"We never spoke except to hear our voice upon the wind"  ~from "Fire to the Flowers"

Jump to Notes on my Poetry

Poetry is what I do best. These twenty poems, which I selected out of over 700, are arranged in no particular order.

         Truisme
         She is a thing that worships air
         God Is
         Glade Confusion
         Abraham
         Fire to the Flowers
         Reticence
         A Look Around
         venus earth mars
         Hypothetical
         Faith alone is this
         Psychology of Infatuation
         Endnote
         Key to My House
         Fire by Friction
         Lazare
         Speak Dancing to My Feet
         An empty-field soul
         liquid glass lotus
         God's Soliloquy After the World

Writing poetry is probably my favourite thing to do when I have spare time. I hesitate to call my poetry anything really fantastic, but people seem to enjoy it. I like to imagine it's reminiscent of e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, and Bob Dylan, among other lyrical heroes.

Though my poems all tend to be a similar length (I usually write on one side of lined paper, in class), I try and vary the subjects as much as I can. That said, there are also a lot of themes that run through my verse. A psychologist would probably say something like, "These are the things that speak to your head, from your childhood experiences," and I'd reply, "Really? Oh, very interesting. Hmm, hmm..." and not think about it again.

They are things such as love, abandonment, faith, the past and the future; not to mention snow falling, rivers flowing, stars calling, green things growing, and other delightful rhymes.

I started seriously writing poetry in 2005; since then, I've written at least one or two a week, and currently have over 400 to my name, and I have also won or placed in several poetry contests for youth.

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