Stephen A. Rozwenc, an American expat poet who resides in Thailand, shares his poetry
Stephen A. Rozwenc is an American expat poet who resides in Thailand. He has published 6 collections of poetry. Four of his books are currently available on Amazon Books. In the last 12 years alone more than 300 of his poems have appeared in print journals and online venues in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. 20 of his haiku poems will shortly appear in a bilingual anthology published in China. This anthology will be distributed in 16 Asian countries. He has also published a collection of translations of famous Russian poets in collaboration with Victor Peppard, a Russian language, literature, and culture professor from the University of South Florida.
Promising enlightenment
Promising enlightenmentJust inside
This Thai island reef insight
The ocean surface is a lavender pink
Fluid brain
Inside which squirming turquoise delight
And circadian rhythm half light
Willingly accept the privately exchanged language
Of tint and intimacy
Sunrise spoon billed
To roseate genesis
Beyond any word proverb
Promising enlightenment.
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Poem 2
Out here
In the northern Thai heartland
It’s a small city
Surrounded by emerald green rice fields
That cuddle limitless continuum
Eloquence
When full moons rise
Impossible slivers of light
Sew the luminous glow
Of awakened souls
To the tops
Of contemplative palms
Lining the river
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Poem 3
There’s so much genius to see
From a hillside porch
Forest green treetops glint
Brilliance
Tsunami high hills
Cleave sunward in search
Of perpetual illumination
Needle thin slivers of fog
Sew
The silence beyond silences
That covers the defiant and ugly separation
Of shadowy beings
A spotted fawn vaults
Meadow blue iris below
To pursue
The doe’s veering
Safe path partial cure
Selfless rains
Deeper verdant blush
Charms
The predictable demise
Of haughty translucence
Chain lightning strikes its mind-shattering sash
Of enlightenment
Atop
An eastern crest
Ghostly “I” “mine” fears of death
Dispossession and ego
Surrender
Sublime nothingness
A billionth-of-a-second later
Thrush sung stairwells
Spiral
To the heavens
Where they weep and affirm
Rapture.
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