Shadows of the Phoenix is a collection of poems compiled over five decades that projects a variety of lengths, and styles. This collection reflects real, imaginary, and fictional events and characters, but they are all written from the heart. Some will make you laugh out loud some will cause you to identify, some will make you cry, and others will inspire you to keep going. Due to the ages and timing of the various poems, and the likelihood that they would have ever left the pages of the beholder, thus, rose the title, Shadows, of the Phoenix.