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For all my friends and everyone else: I am emerging from the toughest months of my life right now, what with work, school, and having filed for divorce. Once the summer ends, I hope to be an active member of this wonderful community once again.




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



"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