I recently won 3rd place at the Talent Show! Here are some photos from my readings and excerpts from 2 of my pieces. My topic was Exploring Identity and Innovation through Spoetry (Spoken Word and Old School Poetry). The photos of visual art were taken from the “Artists of KAUST 2014” exhibit in our University Library, the week after Talent Show. Enjoy! 

iChoose to rejoice
iChoose to praise
iChoose to give thanks
iChoose to believe
iChoose to be faith filled
iChoose to be peace
iChoose to have joy
iChoose to caste my cares on the Lord
iChoose to make room for God’s strength
iChoose to believe in the beauty of my dreams
iChoose to let go of burdens
iChoose to be victorious in my thinking
iChoose to be positive
iChoose a new beginning
iChoose to release worry about my future
iChoose to stay in God’s grip

T.S. Porter

We do not belong to those who only get their thoughts from books, or at the prompting of books, it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, wherever the paths become thoughtful. –Friedrich Nietzche

You’ve really been there,
I’m so glad we can share.

Through the years,
the laughter, the rain;
volumes of tears,
the bliss and pain.

Not my food any more
it was before, only Mama
could make it just right.
The secret she would say
was “in the crust.”
The buttery, flaky
forked, pinched
around the pan
delight, full of