Greg Luti

Greg Luti’s contemplative poem “Napoleon at the Pyramids” wonders what the French general truly saw and felt during his mysterious solitary visit inside the ancient Egyptian pyramids. What do you think Napoleon saw when he was left alone in the Pyramids? Did he see anything at all? Or was it merely a myth? Perhaps the would-be emperor saw nothing and this very idea is nothing more than speculation, a fancy imagination, similar to that of Alexander the Great being a member of

A poem can explore the painful gap between real-life tragedy and the hopeful fiction a writer tries to create. In “Receipts in a Story,” Greg Luti examines the struggle of turning personal pain and difficult truths into stories that might inspire readers, while knowing the words on the page can never fully change the reality behind them. When I write stories, I write to solve problems. Give a character an issue, and then create a solution to it… Somehow. Whatever the issue ma

A poem can question long-held romantic ideas about creativity. In “The Creative Genius,” Greg Luti wonders whether society has killed the idealized image of the singular artist who spoke for all of us — or if that romantic notion was always just an illusion. Maybe we killed the creative genius. The one who is supposed to speak for all of us. The voice of the people. The author who walked among us. The singer who sounded like us. The smart person, who was somehow still for us.

Greg Luti’s poem “Quite a Change” reflects on how suddenly and completely life can shift — the quiet shock, discomfort, and strange beauty that arrives when everything you knew is no longer the same. Sometimes I wake up and feel like Tupac, I ask myself if I should just end my life. One clip, one click, one ending. Click and then boom. My story would be over before it got started. Life sucks, so screw life. Screw all they say about it. All that guru bullshit the heathens teac

An ironic poem can turn overwhelming anxiety into dark humor. In “Did I Miss Anything,” Greg Luti sarcastically lists every possible apocalyptic disaster — alien invasions, rogue AI, climate collapse, and more — while the speaker casually wonders if they really missed something important today. Let me get this straight, There are aliens trying to spy on us by hiding in plain sight, changing the very fabric of the reality we live in. AI is trying to manipulate mankind with its

Some of life’s harshest truths are the ones no one ever warns you about. In “They Don’t Tell You That,” Greg Luti captures a woman’s sudden emotional breakdown during an ordinary lunch break — the quiet regrets, aging fears, and unspoken anxieties that surface without warning. They don’t tell you about that day. The one you will question everything you are and, what you became, and where you will go. Where the world seems to stop for a moment, and you are uneasy about the