Poems

Original Poetry by Warren Gaston

Still Snow

Day after day, still snow. White weight grips the ground. Frozen daylight hangs in trees. Ice stays where water ran. A small wind blows, nothing moves. A bird’s black eye watches.

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Hidden Neighbors

My neighbors live behind a fence, inside a door, beneath a roof, within four walls. I see a garage door closing. I hear children  playing. I hear a dog barking. . Perhaps, after a storm, we will meet.  

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Taboo

Wherever you find a taboo, you find fascination. Wherever you find fascination you find an exiled god.  the ram’s horn                   blares “no”   but anyway    worshipers        enter    a collapsed temple disturbing     foot-            prints       in ancestral...

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What Does Time Tell?

I. The world is thick with mystery. We pretend we comprehend. And we do. And we don’t. II. If you ask, what time is it, everyone knows how to answer. An analog clock, a digital watch, a cable tv box in the bedroom, a microwave or stove in the kitchen, all will tell...

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Going About a Poem

ONE Don't be casual with a poem. If you want to know a poem, move in. TWO Don't tell a poem what it says. Ask a poem what it is saying. THREE If the poet and the poem are both speaking, listen first to the poem, then the poet. FOUR The poem is not you. The poem is not...

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Let

The cosmos shouts the great orgasmic “Let!” Let all be released. Let all be allowed. Let it begin. Let night be day. Let the nightingale sing the sunrise. Let the singer have a tree, a green branch in the sky. Let there be a flowing stream and a receiving pool. Let a...

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Houses

Houses have walls, roofs, and floors. Houses cover us from bad weather: from wind and rain from cold and snow, from sun and heat, But houses do not cover us from inner weather.  When we walk in through the door, we bring our inner weather with us: irritations and...

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Tuesday Morning

Our day star has chased the night stars away. I sip my first coffee. Caffeine rustles my senses, a bird sings in the pine tree. So much world I must choose to ignore to briefly maintain this pleasure.      

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