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Modern Poetry
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God's Grand Weather Machine by Stewart Stafford
Some say: 'Send storm clouds back to sender;
Into God's omnipotent weather machine.'
Let them come, I say, and cleanse me,
Reborn for the second time as a teen.
Improvising with nature's gifted props;
Perspective in motion, despite the scene,
To go without sleep for fear of nightmares?
Insomniac strike - we're dreamers, not the dream.
Skies beyond our grasp caress down;
As raindrop punctuation marks careen,
Spin your watery partner on the floor,
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The Outer Wastes by Stewart Stafford
Echoes across the cosmos
Supernovae of Gemini suns,
Truth storms of meteor showers,
Coronas flashing frigid guns.
Spinning stone bedrock cracks,
A diaspora exiled to the void,
Interstellar offspring pushing
Sentience for the ultra-paranoid.
Pandora's black hole gifts,
Astrologer spins a cosmic warning,
Scrubbing up, celestial enlightenment,
Serpentine Adam's apple ripe for boring.
© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.
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