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Poem / Other

May 28, 2018

Reads: 66

Comments: 8

Shelves: 3

The Booksie Classic House

Where can you go when you don't belong anywhere? Read More

Tags: alienation, search, lack-of-belonging

Poem / Other

April 23, 2018

Reads: 84

Comments: 4

The Booksie Classic House

Why can't anyone understand? Read More

Tags: alienation, misunderstood, lost-confidence, double-tanka

Poem / Poetry

February 28, 2018

Reads: 94

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

The Review Chain House

This is a short poem that looks at abuse found in many households. In most cases children are affected the most. Read More

Tags: abuse, family, rejection, alienation, fear

Poem / Other

December 17, 2017

Reads: 80

Comments: 6

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: pain, alienation, misunderstood

Poem / Non-Fiction

November 17, 2017

Reads: 87

Comments: 6

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: alienation, search-for-home

Poem / Poetry

September 29, 2017

Reads: 86

Comments: 8

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: alienation

Matt goes on a blind date with Danielle, but he is unprepared for the confusion and angst that results when Danielle reveals information about her past. (I wrote this when I was 16 for a creative writing class. The teacher wasn't very happy she had to read all this, LOL.) Read More

Tags: relationship, alienation, blind-date

taken from my book, "Breaking Thru The Thought Barrier" Read More

Tags: rejection, alienation, resentment, indifference, desertion

A short flash fiction or poem about man's arrogance and apathy for anything seen as less. Read More

Tags: poetry, life, loneliness, alienation, poverty

Poem / Romance

December 29, 2016

Reads: 194

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

This is a poem about change and the loss of the romance associated with the concept 'home'. Read More

Tags: home, alienation, kenyan-poetry

Poem / Poetry

November 23, 2016

Reads: 141

Comments: 2

The Booksie Classic House

When you feel you don't belong you need a friend. Read More

Tags: friendship, alienation, audience, intruding

Poem / Poetry

September 18, 2016

The mind is a mystery, as is life itself. It raises questions, brings answers, breaks you down, to build you back up again until you learn what you learn: to accept and move on... Read More

Tags: depression, loneliness, alienation, isolation, coping

A story based on a song written by one time friend Steve Lake. For everyone like me who does not jump. Warning: due to content may include triggers. If you feel this will negatively affect you do not read. Read More

Tags: alienation, suicide, bullying

Poem / Poetry

May 05, 2016

Reads: 140

Comments: 5

The Booksie Classic House

Have you ever had the feeling that either you, or everything around you just isn't right? Have you ever felt that maybe you landed on Earth and were stranded here, alone and apart from others like yourself? This one's for you. Read More

Tags: alienation, misfit, not-belonging

Poem / Poetry

April 29, 2016

Reads: 194

Comments: 7

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A poem about someone pretty much unnoticed while going through a personal struggle. Read More

Tags: depression, alienation, invisibility

A man pursues a woman in a grocery store. Read More

Tags: romance, alienation, pursuit

A poem about not being aqble to face your own alienation and loneliness. Read More

Tags: loneliness, alienation, help

taken from my book, "Pray For Solution" Read More

Tags: feelings, world, alienation, else, withdrawal, somebody, deirdre

Poem / Poetry

November 23, 2014

Reads: 117

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A poem about alienation and love. Read More

Tags: love, poetry, alienation

This literary piece is focusing on three of Emily Dickinson's poems through a sociological perspective. Read More

Tags: feelings, rejection, thoughts, life, society, alienation, mind, sadness, fear, soul, nobody, ignorance, community, difficulty, identity

Essay / Other

September 25, 2014

Reads: 24250

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

This paper examines the five criteria for dissociative identity disorder in relation to Norman Bates. Strength and weakness are included, along with barriers to treatment. Examples from Norman’s life will assist the reader in understanding why his behavior is abnormal. Read More

Tags: depression, confusion, relationship, alienation, mother, mental, anxiety, identity, health, isolation, disorder, stress, parent, motel, amnesia

Poem / Poetry

September 25, 2014

A very short poem I wrote in the middle of the night. The overall subject is about self-injury and how society shames individuals. Read More

Tags: depression, society, anger, pain, alienation, sadness, shame, judgment, isolation, scars, blame, self-injury, self-mutilation, stigma

Now middle-aged, the world's first scientifically documented virgin-born baby (who is later shrugged off as a 'divine fluke') sets about to write out his life story in a last effort to make sense of his disappointing, yet incredible existence. Read More

Tags: science_fiction, fiction, alienation, memoir, happiness, birds, memory, science, distance, nostalgia, pigeon, reminisce, recollection, pigeoto, defeathered

taken from my book, "This Never Happened Before" Read More

Tags: society, alienation, self, medication, psychiatric, mutilation, satisfaction, unreachable

Short Story / Memoir

January 08, 2014

Reads: 256

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A short story on ostracism. How the meeting of an ostracized boy with a person who received him changed his life. Read More

Tags: teen, hope, life, progress, pain, alienation, grief, sadness, stranger, evolution, essay, diary, teenager, growth, psychology

taken from my book, "Taking Our Sweet Little Time" Read More

Tags: alienation, identity, personality, disorder, schizophrenia, paranoid, chronic, dissociative, dissociated

taken from my book, "My Head Is Swarming With Flies" Read More

Tags: alienation, zack, career, others, mike, constant, khan, nathan, mariano, possibly, rubina, overanalyzing

taken from my book, "My Head Is Swarming With Flies" Read More

Tags: rejection, society, alienation, irony, conspiracy, manslaughter, haters, involuntary, vehicular, duncan

taken from my book, "And Now It's Time For A Lift-Off!" Read More

Tags: emotions, strength, alienation, space, earth, comprehension, deep, existence, belonging

Poem / Other

March 12, 2013

Reads: 270

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

This is a stream of consciousness novel written after I felt betrayed and abandoned by someone whom I trusted and love very much. Read More

Tags: dark, horror, rejection, poetry, despair, anger, nightmare, alienation, consciousness, stream, abandonment, isolation, noir, nihilism, existentialism

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