Poems
Original Poetry by Warren GastonCentury XX
The twentieth century, famous for accomplishing both industrialized mass murder and industrialized convenience
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...
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...
This Is It
This is it. This is it. This is it. Now, not forever. This is it. The next 'it' will arrive post- haste. t
Waste Speech
vapid chatter in- consequential mutter tongue- tied stammer un- managed lips slip slough syllables into sloppy silence
An Alliance of Courage
Normandy, France June 6, 1944 Remember what was done. Remember what was undone.
Blue Sun
Careless flare, what wit makes you blue in your atomic wakefulness, your life-bestowing anger, your seething heat and light? Is it me that saddens? Is it all of us? Is it the calamity of prioritizing convenience we have foisted on the world you burn alive. All day...
Poetry
Poetry- verbal visceral memory reflected
Zeno the Stoic
When something he wanted to happen didn’t happen, he was not disappointed. When something he didn’t want to happen happened, he was not angered. When something he wanted to happen happened. he was not gleeful. Zeno the Stoic taught us to lead a well-tempered life....