This selection of works was created during a time of my life when I was not taking medication, using a lot of alcohol, and experiencing many mental health symptoms. I have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and have been struggling to get myself together since I was a teenager. I have been through many atrocities, and this work is my expression of what it is like to go through the struggles of coping and facing what I have.

A poetry collection of the dark and light journey into the mind of a socially conscious youth. Over 165 original works covering love, lust, spirituality, the problems of a machine age, the distant past, vampires, bitter realities, dreams, inspirations, music, emotion, political issues, death and much more.

These poetic gems were found like pebbles on the sands of my life. Poems of love, joy, fact, fiction, depression and inspiration. Stories of romance and tragedy, war and peace, and father and motherhood. All born from my overactive imagination and I call them "My Kinda Poetry." And I hope they are your kind too.

When I awoke the next morning, note written, prepared to depart into the ether,I checked my poem, and found not one, but 5 Angels had said, "WOW, can you ever write, Have you ever been published?" That my friends, was the thread that rewound my rope and has fueled every poem that followed. So if YOU THINK...a simple act of kindness and humanity can't change a life....think again. Angie said when she read heart of a poet it was like a 2x4, hit her and she knew if she didn't get hold of me i...

Shimmering within the ordinary is the yearning we as a people have to belong somewhere more perfectly suited to our nature...to what defines us as human beings. Our restlessness, our sense of lack and absence, our constant falling and rising…indeed our incorruptible belief that we belong somewhere out there, living a different shore life, is testament to this imperative within.The great return, enacted symbolically by movements of individuals and populations back to their origins i...

Poems that enlighten the mind and opens the heart. A collection of poetry about various subjects.

Whether exploring the porous borders between sin and virtue or examining the lives of saints and mystics to find the human experiences in stories of the divine, the poems in No Confession, No Mass move toward restoration and reunion.Jennifer Perrine’s poems ask what healing might be possible in the face of sexual and gendered violence worldwide—in New Delhi, in Steubenville, in Juárez, and in neighborhoods and homes never named in the news. The book reflects on our own com...

This volume of verse will take the reader on a memorable journey through the minds eye, in and out of emotional episodes, and into the diverse thought-patterns of a genuinely poetic personality. There is something here for all, including Stark honesty, whimsy, and various takes on the human experience. These poems will seek to illuminate many dark places in the soul, and show that the line between good and not so good is finer than one could ever imagine, and compelling in its truth.

I was born on 15th August 1966 in a humble family in a small town of Dehradun India. Having parents from diverse religious background lent a cosmopolitan culture within the family. Parents were employed in essential services with variable working hours which required adjustment from all family members. Conscious adjustments created space to muse and observe. Life became a process in the initial years itself. The journey within, lent tenacity of mind, yet the sensitivity of a child seeking ...

This work covers a spectrum of not only raw emotion, but that of fancy and fantasy. Something a little macabre and eerie, while weaving some fractals of beauty, yet maintaining its integrity as a work of mental stimulation, something for people to sink their imaginations into. Some are life based observations and moments of shame; shame from human action in this world and the environments inhabitants, other than ourselves. A work of fiction and, hopefully, some shivers and dark-rooted drea...

The "My Body is a Forest" Legs books include those poems which "do the heavy" lifting. Unlike the Arms books, which move things from place to place by hand, i.e. courage, faith, prayerful moments, strength of "arm", the Legs books do the heavy lifting. Forcing me/us up from places of deep despair, sorrow, loss, grief. They are the Motivators, the Forward-Movers, the Get-Up-and-Get-Something-Done poems.It is easy to sit idle by and watch as the world operates according to its own ca...

As readers of poetry, we all have our favorite ancient poets like Milton, Blake, Homer, and Rimbaud to name a few. Are you ready to break the mold and read some new, crisp poetry from a new American poet? If so, then you have the right book in hand. My poetry approaches life from many angles. I had a twenty-year career in the military with three combat tours under my belt. Also well explore life, death, afterlife, beauty, eroticism, and evil. All human emotions will run the gambit. My poem...