Poetry by PS

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

Hello, friends! Cannot tell you how many versions of a Christmas poem I tried to pen this year. All to no avail. With the sudden

Ahhh l’amour. This new poem attempts to create that sense of being “swept away” in the throes of love. Or better yet, use the power

Sometimes poetry is a wonderful vehicle to juxtapose ideas, in this case, Creation and Destruction. The notion of existence. You may recognize the overtures toward

This week’s poem, for me, highlights the dangers of absolute thinking. The poem alludes to many characters from Irish mythology, folklore, and history – the

As I daydream by my window, snug & warm, and watch the world transition to winter, an homage to autumn felt so good to me.

I do not write much war poetry. But this poem came to me as I was thinking through the power of juxtaposition and irony. And

The enduring power of love. What a truly poetic notion. In this poem, I am exploring a tragic “end” to forbidden love. Shipwrecked and doomed,