Poetry Series

I Awoke This Morning is a poem about a woman who has been through a great deal. She hopes for real love and happiness in her life. She realizes that it won't come from any man but it has to come from within.

This free ebook is comprised of ten poems that I wrote when I was younger. It also includes I Want You Back, a poem that garnered me the 2004 Editor's Choice Award, which was presented to me by Poetry.com and The International Library of Poetry. All of these poems are also availiable separately at poetry.com

This is a poem about domestic violence. The woman in the poem refuses to leave while her neighbors and friends plead with her. The violence is seen through the woman's eyes as well as the people around her. Her children have begun to follow in her footsteps and this should be reason enough to leave her abusive husband but she makes no attempt to leave while others worry about her and the safety of the children.

My Dear Sister is a poem about a sister that has been kind and caring to a younger sister. It's a poem of thanks and admiration of the tender loving care received by the younger sister.

I'm just stayin alive I don't really know why I can't take this shit It never fuckin ends The same ol' day to day Why do I have To live this way I think I'm made to pay For everyone else's mistakes Place the blame on them Or at least Let me pay with my life Fuck, I wanna die

I thought I'd murder... Hurt her. I loved it. My first love first earned I learned to not trust. I fucked my life I nearly lost my life For her For her. Whenever I saw my fuse shorter... I tried not to snap... To only get her back But not get her back.

The pain I've felt so long Could never have been Without reason Every bit of it could never be wrong Because it's taught me what To really say and how to mean it You're so good I can't believe my eyes I can't understand how you came to be You've made me thankful for all the lies I ever had to believe And made me thank God you came to me Every untruth I was told Has given me strength to see what is good And to know how to hold Onto what I should

Tonight, I don't think That I could put down my drink And have to go back to that Lonely, lonesome home Where it all leaves me all alone And there's no one there to hear me say That I wish with all my might That each and every night You'd at least, in a dream, come my way

Along you go but can't seem to hold Onto the only thing you've ever known Blinded by their lights that they burn your eyes Acting like They never meant To cause you pain, to cause discontent But the lies you despise They force feed more to never realize Or simply care nothing and watch you work your way To insanity and self-decay

When the curse of the werewolf takes hold on the night of the full moon, blood will be spilled. A short, rhyming poem (49 short lines) about what it's like to change, experience the hunger, and spill blood.

A rhyming poem about standing up to the devil, about hellfire, damnation and suffering. I wrote this poem a long time ago. There is nothing autobiographical about it.

Only nothingness exists, but I don't give a shit... too dead inside to care.

Take a glimpse inside a broken heart. Words weave tales of romance gone wrong, lovers abandoned and suffering on the most basic of levels. This ebook includes ten poems, the first is about friendship and the others about wishing for a lovers return.

This is a poem about a break up between two people who still love each but cannot get their relationship back on track. While one of them is willing to try wholeheartedly at rekindling the relationship, the other seems willing yet fearful of loving and trusting anyone. Can love survive in the face of fear?

Could I still be a man If all of this makes me cry Maybe I'm not doin all I can Cuz maybe All your promises were lies Maybe everything We thought we had is gone Maybe that's why I wanna break down n die

All this Makes me sick So much moan and piss Like I could ever give a shit Everyone everywhere Is always lookin at me They stop and stare And then blow past me Except all the ones I thought that mattered They try to bring me down, Surround me like some hypocrites Thinkin my ego'll shatter

I still have your kiss Painted on my lips, Fingertips inside A heart of stone and ice Is this all alright I can’t help but miss Every day that you were mine I could not resist, Taken in such a way, just as is, As all I was, as all inclined To believe all of your lies

This all drags me down I see what looks like blood Upon my hands and face I cannot chase away The tears I taste Or wash away all The years I've watched myself waste As I lie here so lifeless on the ground

Part of me Wants it all To be like it was But everything's changed You seem strange to me As soon as things go tough You said you'd had enough You left me too angry To care anymore

It happens everywhere but not in your home. This is a poem about a situation that happened to a close friend of mines. She met a man and they fell in love. She moved him and his daughter into her home. This is when she finally realizes the horrible truth. I have labeled the book fiction but it's up to you to decide....This poem is not for the faint at heart.

A rhyming poem about depression and despair and hope. Although this is another poem about defiance, it is a different kind of defiance, a healthier defiance.

I wish you could find the same Because in your brain You seem to think that it's ok To leave someone hurting in such a way Breaking hearts, tearing apart All inclination To move past sentimental sensation Broken angel, maybe of my own creation

I wanna raise a glass To the bride and groom On their wedding day I know I shouldn't be here But I just gotta say Hey, Buddy, You can kiss my ass I would expect this from her But we've been friends Since we were kids And now, I ain't so sure

Empty and broken, Oscillating to answer to Everything everyone says of me, Demanding my attention, No careful condemnation Erasing my innocence Invasion of anything I ever thought I'd be

So alone I'm turning to stone The blood in my veins Just spilled on the ground And no one's around But pain I caused For us both It's a demon whose face Has already shown I thought being grown Meant making mistakes But taking the blame And erasing the pain And when that seed's sown Knowing that all that's known Is a lesson to learn About how not to be And what from yourself Never again to condone

Do you ever feel You don't belong And you can't try Any harder It's all wrong So you don't care About it anymore Your troubles seem too many Your life feels so empty

You treated me Bitterly But it's almost ok now You intentionally Lied to me You try to talk to me But I don't have much to say Any words that form Don't come out And right now You're probably wondering Why it all changed Why can't two people be friends When one tells the other I don't love you But love didn't have long So it can't be What you said it was And I'm done

She will always be everything I want and everything I wish i could need.

I wish You weren’t the one To hurt me You always knew Just what not to say You really liked to lure me Into a false sense of hope And for fun, turn right around And just take it all away

My mouth sewn shut My eyes will bleed No way to be whole Though I feel the need Rotting through a body of flesh, Infecting me with wounds so fresh Dead to my core, Hoping to be But still living no more