Poetry by PS

Welcome, dear friends! This week’s poem explores the mystery and transformative beauty of true love, beginning with the notion of a fevered dream. For those

Hello, my friends! Being the jaded New Englanders we are, my wife, my daughters, and I have always had a bit of snarky contempt for

My friends, greetings! It snowed in Upstate New York earlier this week… not much of a snow, but it still snowed. In late April! UGH.

Hi, friends! This week, let’s explore the ancient legend of the leannán sídhe (“fairy lover”) who in Celtic tradition is a Muse (of sorts) and

Hi, friends! I love cherry blossoms in the springtime. They carry such fragrant resonance for me of true natural beauty… but they’re time in bloom

Hey, friends! In June, my siblings and I are taking my dad back to Ireland to celebrate his 80th birthday. Needless to say, my mind

Hi, friends! I grew up a few hours away from the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York. Fondly regarded as the North Country, my mom’s

Hi, friends! As I have shared with many of you, I love to experiment with different poetic movements, forms, and stylings. My writing is such

Hi, friends! Usually I release my poems on Sundays from a queue that is 8-12 weeks old. This gives me time to refine, edit, prioritize,

Hi, friends! The creative process involved with writing poetry is, hundreds of poems later, still very odd to me. What is the inspiration? UGH! Soooooo

A sonnet for the people of Ukraine. I borrowed the quotes in the opening and closing lines of my poem from Cassius’s final lines in

Hi, friends! As many of you know, I love to incorporate mythology into some of my poetry. I truly believe that mythic allusions can thicken

Hi, friends! Over 264,000,000 people worldwide live with depression. I wrote this poem in support of our friends and family members struggling with depression, anxiety,

Hey, friends! Sharing an older poem this week that somehow got lost in my poetry files. I wrote this poem during some dark times in

Hey, friends! This week’s poem is a bit of an homage to EAP, of course the incomparable, Edgar Allan Poe. His gothic horror style of

I do not write much Sci-Fi themed poetry although I am a huge fan of the genre. If you were to examine my collection of

This week’s poem addresses difficult subject matter: child abuse. As a father of two amazing young women, I cannot fathom the depravity or cruelty it

Hey, friends! This week’s poem came to me while looking for some free wallpaper art online. Sometimes there is a magical event that connects a

Hey, friends! Staying true to last week’s poetry theme of “layers,” I present you with another new poem that might be interpreted in different layers.

Happy(er) New Year, my friends! To quote Shrek in the 2001 movie, Shrek, “Ogres are like onions… Onions have layers. Ogres have layers….” Poems are