Poetry collection

I call my poetry collection the "Galleria of Lights". Many of these poems were written during episodes of psychosis, mania, and depression and were inspired by moods, visions, altered perceptions, or entanglements with others. ~ Michelle

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POEMS & SONG-WRITING
​chronological order, 2002-2020

Infatuation
Pyramids, Circles & Stars
reincarnation & enlightenment
Searching for Lines
The Warrior
untitled
The Artist (poem)
The Artist (song)
My Black Box and Fine Lines
Haunted? Something I Cannot Explain
Taste It
Sunrises & Sunsets
So Grow a Beard
Four Words
Stalker
The Poppy
My Memory, His Memory
The Mirror
Nothing to Fill the Space
Garden Fairy
Chop! Chop! Chop!
The 700 Club
Native Land - Houston
Dreaming of Blueberries
Who Am I, Gorgeous!? Who Are You, Gorgeous!?
Baby Back Ribs
Old Man Lives
Spirit of an Animal
We're Still Around
Dracula's House
A Wondering Heart
Hoppy Not Hope
I'm a Mad Psychopath
Dear Michelle Ma Belle & the Pink Sweater
The Language of Psychosis
My Redemption Song
The Clouds are More Beautiful
Wrath of an Archangel
Moon Pies & Bittersweet Melody
To My Charming Nephew
Lupp Dup. Lupp Dup. Lupp Dup.
Shattering Secret Places
I Want to Count Our Blessings Again
Lonely In My Own Mind
Finis-en avec moi, mon ange! (Finish me off, my angel!)
The Grief I Bear on a Mid-summer's Morning
Mr. and Mrs. Dark & Mysterious
Fifteen Worlds
Problem Solved - The Magic Trick.
Chillin' Like A Villain
The Prayer I Should Pray
Oh, You Irreverent Nation!
Curly Headed Madams
Joy is Too Difficult for Me
​6 Magicians
​I'm Afraid of the Dark
​My Story By Nicole
​I Will Cry Sometime Soon
​The Magic Under the Stars
​Rake. Musty, Rusty Rake.
Ode to Being Regular
Language Today is Engineered
​Something Outside of Herself
​The Future
The Color of Music
Joy
God's Poetry
Game of Coke Bottles
The Heart Couple
Truth
​In Loving Memory
​Thriving on Super-Experience
​My Dreams
​Oh Kisses!
​The Soul of the World
​Seductive Voices
​To The Child I May or May Not Ever Know
I Fall Before My Creator
​It's Not So Easy
​Chant to the US of A!
Coffee Beans & Chocolate
​What Is?
"​I"
​Dying
​Do the Unexpected
​She Wears Black Well
​First Love
Notice Beauty in the Storm
​Toast To That Just Right Lipstick
​Hint of Jazz
​A Letter From Heaven
​A Quilt for My Mother
​She Likes Audrey Hepburn
​I Listened for God
​God Lives In This Town
Shout-out to the Sun!
​The World is Harsh
​She Was Painted Black
​She Wants Them to Quit Doing What They're Doing
​Silent Ears
​The Oracle
I Married a Wonderful Man
​Into the Fields of Perception
​Because She is Interesting
​The Infinite Path
​Baby-oh-yeah!
​Temporary Pain
​Shall I Resign?
​Shot of Dopamine
​These are the Days
​Connected
​Night Lights & Daytime Shadows
​Camille Paglia
​A Prayer of Thanksgiving to the Angels
​The Staircase
​I Love You More Than Sex
​The Dark Force
​Not Cho Mamas
​Carpe Diem
​I Love the Ocean Atlant"ic"
​Mathematical Artificial Realities Exist
​Silent Armies
​Noble & True Inspiration
​The Engineer
​Flicker
​Curious Minds
​She Is Healed
​What is this Clamoring All About?
​Life is Beautiful
​You Are My Soul Mate
​Crumpled Up Pieces of Paper
She Is...
​Discovering the Business Cycle
Clues to the Mystery of What Really Happened​
This is My Life Too
Dream Initiation #69
What the Clouds See that We Don't
The American Flag Blows Here, Respected
A Little Piece of Isis Within Me
​Birth to Eventual Toughness
The Magnetic Road
​Protagonist 4 the People
​Stories Woven into the Future
The Drumbeat Called "Beauty"
Shadows on the Wall
Restoration for the Lost
​Today
Sex is Definitely For Me
Utopia on my Mind (draft song)
​The Sorrow Lands
​I'm Half Robot and Half Something Else