,...
The West’s Fix: An Explication
This is a difficult poem. It needs to be. How else could it give voice to our complex world? The poem delivers experience. The reader must work to get at the poem. Begin with what you recognize and follow the trail. Pay attention to the clash of words: Myhtic and...
The West’s Fix: Poem
Mythic peppermint odd affinities, Cain's envy, the shepherd's crook, and the shape of ‘J’, the candy of salvation. Salvador. Provisional solutions, continuous calamity. Dali. Crutches prop a postlapsarian world....
Today
For some today feels like the day after yesterday, for others today feels like the day before tomorrow. The past weighs heavily for some. The future is weightless for others. Ignoring the past leads to an ignorant future. i
Wrong to Right
When right things are too difficult, we make wrong things seem right.