This is a selection of poems from my first book of poems, Of pain and Ecstasy: Collected Poems (C) 2011. I will also include here some favorite samples from my second book of poems, Echoes of Dawn at Dusk (C) 2021 and some new poems not yet published in book form. These will include sonnets, free verse, haikus, and others forms. The subjects are very varied in this eclectic mix, from love to existential angst and everything in between. Although this is certainly off the beaten path for SH, I hope you will find something in these poems to like as each carries a small piece of my soul.