Writing is my first love.
I’ve written my life into poetry since I first learned to write and have never been able to find a cure for the compulsion. If you are also a lover of spilled ink, here is a collection for you to explore.
Substack
The rest of my published poetry collection is on Substack. Feel free to explore the archives there and, if you like what you see, subscribe to support my work. I also have a fascination with mythology and story, and occasionally I share a piece that’s more story than poem. Subscribers receive a writing piece delivered to their email inbox every weekend.
YouTube
For poems set to music, visit the YouTube channel @thepoet_S
A few thoughts on poetry
I often hear people say they don’t understand poetry, so they don’t read it.
I don’t think any poet, no matter how prolific or famous, would say they understand poetry. Poetry is not something to be parsed out into a Power Point presentation or written into a story with a beginning and an ending.
There are no beginnings and endings in a poem.
Poems hold a life of their own, for as a poem is coming to life it often becomes something outside of the poet’s control. And while speaking one thing to one person, it often speaks something entirely different to another.
Being a poet, to me, is not something esoteric or strange. It is simply a way of being in the world. It’s living an ordinary working life while deeply feeling the way the lights and shadows land.
Perhaps I am just trying to name this world into which I have been born.
“Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter.”
-June Jordan
