After much thought, I reached a conclusion that maintaining many different poetry manuscripts would be counterproductive to my efforts to get one completed within a logical period of time. So I then moved to combine "Trial By Fire" and "Unresolved", while purging certain poems that I saw as simply filler pieces that were there to take up space. Since then, I've written much more poems to add to the new complete list of poetry for the manuscript.

The new manuscript is titled "In Search Of Paradise", and it is the combination of "Trial By Fire" and "Unresolved", two previously incomplete manuscripts. Numbering currently, as of June 5, 2009, at 39 poems. I'm aiming for 50 total.

Here is the list:
"Above Me"
"Carpe Diem"
"Darkness Continues"
"Dirty Laundry List"
"Do You Believe"
"Dreaming Hard"
"February Sanctuary"
"Firing The Darkness"
"Forget-Me-Now"
"From Here"
"Ghost Train"
"Go"
"Gods Among Men"
"Good Morning Tomorrow"
"Hangar 6805"
"Her Eyes"
"I Need"
"In Search Of Paradise"
"In The Dark"
"Incognito"
"Learning Game"
"Learning To Hate Myself"
"On And On And On"
"Prison Without Bars"
"Reinassance Superhuman"
"Shadows Of Imagination"
"Still Around"
"The Battle For Everything"
"The World"
"Thirty Days"
"Throwaway Heartbeat"
"Timeless Graffiti"
"Twenty Minutes Distance"
"Two Like Ten"
"Unexplored"
"Waiting For Carolina"
"We'll Go"
"Without"

This is it. Much of it is already on DeviantArt. Certain pieces just haven't been added for no reason. A very small select few are being withheld intentionally from posting, to be saved for the surprise in the manuscript.

I'm aiming for a poetry contest later in the summer and it is that I hope to claim my first victory in publishing. I'm a poet with aspirations. A man simply just trying to win for once.

-Chris