In that list, the ones I like best are highlighted and recommended--start with these if you don't know what to read. Many were written years ago when I was in high school or college, so don't be expecting great art here. E-mail if you've got a comment; I don't take public comments on the poetry. And, though I doubt that anyone wants to steal my crappy verses, please do respect that every poem on this page is part of a collective registered copyright.
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| TITLE | STYLE | DESCRIPTION |
| Acorn Man | Rhyme: AAAA BBBB | This sing-song poem was written for a friend who was known as "Squirrel" at the time (hence the "acorn" reference). It sounds babyish, but is more serious than it looks. |
| Breaking Out of Structure | Rhyme: ABAB | Commentary on the constraints of the world--with a humorous ending regarding what I'm gonna do about it. Written in tenth grade. |
| Canopy | Free verse | Description of an idyllic scene under the trees. Written when I was sixteen. |
| Clockwork | Free Verse, Quatrains | A clock's gears are gummed up so it can't move past a certain point. Its whole world collapses. |
| Daughter of the Wind | Free Verse | Whimsical fantasy poem about being the wind's daughter. |
| Desktop Art | Rhyming, ABCB | Poem about the writing on desks in school, written when I was seventeen. |
| Denial | Free Verse (with repetition) | About life's inexorable march forward. |
| Dying Light | Free Verse | Poem about chasing a dying spirit. |
| Free | Prose Poem | A conversation with a homeless man. (Not autobiographical.) |
| Forgiven | Free Verse (with repetition) | Unconditional love in the face of an abusive relationship. (Not autobiographical.) |
| Girl | Free Verse | About the extent to which a woman's soul is female. |
| Glow | Free Verse | Poem written for my friend Jim, about love, life, and creation. Written from the point of view of godlike beings. |
| Graveyards | Free Verse | What's the secret in these places? What's really there? |
| Hidden Sights | Free Verse | About seeing things that most people think are not there--from the point of view of a Muse, sort of. |
| In the Way | Free Verse | The frustration of being apart. |
| Keys to the Past | Rhyme: ABCB | Maybe those two roads diverged in a yellow wood actually come back together someplace. |
| Life in a Symphony | Free Verse | About how much a piece of music can say and mean. |
| Look Up | Free Verse | What a gigantic something we are all part of! |
| Lost | Prose Poem | Long convoluted story about disorientation. Autobiographical. |
| Married to Death | Free Verse | A very different view on relationships with death. |
| Memory | Free Verse | Very short poem equating memory to snow. |
| Moonflower | Prose Poem | A garden poem about mothers, the sun, the moon, and matters of taste. |
| Name | Prose Poem | It's very difficult to choose a name for a child. |
| Nine | Free Verse (with repetition) | About magic and infinity, describing a magical ritual. Written when I was eighteen. |
| Ocean's Memory | Free Verse | Short poem about the ocean's memory of me . . . or lack thereof. |
| One Masterpiece | Rhyme: ABCB, also with internal rhyme | A poem with a strange rhyme scheme, about meaningful art and its definition. |
| One Side | Prose Poem | This is a poem in the voice of a fantastical, undefined being, and her story about love for a mortal child. |
| Only When It Rains | Free Verse | The spirit of the rain comes again. |
| Open Arms | Free Verse | Arms always seem to open at my cue, but for all the wrong reasons. |
| Rain | Prose Poem | Autobiographical poem that makes no sense to most people; involves interaction with the inanimate and an awful lot of crying. |
| Rant For the Ranters | Prose Poem | I go off on the campus preachers from my college--one in particular who always drew a crowd and immediately answered any questions that came from females by claiming that the girl who spoke obviously didn't know her place--"the Bible says it is SHAMEFUL for a woman to contradict a man." |
| Sharing With Innocence | Free Verse | Depicts a pleasant mother-to-son love. Written when I was fifteen. |
| Star? | Free Verse, Allegory | About relationships, using planetary systems as an extended metaphor. |
| Steps | Free Verse | The experience of being human when you feel like you're not. |
| Stowaway On Planet Earth | Rhyme: ABCB | After feeling out of place on the planet, the speaker discusses wanting to leave Earth. Written when I was in ninth grade. |
| They Used to Be Here | Prose Poem | Poem about haunting school memories, rendered and revealed by a speaker who is apparently acquiring them through psychometric experiences. Written in the summer before my junior year of high school. |
| Twins | Free Verse | Another fantasy poem about the magical half of me. |
| Ugliness | Free Verse | About the truth of love no matter who it belongs to. |
| Unwilling Baby | Free Verse | The world makes its impression on a helpless child. |
| Up All Night | Free Verse | A poem about why I don't stop for a minute. |
| Wearing the Sky | Free Verse | Short poem about dressing in clouds. |
| Winter Winds | Rhyme: ABCB (different last verse) | About the weird cycle of the seasons. |
| Yarn | Prose Poem | When you untangle the knotted strings of your life, what do you find? |
| Your Life | Free Verse | About listening to someone's song and feeling as though you've been transported into that person's life. |
| Haiku Page | Haiku | This page just has all my collected haiku poetry. |
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