PoetrXY

For Men Who Don’t Read Poetry

Jory Como

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Year: 2026
• Print ISBN:
  9798385268269
  9798385268276
• eBook ISBN:
  9798385268283
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

PoetrXY: For Men Who Don’t Read Poetry is a collection of sonnets, villanelles, and prose written for those who usually skip the poetry section. With plainspoken intros and a craftsman’s touch, these pieces explore fatherhood, faith, and quiet reckoning from a masculine point of view.



The poems are straightforward but thoughtful—blending traditional rhyme and structure with honest, modern themes. Some lean into the spiritual, others take a wry look at belief, and most speak to readers who don’t follow literary trends. This is poetry for the disenchanted, the devout, and the quietly searching—for men who remember the kind of verse they studied in school and wonder why nobody writes that way anymore.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• The Family Poet
• Starling
• Scribbled
• Letters
• Runaway Daisy
• Crestfallen Among Angels
• Gethsemane
• Gehenna’s Revolt
• The Immovable Ladder
• The Miner
• Stuck
• Bedside Manners
• Under Sabers
• Bomb Savant
• On Christmas Watch
• To Valhalla
• A Soldier’s Soliloquy
• Dissonance
• Aveline’s Sestina
• The Salesman
• By Royal Decree
• God’s Gift
• Snow Day
• Lucidly
• Christmas Party Hop
• On Identity
• Absent, I
• Avast, Love!
• Wilted
• Summer’s Elegy
• Apple Villanelle
• Conquered
• Defiance
• Untitled
• The Shat
• X Resonance
• The Nature of Suffering
• Dropping the Ball
• The Wager—Part I: The Flop
• The Wager—Part II: The Turn
• The Wager—Part III: The River
• Fireflies
• The Bee
• The Boomer
• Dear Me
• The Superfluous
• Crescendo
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