You have just taken the first step in enrichening your life with some real literature. No more commercialism. No more serial writing. No more newpaper styles. Instead, you get honest to goodness literature that is free from bias and void of monetary intent.

We'll start your journey by giving you a quick, 12 line poem entitled From Darkness to Light.

The first poem I ever entered in a contest and one of first poems I ever wrote, The Trail to Lifeblood marks our progression on the road of life and the many obstacles we encounter. This poem won first place in my high school magazine for poetry and has been published in a national anthology entitled A Voyage to Remember.

One of my favorite poems, "Ahotasu", tells of the internal struggle of a person in love with a person who doesn't reciprocate that love. Written in 1994.

A dance is personal, intense, and revealing. Like a dance, love encomapasses each of these aspects. It might last but for A Moment in Time, but it is never forgotten.

Here is an excert from Chambers of a Heart, I suggest our life can be marked by a passageway of rooms telling which doors we have ventured into and which ones we have ignored.

Poe, one of the greatest short shory authors in American History was definately weird. Although his poetry not as good as his other genres, there is one stanza of a poem that places him in my favorite category. From To One in Paradise, here's the first, fourth, and part of the second stanza.

If Poe was weird, Crane was morbid. Here's two examples that will take you 15 seconds to read, enjoy!

In the weeks to come, I'll add more tidbits, but for now, this will have to suffice.