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This is Home of The Riddle Kingdom, and many poems.


I like to write in many forms, voices, and styles. It just depends on what I am in the mood for, like going out to dinner, or listening to music, I think. I have been writing riddles, which some scholars argue is one of the oldest forms of poetry, and many Nursery Rhymes lay proof to this by being laced with riddles (I shall write a short composition supporting this argument, and how I began writing riddles while teaching in a medium-security prison).
Among my favorite poets, well, they are Homer, Ovid, Socrates, Sappho, Chaucer, Francois Villon, Shakespeare, Blake, Shelley, Byron, Keats (Yes, I love that period), Lear, Whitman, Emily Dickinson (She Rocks), Yeats, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plathe, Elizabeth Bishop, Ann Sexton, Hilda Doolittle, Maya Angelou, Tony Connor (my mentor and friend--look him up), Maxine Kumin, Etheridge Knight, Sandra Cisneros, and so many more.
The Novelists who get my blood rushing are Hunter S.Thompson, Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac, Tom Wolfe, James Baldwin, Jean Genet, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sam Clemens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Samuel Johnson, Jane Austin, Brontes, Henry Fielding, Anais Nin, Simone De Bouvier, and so many others i will add later when I'm not thinking off the top of me madcap-head!
I simply love music! My favorite all-time band is The Clash (Joe Strummer is the the most talented being that I have ever met, and Mick Jones is right there next to him!). I love Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, The Ramones, English Beat, Elvis Costello, Talking Heads (Yea 80's), B-52's, Dead Kennedys (yes Jello), Sex Pistols, Joan Jett, Pretenders, Joe Jackson, David Bowie, Rick James, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Natalie Merchant, Dropkick Murphys, Black47, The Dresden Dolls (Amanda Palmer Rocks), Nellie MacDonald, Grand Master Flash (yeah old, old school), Public Enemy, Wu Tang, and a slew of other rebels, punks, rappers, and pirates.
I love food with intellectual women who are humorous, strong, sexy, and confident. There is nothing better than having a quiet dinner, followed by sensuous dessert, "noisy" cocktails, and wanton bliss (kink is always an option) with the one you love and respect!
As for films, among my favorites are, all by Buster Keaton and Akira Kirasowa. Other films include: The Wild Bunch, Night of the Hunter, White Heat, Cool Hand Luke, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (most Clint Eastwood films), One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, The French Connection, Blade Runner, A Clockwork Orange (i Like most Kubrick), Apocalypse Now, In the Name of the Father, My Left Foot, The Godfather, Scarface, Shawshank Redemption, Blue Velvet, Hero, Good Will Hunting, and almost anything by Paul and Chris Weitz (who I'd love to meet someday).
My dislikes are apathetic people, especially those who don't vote, and think "What difference will it make?" I am also dismayed by those who have an attitude about mentioning dead poets on home page, i.e., more than once i've seen insinuations and remarks saying negative comments about others who are "posing" by mentioning dead poets on their Home Page. That's resentful, and foolish. It's inspiring to acknowledge those who have a profound effect on poetry. I have found such rewarding, common ground with others because i happened to mention someone like Shakespeare, or Emily Dickinson, on my page. The only other negative peeve i have to say is about form. I'm happy that some writers here use different forms and wish that more would attempt it. Now i must go and work on a Sestina, or maybe even a Canzone. Best regards, always.

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  • Ubacubissubej : Oh how I've missed the Riddle Kingdom... on December 9, 2008
    By chance my late night (early morning?) sleepless wanderings about the vast realm of the internet landed me back at dear old AP, and I found myself here, wondering whatever did happen to the Riddle Master and his great kingdom...

    Over the past few years the box upon my desk that is the portal to that fantastic realm has had periods in which it has gathered dust, I am ashamed to admit. But in its times of use it has provided great enjoyment and comfort, intellectual stimulus and joy.

    I wonder now what has happened to that world. Has it's caretaker forgotten it, and left it among the dusty tomes among other stories of the past? Or does it lay in a deep slumber, awaiting the curiosity of a keen mind and the tender touch of creative intellect?

    I feel as though I am a road-weary traveler, having trodden far and wide to at last return to streets familiar and faces fond to find them unchanged, but uncharacteristically so, as if time had frozen upon my departure and all I had left behind had waited, hanging in limbo, for my return. I fear that it is not as I had left it, that neglect and passing time has changed that of which I held so close at heart, that the life that once thrummed powerfully through words and ideas may not be breathed again into these pages.

    Where has the Riddle Master gone? Has he, with the seeming disappearance of his loyal subjects, retired to some quiet existence, fondly recalling past times? Or does his heart throb with feeling of abandonment, and cry out for the return of days gone by?
  • FallingSideways on December 4, 2008
    it has been a long while so I thought I would see how you are.
  • Nephlim : ThisMessageIsBroughtToYouBy: RiddleLoversInc. on December 3, 2008
    It's been almost a year since your page has had a comment on it! How can that be possible? I don't know! But as of December 3, 2008, it is getting a comment!

    Yeah... so... I don't have anything to say, but this'll suffice! I shall commence with the customary Near-Christmas spamming. If you don't celebrate Christmas, think of it as 'Jolly December 25th Spamming'. Spam doesn't really need a holiday, anyways .






















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    That ends this announcement .
  • Nephlim : This message was brought to you by the voices in my nose ^-^. on December 28, 2007
    Hi!
    Your page is lonely! It needs a new riddle! (no pressure )

    Well, I just wanted to say Hi, and I did that. how's life?
    Hope everything's fine and that you had a good Christmas! Or a good December 25th
    Oh and a happy new year!
    And what better way to bring in the new year than a riddle
    (not that I'm pressuring you are anything )
    Kidding

    TTFN

    P
    .S.
    ...Plastic
    Smells...


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