Freds Kesner lives and writes from unseen places…a poet who turned a childhood stammer into the heartbeat of their work. Here you'll discover micro-poems, ritual reflections, and map-inspired essays. Dive in, leave a comment, and let's explore the spaces between words.
They call us mad, they call us cursed,
For we will not bow to their painted gods—
Their temples reek of incense and decay,
Their priests chant empty words to dying fires.
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people are our real legacy;
one day sure, entire poems
shall have been forgotten,
while remains a phrase or
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O Dionysus, breaker of chains,
I sing not for the meek, the tamed, the gelded—
But for the wolves who howl against the night,
Who tear the velvet lies from rotting thrones!
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Secrets remain shrouded, unspoken,
yet I see them seep
into the spaces between breaths.
Truth, as it stands,
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