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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau

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Poems

Poem

I write poetry as both a means of expression and, more importantly, as a way of exercising my writing skills. Nothing keeps the literary hand in like channeling ideas through a strict rhyme-and-meter format. This archive represents several different styles and phases, including some of my best (and my worst) work. I’ll let you decide which is which.

A

• The Ascetic’s Rhyme

B

• Ballard To A Mallard

C

• Comfort for the Bereaved
• Constipated Genius
• The Cosmonaut’s Lament

E

• The Earth Walks Through the Universe Alone
• End of Days
• Ever After

H

• The Haunted House
• The Heathen’s God
• Hollywood Suicide

I

• Illusions of the Dead

L

• Loss of Love

M

• The Mummy Speaks

N

• Not Based On Anyone, Living or Dead

O

• One Night
• Ophelia’s Song

P

• Paganini and the Devil

S

• Saint Lucy
• The Seed of Love
• The Span of the Immortals

W

• Wire
• Wuthering Through the Heights

Y

• You Are

Poets I Admire

• Dorothy Parker
• T. S. Eliot
• Emily Dickinson
• William Shakespeare
• Ogden Nash
• Charles H. Sorley
• Wilfred Owen