Writing poetry has given me the strength to progress in my life day by day. It motivates me to express my inner thoughts, feelings, and life long experiences. As a child, I always enjoyed writing how I felt. Poetry to me has always been my way to express the love, anger, frustrations, etc that I carry with in myself. It keeps me strong and focused. I encourage many young adults to join the world of poetryIt will be a lot of fun!

Winner 2017 Benjamin Franklin GOLD AWARD for POETRY. Winner 2017 MONTAIGNE MEDAL for most thought-provoking books. Major tour de force traces arc of one of millions of American immigrant families, survivors of WWII. Raw, eloquent, nuanced, intimate--illuminates the many faces of war, toll taken on innocent civilians, how trauma echoes down through

Random wanderings of the restless mind. A collection of soul-searching poetry and prose from The Dreamer.

A study of the psychology of poetry, in the light of the Freudian theory of dreams.

Thoughts of a Dreamer is a collection of poetry, thoughts, conversations, scriptures, text messages, daydreams and reality all blended together to tell a story of a young adult named Dreamer trying to find answers to life, love and relationships through scriptures and the people he encounters.He soon realizes that the world isn't so black and white, but grey as he faces his fears to chase his dreams.

In this, his last significant work, an admired French philosopher provides extraordinary meditations on the relations between the imagining consciousness and the world, positing the notion of reverie as its most dynamic point of reference. In his earlier book, The Poetics of Space, Bachelard considered several kinds of "praiseworthy space" conducive to the flow of poetic imagery. In Poetics of Reverie he considers the absolute origins of that imagery: language, sexuality, childhood, the Cartesian ego, and the universe. Approaching the psychology of wonder from the phenomenological viewpoint, Bachelard demonstrates the aurgentative potential of all that awareness. Thus he distinguishes what is merely a phenomenon of relaxation from the kind of reverie which "poetry puts on the right track, the track of expanding consciousness"