Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Selected Poems
    Selected Poems
    Selected Poems
    Ebook98 pages28 minutes

    Selected Poems

    By Gerald R Stanek

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Seventy poems by visionary author Gerald R Stanek, bringing his unique insights and narrative style to free verse.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGerald R Stanek
    Release dateMar 17, 2018
    ISBN9781370212309
    Selected Poems
    Author

    Gerald R Stanek

    Gerald Stanek has written numerous children’s books, several of which have been illustrated by his wife, intuitive artist, Joyce Huntington. The couple lived for a decade in Ithaca, NY, the setting of Gerald’s recent novel, Skirting the Gorge. An artist in residence stay in Sedona inspired The Road to Shambhala. He now resides in Ojai, CA.

    Read more from Gerald R Stanek

    Related authors

    Related to Selected Poems

    Related ebooks

    Poetry For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Nov 1, 2022

      Day after Thanksgiving. I give thanks for Eveto beat the rush of appreciating hernext year and let her sleep inuntil three hundred o’clock.Thank you light on the mountainfor being my star on cloudy nights.Thank you all the guns I’ve never ownedand ki

      6 min read

    • Article

      Malorum Sanatio

      May 10, 2017

      Malorum Sanatio
      7 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Nov 1, 2022

      Animals that moveon small, short legs. Sand that sucks inanything / anyone. Something seenthrough a torn screen I hadn’t expected it. We all havethese genesthese sequencesof numbers I don’t knowhow they arewhat they are. This is youevery dayright now

      2 min read

    • Article

      Six Poems

      Feb 28, 2023

      if you see oneyou can saybad bearright to its faceeven if you’re not sure,maybe it’s goodand has discretionin relationto the delicioustreasury of humangarbage or eventhe eternalwork of bees,who knowsbut it’s okon the pathwith your thunder voiceunequi

      4 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Mar 1, 2022

      i look like someonehealing from an accidentbecause i am someonehealing from an accidentthe book of actsscales falling from saul’s eyesremembering my capacityfor stillnesshow long can i sitwithout looking awaythe fear of god escapingi desperately need

      3 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems

      Nov 1, 2019

      It’s soothing when the newly dead are way older than I am. This guy was 95. His picture—middle-aged, archaic glasses—freezes him somewhere around 1970. But even when they are my age and live in my town and share so many of my habits and interests tha

      6 min read

    • Article

      Exhaling

      Dec 7, 2021

      Around me are fifty or so men, in whose company I will sit and be silent for ten days. I eye them discreetly, wondering who among them is going through a crisis. Who, like me, has a family. Who’s single, who’s been dumped, who’s poor or unhappy. Who’

      52 min read

    • Article

      A Brand-new ending

      Jan 29, 2022

      A Brand-new ending
      7 min read

    • Article

      Named After the Animal

      Oct 13, 2020

      Named After the Animal
      18 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Jan 1, 2020

      In class, I stared because of the blood going blue.The chalk that coated our fingerly teeth.The way we lapped each other (on the shorewhere the flowering). I gave away our location. Smacked my lips in the coat closet.Sucked at her teeth. We, on all e

      4 min read

    • Article

      Dresser

      Sep 1, 2019

      This dresser’s wood has held some air in it—a dresser of air—and the air holdssomething about what it was to be alive sixty years ago:the kitchen brighter than its garbage,the hanging kitchen ornaments almost sarcastically still againstthe strength o

      3 min read

    • Article

      Red Kite Grey Shadow

      Nov 3, 2022

      Red Kite Grey Shadow
      6 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Nov 1, 2022

      A prayer begins & endseach meeting, it starts with the word God& ends with the word difference. The difference, as far as I can tell,between what is offered & what is possible is a chasm. At times it seemswe simply run out of places to be, until we c

      3 min read

    • Article

      What The Magpie Says

      Oct 16, 2022

      What The Magpie Says
      8 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Jan 1, 2024

      I wake from a dreamin which I’m speaking coarselyto my daughter who has taken offher clothes in the middleschool parking lot and is washingher body in ritual preparationto go onto the internet and find outif the rumor she heard abouther favorite YouT

      3 min read

    • Article

      Home

      Feb 25, 2019

      I once lived in a yellow little house. Each morning, birds convened and sang at my bedroom window. The gate was indigo and inside the garden all kinds of flowers rose to kiss the sunny walls. The yellow nest was filled with cherished books, colourful

      5 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Jan 1, 2023

      I wanted something in my heart like a drum.Peaches fell from trees.Suddenly: monsoon season.So, I told myself a storyto soothe myself into a kind of slumbernot like the wrestling recently begunnot like the wager life seems hell-benton becoming. Meanw

      2 min read

    • Article

      Corona

      Jul 1, 2022

      one month today this poem’s trackedcrisis calm and crisis againmuch boredom much time passedby narrating the passage of timewords clung to high brancheshow did I get way up hereI was asleep half asleepavoiding time or hidingbehind under in timetime w

      4 min read

    • Article

      Summer Diary

      Jun 3, 2021

      Every day we are exploring more of the forest park across the road from us, relishing it in small sections, getting to know it like a friend. We have found secret paths among the jays and rooks. We have climbed banks of leaf litter, strayed far off p

      7 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Jul 1, 2023

      Jester-necked pile of ideasfattening by the cutting board.I have known the summer wall,it says slowly. The hillside facessouth into the valley.Dew on the tomato plants.Anything that grows, swarms,bunches itself against a stayand cannot stay. The vine

      4 min read

    • Article

      Letters & Messages

      Jun 25, 2019

      Letters & Messages
      1 min read

    • Article

      Becoming Us

      Jun 23, 2023

      Becoming Us
      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Selected Poems

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Selected Poems - Gerald R Stanek

      cbook_preview_excerpt.htmluW]r6 :iY;Vrg\@@Sї!Qr~ 'bk5557 NUu ~3^a{rRY4x.[P+/2k7H8j- S]O{*fbTdDn'Dl$dYw-ftdӐ0 ۴{el@+M!Xn(S 0Umik QFj$e%?+C3XkWUݒ j_/֪rU4G$>tQ4Xe&Z}d:-{|+͍LJ럯*U"| ӫ%\?,VOBfT8bH_+(y*'u!筑Z _AcÐşET# d6j˒ ՆXIapiƗc&\zB\^ E sfN2&W/9( WDAB@ b'Ix:rpx -BKyP@%mtn5huvKgTtrqK$ҳ;\L(frL 5~tcy<_;R֙OO_T3=\hU)`UΆpb ܼ/+C%@хTM)v|jn;WPWe FE[wΑaWxp?iiWMj[9gSwNARc]sgŭ9&T&NϞlZَg98 hwGrHO<&Kw{UNC(9vQ{ E&1"j?W}LA@ߑz\}Rkk)TGY״CD&PdsLZL@ڵͱYBl2ϐ&7>`TWYIr˽XLqZO
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1