This page serves as a simple cover all as far as what I have completed, maybe a little back ground as far as what I have done so that you might get a feel as far as what you might expect from me in the future. Of course, writing styles and inspirations always change, but I do believe that there is a constant that always exists.
"Otium...Et Hoc Genus Omne." This was the first book of poetry I ever completed. It was finished around 1994 and was a sophmore or junior in high school. The book serves as an unintentional diary or journal for me. Kind of like the old poetry of bards like Homer, it does tell a story. Not that I am claiming it to be the same as Homer's work! It is a story of the life of a modern day teenager, and probably exists today even stronger than it did when it was written. A tale of confusion and tragedy, growth and learning, I think it is something any teenager will be able to relate to.
"Me and this Pen" contains more obscure poetry. Some of it is a bit more fun or light hearted than the prior book.
"New Additons/New Addictions" shows more of a growth as a poet. I take on new subjects, more worldly and accessable to a wider veriety of people.
"Nalstogic Noctornal Nights" contains four different chapters, each on a different subject. One on lost childern of the world, one on hobos, bums and the forgotten, one on love, and the other is moreso just what did not fit in.
"Return of the Pen" has just recently been finished. I took a long time off from writing poetry of almost any kind. New insperation came along and I began writing it again, this is the result.
"Fr. Lucifer" was the first piece of fiction I ever fully completed. This story came together by melding together both Myan and Chatholic apoctolyptic literature. It is a story of an almost priest who discovers the seals of the appocolypse are being open, just in a way that wasn't normally thought. With help from a close priest friend, they must find a way to stop the end of the world from happening. (See Samples page)
"Rsis" is based off of Dr. Carl Jung's thought that we are always dreaming, it is just that common life gets in the way and distracts us from being able to see them. In the story a man begins seeing his dreams in his waking life and must struggle with the conflict of what is real and what is dreams.
"Famous Blue Raincoat" is a love story; something kind of new for me to tackle. It is all written in retrospect, the time line is written kind of differently which proved somewhat difficult.
"The Letters" is a war/love story about 2 people who find old letters from WWII in their new garden. As they begin reading them however they find something odd.
"A Good Day For Gerald" is a short. It is about a page long about an old confused man who thinks he is going to his wedding day.
Untitled - another short, yet to be named, about a man in a diner and his highschool girlfriend. (See Samples page)
"Racing The Rain" is a short about a man on his motorcycle racing a storm through the plains.
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