Exhalations from the Grave
The poems in this collection, for the most part, result
from nightmares that continue to plague me, for I am a coward at heart. I still fear the dark, hear noises in the night, run from shadows, or simply hide under the covers, hoping that someone will save me, or that the light will return and dispel the creatures lurking in my night. This collection is best read with the lights on bright, unless one is of sterner stuff than the author. Many of the poems commemorate one of my favorite holidays, Halloween, a celebration of all the things that scare us; other poems recognize the wonder of nature and its incredible creatures, and how pleasant it is to sit and contemplate them, while others emanate from observation of people and events. At the center of this collection is a series of Science Fiction poems, telling the tragic tale of Simly & Lorella, set at some time in the future, an old story in a new light. This particular tale was inspired by my daily walks around our suburban neighborhood, reading ‘the writing on the wall,’ so to speak.
Stones in the Stream
A collection of spiritual poems to enlighten the soul and liven the spirit, from an LDS perspective on things of the family and the Spirit.
Those Two Years: Memories of Missionary Service
A collection of poems focused on missionary service for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, dedicated to all those who have served the Lord, proclaiming the ‘good news’ in foreign lands; the spiritual highs and the comical lows of service to the Lord, along with other spiritual reflections.
The Broiler Pit: Memories of a Misbegotten Childhood
A collection of original poems that record memories of growing up in a small town in the northwest–Idaho’s only seaport–during the 1960s and 1970s.
The Broiler Pit 2: More Memories of a Misbegotten Childhood
This second volume of Broiler Pit poems continues to focus on memories of growing up in Idaho’s only seaport, Lewiston, during the 1960s and 70s; these poems record feelings of life in a time and place that no longer exist, except in the memory of those who lived through these times, sometimes happy, sometimes sad, most often comical, but different from the world in which we currently reside.
Words Fail: Confessions of an Incurable Romantic
A collection of original poems concerning matters of the heart, and the relationships between a man and a woman.
Ode to a Stump Farm: Fragments of Memory Lost
A collection of poems about life as a teenager, living in the north woods during the 1970s that recapture some of the joy and pain of growing up in the small north Idaho logging town of Priest River.
Clyde B. Northrup 