Jeremy Kester's Blog

a poem Restarting often feelsLike moving a boulderAgainst a stone wallNeither budgingEffort producing sweatAnd futilityLike Sisyphus strainingEternity facing himI must keep tryingAs pointless as it may be Photo and words copyright © 2026 by Jeremy C Kester – all rights reserved.Note: this is also cross-posted to Poetically Unlicensed on Substack. Please consider subscribing! Even better, […]

a short story A woman is on the hunt for a werewolf. Dark Targetby Jeremy C Kester Clouds covered the moon, masking most of the light that would have been available to see. And she needed to see. She knew it was there, waiting for her, stalking her. Wounds already covered her flesh from the […]

a poem Smoke and decay fills the airLeaves crunch beneath footfallI embrace the chilling windSnow closer than afarAs the sun sets earlierChased by cold and restMaybe it is a good timeTo let things dieOld habits and bad routinesThe pieces of me I don’t wantRake them up with leavesBurn themBag them up and waste themI am […]

a poem Let the boredom comeAllow it to seep inAbsorb my being into itSitting in the moment calmUnknowing of time or motiveTo simply be withinMy mind to face itselfWhat it is so desperately hidingMy own shortcomingsThings I wish not to beDone without thoughtReactions of a restless brainCan I calm it in this secondNot reaching for […]

a poem A simple leafThe first I noticedYellow and fallingThough time seems farAutumn must beginAnd on my knee I find itWaiting as I amTime is passingSeasons changingYears slipping byAnd what am I waiting for? Photo and words copyright © 2026 by Jeremy C Kester – all rights reserved.Note: this is also cross-posted to Poetically Unlicensed […]

a poem Still air surrounds the morningAs the smell of coffee greets meWatching dark clouds nearA strange twilight of early morningWelcoming storms and rainMother Nature playing her partI watch it here, patientThey do little to stop lifeMuch less even give it pauseToo many distractionsWho can even see the oddnessThe way the early sun risesAgainst dark […]

a flash fiction story Cutting food is not a good time to get distracted Bandagedby Jeremy C Kester Sharp. It was sharp. Both the pain and the object causing it. Delilah put down the small knife and sucked on her hand at the place the blade cut her. She wasn’t certain how it happened other […]

a poem I strive to know howTo push steps forwardEven while progress movesDirectionless to my desires Shall I give up here and nowChanging my aim towardAnother thing in safer grovesTo beat this feeling stuck in mires Sanity welcomes both in towWork and laziness in simple awardBenefits found both behoovesYet truly only one inspires Photo and […]

an essay Life surrounds us, continually moving through space and time as we sit in front of narrow windows displaying pixelated fantasies to our already beleaguered senses. I think about this myself as my fingers once again obey what feels like automated motions, swiping along on the phone to move onto another image, another video, […]

a poem Stupidity holds its placeMy mind its breeding groundI cannot help but let itAn old friend it has becomeThe kind who enters freelyGreeting your motherBefore finding youNo invitation ever neededThe say “hello” almost foolishlyAs they feel a part of youA sibling who lives thereGrowing older as you stay in touchMaybe follow jobs or schoolAlways […]