Welcome to my page!
I just want to greet all of you readers and tell you a little about myself. My name is Zacariah Avery Nathaniel Payne but most of my friends call me Avery. I have been writing poetry on and off for the past 7+ years as a means of self expression. I started writing only because my father, Erick DeVon Payne, has been writing poetry since he was a young man. My mother, Karen Anne Milich, has her own blog that is all about her life experiences which inspired my want to share my poetry. So as you can see writing is in my blood.
These skills came to grow into something that has helped me release the pains, tensions, and anxieties that I feel within myself. Poetry has become the way that I critique and improve my Mental Health and that is why sometimes my poems can get very personal.
I have two brothers and two step sisters: (oldest to youngest) Vanessa Miller, Benjamin Payne, ME!!, Isaiah Milburn, and Vivien Dominick. We are a very weird bunch who have all been through a tremendous amount of pain but even more happiness. I don’t get to see them much anymore since we’re older but I do miss them dearly.
There are a few themes that are very popular throughout my poetry like awareness, mental health, love, and family, but the most popular trend that you will see me write about is my faith. I am Christian and I have been taught under the denomination of Presbyterian since I was born. I have struggled in my faith through prejudice, mistakes, trials and tribulations. Through this I began to believe that even God couldn’t protect me from the injustice that is Human Nature. I began to search for answers and recently I’ve found that I just want peace. Peace for everyone. Recently I have been studying the ways of the Buddha and have fallen in love with the philosophies of Buddhism.
My main purpose for sharing my poetry is so that people will find relation to them and want to make a difference in this world as well. I think that if I write I will help someone find their way and that gives me inspiration to keep on writing. My poems only exist through your interpretation. It’s not about “what did Avery want this to mean?”, it’s about what these words, phrases, and rhymes mean to you. How do you experience these poems? How can you grow and learn about the complexities of the human mind? How might my writing inspire peace and love within you?
Thank you so much for visiting my page and reading about me. I hope that you find something for yourself in my poetry!
Love,
Avery Payne 😉
P.S. Check out my mom’s blog 123ilovemeblog.wordpress.com
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