Paul Stewart

Joined March 2021

1344 stories

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Award-Winning Writer, Poet, Scottish-Italian, Subversive.

The Accidental Poet - Poetry Collection out now!

Streams and Scratches in My Mind coming soon!

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Don't look to me
Don't look to me for all the answers Don't look to me for the "right" way Don't look to me for the easy pathway The easy pathway to happy lined by chocolate coins and decadently sweet gummy bears and strawberry laces
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Poets
Spent today thinking of you
Spent today thinking of you I wonder, if you really knew? How I silently respected you Many months would pass without visits
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Poets
Hopelesss. Content Warning.
Every Friday - September Bread, 2 loaves, preferrably as cheap as possible, the supermarket's own value range. Milk, full fat, because who cares
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Poets
Waking Up
Waking up Happiness a close distant friend I once knew so well Sadness, a constant companion that eats at my soul Why start the day
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Poets
How To Forgive Yourself - Recipe
How to Forgive Yourself Recipe - Serves 1 Ingredients Lifetime of shame, sadness, sorrow Several tablespoons of mistakes and missteps, to taste Stress, anxiety Heartful of hope Generous measures of love and forgiveness Self-esteem, tenderness, and happiness, to taste
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Poets
Smooth of Tongue, Knife to Our Back
Attract and entice with the silken smoothness Of your faux-balm-like words You soothe, calm and lull us into a false sense
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Poets
Paul Stewart's "Unnerve, Unsettle, and Scare Me" Challenge Winners Announcement!. Content Warning.
Despite Stephen A. Roddewig's intention to have this little unofficial challenge end early, I stuck to my original plan. Come for me, Roddewig (lol, that sounded very threatening in my head, but actually looks rather tame on the screen. Loved that post and will provide a link, It Is First of the Month, in which he makes some good points and is very authoritative about it.)
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Writers
How to be kind to yourself
1. Breathe in, breathe out 2. Remember you're not on your own 3. Yes, even when you feel all alone 4. Breathe in, breathe out
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Poets
Air breathes calm
Air breathes calm calm distills emotions emotions flow, grow grow hope inside inside joy knows knows love's magic magic needs openness
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Poets
Not feeling so good today
Not feeling so good today Is there much else to say? Don't want to push away Don't want to end it all But not feeling tall
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Poets
With Me
Pause with me Breathe with me Wonder and imagine with me Think and ponder About nothing and everything with me When things are weighing you down
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Poets
Nothing Smooth About Me. Content Warning.
The way I move is anything but The jiggling of my butt and gut My patter, banter, lines are naff At least I can generate a laugh
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Poets