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To all my friends: I have not dropped off the face of the earth, I've just burrowed into it for a while. I am in the process of emerging and shaking the dust off of my poetry.

I have learned many awesome new forms since I joined AP! I've tried this and that, and using form and meter is by far my favorite way to write. I rhyme, and I don't rhyme, but . . . yeah.

I sing, too. Classical soprano, though I'm hardly professional yet.

My favorite poets/storytellers? Edgar Allen Poe, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, and Shel Silverstein.

I've been writing since I could hold a pencil; although it's only been since January '07 that I've returned to poetry. I write either what amuses me or what I feel, and my work often tends to be narrative. I like to write semi-cryptically sometimes. Someone recently observed that I tend toward the classical as well, and I can't argue with that! I am a story-teller at heart. Always have been.

I don't write to make a point, get on my soap box, promote a cause, or change the world -- I write for the pure enjoyment of it, because it is life to me, and an escape.

I welcome critical comments on my poetry, as long as they are from poets honestly desiring to help another improve her work, rather than just a wanton rip fest.



My real-life youngest brother and little sister have profiles on AP, too.
http://allpoetry.com/LaundryGoat
http://allpoetry.com/daydreamercate

This is a poet from whom I have learned a lot and for whom I have a great deal of respect. Check him out:
http://allpoetry.com/ecrivain01


"The time has come, my little friends, to talk of other things, of shoes and ships and sealing wax, and cabbages and kings, and why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings . . ."

Lewis Carroll



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  • ecrivain01 : I like your new photo. on February 28
    Great smile.
  • Bob 42 : God is Time (Spend it with Him) on February 16
    An eon has a beginning and an end
    Otherwise there would not be more than one
    One just ended yesterday at the bend
    Time warp for the new one has just begun
    Did you celebrate with God or just send
    Regrets, because You are the only one

    That`s worthy of respect in Your own mind
    Be grateful that our God is also Kind


    Thanks again Carrie for the ottoma rima.
    .........Bob 42
  • Maxboy on February 12
    Picture~Valentine10654
  • Bob 42 : Ottoma Rima on December 14, 2008
    Bushwhacked

    Its a conundrum why we as voters
    Elect as President hypaethral head
    Then re-elect it; as we`re not jokers
    The onus is ours as we count the dead
    Osama bin Laden, hashish smoker
    Enjoys his freedom home in a plush bed
    As it leaves office, consider the pain
    To be replaced by another Hussein.

    I just couldn`t let IT skulk away without
    expressing my views poetically....Bob 42

    Hope you are well; I haven`t seen your
    pretty picture in a while...Bob 42

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