[2] After a life-threatening illness in the year 2000 Roberts began to publicly share his poetry.
[3] His poems are mainly written in free verse,[3] ignoring traditional rules such as regular meter, rhyme, and alliteration.
"[2] Roberts had a poem translated into Cherokee for inclusion in the anthology Amaravati Poetic Prism 2019.
In 2005 Roberts represented the United States with nine other writers at the Odyssey International Festival in Amman, Jordan.
Roberts’ poems have also been published by The Poetic Voices Magazine and The Poetry Sharings Journal.