Poetry
Background: The poems below span from my early writings steeped in the insecurities of young love to later works, shifting to a place where I grapple with my own conflicted nature as I explore faith, existence, reality, and a wanderlust to seek adventure.
2006 - 2011: Age 27-33
- Woman in Black
- used in the hands as a tool
- The Train
- The Road's Scholar
- The Ladder or the Branch
- The Greater
- THE DECAY THAT SPOILS THE BRIDE
- The Cursed
- The Box
- The Blue Raven
- Syllables of Progression
- Sunday
- Slither to Begin
- Seven
- Seasons
- Popeyetry
- My Home is This
- Let Us
- I Seek as the Wind
- Greed's Hooker
- a gray november day
- Freewill
- Debtor's Prison
- Compelled to Devour
- Break the Habit?
- A Walk Anew
- 11:29AM on a Tuesday in Atlanta
2002: Age 23-24
- Dreaming, November 2002
- Close, October 31, 2002
- Playing Hearts, September 17, 2002
- All is Vanity, September 13, 2002
- Circular, September 9, 2002
- Wanderlust, August 11, 2002
- My Rose, August 7, 2002
- Rainfall, August 1, 2002
- Apart, May 26, 2002
- Evermore, May 25, 2002
- Rays of Tenderness, May 14, 2002
- Shattering Life's Shackles, May 14, 2002
- More Than A Span of Land, May 5, 2002
- Heart of Careless Action, April 5, 2002
- A Life Alone is No Life to Live, January 30, 2002
- A Life Alone is a Lonely Life, January 24, 2002
- The Disjointed Cup, January 22, 2002
- Gray, January 16, 2002
- Rendering Battering, January 11, 2002
- Downpour, January 11, 2002
- Illusions Beyond Reality, January 8, 2002
- Meanderings of No Consequence, January 8, 2002
- Possibility of Perpetuity, January 8, 2002
- Personification of Failure, January 5, 2002
- Hope, January 2, 2002
2001: Age 22-23
- Enclosed, November 6, 2001
- Culmination of Rejection, November 6, 2001
- The Divine Theme, September 7, 2001
- Transition to Joy, September 3, 2001
- A Downward Perspective, August 30, 2001
- Inexistion, August 23, 2001
- Tomorrows' Suns, August 21, 2001
- A Trojan Horse, July 26, 2001
- The Lone Combatant, July 25, 2001
- The Revisitation of a Solved Query, July 24, 2001
- Melodramatic Shackles, May 2, 2001
- The Dynamic Flight, May 1, 2001
- For Whenever I May Find Her, April 25, 2001
- The Struggle of Contrasts, April 12, 2001
- A Whirl With the Night, April 7, 2001
- Cycle of Struggle, April 6, 2001
- The Airport, April 4, 2001
- The Drive, March 2001
2000: Age 21-22
- Identity Crisis, Fall 2000
- Tendencies of Dissolution, Fall 2000
- Languid, Fall 2000
- Dead Before He Dies, Fall 2000
1997 - 1999: Age 19-21
- Coming to Age, August 1999
- Steps of Solitude, November 1997
- The Autumn Winds Blow Chilly and Cold, November 1997
- Regret, November 1997
- Finished Unfinished, October 1997
- Winter's Despair, October 1997
- Once Again, September 1997