an old writer and his words

  • In the Name of the Lord

    A new poem and post on my Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/theoldpoet/p/in-the-name-of-the-lord This poem just and first appeared in Underbelly Press Issue 7 which you can freely access and read HERE

    Lou Faber

  • Absolution

    On a day when it is hard to celebrate, given where we are and where we were supposed to be. https://theoldpoet.substack.com/p/absolution?r=2k8fya

    Lou Faber

  • INSIDE, UNSEEING

    I’ve been trying to discover howit is that those inside the beltwayelected to office, or workingfor those who were elected,have all sense of irony (andin some cases. civility) erased. How else to explain that for manythere can be no climate changewhile the nation they serveis bearing its cost, climatologicallyand in discourse and diversity,and still they…

    Lou Faber

  • DEFINE-ITELY

    It takes only moments for someoneto ask for a definition of poetry. That task is at once terriblysimple and equally impossible, a poem is many thingsbut not now or ever: a paean to a self-aggrandizingleader without soulor sense of direction,moral and literal; a rant on howall are conspiringagainst you despiteyour stable genius; a Jeremiad decryingfacts…

    Lou Faber