Category: Poetry & Lyricism
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Jacob Lee’s Latest Releases “Slow Love” & “A Love Like Ours”
The independent Australian recording artist Jacob Lee has released several new songs that differ in sound. His latest song, “Slow Love,” has a folksy sound that hasn’t been heard in his music before. Please check it out, subscribe, share, etc… Jacob’s previous release titled “A Love Like Ours,” incorporates some of his earlier works, which…
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Poem 518
The free-form poem “Star-Stuck,” was written in January 2025, inspired by a time when I lived just outside L.A. and took a friend to Hollywood for the first time. Things didn’t go as planned. A moody singer-actress was having a “moment,” and we were told we couldn’t walk on the sidewalk until the VIP finished…
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This week’s musical adventures
My 14-year-old’s song for Max Konyi’s “The Sound of Heaven” Challenge. She chose the title and created the entire song after I ran around the house trying to put something together. I had voted for the darn challenge, but she didn’t want to participate. I asked her for help with my own because I was…
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Poem 425
I wrote the free-form poem in the winter of 24/25 as an apology to the Universe, God, and everyone who stepped in to help during a family crisis. Consumed by anxiety and my own assumptions, I started acting like a jerk because I didn’t have enough answers and my child’s health kept declining. It took…
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Poem 516
The poem was written in the winter of 24/25. I watched all that I warned of occurring begin to happen, following the Supreme Court’s ruling on Grant’s Pass. In the mysterious moments when day’s light breaks or wanes, Time stirs and hurries on most days. The guardian of light pierces night’s heaviest stretch, Purifying darkness,…
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Poem 215
The poem was written in the fall of 2022 as part of a MA program assignment. I wrote it in a journal after a friend passed away. On his birthday, a few months later, I went to the spot where he took his last breath. It was just beyond my backyard, and I decided to…
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Poem 515
The “rough” free-form poem was written in January 2025. It examines sudden shifts in mental states—shifts that specifically occur in individuals like myself who suffer from chronic pain or illness. There are moments, days, weeks, and months that are great. But… no matter how much one tries, they can’t keep the darkness away. Darkness serves…
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Poem 212
This free-form poem, written in January 2025, might be close to its final version (or maybe not.) It explores the deep boredom and mental disconnect that often sweep into all varieties of relationships. That disconnection can lead to a sense of ontological homelessness, the unsettling feeling of loneliness and not belonging. These emotions tend to…
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Poem 514
“Rose of Stone” was a quick free-form poem. It was written as a type of prayer for a childhood friend and others in a similar situation. The prayer’s for those who’ve been trapped in domestic violence for far too long. For them to wake up and see the light outside, so they may ask for…
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Poem 512
This rough, free-form poem was one of my first, written in Spring 2024 and left unedited. I began exploring poetry after spending several years studying homelessness, substance use disorder, and other public health issues. Edited versions will be shared later. The poem is about an unsheltered man looking for a place to sleep. The streetlight …
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Perfectly Human 