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my greatest achievements
This picture was accepted to be published in Celebrating Art's fall 2022 contest.
Give Me Characters That Are Real
This poem was selected as a top ten winner in Creative Communications' spring 2022 contest. View hereWe tell kids they can be anything
While showing them characters
Who are everything,
Who are fake.
It's impossible not to see
The differences between them and me.
Can I be anything,
Or just them?
Give me a case that Nancy Drew can't solve.
Give me a day when Barbie's hair looks like our dolls'.
Give me an issue that causes the Boxcar Children to fight.
Give me something true, give me some light.
Dreams don't simply come true.
Blessings don't just wait for you.
You can be anything,
But you have to try.
You have to fail sometimes.
Give me characters who are real,
Who understand the way I feel,
Characters who know what it feels like to fall,
Who can be anything despite it all.
This picture won second place in an art contest by Mathemartist in January 2022. View here
This picture won in a contest by Youth Inspired Publishing to be the illustration for chapter 2 of "The Mystery of the Old Coontz Mill" by James R. Lewis in December 2021.
This poem was accepted to be published in Creative Communications' fall 2021 contest.
Mirror, mirror on the wall,
Why am I afraid to fall?
Mirror, mirror in my dream,
How come you don’t look like me?
Hundred versions of myself,
Each and every one needs help.
I’m scared of what tomorrow brings.
I know I can’t do everything.
I don’t want to waste my time,
Winter worries to lost sunshine.
Mirror, mirror, go away.
Don’t ruin me, don’t waste the day.
Mirrored wall breaking down,
I think at last I hit the ground.
This picture won in a contest by Youth Inspired Publishing to be the illustration for chapter 1 of "The Secret of Annabelle" by James R. Lewis in April 2021.
This poem was accepted to be published in Creative Communications' spring 2021 contest.
Pages and pages
Besides what’s in my head
So many phrases
Plus all my words unsaid
I don’t know what to do
How do I organize my mind
Are my words even true
When the perfect one is so hard to find
I see the vague shapes of thoughts
Like silhouettes on the horizon
I move towards them but I’m lost
I can hardly turn my mind on
Just faded mists of dreams
Beyond the reach of language
Maybe I’ll just express with color beams
I’d better try before they turn beige
This poem was accepted to be published in Creative Communications' fall 2020 contest.
Cheeks red as cherries
Snow so white and pure
See the Christmas fairies
You'll be smiling for sure
They fly all around town
Singing far off key
Don't tell them to quiet down
I hope they'll come and visit me
They deck every haul
Every wreath they hang
They're having a jolly ball
As holiday songs are sang
Their lights are twinkling
Before every eye
The warm glow sets us dreaming
Deep into the night sky
This poem was accepted to be published in Creative Communications' spring 2020 contest.
Anxiety is an ugly monster,
Causing problems whatever you do,
Eating away at your happiness,
Eating away
At you.
Anxiety scares sensible thinking away.
It scares the mind, also,
Into worrying.
As a frightened horse is difficult to ride,
So an anxious mind is hard to control.
But it can be stopped!
Though it may seem to be impossible,
God can do anything,
He is in control,
And He loves to help His children.
All we must do is think of
And be thankful for
God and His many blessings.
It takes time and effort, but
God will help defeat that monster in your mind.
