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No Vacancy
This poem reflects on a resigned acceptance of the annual barn swallows’ return in Texas, highlighting the tension between the desire for personal space and the inevitability of sharing it with others. This theme can be seen as a metaphor for the broader human experience of dealing with unwanted yet inevitable disruptions in life.
Symphony of Existence
Emphasizing humility and wonder, this is a poem about the interconnectedness of our universe, highlighting how everything, including us, is part of a grand symphony of existence.
Morning from a Front Porch in Fall
One thing that makes poetry special is the ability to capture, communicate, and honor the simple, sometimes missed opportunities inside everyday observations in life. Within this context, culture is right there, offering this reflection, acting as a mirror reflecting norms and experiences that are full of richness, full of human experience, memory, and routine.
Looking Up
Have you ever noticed how few in the world now look to our heavenly skies, instead, preoccupied with screens and streams? This poem relies on interior rhyme schemes and specific rhetorical devices to emphasize unplugging and “looking up.”
Kitchen Door
This is a quotidian poem on a past experience of discovering our family’s ranch house kitchen door breached by migrants along the Texas-Mexico border.
Hill Country Cashier
The daily life, hunger for connection, and struggle of small-town life are captured in this quotidian poem of a simple encounter in a Texas Hill Country store.
We Interrupt This Message
The nature of counting down helps us measure the remaining time of some outcome as we approach an anticipated good. In this structurally concrete poem, I am counting up by the use of the number of words to a dreadfully-common weather occurrence in Texas - tornadoes.
The Giving Tree
An everyday observation of the Texas hunting culture and its provisions for those in need.
Down at the Dairy Queen
The poem came out of the joy I find returning to my roots, sitting around the coffee table at The Dairy Queen with my elders.
Catcher of Things
The dreamcatcher is an American Indian craft item, and its symbolism can certainly serve as a muse for poetic exploration. Both dreamcatchers and poetry can explore the ethereal and imaginative realms, and like a dreamcatcher, the poet can draw inspiration from cultural symbols and rituals, incorporating them into our work to convey a sense of connection to heritage or the spiritual. Both serve as vessels for encapsulating the intangible aspects of life, whether it be the beauty of dreams or the complexities of human emotion. This poem is written in the rampage, a poetic form of 8 lines and 85 syllables that depends on an interior rhyme scheme and was crafted by Robert Bly.
