Two Poems | Stephen House
whatever vocation
it was the method
best practiced believing
my unexpected thing
for life
i suppose
what else could i do
daily craft writing
performing
nightly show sometimes
resilient
in my whatever vocation
on and on i go
add this to the trickle
creating a must
as they wait for why
there
while i present
total self-everything
repeating
over time growing
with belief and pain etched
until that’s enough
delivery of me
must end somewhere
counting what occurred
from decades of make
adding up feelings
like steam rising
forming as is
spreading wherever
intense cloud inspired
appear then gone
forever
immersed in air
over
with nil regret
The Godavari River
The Godavari River
meanders
through Nasik
and i am living
beside her
Baladeva
divine brother of Krishna
God of eternity and knowledge
bathed here
five thousand years ago
and i do now
the river
journey
way of the traveller
the seeker
alone
looking down
at murky reflection
of self
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Bio:
Stephen House has won many awards and nominations as a poet, playwright, and actor. He’s had 20 plays produced with many published by Australian Plays Transform. He’s received several international literature residencies from The Australia Council for the Arts, and an Asialink India literature residency. He’s had two chapbooks published by ICOE Press Australia: ‘real and unreal’ poetry and ‘The Ajoona Guest House’ monologue. His next book drops soon. He performs his acclaimed monologues widely.
