Category Archives: poetry

Stevieslaw: No Poll Tax This Year.

Posted on June 21, 2011 by stevieslaw

Pennsylvania House Republicans, certain of passing a bill demanding photo id from all voters, conceded today that they would not be able to push through Poll Taxes and literacy tests as part of their new voting rights push.  As you … Continue reading →

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Stevieslaw: Father’s Day

Posted on June 19, 2011 by stevieslaw

Father’s Day Your song sang in my mind today. I longed so to sing it with you. It was one of your sillier songs, and it rolled round and round, like that toy train you bought for me once, when … Continue reading →

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Stevieslaw: My Voices of Central PA. June Article

Posted on June 2, 2011 by stevieslaw

The LAGuide to Voting in America At Stevieslaw, publisher of the Less-intelligent- than- average American Guides (LAG), we recognize that many Americans do not vote. The statistics from the mid-term elections are staggering. In Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett took the governorship … Continue reading →

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Stevieslaw: My Banner Year

Posted on May 5, 2011 by stevieslaw

My Banner Year We stormed out today to face the gardened spring.  First to clear the sorry dead   we adventured with last year— both Lowes and odd name tags still hanging sad and limp from the blackened branches of … Continue reading →

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Stevieslaw: Onion Snow

Posted on March 31, 2011 by stevieslaw

Onion Snow On campus, we have retained a few stately trees, buds just forming forty feet above the stone gray concrete path I use to make my way to class.  I leave my prints upon the leavings of the last … Continue reading →

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StevieslawCulturalUpdate: Times Twitter

Posted on March 25, 2011 by stevieslaw

StevieslawCulturalUpdate: Times Twitter In last Sunday’s NY Times, Week in Review section, Randy Kennedy wrote of Tweet Lit.  He spoke of “Twitterature,” a  book of 80 works of Western literature boiled down into Twitter messages, Science Fiction and Mystery work … Continue reading →

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The Old Stone Steps

Posted on March 17, 2011 by stevieslaw

The Old Stone Steps The grass covered path to the stream runs along the edge of an old growth of hemlock trees, deep, dark green and fragrant. The trees hug the rising ridge and provide screen for the spur of … Continue reading →

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At Charon’s Beachhouse

Posted on March 13, 2011 by stevieslaw

At Charon’s Beachhouse*             Kaddish I knew it all by then I thought. My I-ness had been inspected. I had down pat the sacred handshake and the secret chant. Freudian, Jungian, Reikian, hey. Couched for an hour bibbabbling away.   … Continue reading →

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Not So Fast, Not So Fast

Posted on February 28, 2011 by stevieslaw

Not So Fast, Not So Fast Today, a grim wintry gray has overtaken the brightness, that had us dreaming of spring. It is often that way, here in the shadow of the great lakes. At the edge of my small … Continue reading →

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Stevieslaw: Shortly, Spring.

Posted on February 27, 2011 by stevieslaw

Shortly, Spring Today, a brightness has overtaken the grim wintry gray we suffer here, in the shadow of the great lakes. Our walkways are still patched with the grease of black ice, that makes walking a test of uprightness. But, … Continue reading →

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