Haven't written narrative fiction in a while. I do poetry a lot more often so I've put some up here; hope you like it. I write using fragmented phrases that I write in lists and then I piece together what makes sense and is effective.
A lot of my poems are very short which I guess comes from eastern influence although I hardly ever write proper haiku. My favorite poet is William Shakespeare. When I read his sonnets I feel like he's reading my mind and then telling me things about myself and my situations that I didn't know.
Sorry for my somewhat uninspiring user name. I made this account a long long time ago when I first was getting into Escaflowne (I still think its a masterpiece) and I wanted Van Fanel as my user name even if it meant making it pointless by adding a 3 because someone had beaten me to it.
I'm in a band/duo called Winter Boat if you'd like to hear our songs go to www.myspace.com/winterboat
If you'd like to download high quality better mixed mp3s of the songs for free go to www.download.com/winterboat
Fiction press has now made it possible for me to retain the formatting of my notepad stuff by just re-editing the content when I upload documents. Shweetness.
I sometimes might reply directly to a review but usually I'll just get around to reviewing something you've written soon after.
If all you know of poetry is internet poetry from users such as myself then you really really really need to read these guys because your missing more than you know:
T.S. Eliot
Carl Sandburg
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allen Poe
Rudyard Kipling
Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
William Butler Yeats
Dante Alighieri
W.H. Auden
Robert Frost
Po Chu-I
Lewis Carroll
Homer
Sappho
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Tu Fu
Li Po
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Shakespeare
Matsuo Basho
Walt Whitman
Mother Goose (don't think your too sophisticated)
Martial
Lucretius
Omar Khayyam
Su Tung Po
Issa
Ryokan
Beowulf (Unknown Author, Essential Poem)
Phillip Sidney
Robert Burns
The Norse Sagas
William Wordsworth
The Medieval Miracle Plays
Francois Villon
Alexander Puskin
Hesiod
Aristophanes
Pindar
Ovid
Virgil
Wang Wei
The Manyoshu
Ferdowsi
Rumi
Sadi
Hafiz
Kalidasi
Edmund Spencer
John Donne
John Milton
Robert Herrick
William Blake
Robert Browning
Robert Lewis Stevenson
Torquato Tasso
Francesco Petrach
Ludovico Ariosto
Johann Goethe
Charles Baudelaire
E.E. Cummings
Marge Piercy
Allen Ginsburg
Seamus Heaney
Langston Hughes
Claude McKay
Gwendolyn Brooks
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Phillis Wheatley
James A. Emmanuel
Sidney Lanier
D.H. Lawrence
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Herman Melville
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Shel Silverstein
Lord Alfred Tennyson
François Villon
C.K Williams
William Carlos Williams
And probably many more...
Such as BIBLICAL POETRY
The ESV translation of Job is wonderful.
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