The Pie Boy Podcast

131 -Dubs vs. Kings, is now available on Spotify and apple podcast. Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Dubs vs. Kings,” was written during the Warriors and Kings playoff basketball series and based on a poem prompt called 20 little projects. It’s a bunch of random directions and prompts within a prompt and something interesting and beautiful came out of it.

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Said the Road to the Pothole,” is an imaginary conversation between a road and a pothole. An experiment with personification and having fun with language of the things around us, living and inanimate.

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Funeral for Sparky,” is a meditation on the letting the things that don’t serve you anymore go so they don’t hold down who you are now and why you will do in the future. A creative writing practice on pretending to write a eulogy about someone or something that you no longer need.

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Man in a Box,” is an exercise in placing our emotions, feelings and experiences in a box and looking at them in a creative way. Inspired by old shame, guilt, and fear that has been triggered by current happenings.

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, "Layers," speaks to the layers of things that affect out daily lives, pushing us forward and holding us back, not to mention the past jingling around. This poem is also an exercise in not following the rules and having fun with language. We all have layers!

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poems, “Dollar & Eavesdropping,” is an ode to the Winos, neighborhood ghouls ,bus stop ghosts, and most importantly Dollar Store Wisdom. To random conversations had and heard on public transit and in the streets. Wisdom and joy can be found in the most unexpected places!

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Cubism,” is a poem disguised as some rap bars. Inspired by the vibrations of Pink Floyd, worried feelings of a new Dad, a 90s tv show and the wild painter Pablo Picasso.

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Try Harder,” is about the journey of realizing the fake in yourself and a call to action to try harder. It’s is also a call out to the fake in the city and holding itself back through selfishness.

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Storyteller,” is about the craft and lifestyle of a storyteller. It’s not just a thing I do, but it’s a way of life.

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “The History of the Poet,” is a look back on the road to being a poet, taking action on creative ideas and the humble beginnings.