My works of literature

Good stuff. I can barely manage to sign my signature, let alone compose poetry.

Very nice. Who are your literary inspirations?

One of my old works:

Saxophone

The tide left a saxophone
on my doorstep this evening.
Orange sunset cloaked the
vagrant – its surface wouldn’t
shine, tarnished to dirt
brown. I thought it might be
someone’s litter – a twisted
paper bag, or bathtub-
drowned dog.

A frayed piece of gray
shirtsleeve noosed the horn’s neck.
Its cork was split, mouthpiece
missing. Seaweed denied
movement to cracked keys.
Its curved shape was
perverted. Someone
tried to hammer it straight
with a cinderblock.

Once an instrument of grace and
sex, this piece was mauled
and pitched from a boat
under the veil of night,
or hurled from a cliff
by a lover who couldn’t
taste the music.

This is probably my favorite one that I've done. I'm very proud of it.

"Sing Of Your Ascent"
11-5-07

Our sins grow dark and the sinners grow darker,
Dare them to dream and to rip at the seams.
Of what I could speak I'd shed light on your heart,
Dare them to dream and to rip at the seams.
O, little one, you've yet to announce,
The reason you tear at the veins, your poor veins.
But speak, soft and silent, and should you announce,
What's the cause of your crushing, your binding, your chains.
And oh, child of light, your surrounded of guilt,
Of grief, of the ones who have cherished you so.
But no, precious one, these four walls you have built,
Soon you'll find peace and we won't let you go.
Soon, little dreamer, this world of distress,
Shall unlock all the doors of your horrible mind.
Inside your thoughts, we all see the mess,
Of this beautiful, innocent, perfect design.

Very nice. Who are your literary inspirations?

Uhm. William Shakespeare, Robert Frost and Edgar Allen Poe are the main ones. Pretty good piece, by the way.

This is probably my favorite one that I've done. I'm very proud of it. "Sing Of Your Ascent"

mine too dear. I love it.

Allow me to recommend The Triggering Town, by Richard Hugo. It doesn't necessarily teach how to write poetry, but it explains some useful processes.

Also, if you like Frost, check out Seamus Heaney.