Poems

Original Poetry by Warren Gaston

The Art of Doing One Thing

In modern life, it is hard not to do two things at the same time, at least two, maybe more. Doing one thing takes concentration and doing one thing well takes practiced skill.

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Reading Federico Garcia Lorca

On my patio, a fly and I are reading Federico Garcia Lorca. My eyes lift words from the page. The fly lands, walks among letters, commas, puzzles at a question mark, trips over four syllable words, walks, not reads, between lines. The fly knows neither the word aqua...

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The Common Wealth of the United States of America

Today, July 4, 2024, we sing the birthday song to our "sweet land of liberty."  The birthday present we gifted ourselves is a fundamental crisis. I say ‘gifted’ because on each birth anniversary we need to remember the labor pains of our national birth. Realizing how...

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Century XX

The twentieth century, famous for accomplishing both industrialized mass murder and industrialized convenience  

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The Confession 

I was sitting in a hotel lobby in Barcelona, Spain waiting for my traveling companions. A woman approached me, someone I didn't know. “Excuse me,” she said, sitting down in the empty chair beside me. . “May I ask you a favor?” “Certainly,” I said out of polite...

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Vive la Difference

“Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time       which could be our ‘salvation’ if we thought it through.” — Luce Irigaray Several years ago for Father’s Day, my step-daughter gave me a tee-shirt. Printed in bold letters on the front were the words: Radical...

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