Poetry found Scott before he knew he needed it. Four years ago he started writing again to save his sanity and himself. The thoughts and feelings had been bottled up for so long they needed somewhere to go. Poetry became that place. A way to flow through the emotions. To process life. To create something that felt beautiful. To see the world in different ways.
What started as survival became a calling. A dream 45 years in the making.
He didn’t sit down one day and decide to become a poet. He sat down because he had to. And somewhere in that process he discovered that what he was writing wasn’t just for him. It was for everyone who had ever felt it but never had the words.
Scott’s debut collection is an honest, unfiltered journey through the hardest and most hopeful moments of a life fully lived. It is not polished for distance. It is written to close it. Available on Amazon.
Scott’s second collection explores love in all its forms — the crush, the desire, the depth of it, the heartbreak, and the rising that follows. 624 poems across five chapters. Coming soon.
A heartfelt thank you to the talented artists whose creativity, vision, and support helped bring this work to life.
Elaine Lóre is a Czech painter who mainly deals with expressive painting and painting her worlds.
Her work is characterized mainly by a wide palette of colors or, conversely, a complete minimum, when she is experiencing a darker period in her life. From this period is the painting Emptiness, which reflects the depressive period of the past days.
You can find her work on the website www.elainelore.cz
“ Born and raised in Beijing China, Artist Hope Tian is a self-taught oil painter for over 12 years. While pursuing a graduate degree in New York State, she answered a life-long calling of becoming a professional visual Artist. Now residing in the Boston area, she spends her days expanding her already vast repertoire of oil paintings, collaborating with gallery owners and educational institutions, supporting not-for-profit organizations, and partnering with international classical performing Artists. Most recently, Hope Tian is a featured Artist at The Gallery at Jimmy’s https://jimmysoncongress. com/the-gallery-at-jimmys/ and was also the guest Artist on Jane King’s broadcasting on The Fox Business Network, Bloomberg TV, and Newsmax.
Artist Hope Tian finds great excitement and creativity in the exploration of varied subjects and eclectic styles of oil painting. The range of her Artwork goes from impressionistic or post-impressionistic to expressionistic or fauvist, to truly representational to abstract. Hope’s paintings are heavily influenced by her keen interest in and on-going study of the master painters”
My artworks can be found on my
Sharon Daugherty is a Philadelphia born painter and sketch artist. The self-taught artist uses abstract expressionism to honor feminine energy and human experience, and to examine how we interact with our environments. Her subjects range from abstract portraits and human figures to urban landscapes. She is a color specialist who loves highly expressive and textural work, using acrylic, gouache, watercolor, ink, charcoal, and other materials on a variety of surfaces. Her work is highly intuitive, reacting to what the canvas gives her as she works.
Sharon’s work is collected by people around the world. As she finds painting a highly therapeutic medium for herself, she also works with students to help them discover the power of creative expression. Sharon is part of a family of creatives – a husband who is a writer and musician, and two daughters, one a sculptor and writer, and one a singer songwriter. She works out of her home studio where her family gives her constant energy, inspiration, and support. Find her work at www.sharondartist.com
She is the cover artist for the book.
“Ning Liando is an illustrator and painter who explores themes of vulnerability and emotion through her work, creating pieces that resonate with the human experience. Her art is also a reflection of her own
Her eclectic mix of vivid abstracts captures the vibrance of her colorful childhood. Each of her deeply layered pieces embodies a myriad stories, letting the beholder find a new interpretation with every fresh look. With audacious colors and passionate storytelling she has garnered rave reviews from the art community across the world. A collection of her work is currently being exhibited in Montclair(New Jersey). NYC, London, Milan and Dubai at prestigious galleries.
When I create, I always start from a heartfelt space.
I do not confine myself to technical constrictions, perfection, or correctness.
I do not concentrate on the outcome but rather allow myself to flow with the lines, shapes, and layers of very intense colours in visual experiments and the stream of words in their linguistic counterparts, which reflects the turbulences and passion for life I love experiencing on a deep soulful level.
I immerse myself in the story of the painting or writing as if I was embodying a story from my own life, which I now want to experience more reflectively.
For Scott, poetry is permission. Permission to feel what you feel. Permission to name it without shame. Permission to be fully human in a world that often asks you to be anything but.
He writes to process life, to create something beautiful, and to see the world through a different lens. And if the person reading feels less alone in whatever they are carrying, then something extraordinary has happened.
