Note that I wrote this poem to reflect on how my trauma manifested. I am trying to heal from the conditioning of past trauma by recognizing the problem and how I am more then my trauma and PTSD. … The inception of the distorted, forgotten song — howls through my ear-drums, tears my synapses until… Continue reading Poetry: Metaphorical Existence
Important Truths We Must Face
I am a pacifist at heart. However, not all ideologies and opinions are equal and okay to freely express, and sometimes one must take a stand even if it means risking it all to fight against hateful ideologies such as neo-Nazism and white supremacy. I’d like to hope we can defeat such destructive ideologies, bills/laws,… Continue reading Important Truths We Must Face
Approaches to Discussion
This idea for a post has been haunting me for some time, but it’s taken me quite awhile to bring it together coherently enough to compose my ideas on paper. So, after all this thinking, researching, and meditating, I’m going to complete this and release it into the wilds of the Internet. I hope it… Continue reading Approaches to Discussion
In regards to character descriptions
A question asked in the Legendfire Writing Critique Forum I help moderate focused on clothing aspects of character descriptions. My reply on the thread expanded that to the wider viewpoint of how clothing and the overall outward presentation of a character can differ based on culture and ethnicity and/or race and influence how the character… Continue reading In regards to character descriptions
Art: Fractals — My Process
Note: I’ve been off and on ill, so am starting to get back on my feet. I hope to start regularly posting again soon. Without further ado, here’s a piece I’ve been working on lately. I have posted with my poetry fractals I created. So I wanted to go over a bit on how I… Continue reading Art: Fractals — My Process
Music: Improvisations on Keyboard
I often will sit down at my keyboard and improvise songs. I tend toward minor keys because I enjoy their emotive power. Relative minor often has a lighter, sadder sound than harmonic minor, and it is fun to modulate between the two types of minor keys. I also will modulate to a major key for… Continue reading Music: Improvisations on Keyboard
National Poetry Month: Sequence of Tanka Inspired by Break My Fucking Sky’s Album Final Breath
Drift on winds of time pulsating drone spears the heart A tremble of notes Sprinkled atop harmony wraps around the panicked mind. . Feet crunch broken rocks gloved hands release the stairway alien landscape ripples with mirages, heat above the star gleams blood red. . Hurricane of pain stabs the mind, body with fire energy… Continue reading National Poetry Month: Sequence of Tanka Inspired by Break My Fucking Sky’s Album Final Breath
Interlude of Truth: The Saga of a Bird and From Order to Chaos
An Introduction of Sorts This is a sequence of poems and fractals — many of the poems I wrote in 2016, though bits of the first segment (I) is from 2015, and the final segment (V) was from 2017. Both the fractals and poems explore the beauty I shared with my former partner but also… Continue reading Interlude of Truth: The Saga of a Bird and From Order to Chaos
National Poetry Month: A Ghazal: Pain
National Poetry Month: A Return to the Ghazal I originally wrote this poem on April 11, 2017 but debated posting it on my blog. It chronicles a journey I took recently, where it felt like my internal self was being erased by others and my story disregarded or distorted by others. I am still recovering… Continue reading National Poetry Month: A Ghazal: Pain
National Poetry Month: Series of Tanka poems
Shredded thoughts and dreams combusts into fractured neurons A maelstrom of pain invigorated senses illuminate the path home. ** The sky splits open and hail heralds the death cries the fury of wind rips and shreds the countryside and lays bare our earths’ innards. ** Harsh words penetrate self lost in the halls of time… Continue reading National Poetry Month: Series of Tanka poems
Reshaping Reality 