A Palace of Ruins

<p>From the mountains of Afghanistan to the devastated cities of Ukraine to the ransacked Capitol of the United States Steve Nolan takes you on an intimate journey a portrait of destruction and the human impulse to rise from the rubble to construct a new palace on the ruins of the last. Whether referencing civilization government or a single soul his poetry pays tribute to those who manage to find treasure amongst the shards of a shattered individual life or the shattered dreams of history.</p><p> </p><p>In his theme poem The Longest Dream in the World he shares this:</p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>The longest dream hasn't died.</em></p><p><em>Dreams are not subject to death</em></p><p><em>like ideologies one stacked</em></p><p><em>upon the archeology of the other-</em></p><p><em>a palace of ruins... The dream</em></p><p><em>like the wind is the breath</em></p><p><em>of the world.</em></p>