Stories

April is National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), and the challenge is to write 30 poems (one per day) throughout the month. This year, I decided to do something a little different. Each day (or every other day, depending on my mood) I will write a 'postcard'--a short poem about my daily dealings with the COVID-19 pandemic. I will also write other poems as the mood (and daily prompts) strike me. I think it will be an interesting exercise to see how the poems change across the course of the month.

Various poems written in various times of my life

These are just shared words of rhythm and rhymes; submitted on GA as a collection; chapters with independent themes, often as comments to other authors’ stories.

Please read any referenced stories for proper context and understanding; hopefully you’ll find the source stories as interesting and enjoyable as I do.

my attempts at poetry

An offering of poems for National Poetry Writing Month; April 2022. Some were composed in response to prompts provided to me, others not.

The darkness festers throughout the vast cosmos in many ways, through war, famine, greed and more, this collection showcases this darkness that exists all around. From the tortured individual to the battlefields of distant lands. This darkness grows, and this archive exists to catalog it. The archive will continue to catalog these findings, as the darkness grows ever closer to us, we are prepared to meet it with observant eyes, and open minds.

This is a poem I wrote as a teenager about the ravages of war. History repeats itself, and lessons are never learned.

A few poems from home sweet Oklahoma.

When you just can't seem to stand it anymore

Three poems that explore what happens to a soul between death and rebirth.