June Stepansky

June Stepansky Poems

Sixteen is a good age,
if you’re dating someone handsome
with a nice car.
Someone who takes you
...

I was always finding money
when I was young:
in telephone booths,
in gumball machines,
...

I know more about plumbing
than I ever wanted to know.
I know the insidious sound
of dripping faucets, gurgling drains,
...

Power is not an end in itself.
Power, history warns us,
tends to corrupt.
If power can be the means
...

Everything will
in time
change.
You will change
...

Looking nice
is a simulation of youth.
A pleasant dinner
is a simulation of youth.
...

Living
is my palette,
my sonnet, my novel,
which I can change
...

Pain is in embraces
which are destined
to become memories.
...

Hemingway failed.
Sylvia Plath failed.
They dug into a rich vein,
and came up empty.
...

In one far corner of a corner
exuding messages you stand.
Prim, waxen white
bell-shaped, yellow-tongued,
...

The earth shakes a little
under my feet,
and I think of
Pompeii.
...

Those who are cruel
are wounded.
Those who are possessive
or fearful,
...

Push of reds and greens
upon my vision.
Amplified by bend of greens
and reds upon my ear:
...

Children always tell the truth.
If they don’t like you,
they tell you.
...

“The Emperor’s New Clothes”
is an old story made new
by successive generations
of thieves and victims
...

I talk.
You don’t listen.
You talk.
I don’t hear.
...

We are all at risk
all the time.
Children, too, are at risk,
but they are protected
...

A significant word
is tolerance.
We must find in our hearts
our own truth,
...

It’s about being born and growing.
It’s about selfishness and love.
It’s about the mysteries of sex.
It’s about communication
...

Near where I live,
on both sides of the street
as far as I can see,
a line of trees is planted.
...

June Stepansky Biography

June Stepansky is a published poet and writer whose work has appeared in the literary magazines 'Poems that need to be explained Vol No 21' and 'Childhood- Vol No 22 and in the poetry collection 'Lyrical Voices.)

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Sweet Sixteen

Sixteen is a good age,
if you’re dating someone handsome
with a nice car.
Someone who takes you
for pizza and Chinese food,
and teaches you the intricacies
of jitterbugging:
who walks with you
along a moonlit lakefront path
holding your small hand
in his larger one,
who kisses you and
makes you feel
loved and beautiful.

Even now so many years
after we followed
our separate destinies,
moments of remembrance
brush my memory and
I am sixteen again, and
he is seventeen and
very handsome.

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