Hello there and welcome to the first member's spotlight! This column will be to feature five poets a week, telling a little about them and their experience on AllPoetry, and providing an example of their writing. The poets that were selected for this column are poets I chose based on how I've seen them around the site, the level of poetry they can write, etc. In future columns I am hoping to have it by recommendations from fellow poets. The main criteria to be a part of the member spotlight is to be a somewhat experienced poet and be able to demonstrate that along with having experience on AllPoetry and being active here.
The purpose in this column is not to unfairly give free promotion to any single member. Rather, it is a way for other members to discover poets that they might have never read before. This will begin to be a regular, weekly column on the site that is approved by Kevin. If you have any direct comments or questions, feel free to contact me.
If you know of someone whom you would like to recommend for future member spotlights, please send me the link to their author's page along with an explanation of why you believe they should be put into this column. Please only recommend one person per week because I can only feature five members a week. Also, please send me their names through IM to make sure that I see it. Sometimes just putting it within a comment can make it harder to find. Thanks!
Biography: Blazing White Wolf or Blaze for short (native name), is a Hypnotherapist and former bus driver. He wrote his first poem on 10-3-2004 and has now finished over eight hundred poems. He is also in the midst of writing a spiritual, fantasy novel. Writing has become a ritual, keeping him from stuffing and suppressing his feelings. Blaze is a spiritual warrior walking the path of the old ways of the indigenous. From 1990 to 1994, he apprenticed to a holy-man of South American descent. He considers this to be the best four-year investment he ever made, and now lives a life of service to all who cross his path in need of spiritual/therapeutic counseling. He finds stimulating and fulfilling competitive games of skill (chess etc.), reading, writing, hiking, camping, "journeying," ritual, spiritual gatherings, father/daughter time, studying/observing human behavior, sports, deep intellectual conversations, numerology, tarot, spiritual studies, and exploring the unknown vastness of life.
Experience on AllPoetry: Allpoetry is a place he can not only grow as a poet but forge everlasting relationships with those of similar interests. He wanders the poetic confines of AP with love in his heart and service upon his sleeve.
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by Blazing White Wolf on August 21, 2005 I have made you |
Biography: I am 61 years young and live with my ferret, Rascal. As I am disabled, Allpoetry is one of the graces of my life. Here I find friends and people who understand the ramblings of an old poet. I have been published all over the world and sometimes sell my writing. But I write what I want, not what some editor thinks I should write.
Experience on AllPoetry: I have held two contests, but mostly donate points for others to hold theirs. I try to read as many poems as I can, give honest opinions and encourage those I see have talent, but are young or inexperienced. I intend to become a gold member and do more.
Example of Poetry:
by WolfHeart on September 26, 2006 The hour turns late and sulpher toned. Moon shakes its finger at persistent clouds that demand to play hide and seek, darting across its face and obscuring its scowl. Dark wings rustle like chicks in a nest, then rise to soar out of sight in search of food. Wind soughs, mournful and without hope, blowing through the blankets of those who sleep outside, yet they do not turn or moan. This is the time given to secrets and evil deeds, to nefarious wanderers who have murder in their savage eyes, a knife at hand. A shift of shadow hides the seeping ooze that crawls up from sewers and dank cellars. It coagulates into vile thoughts, seeping, searching for a willing, unsuspecting mind, where it will take root and send tendrils of unrepentant evil out to claim its territory. Once the night was a thing of song and celebration, now it weighs heavy with things that hover out of sight, savoring the death brought by the insane and sociopath. . . Once the gates of hell were prized open, when that black rimmed nail pulled it bit by bit until demons could claw their way out of hell, night belongs to the netherworld of sadists. What crawls through the night is not human, ceased to be a million deaths ago or more. One day it will occlude our vision, suck our souls and leave us lying in a pool of blood. A just end for a foolish creation that would not listen as death sang its promise to them. |
Biography: I've been writing for only around 6 months, but I'm trying to improve with each poem I write. I can't call myself a good person as I am not one, however I am more like a mirror. If you're good I'm good, if you're bad I'm bad. Anyways I only write rhyming poems and I love writing fantasy poems.
Experience on AllPoetry: I don't do much really. I just enter contests, host contests, speak to others and have fun.
Example of Poetry:
by wakingdevil on August 20, 2006 As time is silenced and the leaves gently rustle |
Biography: I am Lyndon. As a retiree from lecturing English Literature to Evening Classes and running a Department of English and later an academy, I decided to write literature myself for the first time in life. I actually stumbled upon Allpoetry. Became interested. Decided to form a tiny group.
Experience on AllPoetry: With the help of marvelous people from both hemispheres, Winklings, a critiquing group, has grown, by invitation, into an active place of 135 members. We call our Board "Winkletown".Winklings has sister groups and satellite groups. At the moment, we have facilitators whom I love. Also, I have an AP partner for the Winklings: Toni A Christman. I cannot praise enough the membership.
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by Lyndon on December 25, 2005 (In Memoriam, Tsunami victims) on the morning of the waves rolling in. |
Biography: Lynda Anaya. Birth date: 4-6-60. I have been writing poetry since I was 15 yrs old. It is a part of me, and along with God and my wonderful family and friends, has gotten me through the worst of times.
Experience on AllPoetry: I have loved having contests on AP. I enjoy reading the work of other poets and always comment in a positive manner to encourage growth and confidence. I started a group called "Hope For a More Caring Society" where we chat about problems that people endure regarding discrimination of any kind. We have contests in which we express ourselves on that issue. I have made some wonderful friends here (too many to mention).
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by poet2angel on September 9, 2006 Who would imagine such beauty that is love |
The purpose in this column is not to unfairly give free promotion to any single member. Rather, it is a way for other members to discover poets that they might have never read before. This will begin to be a regular, weekly column on the site that is approved by Kevin. If you have any direct comments or questions, feel free to contact me.
If you know of someone whom you would like to recommend for future member spotlights, please send me the link to their author's page along with an explanation of why you believe they should be put into this column. Please only recommend one person per week because I can only feature five members a week. Also, please send me their names through IM to make sure that I see it. Sometimes just putting it within a comment can make it harder to find. Thanks!
Adding your comment:
I love you, Bro
When I first started, that was all I knew, and with help from a class, and my best friend and a wonderful poetess, Annalise, I started to learn about free verse and fell in love with it as well....so I am not a snob of any forn...I thank you so for your wonderful thoughts!
great idea.. keep it up!
Now they are working, but earlier they were sending me to the page: 
Plus, if you click on the title of their poems, that will take you to their poem. Nifty, eh? 
I am very glad that your doing this 
