Welcome to my poetry page.

This is very much a work in progress. The poems here have been written between the years 1986 and 2005. The earliest poems were written when I was around 14 years old.

The dates of the entries do not necessarily reflect the dates the poems were written. I am working on dating the poems, and they are becoming increasingly browseable by at least the year they were written. Since I added almost all the poems in November 2004, if you see a poem with a month other than November, that’s probably the right month and year for that poem. If you see a poem dated in November of some other year, it most likely means I have sorted that poem by year, but not yet by month. (Of course this also means that almost all the poems currently dated November 2004 are not actually from that time.)

My opinion of my poetry shifts around over time, but some of my current favorites are:

And I do have a few lasting favorites. Here are two:

You can find my other poems by going forward or backward through the entries, using the links to previous and next poems on each poem’s page.

If you’d like to publish or use one or more of my poems, please feel free to contact me.

Thanks for your visit.

-Lance Brown