Poetry > Sad

A book filled with poetry and short stories, crafted to make you long for the night, deserted streets, neon lights, unknown shadows, and the night air with less concentration of volatile compounds. Chocolate Mint Nite Drives offers obscure sorrows that wander in the abyss of negative reflection. Ruminate through kenopsia as a man and woman sit on bench and look around their empty city. Explore the apartments of sonder, ellipsism, lachesism, adronitis, and occhiolism. Victoria invites you on a night drive where she unveils the despondency wrapped in her heart. You both head where the other nightly people go. Perhaps an ice cream cone is purchased. Perhaps it is mint chocolate chip. You'll ...

Don’t Say Anything is meant to focus on hiding emotions, either by force or because of the lack of having someone to rely on to hear such thoughts. These poems try to shed light on not being able to express yourself, or not having the comfort to do so. Some poems might focus on by-products of not being able to express yourself, such as loneliness, isolation, anger, etc.

Written in the wake of a family tragedy, Flowers for Alex presents the first year of grief following the murder of Stotts' brother, Alex Oyombe Gradin, by gun violence. Through a diary-like, chronological record, Stotts explores the cycles of death and rebirth, not only in physical death, but in all of life's joys and heartbreaks - in love, break ups, mental health struggles, a global pandemic, spiritual growth, and in the expansion of consciousness.

GNOME – by definition, your eyes may have glanced over this title and remember those dwarfish–looking garden & lawn ornaments with long beards and pointed hats. Historically, a gnome is a mythical creature and diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy. An ageless and often deformed being who lives in the earth and usually guards golden treasure and other valuable objects. Fast–forward to today its symbolic meaning states a person who works by using their mind, but does not talk to, and is not known by the public. For this book, gnome is defined as a statement encapsulating a general truth; a maxim. This collection of poems or sonnets (whatever you want to call them), has ...

I’d like to say this is a collection of poems, but it’s not. It’s a collection of my deepest emotions that we’re designated for someone very close to me. Sadly, this person is no longer with me, so I wrote her this. I wrote her this collection of heartache. If Only We Had More Time tells the story of a woman sitting at her wife's grave talking to, and reminiscing about their life. If Only We Had More Time is loosely based off a true story.

these are the words from the Doggos are Unhappy with your Ceaseless Petulance.

This is a chapbook of poems focusing mostly on sad subjects such as depression, loneliness, and the inner conflict that comes with them. It was created to bring awareness to the reality of mental illnesses and to comfort those who know it all too well.