The Life I've Lived
- Faith – I am a Trinitarian Christian believer. I believe the grace of God is made available only through Christ’s atonement for sin and the transformation of the human spirit by the Holy Spirit. Having said that, I also believe it’s not for me but only God to say to which persons of any faith his grace applies.
- Heritage – A Texan born and raised, I wandered off in my youth. I don’t love Texas less for having left her, but I love all of our United States a little more. I wish everyone might have the same love for his or her native land or adopted country.
- Orientation – I’m a man who’s attracted to women. It seems only right and natural to me that grown up men and women should find comfort and happiness with one another. That conviction makes no allowance for me or anyone to disrespect or attempt to disenfranchise persons who are oriented somewhat differently regarding adult relationships.
- Relationships – I’ve loved and been loved, just not as deeply, well or long as I should have. A generation ago I married a good woman to our sorrow, but we were divorced to my deep regret. She was a treasure then, has been for the intervening twenty odd years, and still is for everyone who knows her now. Our son and daughter are well regarded young adults who seem to have married well with happier results than their parents. We share a clear affection, but I’d like to know them better especially as their ages close on mine.
- Temperament – My life has been a lonesome path, not a hard or empty one. I get along with nearly everyone, and people seem to like me just fine. The women I’ve cherished and held I’ll always love, and there are men whose time it’s been my pride to share. By and large, though, it’s easier for me to be alone than to spend time in social settings where I’ve never been comfortable.
- Expression – I’ve learned to live with every sense and breath, and that’s the way I write. I do my best to show respect for others’ living, sensing and breathing. The life I’ve lived is not my poetry or prose. Writing’s just the overflow inspired by all that’s crossed my path or mind.
The Time We Spend Together
Posted items are from my point of view with my understanding and assumptions. However, readers respond from their own backgrounds; they may comprehend my intentions or not. Their impressions represent how my words struck them, and my intention may not leave the hoped for impression. Likewise, I may or may not understand your intentions for what you post. Just as you do, I read through the filter of my capacity for comprehension. As individuals we rarely experience or perceive in the same way anything offered or received.
Deliberately offensive art or commentary may be the kind which leaves the impression intended most often, but it encourages a spiral of escalating retaliation rather than energetic debate. For some such disagreeable behavior seems to be enjoyable, or somehow self-vindicating. To me it just seems like petulant childishness.
For a vigorous and intelligent exchange of ideas, enthusiasm and passion should be tempered with civility. Criticism based on taste alone, personal recriminations or refusal to engage with diverse points of view merely confirm us in our ignorance and ensures intellectual insulation from the flow of thought, knowledge and greater wisdom. Our discussions should lead toward understanding and effective communication of our diverse perspectives and perceptions.
- Comments and Messages: I may occasionally present or defend a controversial position on art or a forum topic, but usually I just try to be supportive and truthful with folks who post their creative efforts and personal views here.
- Religion and Politics: I am a Christian libertarian of no affiliation. I am willing to share my personal religious, spiritual, political, social and economic views, but only with positive statements. I like to hear the views of others on these, but only if they have positive theses to present. Please check your negativity at the door!
- Sensual and Erotica: I post poems and comments on these, but with reserve. For me human sexuality should always be enriching and joyful in experience and memory. I wish it never involved guilt or disrespect, or was a source of pain or grief. For discussion, my poetry and comments are based on my personal experience, but only as it is relevant to general human experience. There is no invitation for more personal discussions of sensuality with people I have never met.
- Stars and Applause: For comments I give or receive these have little value. Every poem on which I comment gets 3 applause. I try to award 5 stars to every first comment someone enters on my postings. This is to be polite and encourage folks to post their work and comments.
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, and quote is "light extends forever: darkness can but flee from it". - I am a 54 year old man (United States)
- When I'm not writing, I'm imagining beyond probability and perhaps even possibility.
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Poems I'm focused on
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Across the earth in undulating robes,
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Their grace I may admire but not begrudge:
The trees were never made for me to judge. -
A figure unwieldy and awkwardly framed,
His body was fragile but only a shell. -
I thought to walk where paths would not be found
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A tree fell in the forest with a crash,
But none was there to hear the sound it made. -
Our reason starts and ends with data sensed,
but things not sensed exist no less for that.
Active Contests
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Enter one or two poems about love and romance in the non-human part of the animal kingdom. For all ages, including the wee bairns, so mind what you’re posting.1500 points, ends January 12, 2009, 8 entries In Big points, Fun stuff., Funny, Humor, Lotsa fun, Nature
My Poetry
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3 lines, January 6, 2009
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3 lines, January 6, 2009. In Thoughts
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My Stories
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The high white sun rides in regal brilliance across a blue sky above the emerald fields and shade-dappled woodlands of the quiet land. The1024 lines, 1 comment, October 31. In 600-2000 words
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- Column: What's The Point at allpoetry
Punctuate: accentuate, emphasize, mark or divide with punctuation marks, from Medieval Latin "punctuare" point - Column: What Is a Ghazal? at allpoetry
The word Ghazal originates from an Arabic word meaning, "way of talking to or about women." As a verse form it has developed in a long tradition from 10th Century CE Persia to the present day Iran, Pakistan and India in the languages of those countries – - Rectal Opticalitis and Fecal Cephalicosis at storywrite
Rectal Opticalitis: an inflammation of the attitude caused by viewing the world through the terminus of the lower intestine.1
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N.E.Haymanali on December 24Sir, excuse me, I forgot to thank you for your pleasant comment. I see you're a singular man having good feelings and beliefs as your face reveals it. Merry Christmas and happy new year !
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Thousand Petals on December 16I likes your page, man!! Very direct and to the point...nice!
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Darkwell : An angel for you on December 10
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Death of the Author on November 28I don't think I've met anyone who can write form poetry quite as well as you. Or even close to it.
