Under the Crimson Moon An Empat Empat poem about the beauty of nature and the negative effects the actions of human beings can have on it. In an Empat Empat poem. There are four stanzas, and a refrain that occurs word for word in the first line of the first stanza, second of the second, etc. The rhyme scheme is Abab, cAca, adAd, eaeA. The refrain has six syllables, while the other lines have eight.

Despair A poem of soul-crushing despair. Composed of couplets in anapestic hexameter.

The Woman Dressed in Black A dark romantic narrative poem in iambic hexameter about a man who meets a mysterious black-clad woman in a graveyard.

2 I Am Shattered An experiment in free verse.

Anicca Poem on the Buddhist concept of anicca, or impermanence. Iambic tetrameter, assonant rhyme.

1 The Moods of Spring A poem about spring in Iambic Pentameter, with rhyme scheme abba.

1 Nice Parking Job, Dick A humorous and fairly pointless short story based on an equally pointless experience I had during my first semester at college, albeit heavily embellished and completely fictionalized. Enjoy!

Lord Death Poem on the inevitability of death. Iambic Tetrameter. Includes some archaic vocabulary, which, while I like its effect in the poem, causes some "English teachers" to frown.

Tanka 3 Tanka, a Japanese form of poetry that is older than haiku which consists of 31 onji morae, though in this case I use 31 syllables in phrases of 5-7-5-7-7.

Tanka 1 Tanka, a Japanese form of poetry that is older than haiku which consists of 31 onji morae, though in this case I use 31 syllables in phrases of 5-7-5-7-7.