towards rationale
Stephen House
if life meant
dread descending
then finally
i have reached placid
for we know the dancing ends
somewhere before dawn
so i slid towards rationale
with age
insight found
respect
offering
just is
appreciating
this
needing was there
once vibrating
and dropped off
dew-like on petal fine
there are only remains of burden
youth gave way to consideration
simplicity built
for momentary
singing calm
reward
delivered
in now
valuing
here
alone i am
often by choice
though accompanied
mostly by dear him
is enough to glow a life that bled
and grew and moved and slept
by own accord of survive
well lived
divine encounter
self-found
existence
being one
celebrating
alive
Stephen House has won many awards and nominations as a poet, playwright, and actor. He’s been commissioned often, with 20 plays produced, and many published by Australian Plays Transform. He’s received international literature residencies from The Australia Council for the Arts to Canada and Ireland, and an Asialink literature residency to India. He’s had two chapbooks published by ICOE Press Australia: ‘real and unreal’ poetry and ‘The Ajoona Guest House’ monologue. His poetry is published often, including in ē·rā/tiō. He has performed his acclaimed monologues, ‘Appalling Behaviour’, ‘Almost Face to Face’ and ‘The Ajoona Guest House’ widely. His play, ‘Johnny Chico’ ran in Spain for 4 years.