Poetry

Poems written while waiting for the bus. The 214 in Seattle.

Desert Visions is a series of poems I wrote while participating in a Marine Corps exercise in Twenty Nine Palms, California.

While not exuding great literary value, I find them interesting because I wrote them in the middle the desert.

Embryo is a poetry collection that describes a time when people have placed their faith in a pagan god, and [the real] God intervenes.

I wrote Holding Grace during the first month of my Junior Year in college, 1993.

I wrote the leaf poems during English class. The first, Leather Leaf, turned out well. The others were added over the following year.

Song lyrics. Or, these are supposed to be song lyrics.

The poetry of my great uncle, Clayton Cates.

Poems that do not belong to a specific group or particular context. Given my one-time propensity for churning out collections of poetry, readers may have better luck with the singles.

Embryo's gothic pain and horrific interpretations of emotions, death, life and the potential for love, was received with warm reception from many readers. As life continues, winding up and down, new fears, pains, and anger haven't passed us by, but have only complicated what we thought we controlled.

Winter is a fifteen-part poetry collection that is set in the midst of a battle between humans and nature, and between religion and pagan beliefs.

Both narrative and lyrical styles are used to describe a time when a wizard embattles humanity against his sorcery in an attempt to get humans to realize the fallacy of their beliefs.

Daisy Bee was written as an example while I worked on the document build process.