My collection contains 95 poems. These poems range from a single stanza about the inevitability of time, to a sixteen stanza poem about never-ending monotony. My writing is a medium for my thoughts and feelings and therefore I am indiscriminate in my subject matter. My mission for writing all of these poems is for every reader to be able to choose a single poem they can take away something positive from. My motivation behind writing poems every day comes in two different waves. The first of which being of extroversion and analysis of the world around me and the second being an internal introspection of thoughts and emotions, as opposed to things. Each poem captures a moment in time and, in my opinion, there is at least one poem for any reader to enjoy inside my portfolio. My collection explores themes of enduring occupations, enjoying time for leisure, creating happy memories, and the negativity that comes from life. My writing is strange, I must admit. I have written many of my poems as if they were short stories only ones with a limited word or syllable structure. My first section of poems is Haikus and are typical of comedic or moral value. I have also written Haikus to set enough imagery to leave you with a complete thought, for instance, the impending doom of an alien invasion or the levity of students in China climbing a mountain to reach their schoolhouse. My free-form poems are the true crown jewel of my collection. Ranging from sentimental anecdotes, a tale about a stoupored buccaneer, the analysis of carpet patterns in my school's library, or a Vietnamese mans’ after-work routine. I made sure to never leave a stone unturned on purpose and try my best to write a poem about any thought that came to me. I wrote a single sonnet entitled “Scarlet’s Sonnet” and it is the entire morning routine of a woman named Scarlet who is living in Harlem, New York City, and working at an immigrant-owned deli. My limericks are almost all conveying triumphancy and some even acknowledge the obstacle they faced. My tanka poems mostly explore the theme of history and what is on the morally right side of it. I have also managed to have a common theme of relating somehow to nature in the rest of these poems. For instance, I have a series of six tanka poems that each highlight important things from the throes of the Cold War with the USSR in the 1950’s to the social discourse of the LA Riots in the 1990s. As I previously mentioned, the rest of my tankas are set in nature, from my own recounting of Irish folklore behind Jack ‘O’ Lanterns or why the reader should book a flight to Japan in the spring. I aim for these pieces of literature to be the epoxy that holds my mission statement together so the more creative or outlandish the better. It is important to me that my reader is able to have a connection with something I write.