This is a poem I wrote yesterday for my brother's birthday today. We were very close growing up. I looked up to him and followed him around like a shadow, and though some of that can get lost with age, it never goes away entirely.
Author: Aaron Michael Lynn
I am a marketing consultant and aspiring writer, with a major in English and a minor in history. I have been writing poetry consistently since my senior year of high school and have since published three poetry books and three novels. I have also written several songs and a few short stories. I also wrote and published a trilogy of novels, my Troika book series. I am currently working on a large-scale multi-book fantasy series that I am very excited about! Writing is a part of my every day, and I would have trouble finding meaning or the will to keep going without it.
Bottle on the Sea, Needle in the Hay
This is a poem I started a few weeks ago and finished today. It's about that feeling where you don't necessarily want something, but you want to know that you could have it should you desire it, and how things are easy to lose and difficult to find.
That Girl, From Damariscotta
This is a poem I wrote a few weeks ago after I took a solo trip to Maine. I found my way into a cafe two days in a row, and both days I saw the same girl working there. She was unquestionably the most beautiful girl I have ever seen in my entire life, and this is my attempt to write about just how mesmerized I was by her.
Smiles Through Tears
This is a poem I wrote while listening to Ramin Djawadi's track "Runaway", and it's about wanting to run away into the worlds of fantasies, but knowing that is in and of itself just a fantasy.
Monarch Memories
This is a pretty transparent poem about my love of history and medieval fantasy and has a pretty rhythmic rhyme scheme.
The Shelves of Time
This is a poem about caving into the continuous dreams of someone who one tried to stop dreaming of long ago, and is therefore a bit of a sequel to my previous poem "The Librarian".
Lotus
This is a more ambiguous poem about the nature of promise.
Nothing Else Matters
This is a poem that I just wrote while listening to the Game of Thrones track "Light of the Seven" along with a rain and thunder video playing simultaneously. It is written indirectly about one of the characters in the show.
Burden I Am Become
This is a poem about an apparent loss of love for both God and Mother Nature in our society.
Hit List
This is a poem I wrote with a quickly paced rhyme scheme and lyrics about being torn bewteen self-deprication and the desire for self-love.
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