Virulent Malice• Show poetry

Influences are: Shakespeare, Donne, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Maynard James Keenan and Mark Z. Danielewski. I'm 19 years old hailing out of Nova Scotia, Canada. The only other avid activity I partake in besides writing is drumming. I'm currently studying at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and taking a Bachelor of Arts.

Some of my favorite written lines are..

"No one is interested in something you didn't do."
-Tragically Hip "Wheat Kings"

"How could this go, so very far, that I need someone to say.. "What is wrong?" Not with the world.. but me.."
-Katatonia "Tonight's Music"

"She swore me vows in fragrant blood: "Never to part, lest jealous heaven stole our hearts." And this I screamed: "Come back to me, for I was born in love with thee, so why should fate stand inbetween?"
- Dani Filth "Her Ghost in the Fog"

"Patrolling around in this familiar parabol. Spinning, weaving around each new experience. Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing. This body holding me, reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember, we are eternal, all this pain is an illusion."
- Maynard James Keenan "Parabola"

"I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow. To feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain. To swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human."
- Maynard James Keenan "Lateralus"

"So crucify the ego before it's far too late. To leave behind this place, so negative, blind and cynical. And you will come to find, that we are all one mind, capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable. So, just let the light touch through and let the words spill through and let them pass right through. Bringing out our hope and reason.. Before we pine away."
-Maynard James Keenan "Reflections"

"No more golden light for the queen earth, to keep you warm in your kingdoms. High on the waves you make for us. But, not since you left, have the waves come. The bar is dead and the rockets rain keeping you wet in your deathbed. So high on the waves you make for us. And not since you left have the waves come.. Have the waves come."
- The Deftones "Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event."

"Up until the mid twentieth century the mountain gorilla was considered a myth. Oddly enough, a legend not unlike bigfoot or the loch ness monster. The chance of actually seeing/experiencing this elusive shadow was as likely as finding ones soulmate.
Rare.
Precious.
Even once discovered they seemed unapproachable. The only way to get close to this magnificent creature was to become empathetic. Abandon all pretense and preconceptions.
To bare an open throat.
To collapse into the arms of vulnerability.
All but extinct, these beings/moments are threatened by the black hearted.
The cold and oblivious.
The empty eyed profit seekers that overlook these
Rare
Precious
Moments."

- Maynard James Keenan 'On the meaning to 3 Libras'

"If you look at the cycles of the moon, it starts as a thin
crescent and then gradually waxes and becomes full; then it
gradually wanes back into another crescent and then is gone.
The moon reflects sunlight like humans reflect information.
We wax and wane and when we become full moons, are ego's
are full. We think we have this knowledge when in fact, the
information we have is pure. And how it reflects or shines off of
us, is something we take credit for, as though the moon could
take credit for the light it reflects from the sun. We have to
understand that we are ego-less just as the moon is without
light. It and we, are simply reflectors. The ego is not
responsible for the information."
- Maynard James Keenan 'On the meaning to Reflection'

"Step out the front door, like a ghost into the fog, where no one notices, the constrast of white on white. And in between the moon and you, the angels get a better view, of the crumbling difference between wrong and right. I walk in the air, between the rain, through myself and back again."
- Counting Crows "Round Here"

"Wrap these feathers like a blanket over me, throw my bones into the belly of the deep. Whisper through my walkie talkie, "I am ready", but I was not prepared to die. Wipe the shadows from my mind. I was not prepared for flight."
- Wintersleep "A Long Flight"

"You waste your life making films. Through the frames, you revealed. The screen goes down, the tape runs out. Or the machine ceases to operate. She'll team up with our parade. We watch all the tapes, push pause and wave over wave on the screen. The frames go down. The tape runs out or the machine ceases to operate. She'll team up with our parade."
- Team Sleep "Ever Since WWI"

"If you let them make you, they'll make you paper mache.. At a distance you're strong, until the wind comes, then you crumble and blow away."
- Incubus "Make Yourself"


"Mention this to me. Mention this to me, watch the weather change. Watch the weather change. Mention this to me, mention something, mention anything. Watch the weather change."
- Tool "Disposition"

"I wanted to go with you, to be right by your side. So, I could steer the vessel. So, you could rest your eyes. I wanted to go with you, to be your faithful guide. But I was too afraid of the monsters at the tide."
- Wintersleep "Faithful Guide"

"Angels say they can make you suffer. They give and take like vicious lover."
- Neverending White Lights "The Grace".