poetry | Rob Freund

Mar 21, 20234 min read

Poem: Sacred Wrath

Sacred Wrath I am irritation. I am annoyance. I am the prickly pit that sits in the space between each breath that never quits and spits...

Feb 27, 20231 min read

The Gift

Imagine that breathing was not a habit and you had to hold your heart in your hands every moment a life beginning and ending with the...

Feb 14, 20232 min read

(dis)Comfort

Discomfort is not the enemy of a good life not the specter that hounds our American Dreams as media and materialism makes it seem nor...

Feb 13, 20231 min read

Poem: On faith, and other things

On faith, and other things: try to see it and you never will allow yourself to see and you'll never stop -rrf

Feb 13, 20231 min read

Poem: Stop and Smell

You tell me a garden cannot love you say it's merely complex chlorophyll coursing through the daffodil pulsing and processing the rays of...

Feb 13, 20232 min read

Poem: (un)Broken

I'm sorry love i am broken; broken from bones that were improperly set during an age when things simply couldn't exist and it was safer...

Feb 3, 20233 min read

(un)Conditional

It is sadly an oft-valid stereotype of gay culture to have complicated relationships with parents. Queer people walk such a fine line...

Sep 22, 20221 min read

Poem: Mustangs

sometimes there are no words because the feelings are too wild too sharp with fullness to try and chain them forcing them into stalls of...

Jul 31, 20221 min read

Poem: Pearls

Pearls Once i collected books for the sake of impressing myself hoarding the wise words of Others brave enough to speak their truths i...

Jul 31, 20221 min read

Poem: Scarcity

Scarcity not enough not enough not enough the drumbeat of fear and loathing this Las Vegas has got nothing on me as i look around to see...

Jul 31, 20221 min read

Poem: Control

Control you don’t control the story only what you do it doesn’t matter what’s real or fake there’s no such thing as true when daylight...

Jul 31, 20221 min read

Poem: Wellness

Wellness well, well, well. down the deep dark hole of living do your yoga drink your water say your prayers and bless your father take...

Jul 31, 20221 min read

Poem: Survive

Survive breathe first, always breathe sense the air as it flows sense the moment as it goes from space and opportunity to closure and...

Jul 31, 20221 min read

Poem: Perpective

perspective at what point does going meet with coming where is the magic that shifts space into place full of purpose and certainty an...