poems

A witty, passionate plea from a lover arguing that life's brevity demands they seize love's pleasures while they can.

A dark allegory of how secret, destructive love devours innocence and beauty from within.

A fevered, opium-induced vision of an exotic pleasure dome becomes a meditation on imagination's power to create worlds beyond human experience.

A chilling allegory of how suppressed anger, nourished by secrecy and deceit, grows into deadly poison that destroys both victim and bearer.

A mesmerizing contemplation of creation's duality, questioning what divine force could forge both nature's most fearsome predator and its gentlest creature.

A gentle, childlike meditation on innocence and divine creation, told through a dialogue with a lamb.

A powerful declaration of America's promise to embrace the world's downtrodden, speaking through the voice of the Statue of Liberty.

A cursed maiden in a tower chooses tragic freedom over eternal isolation after glimpsing the magnificent Sir Lancelot.

A father's stirring advice to his son about maintaining dignity, courage, and honor in the face of life's greatest challenges.

A traveler's tale of a ruined statue in the desert reveals the hollow nature of human power and pride.