Poetry 2024-2025 is a raw and searching collection that moves through two years of personal reckoning and world-weariness with equal parts tenderness and defiance.
Written against the backdrop of grey winter mornings, crackling fires, and a news cycle that cuts "like a knife," these poems track a poet's restless mind as it wrestles with depression, digital overreach, love, loss, and the stubborn persistence of hope.
From meditations on artificial intelligence and the erosion of the human imagination, to quiet observations of fireflies lifting like luminous fairies and birds carrying a single seed into a nearby tree, the collection refuses easy consolation. Instead, it offers something more honest — the testimony of a witness: someone awake to the world's cruelty and beauty in the same breath.
Ranging in form from spare, breath-length lyrics to long, rolling free verse and rhyming street-philosophy, this manuscript is held together by a single unifying voice — one that is spiritually restless, politically clear-eyed, and deeply committed to the belief that poetry is not a choice but a calling. "Never did I ask for this need / to share effusive without a filter / an artist must or live oppressed."
A compassionate, unflinching record of living through difficult times with an open heart.