Toads, Rocks, and Rhymes: A Cheerful Chapbook

If you've never heard the term chapbook, you're not alone. You are invited to read this one! I would describe my writing as a "doorway" for readers who might think poetry wouldn't interest them. Much modern poetry, though it has merit, can be darkly abstract, to the point of discouraging the reader. I hope that these poems will lift your spirits and show you a positive, simple style of writing while avoiding the hackneyed or saccharine. Some are gently humorous, some are formal in style, an...