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Gas is expensive

About what?

If the city ever sleeps

The Telluride Post Card

The Healer

Welcome Home

Family Tree

The Going

You sound like the ocean

Between gullible and yearning there is me

Liquid Sand, Riddle Man

Ziggy

Enter an Ocean

Ambition

Salt.

Perfume

Vanilla

that’s the thing about poets

Good Year

Real

  • Dear Magus, there was a time

    by Stephanie Alfaia October 2, 2016

    There was a time when we laid on your sofa, the sound of a comedy…

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  • Masked Vulnerability

    by Stephanie Alfaia September 30, 2016

    I colored my vulnerability with lies Pouring words I didn’t mean Fear of letting you…

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  • On meows, growls and laughter

    by Stephanie Alfaia August 29, 2016

    The muscles on my facegrew tight with hurting,laughter ripping throughmy cheeks.A low growl in his…

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  • On Sungazing

    by Stephanie Alfaia August 9, 2016

    And the mighty Sun said to the pensive dark brown eyes:“Rise as I do,Rise like…

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  • Full Moon Memories

    by Stephanie Alfaia August 9, 2016

    Mumbling through the winter of life with clear memories of people who were only summer.…

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  • Your Type

    by Stephanie Alfaia August 9, 2016

    If you grow up the type of woman men want to look at,You can let…

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  • Moonchild Man

    by Stephanie Alfaia August 8, 2016

      Sometimes we are hippies groovin’ to Zeppelin planning secret utopias over a glass of…

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  • Caramel

    by Stephanie Alfaia July 25, 2016

    Poetic nonsense. The truth is You will find butterflies Deep inside her black eyes –…

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  • Grounded Curiosity

    by Stephanie Alfaia July 19, 2016

    Secret garden dwindling  Green, green, free… Faeries, be gone before I am lost. Queen Mab,…

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  • Remembering Moonchild

    by Stephanie Alfaia July 19, 2016

    Out of touch In tune My mind is restless. Feet tip-toeing slowly  Into oblivion: dark…

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  • On Epiphanies

    by Stephanie Alfaia July 18, 2016

    I always find myself face to face with my madness. Spewing senseless thoughts, my ability…

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  • On Warhol’s “Isn’t Life a Series of Images…?”

    by Stephanie Alfaia July 18, 2016

    …And she was stuck somewhere between the past and the present, reliving details of a…

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  • Eyes glow as the fan blows

    by Stephanie Alfaia July 9, 2016

    Sound vibrating slowly  into my skin. Deep breathing desire, exhaling bliss. My trusting eyes closed.…

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  • Becomingness

    by Stephanie Alfaia July 9, 2016

    Hi All, We oft find ourselves stuck in daily routine – filling our minds with…

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  • On Inebriated Expression

    by Stephanie Alfaia July 9, 2016

    Contemporary poetry  is a great form of expression  because it creates tunnels.  Lines waiting to…

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  • Yellow cab smirks

    by Stephanie Alfaia July 9, 2016

    The skyline breathes  cold, steel, iron air And I ravel instead in its lights. Unmoved…

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  • Welcome to The Johnsons

    by Stephanie Alfaia July 9, 2016

    What if –  Futile words I dare say What be –  Empty in context t’was…

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  • When Alice lingers over a cup of tea

    by Stephanie Alfaia July 8, 2016

    Uncharted territory A maze that is the mind It creates, it alludes, it imagines It…

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  • Blue Point Above His Left Shoulder

    by Stephanie Alfaia July 4, 2016

    Lack of words –  A foreign concept achieved. The senses are the only explanation. Blank…

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  • When Facebook Suggests Friends

    by Stephanie Alfaia December 21, 2014

    The past? Wish it well Send gratitude for its lessons. Release painful memories and Allow…

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  • Cire, mere imagery.

    by Stephanie Alfaia December 1, 2014

    Do I recall? Indeed, I relive. Moments that felt eternal, Memorized faces I thought static…

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  • When She Spoke, Confused I Listened…

    by Stephanie Alfaia November 26, 2014

    And what of rainbows and butterflies? Innocence and infinite skies? Tales of endless journeys To…

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  • When Vacationer Replayed

    by Stephanie Alfaia November 24, 2014

    Have you ever been lost?Captivated in a daze.Purely elatedby a riveting moment…by a pair of…

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  • Tower of Babel

    by Stephanie Alfaia November 24, 2014

    “I want to be bilingual.” he said, with frustrated eyes that saw the world in…

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  • Mundo through Aquarius Eyes

    by Stephanie Alfaia November 24, 2014

    Figures dance, sparked enchantmentwhen he talks of a world so tangibleimagination becomes pliablespintop universe under…

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  • Not All Traveled Grounds Run Smooth

    by Stephanie Alfaia November 18, 2014

    Cold feet slip on thin icehowling unforgiving windsfrostbite beg fingers to returnto sweet home, comfort,…

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  • Cire

    by Stephanie Alfaia November 1, 2014

    An instant turned into eternity Heart dropped to bowel walls  Out of air, dry mouth…

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  • Step into White Light, Moonchild

    by Stephanie Alfaia October 16, 2014

    Masochist,  Pessimist, Misanthropic mind. You push away a lending hand,  a caring heart,  and a…

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  • On good advice

    by Stephanie Alfaia October 11, 2014

    “What if he was the one?” She asked, as Vilma stirred the large pot of…

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  • For whom the bell tolls

    by Stephanie Alfaia October 11, 2014

    They cannot meet your beauty They do not have your flaws The glimmer in your…

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  • Grandma, I’ve Forgotten Your Voice

    by Stephanie Alfaia October 4, 2014

    Faeries to which I’ve prayed, “Away morbid feeling gray!” Dark nights, fumbling for The face…

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  • A sea hawk, a mouse, and the skies.

    by Stephanie Alfaia September 30, 2014

    An osprey was flying over Alki beach, when it saw a mouse.Shocked, he asked the…

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  • On cleansing delusion

    by Stephanie Alfaia September 29, 2014

    Warm water cascadeddown my bare back.The moon in view, smiled.She didn’t judge my sadness,she embraced…

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  • Mercutio forewarned, but I ignored

    by Stephanie Alfaia September 29, 2014

    Queen Mab,you have tainted my day,with fickle images ofsubconscious.Recurring sounds,colors…Scenes…The voice I recalllike an endless…

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  • On Safety

    by Stephanie Alfaia September 29, 2014

    Calculating souls,statistic measures,we like to think we are free,but we are the first to imprison…

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  • The Bridge

    by Stephanie Alfaia September 25, 2014

    Strong hands grasp thin air. Life softly leaving weak limbs while passion released vigor  into…

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  • Overthought Mornings

    by Stephanie Alfaia September 25, 2014

    My mind is a trickster. She creates, she pretends, she denies. My mind is a…

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  • Knowing

    by Stephanie Alfaia September 25, 2014

    When you know her face The world collapses.  Her lifeless smile is  Everywhere The laughter…

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  • Cire the Odysseus

    by Stephanie Alfaia September 24, 2014

    And the sun set on the third day.She was lost.Pacing, walking, strolling, back and forth…

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  • 48 Perfectly Imperfect Hours

    by Stephanie Alfaia September 23, 2014

    Time, you wretched creature, forever hanging over our heads. Reminding us we are prisoners, casting…

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About the Author

About the Author

Hi! My name is Stephanie Alfaia and I write poetry inspired by my travels. As a Brazilian American and citizen of the world, my goal is to inspire you as our planet has inspired me.

I'm an avid dreamer, a hopeless romantic and an occasional optimist who wanders the globe in search of lessons, connections and stories to tell. My work dances, twirls and skips between the lines of fiction and non-fiction as our minds and hearts do, embellishing upon our memories. Some characters are completely fictional while others, are locals who have inspired or helped me in my travels. Read through and see if you can decipher the enigmatic world of words! Thank you for stopping by.

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Popular Posts

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    Enter an Ocean

    May 28, 2019
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    Between gullible and yearning there is me

    August 2, 2019
  • 3

    Ambition

    April 8, 2019
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    Not All Traveled Grounds Run Smooth

    November 18, 2014
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    Family Tree

    April 27, 2021
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    that’s the thing about poets

    January 29, 2019
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    Is My Take-Out Ready?

    July 2, 2019
  • Furniture is nothing but a commodity 

    May 17, 2017
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    Perfume

    February 21, 2019
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    Ziggy

    June 26, 2019

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