Forecast
inner battle
raging
waged behind
ribbed cage
mind’s blade
never fading
dark shoots
through core
like bamboo
stalks
outside shell
a star dies
overshadows
cardboard cutouts
forecast stones
shatter 2D statues
dust collects
expecting
spring cleaning
in everwinter
cold snap
warmth melts
ice stabs
soul shivers
impatient wait
for karmic slivers
looking for
bright side
in blinding field
of minus signs
Steve Shultz is a poet, journalist and music aficionado from Denver, CO. He is a designer with The Denver Post, and has been writing poetry for 15 years. He is better known in the online poetry community as Uneven Stephen. This poem also appears in the recent collection of offerings for the Take It To The Streets Poetry project. An effort to get words to people who couldn’t normally get to them.
Steve blogs at Fractures Phrases and you can follow his words and recent postings on twitter! @fracturedphrase
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Steve has such a fantastic voice within his writing. His style is both unique and original. His powerful lines speak 1000 words beyond what is viewed, and the mind is always freed to take whatever direction it feels within the pieces. I have no doubt I could pick out his work in a sea of thousands…I am particularly drawn to the word play and rhythm in this write. Fierce is a word I like to use to describe his work.
“dust collects
expecting
spring cleaning
in everwinter”
fabulous.
LOVE his blog.
I like short lines that say so much such as these. great poem, thank you.
good stuff there, Steve!