Blog June 24, 2026 Voyager 1 and Strauss An essay, Voyager 1 and Strauss, by Jan Kraus is included in the 2026 St. Louis Writer’s Guild (SLWG) Member’s Anthology/. This essay celebrates two milestones—Voyager 1 will be one light year away from Earth in Interstellar Space November 2026—celebration of Johann Strauss II 250th birthday. Outer space exploration and music. What more could we ask?…Read more June 17, 2026 I Need Relief I need Relief. My heart is heavy and my brain on fire. I yearn for Rescue. My thoughts are sad and my life feels hollow. I crave Release. My limits confine and my beliefs constrict. I must Refrain. My anger is ugly and my fury misplaced. I seek Redemption. My spirit aches to soar and…Read more January 13, 2026 The Rivers of Babylon By the Rivers of Babylon I sit and weep for another home another timeThere on the tree I hang my guitarMy tormentors bid me to sing their songHate filled young men with bitter eyes and rifles and assault weaponsOfficials who profess to be hunting with rifles and assault weapons for those who oppose their beliefs…Read more July 9, 2025 Minister’s Daughter? I appear as a minister’s daughterRather than a person with a past My persona ingrainedMy reality a constant clash I act with apparent compassionFilled with a sense of derision My actions entrenchedMy passions a constant collision Outside InsideInside Outside Conflict in the depths of perceptionDissonance at the heart of cognition Sleepless nights – restless daysHesitations…Read more May 30, 2025 See the Image Published in the 2024 St. Louis County Library Anthology, incomplete. Here it is in total. See the image reflectedin eyespeering fromtreesblades of grassocean depth Listen to worryingstillnessas quiet aching awarenessgrows for each intelligentbeingFeel sadnessweigh upon your heartas one by onefellow life formsdisappearbecoming memoriesof beautylostfor those of usleft behindSee yourselfreflectedin eyespeeringHear yourselfquietlystirringachingFeel yourselfpassinginto extinctionby your own…Read more April 12, 2025 Step into the Ring Step into the Ring. Be fearless. Have confidence. Be peaceful and calm. Be strong and powerful. Know you are deserving. Be balanced. Be whole. Open your mind; Open your life; to fulfillment, limitless success, laughter and love. Read more February 17, 2025 “My River” published in SLWG 2025 Anthology My essay entitled “My River” is included in the 2025 St. Louis Writer’s Guild Anthology, launched today Feb 14, 2025. Links to eBook and paperback below. All proceeds support the good efforts of the Guild.Read more January 26, 2025 Come Loose Come loose in the universeFreefall in space and timeat least twice a weekUnglue from the continuumGravity ignoredGlideFloatSoar on the currents of infinityEagle on the solar windDolphin on the lunar tide Jan Kraus 2025Read more December 16, 2024 Antipathy We fight for naught. We trip over trite nasty words. We ambush. We lie. We sought affinity, and gaunt sharp conceits brought words on the tip to snipe to wound. We ambush. We lie. We fight for naught.Read more October 28, 2024 Being a Ghost has a Certain Appeal Perhaps it is appearing briefly as a shimmer at the end of a stranger’s hall at night or moving items just as the person turns away and back to a shelf they are organizing or triggering shivers down the spines of a group of teens in the park playing with a Ouija board. Perhaps it…Read more 1 2 3 … 6 Next Page»