My final portfolio for CSUN

Well Ive posted all of the poems that I included for my final portfolio. Im baring it all for you guys. I just wanted to show you what Ive been working on for CSUN. Ive been trying to write very differently from my old style, and hope you guys can tell that. Still, the "voice" in the poems, and certain style choices that I used to utilize are still present. Im getting a sense of who I am as a writer. I can recognize my own trade marks like using parenthesis, or the tone, and the images (crows, death, life, Christ, redemption, star light/sun light/moon light) have also remained, even though each one of these poems was written in direct response to a poetry exercise, I am glad that I was able to put some of myself, and my stamp, on each of the poems. Please feel free to leave feedback as I will be editing these still, at this point just for myself as CSUN creative writing has a honor system regarding turning in work that has already been graded. I cant ever submit these for credit in any class, now I get the satisfaction of fixing them purely for the love of the game. I am pleased with the progress the poems have made in just 3 months, and frankly if I never touch them again Im ok with that, but I know that at least a few will be given a second glance. I have my personal favorites but Im eager to hear what yall think, if none of them appeal to you at all I respect that, Ive switched over to a whole new line of poetry and even I feel a little shaky in this new water, but I like the feel of this new ground, as if I were experiencing the sensation of swimming in the ocean for the first time. I will continue to develop and work out my poetry, and I even have plans of returning to more end rhyme oriented sonnets again, but I dont think my work will ever be the same after this class and Im glad to be able to share the end result with you all here on the blog. I hate to take up so much space and time with these posts when perhaps bloggers dont care that much for poetry, or my poetry in specific, but its been a very big part of my life for the last 5 months or so and I thought you all might be curious to see where my head has been at. This life truly is a blessing, love each other, these poems may be about death and despair but honestly they are more about life and hope. Enjoy good friends and smile one time, dont take it so seriously, its all in good fun baby.