Paul Stewart

Joined March 2021

1313 stories

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

The Accidental Poet - Poetry Collection out now!

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We Eat Our Young
paintings can't hurt you... beware — selfish man and gods for we eat our young. * Thanks for reading! Author's Notes: Another horrorish haiku for the Haunted Echoes challenge. This time, after several poems inspired by paintings by Picasso, Brueghel, Friedrich, Raphael, and Caravaggio. This time it is Goya who can play as muse to this writer, me, while also scratching his itch.
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Poets
Eterna
As we take shelter 'neath an old oak tree, we contemplate life, ad astra per aspera. For as this mighty oak stands for centuries,
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Poets
Ching-Ching Old Marley
Dereck looked out from his Prius, with a sense of indignity at the malevolence all around him Penning the woven words of woe and dispassionate despair, he waits,
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Poets
A Requiem to the Lordes of Poetry
Poetry is my blood it's full of pretension, that's a word, don't look it up, it's a word. Trust me and trust my pen.
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Poets
Petrichor Between Us
I ponder if you wait long enough. The universe will intercede, interject a prolonged separation from humanity. If merely sitting, doing little to cause ripples—would that eventually create causation, and would the universe answer?
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Fiction
Consecration and Desecration
Illumination consecrates, e'en mates In the heat of night, we take our delight Infiltrate the contract, moonstruck creates
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Poets
Elegy of Leaves
dance in crisp delight Chlorophyll lamentation naked trees evoke * Thanks for reading! Author's Notes: Another entry for the Falling Leaves Challenge.
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Poets
Fractured Reflections. Runner-Up in Parallel Lives Challenge. Content Warning.
Bowel movement, shower, dressed for the day ahead. Toast, marmalade, of course. Coffee, black, indubitably. Doom scroll for ten minutes before grabbing my wallet and keys. Out the door to, out the driveway for 9.30. Plenty of time to get across town to my employers.
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Fiction
Mapping My Tears. Runner-Up in Maps of the Self Challenge.
I wasn’t sure how to approach this challenge—so many thoughts crowd my mind about internal life, psychology, and personality.
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Humans
Edge of the Bed, Edge of the World
"You have to dream before your dreams can come true." I woke with a— some kind of feeling in the soles of my feet
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Poets
Narcissus in Candlelight. Runner-Up in The Sonnet of Shadows Challenge.
I take thy mantle, answer the call To face the darkness swirling within; Let ink stand witness—let the blackness fall I call the pool; abyss—reveal thy skin
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Poets
Tinnitus of the Lie. Top Story - September 2025.
Lying and me—me and lying I barely remember a time when— my mind didn’t failsafe into a lie ~ not much in recent years—but,
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Poets