Douglas Allen Rhodes

William Wordsworth once wrote that poetry "is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings...emotion recollected in tranquility." For me that's certainly true. My poetry looks back, without nostalgia, on the life I've led and the things I've experienced. Most times it's not pretty, often it can be unsettling, but it is me, and no other form of writing lets me express myself quite so truthfully.

Here you'll find a listing of poems I've published, or am scheduled to publish.

You can click on the poem's title to read it (unless the poem's rights are currently still held by the magazine). There are also links to where you can read or purchase the journal the poem published in.


Heather

A Few Words

Published in issue 4 of Breadcrumb Scabs: A Poetry Magazine.


What I Know of Life

Published in volume III of The (&).


When I First Learned of the Holocaust

Published in Midnight Screaming Volume 1 Issue 2.


Having a Drink with Christ

Night Monster

Musing in a Chinese Restaurant

Epiphany

White Guilt

No Bottle, No Genie

Your Huddled Masses

Published in the June issue of Worlds Within - Worlds Beyond.