Hi all, 2024 was a big year for me. I made the decision to release more print books (after focusing on releasing mostly digital content in 2023). I started running new TTRPG games, designed lots of products and continued my … Continue reading Laidback DM: 2024 – the Year in Review!
I haven’t posted a poem in sooooooo long, it’s not funny. Here’s one I wrote the other day. Enjoy 🙂 Work and ream, the bitter seamDraw coal from weathered veins.Spilled ink upon the canvas,And carts upon the rails.A worthy trade … Continue reading Work. A poem.
I’ve been so busy lately I forgot to mention my new poetry book is available at DrivethruFiction! Scene, Set & Match is a hardcover book of poetry with over 70 poems of love, relationships, depression & the life in between. Scenes … Continue reading New Poetry Book! ‘Scene, Set & Match’ is Now Available at DrivethruFiction!
This is only the second time I’ve done this kind of post (you can check out 2022 at the following link: https://stevestillstanding.com/2023/01/02/laidback-dm-the-year-in-review-2022/ 2023 was a big year for my TTRPG content business – I created and launched lots of new … Continue reading Laidback DM: The Year in Review 2023
Almost a cliche nowThe weight of stuff, enoughTo drag your feetThrough ashes on the streetAs if walking anywhere Really made a differenceThe merry go roundOf pleasure, pain, shameOf doing right and being wrongThe exception to the ruleInterminableRule your world Castigate … Continue reading The Weight of This Regret. A poem.
Places Far From Home is my new hardcover book of poetry. Over 90 poems reflecting on love, loss and heartbreak. If you find yourself far from home, maybe these poems can help you find your way to a place that’s familiar… … Continue reading New Poetry Book Release: Places Far From Home
This poem is dedicated to my nephew, may he rest in peace. Steve A place far from homeWhere wanderers traipseWith weary, callused feet And where roads endIn more ways than oneWhere the horizonIs oh so far awayBut close enough to … Continue reading A Place Far From Home. A Poem.
When rest is ill metWhen time is heaven spentWhen loneliness shakesMy tree, leaves me rent Your voiceThe sonic equivalent Of water to the parchedOf land to the drowningOf peace to the waywardYour voice Soothed my painheaven spent For more poetry, … Continue reading Heaven Spent. A poem.
Despair is not an easy thing:It requires commitment, hard work and lots and lots ofwallowing.Despair requires you dig deep:Determined self loathing is the key, or so they say, all bitter sweet.Despair is a friend to me:Who am I to argue … Continue reading Despair. A poem.
FailureFocus blurredMyopic hazeHeartfelt lossLofty goalsBeyond surfeit Words ceaseBlack hole lifeNo Man’s LandBullets punctuateThe trench line Horizon, justOut of reachFaded sunsetLimping shadowExhausted Empty tankEndless beachDragging feetThere is no tryJust do For more poetry, click here. Continue reading Failure. A poem.
My Year in Review! This is a post about all the stuff I released in 2022. I haven’t done one of these before, so here goes nothing lol. Each of the products is listed in release order. Maps for Fantasy … Continue reading Laidback DM: The Year in Review 2022
Some short and some long,A storied trail between stops.The intransigent pathRemains dim as you plod.Repudiated by walls That batter your prideAs you wallow in thought Through your long, lonely night.Of hope and return,Towards a beacon, twilight;A promise eternal At the … Continue reading Tunnels and Lights. A poem.
We fly in dreamsConjoined and collectedAt heights that mightCall lesser soulsTo vertigo Against windsOf time and tideChurn and changeWe soar and swoopLike angels on the wingAnd grasp and gropeIn the vainest of hopesThat we not loseOurselves to eternity (A deprivation … Continue reading We Fly. A poem.
And just as quicklyAs we fanned the sparksAnd the flames lickedAnd careened across Our forms unsubtle The light expiredAs we doused the wickAnd thoughts heavyWith hyperboleAngst and fear And honestyFell on deafened earsOnce dear to meI turned awayI shouldered blameAnd … Continue reading Again. A poem.
Here I lieAcross the miles from your ordered lifeFormally informal thoughtsAnd elegant surpriseBeauteous and wiseFettered ofttimesBy perspective and abstractionBut sharp, never dulledA knife keen and trueAnd like youI find myself longingTo be held and revealedIn such a forgiving lightWhose longing … Continue reading Beacon. A poem.
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