Poetry Archive

My poetry life was kicked off by, what else, the trickery of unrequited, misguided love. It’s evolved over the years, ranging from Ginsbergian rip-offs to cacophonies of words vomited upon the page.

Recovery

Anew Again
The Lies that Corpses Tell You
Gallery of Echoes

Character Studies

The Juggling Mime
The Bejeweled Gem

True Love

The Opposite of Regret
-You don’t get to choose who inspires you. That’s why it’s called a gift.
Fragments and Wishes
-Falling in love at a coffee shop. The poem that started it all. Thanks to the girl who inspired it. 🙂
Memory Lies
-Rejection doesn’t hurt half as bad as dismissal.
Ruined
-When fictional characters can’t shut up about what you’re trying to forget.
Fairy Tale
-Dreams don’t always come true.
Independent
-This is real heartbreak.
Muse
-When what inspires you turns into unreality.
Lost then Loved then Lost
-Relationship pattern recognition.
A “Love” Poem
-The cycles of romantic entanglement.
Is She Coming?
-A hope that one day that special one will make an appearance, soon.

This is…

This Is Death
-The absolute most hopeless splash I could write about death.
This Is Life
-A sequel to the Death splash. The most hopeful optimistic splash I could possibly write.
This Is Fun
-This splash mocks the idea that any kind of drug, whether it be alcohol, weed, or sex, can actually be fun and not just draining.
This Is Time
-A splash to soak you in the rivers of Time, such as they are. Wet, I hear.
This Is Me
-A good man is hard to find, because there is no such thing as a good man.
This Is Prayer
-Not doctrine, but I definitely think prayer is powerful stuff.
This Is Scripture
-A splash describing man’s puny attempts to tame the untameable.
This Is Faith
-A splash doing my best to define the undefinable.
This Is Love
-The final splash in this series, which ends up tying everything together quite nicely. I wasn’t expecting that. Enjoy!

Homesick

Like Transluscent Phantoms
-Homesickness can really kick your butt if you indulge it with nostalgia.
Argument
-Dancing with myself.
Did You Forget? (Part One)
-What has become of you, Brandon?
Did You Forget? (Part Two)
-Not much, what has become of YOU?
All Over the Place
-Schizophrenia is a great source of rambling poetry.
Talented
-I know a writer who is amazing, but the gift is kept secret because they are afraid, and it is sad.
Colors
-Homesickness comes in many different hues.
Countdown
-Waiting for home.

The Truth Hurts

Special
-A splash describing how the oversaturation of sex in our culture has cheapened it to the point of grotesquerie.
Excuses
-There will always be plenty of reasons to not believe Truth. The “This Is…” series was initially conceived as a prelude to this final blow. Be careful when you read it.
Your Drug Is My Love
-A tale of my love affair with drugs.
My Friend
-When a friend of yours becomes self-destructive, and you can do little more than sit back and watch.
In Your Own Way
-You’re your biggest obstacle.
Summer Requiem
-When someone close to you dies, you can’t help but blame yourself, just a little, even though you know better.
Judge Me
-Sometimes, the only thing that gets through to you is judgment.
Let Me Out
-A tale of what it feels like to be imprisoned.
Hopeful Anguish
-Trapped to death inside your own mind.

Faith

Paradoxymoron
-The best relationships are the ones you don’t need to explain.
He Prays
-Prayer can be a maddeningly frustrating exercise.
Resurrection
-The story of a particularly famous Jewish carpenter…

The Meaning of Life & Miscellaneous

There and Back Again
-This splash describes my first impressions a few days after I set foot back in Benin after a decade of absence.
Who Are You?
-So much more and yet so much less than you make yourself out to be.
Explanation
-The meaning of life…sort of.
Overrated Reason
-Logic and reason are boring when compared with imagination.
Deux Worlds
-A French/English poem about me being caught between two worlds and cultures.
Experts
-A tongue-in-cheek splash about how wonderful the purely physical is.
After Dark
-The non-stop up-all-night lifestyle isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
On My Way
-Random thoughts on my plane ride back from Africa.
A Specific Kind of Lonely
-Melancholy musings on a loneliness unexpected and somewhat regretfully treasured.
Party Time
-The end of an era whose nights all blurred together.