"Tears, Spirit, and Heart" is a collection of poems symbolizing my travels around the world. The poems within my book takes you through my childhood playing basketball to the deserts of New Mexico to my first love to betrayal of friends.

This is a collection of my memories and emotions of my past life. These poems have been in the works since 1995 to 2003. I have wanted to write a collection of poems to best describe my travels in life and love. I feel that this collection projects my memories of my life.

"Tears, Spirit, and Heart" is a book of poems about my life. Please read the poems...

"Christina's Rose of a Tear" is a collection of poems dedicated to one individual that has helped me through the worst time of my life and has reopened my passion, soul, and heart. She inspired me to write this book in one day. To show that I can still write poems about sorrow and love. It captures my passion for life for one person.

The poems reflect my sorrows but mostly my love for one person that put me back together when I was at my lowest. She showed me it was okay to love again. Please enjoy the poems and the passion that are captured in the book.

300 Tears is a collection of poems about my life from 2005 thru 2011. These poems are dedicated to a special person and my inner circle of my closest friends. There is about 15 or so poems that are dedicated to my father, Harold F. Hoppe, Jr. who passed February 21,2011. These poems are about my relationship with my father. I deeply miss him. All 300 poems are tears of happiness, anger, moments, and times that I shed tears for each moment of my life. These poems will show my emotions and feelings of life. You will be reading my moments and memories of my life's Journey.