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  • Upcoming Book Teaser

    If you follow me on social media, you’ve begun to see posts with excerpts and video recitations of select poems from the forthcoming collection You Can’t Love Her Like This That. The feedback so far has been amazing. For those who don’t follow me on Facebook or Instagram, I apologize that you’re missing out.…

  • Some babbling, some weak sales attempts, and a daunting realization that smurfs always have blue balls

    We bear witness to each day unfolding from the previous encounter into the next, and some never gain the perspective that leads to the insights necessary to break free from this mold and experience the freedom of life in its purest form. That is one of the tugging forces pulling at me with each…

  • You Can’t Love Her Like This That

    As promised (although late), here is the cover for the upcoming poetry collection I am releasing in April called You Can’t Love Her Like This That: You Can’t Love Her Like This That is a searing poetry collection that bears witness to the intertwined fates of two addicted lovers who could neither save each…

  • Surely winter has to be over soon?

    Surely winter has to be over soon?

    Those winter blues are kicking in as the mounting stress from the upcoming release’s approaching deadlines, the webpage updates, and the two pending criminal court sentencing dates looming in the very unfortunate near future for me. I am ready for the endless spring or fall, the perfect temperatures, the longer days, the endless beauty…

  • the wonder of it all

    I find in the silence peace and in the chaos release. From the bottom, I have had to crawl like a beggar through the urban sprawl. They sing from the streets poetry with rough, dirty beats, an anger unsatisfiable with every ounce of it justifiable. It’s hard to fathom that their false teachings have…

  • the complex relationship we develop with this dance called life

    The complexity that replaces the simplicity is a steady reminder that what was will never again be as it was. Some days will be pleasure-filled. Other days will be sheer hell. yet, not a single day will have an extra parachute lying around, allowing you to bail out. this is your shit, man up…

  • Good start to the end of the year

    By no means is this the key to retirement, nor is it a record high for me, but it is a great way to roll this year down towards its end. I will take it. Thank you to everybody who has purchased a book this month or in the past. You all rock! I…

  • If we want not, we shall never get. If we desire more, we will never be worthy enough. If we push the limits, we will rot in a cage. If we allow them to walk over us, we will be nothing more than a stain on the concrete. But somewhere between each extreme there…

  • Chaotic Rhythm of Heartbeat

    We suffer in the solitude like we are soldiers. We are seated silently surrounded by some sinister players. We wish we were even a fraction as confident as we portray with our poker face wisdom. We struggle through the motions like monsters. We suffer in the silence of selfless prayers unanswered by a selfish…

  • The Slow Progression

    There are too many hours running in slow motion we suddenly notice when shit doesn’t go smoothly . Although, we will in the same breath complain that there isn’t enough time in a day to get done what we needed. We are steadily rolling a boulder up a mountainside or battling it escaping our…

  • The fates of circumstance

    I fall behind. I have fell behind trying to balance life with recovery. I have stumbled juggling responsibilities with dreams, often times dropping the ball on both. I have set my expectations higher than attainable, but I have no regrets. I have lived hard, worked hard, loved hard, my successes have been as epic…

  • In the lack of clarity

    I breathe each breath with determination. I push a little harder than necessary to achieve. I am aware that at any moment this will all be taken away. It gets more difficult with each passing day. There was a time when these challenges wouldn’t have phased me. Was then I roaming in Neverland playing…

  • some obscene observations not so obscured despite our steady attempts.

    We suffer in solitude like soldiers. We are seated, silently, surrounded by some sinisterplayers. We wish we were even a fraction as confident as we portray, with our poker-face wisdom.We struggle through the motions like monsters subsequently suffering in the silence ofselfless prayers unanswered by a selfish deity while we stretch and kick to…

  • After a little turbulence, we have takeoff

    Well, the release date of January 13th didn’t quite come and go as planned. Amazing how life can find these last minute ways to shit on my plans. The ebook was released a day or two later. It is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Curios. The paperback and hardcover editions are going…

  • Getting ever so near

    Less than two weeks until our release date of January 13, 2025 for the second edition of Born Hopeless with All the Answers…Songs for a Dying Generation. Second edition is very much an understatement to what this release truly is, it’s a total revamp plus over a hundred more pages. As usual, I am…

  • Swallowed in tide, devoured in stride

    Some days truly feel so overwhelming that the only way to describe the endless anxiety is the cliche of I’m drowning! Other days despite your best efforts out forth, it just feels like you’re being beaten down each step you make. I’d describe my life as a cocktail of both of these delights with…

  • Last 2 days of Amazon Free Ebook Giveaway Promotion

    If you haven’t already picked up your copy of Ghost in the Reflection…Letters to Erin, then you have until 11:59 pm CDST to download your free ebook copy of poet James Miller II’s second poetry collection. If you have picked up the book whether now or in the past, please leave a review on…

  • Last day of A Footnote for Tomorrow’s Amazon eBook Giveaway Promotion

    You can now download the Kindle eBook version of my first collection, A Footnote for Tomorrow, for free until midnight US Central Time. Here is the link: https://www.amazon.com/Footnote-Tomorrow-James-F-Miller-ebook/dp/B07Q23NJ87/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8. Next week, I will also offer Ghost in the Reflection…Letters to Erin for free in an Amazon promotion.

  • One year into freedom

    It’s been one year since I stripped out of those d.o.c. blues and put on street clothes again. One year immersed in the ever-advancing technologies and sat in front of the Internet or a television with sound. In this year I have had to begin my life over from the scraps of what could…

  • Engage with the Latest Content: Join and Support on Social Media

    Slowly the newer material is getting into circulation. I’ve been making content daily, some of it old, some of it new, some of it as it has been written. It seems to be grabbing some new followers to say the very least. To those individuals, I welcome you and thank you in the same…