Poetry Portfolio
Browse poems by theme, season, or feeling, and linger where the lines speak back.
Featured Poems for Quiet Reading
Take a breath. Stay awhile.
These poems were written for quiet moments, for the questions that linger, the wounds that ask to be witnessed, and the small resurrections that happen when we least expect them. Read slowly. Let the words meet you where you are.
Poems
THE J-MOTIONS
Love • Attachment • Betrayal
“I still loved you though, that’s the hypocrisy of it all.”
A ROSE IN WILCOX
Home • Survival • Becoming
“It grew out the dirt. I had to rise beyond it.”
OUTPOURING
Faith • Pain • Surrender
“All I have left is you Father…”
CYCLES OF PLEASURE
Desire • Loneliness • Reclamation
“Aht aht. Never Again!”
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The J-Motions
Love. Attachment. Betrayal. Reclamation.
A meditation on the kind of love that can become both refuge and prison. The J-Motions traces the complicated space between desire, emotional attachment, betrayal, and the difficult realization that loving someone does not always mean they are meant to remain.
Read when: you’re untangling yourself from something you once couldn’t imagine living without.
A Rose in Wilcox
Home. Survival. Identity. Becoming.
A portrait of growing beyond the soil that raised you. A Rose in Wilcox examines hometown, poverty, judgment, resilience, and the determination to become something more, even when the place you come from cannot imagine who you are becoming.
Read when: you’re learning that where you come from does not have to determine where you bloom.
OutPouring
Faith. Pain. Surrender. Grace.
A conversation with God born from the places where life feels heaviest. OutPouring explores suffering, purpose, spiritual awakening, and the possibility that something beautiful can emerge from the darkest clouds.
Read when: you’re searching for God in the middle of what you don’t understand.
Cycles of Pleasure
Desire. Loneliness. Spirituality. Self-reclamation.
A raw reflection on the moments when physical desire becomes an escape from emotional loneliness—and the awakening that follows. Cycles of Pleasure confronts repetition, vulnerability, spiritual disconnection, and the decision to finally choose oneself.
Read when: you’re breaking a cycle and learning to come home to yourself.Uncategorized
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