The last poème and exposé in the Les Poèmes series, ‘Lost Words’ reflects the crisis moment when words are meaningless and empty. Tragedy groans where words fail. I felt old, weary, empty, broken, and numb, all in a heaping pile. I would soon be custom fit with a scarlet letter…

Hera’s Heart is an old-world poetic allegory of a new husband who slowly builds himself a psychological prison out of virtue and love for his wanting bride. Laid with a foundation of stones, Young Love set its first course true, not withholding the threshold of which to cross. White silk…

A short poem and exposé based on a dream so powerful it redefined my notion of love while I dealt with a Borderline Personality Disordered spouse. In October 2011, I awoke from a dream so vivid and powerful that it redefined my notion of genuine love. …

This Poème and exposé spawned the Les Poèmes series exploring shades of love and reflections of life’s irony. Having never experienced genuine healthy love, I longed for the calms of a “safe harbor” to rest my ship from the constant gales of my then-bad marriage. Storms are a fact at…

A short poem and exposé on the fickle and elusive nature of love. When love came to me in a dream, I tried to capture her essence with words, but she is an elusive creature and only settles on you like a butterfly, meaning, as she wills. A leap to…

A short poem and exposé on staring the death of love in the eyes. The pain of death crushes. The wounds of lost love haunt forever. As my marriage neared its end, I felt old and tired, ground to a pulp by an uncontrollable monster named “mental disorder.” I remember…