Poems

  • Mirror, Mirror

    Mirror, Mirror Don’t ever look at their workspace—   Shows you too much process or not enough mess,     Or worse, in every way, the wrong kind of chaos.  Every draft, every revision—    Every crumpled page, every saved_file—  Breath, tempo, conviction, the way they pause.    These are all the things you either desperately study,      Or pretend not Read more

  • The Art of You

    …begin with static—that hum between radio stationswhere your soul lives      you are verb.action.becominga living algorithm of choice/mistake/choice againcoded in the language of maybe    (parentheses hold your secrets)[brackets frame your fears]{curly braces embrace your contradictions}         DNA → RNA → protein → YOUthe biological poetryof existence refusing                    to                        rhyme scattered like:  bread crumbs   coffee stains      love Read more

  • In the Abyss

    In the Abyss, Ghosts are knocking, I’m just walking through that door.In the Abyss, Hearts keep beating underneath my creaking floor.In the Abyss, shadows are dancing, their whispers echo through my core.In the Abyss, silence beckons, as I surrender forevermore. Read more

  • Beyond Either/Or

    True freedom requires absolute responsibility, with stunning clarity.One cannot be both selfless and authentic, acting with sincerity. Happiness is simply a choice anyone can make, pursued with regularity.All suffering is ultimately self-created, viewed with peculiarity.There is no true altruism, only disguised self-interest, lacking solidarity.There is no such thing as a proud victim’s lamentation.Forgiveness always benefits Read more

  • Unapologetic Radiance

    I show excitement, automatically labeled “too much.”  I express my opinions honestly, labeled “difficult.”  I get passionate about my interests, labeled “obsessive.”Yet those who are meant to stay will see beyond these labels.  They’ll recognize my silence as thoughtful reflection,  my fidgeting as the physical language of my nerves,  my intensity as the pure expression Read more

  • The Over Grandiose (OG)

    Creative Writing #04042025 #OverGrandiose “Intentionally Pretentious”     Like a celestial supernova illuminating the darkest corners of our collective consciousness, my artistic vision transcends the mere boundaries of mortal expression, weaving together the cosmic threads of human experience into a tapestry so profound that future generations will study its intricacies as scholars once decoded the mysteries Read more

  • Calibrating Creativity

    Ethical Echoes: #4 Grease-stained fingers danced across the keyboard at midnight, translating the complex machinery of Ethan’s mind into words. By day, he diagnosed engines with intuitive precision; by night, he repaired his own restless thoughts through storytelling. His ADHD had always made his mind race—thoughts firing like pistons—but writing channeled that energy into vivid Read more

  • Playing the Listeners

    Ethical Echoes: #8 Jason found a tiny black box under his car’s wheel. It was a bug from his job, made to spy on him. But Jason didn’t get mad – he got even. Every day, he played his metal music backwards in his car. The loud songs by bands like Marilyn Manson sounded like Read more

  • Noodles & Notebooks

    Ethical Echoes: #6 In his messy “writing space” (actually his mom’s garage), Dave Smith held his cheap pen (which he called “a gift from the muse”) and glared at his pile of rejected stories as if they were out to get him. “I used to send my work to publishers—fools who can’t grasp my style,” Read more

  • Ethical Echoes: #5 Jake slammed his hard hat onto the makeshift break table, drawing stares from across the construction site as he launched into his speech. “Listen up, because I’m only saying this once,” he announced, his voice echoing through the steel beams of the half-finished high-rise. “I’ve given support to people who didn’t reciprocate. Read more