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My AP family:

AP Sisters:
Khadidja the Wise
Emerald Fairytale
http://allpoetry.com/AngieMarie

APDad: Purethought


Though I write mainly for fun (and am an amateur in every sense of the word) this is a major part of me and I plan to continue and see where it takes me.

My poetry is free flowing (yet the ideas are organized even though the form is not), often tells a story, doesn't rhyme or have much form and is almost always deeply symbolic. I'm very inspired by symbolism, including nature themes,fairy tales. and other whimsical themes. But through this whimsical symbolism I hope to express very real and personal thoughts.

The subjects in my poems are both specific, yet universal. Though some of my poems deal with dark topics, there is always a glimmer of hope for transformation. My purpose is to bring these dark and often unconscious things into the light so we can change them, and share a vision of how beautiful the world can be.
My goal in poetry is to bring about human understanding and social change.
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Favorite Influences/Inspiration

Favorite Quotes:

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
-Gandhi

"Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man."

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence; it can only be attained through understanding."
- Emerson

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."


"If I could stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
-Emily Dickinson

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."


"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."
-Maslow

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."
-Thoreau

"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer."

"Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
-T.S Eliot

"It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul."
-Chekhov

Music: Rachmaninov, Dvorak, most every Russian composers, Dar Williams, Poulenc, Chopin, Counting Crows, Coldplay, Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, Duncan Sheik.


Literature/Poets: Emerson, Chekhov, Daniel Quinn, Emily Dickinson, mythology, Fairy tales of all kinds.

People: There are people who have a profound influence on both my life and my poetry. I would like to thank them for being my muses and filling me with inspiration and encouraging me.

Things: My favorite topics to write about include, roses, watery things, trees, butterflies, flowers, and nearly anything with an archetype. (and for me, nearly everything has a deeper archetypal meaning)