Joshua Cintron
You do not, not because you cannot. But because you believe not.
200+
Poems Published
1
Collection
18
Years Writing
DEBUT COLLECTION
Upon a Moonlight Kiss
Upon a Moonlight Kiss is 82 love poems written by a man deeply in love — words of admiration, longing, and gratitude for the woman who changed his life. The feelings you carry but struggle to say aloud, finally said.
Also available in digital edition.
Recent Poems
When I Try to Describe You
His smile gives everything away: the off-color white of his teeth, the widening eyes, the muted logic, all before he says her name.
A Rose in the Garden of My Life
I chased success, popularity and money when I was young. Then, she stepped into my life like a red rose and those dreams faded like clouds on a sunny day.
Where Water Meets Sky
Feet eased into the slippery crevices of a reef at noon low tide, saltwater at the waist and a vision cast toward the endless plain where water and sky meet.
Fluorescent in a Fabricated World
Men strut like roosters; women reconstructed to a shifting standard of beauty and I sit among them, a fluorescent bulb in a dense, fabricated room, waiting.
In Self-Doubt’s Coliseum
In self-doubt’s coliseum, the battle is never with the world. It’s with the voice inside that says you aren’t ready.