I am a poet,  the writer of touching passages that reflect the challenges, struggles, and joys of our lives. One doesn’t train to become a poet. Life’s hard knocks can turn them into one, where experiences of heartache, poverty, and loss — and family, love, and hope — rise out from within and make their way through my veins into the ink on a page. My poems not only record moments of my life, but they reflect what many others feel.

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I’ve not the brush to stroke
the walls, nor the dream to
add to this summer’s scene.
Others have left their sketch
of sand, sea and Rocky neck,
but I will not embark on
Ocean’s dark with a tide gone out.

-Mural

We were close,
but never made it.
We touched,
but never made it.
We were friends and we
almost made it.
You were going to teach
the blind, and I was going
to be a poet.

-Friends

Arcadia still lives,
hold fast all hearts.
Love is never lost,
that is ever love.
Endless is hope;
Endless is faith;
Endless is love.

-Arcadia
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Illustrated by Felix Doolittle

and other Poems

Through quiet, melancholic free verse and a voice shaped by wisdom, Robert Brooks’ poems are like personal letters, inviting you into a space of shared emotion, offering gentle melancholy, thoughtful introspection, and the comfort of knowing you’re not alone.

More than a poetry collection, Robert Brooks’ Arcadia and other Poems is an artifact. Bound in hardcover, hand-lettered, and printed on stationery-quality paper, it contains twenty-two poems with original artwork that reflects each poem’s setting and tone. Its subjects include meditations on unrequited love and suggestions for living a good life.

Available in eBook format, and the Audiobook is coming soon! Learn more here. 

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