For you

I’ll write like primeval oceans

Hung with swollen voices

That are not from the future

Or the past or the present…

Stephen A. Rozwenc, an American expat poet who resides in Thailand, shares his poem

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, and Asia. 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. In addition, there are presentations on his YouTube channel with him reading his poems.

For You

For you

I’ll write like primeval oceans

Hung with swollen voices

That are not from the future

Or the past or the present

But from the time

That remembers all

That will ever happen.

I’ll recall

How jutting cliffs accepted

A suckling wave and its golden dolphins

Dancing and spraying directions

To never poisoned seas

Like ancient mirages of bees.

I’ll sing

With the dazzling moonlit children

As they laugh and play

In their pretend disguises

That always dive

For love’s fathomless chambers.

I’ll forget

When the befuddled humans

Flowed from midnight’s crack of evil

And leaked their increasing prime rate

That increased their crime rate

Against my imagined baby whales.

I’ll know

Each moment

Breaking open like the eggs

In every full moon tide

Promises

We will exist for one more touch.