GrinchyNet

I started writing in 1989. 8th grade I believe. If I am not mistaken, it was an assignment for my English class. I wrote one and for about 6 years I constantly wrote down what was in my head. Some of it is good, some of it isn't. I thought about only posting what I thought was good. But that isn't fair to everyone. I wrote two compilations; The Light of Darkness and Tortured Versus. My poetry isn't happy. Most of it is depressing since I was a teenager when I wrote most of them. I hope you enjoy reading them. If you have comments you can post what you need to at the bottom of each poem.

The Light of Darkness is pretty much all of my writings that don't rhyme. I started out not rhyming and then eventually all of them rhymed. Tortured Verses are all rhyming poems. No real reason why I switched, I just did. I kind of found it natural to rhyme them. The Forgotten Ones is a new section and it will contain poems I wrote after Tortured Verses and forgot about them. So far I have stumbled upon two of them and they will be posted here soon.

People have asked me quite a few times why all of my writing end in 1995. Well the only thing I can think of is I no longer have a reason to write. The last poem listed is called The End of Flight 19 which I wrote after my drug addiction was discovered by my family and I went to rehab. I wrote a few after that and have since lost the copies. I have found one or two of them and I may post them. I have thought about trying to sit down and write again but nothing comes to me. My life is much different now and I guess for once I am truly happy and the pain I once felt has finally receded. It is hard to believe I have come this far but within the pages of these two collections is a road map of my thoughts and feelings that have led me to where I am today. Hopefully that answers any questions you may have.