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hi, excuse me but do you happen to know the site where i can get the layout? ... it's like mibba/layouts or something...

Oh, Chapter 2?
...maybe.

http://poem.mibba.com/135313/Willow

i honestly think this is the best poem i've ever written.

I decided to put another one of my ... my more valued works from my upcoming collection on this site, another example of me in my element, you know, actually putting time into. It's right up your alley, and it might be my favorite poem of mine: Apparitions of a Dying Dream, it's on my page.

This is a message I left in my poem, The Death of Dawn, and I wrote a message for everyone who took the time to read that long ass poem:

All of you people, you're people, you're not a ghost behind a keyboard never known obscured by alias and anonymity, and that's why I write. For breathing, feeling, people who've taken to this sight as an island, some sort of Alexandria, and between the cracks so many of us fall into obscurity. The fact that I have not, that people seem to enjoy it, or lie about enjoying it just to make me feel better is just as touching, that's the only reason I haven't slipped through. You're the reason.

In re: The Death of Dawn, Dawn was one of my first friends. She was my neighbor from the time I was born until she drowned when she was 9. Good or not, nothing I write is less than genuine.

guidelines are basically to describe what makes my poetry different than the run of the mill generic nonsense you usually find on sites like this. So far, there are 190 poems in the collection, and by Jan11th, should be over 200. It will also include some 37 short stories. That's all that you have to do. A (large) paragraph type endorsement, your argument for what makes my work different and good, etc.

I'm publishing the collection on my 25th birthday, February 1st, but I have to have it for my editor at Doubleday (I have a real publisher now! who would've thought?) by January 11th. And I'm so angry about The Glass Umbrella. Because I wrote that poem 3 1/2 years ago, and I have yet to top it. 9 out of 10 people who message me or email me about my writing usually want to discuss the inspiration for The Glass Umbrella. Personally, I think Bye, the Blankets Wave is my best poem. Don't know if you've read it, but it's much more meaningful and sublime, to me. Some people complain about my poems because of their length. Know why they're the length they are? Because they have to be. To remove one element would diminish the whole.

As an added incentive, if you could provide a paragraph about my work, what it's meant, what's good about it, etc, I'd be delighted to provide a signed copy for you for free. (if you want me to sign it. I'm just 24 years old and having so many people that admire me is kind of weird.)

I usually don't leak my major poems online when I'm preparing a collection to be published (I'm publishing The Wheatfields East of Eden in February) but I decided to release this one because it's not something I can withhold for monetary gain ... it'd be an insult to her memory. The entire story within the poem is true: my friend drowned when we were young, and I found her... we were playing hide and seek and she was holding onto the edge of a well to hide and slipped and by the time we got there she was suffocated, having landed cramped with her face down. I don't write trite, rhyming for the sake of rhyming, disconnected poems. I try to tell stories, stories that have greatly influenced my outlook on things, and the first "book" of the Death of Dawn is entitled "The Dreams Before" which is what I published here, on Mibba. The second book is "The Nightmares After"-- I've got a lot of looking through notebooks to find the scattered pieces of that before I can get it ready, but I try not to write story-less, rhyming couplets that, in all, really mean nothing. You know what I'm talking about: 5 stanzas of disconnected poorly rhyming verse, devoid of feeling and emotion. My new collection of poems and short stories will be out in February, 190 poems, 37 short stories. I'll let you know when it's available--and if you can't afford it, just ask and I'll be happy to purchase a copy for you. I feel that not many people comprehend the significance of my poetry in contrast with other modern poetry, and I believe you see the difference between me and the other type of disconnected, rhyming opinion type poems.

Also, I'm asking ten of my friends who have read enough of my poems to write a paragraph on the subject to be included on the jacket of the book when it's released. If you'd be interested, I'd like that. You seem to understand the significance of my style, and the feeling behind it. Therefore you'd be perfect for the job. But think about it--could you describe me and my poetry in a paragraph?

I finally leaked another of my better poems on this site, the name is the death of dawn, if you're interested! if not... fuck you! :P

In the poem The Loss Soliloquy, the candle is simply what the object of the writing is carrying, not a candle in the sense I've used in other works of mine; to me, a candle is essentially an hourglass that acts in much the same way. To me, I repeat, a candle is a slowly falling hourglass that, no matter what, will soon run out of sand. Along with the hourglass, I use the candle to represent the sun, likening it to a cycle that forever repeats, and ourselves-mere candles in the music box, to burn and fret until, alas, the wax is dry, and, inevitably, we die. The main philosophy behind my poems is a sort of fatalism; the fatalism philosophy first crept into my poems after being HEAVILY influenced by the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, my favorite poem of all time. Thanks for reading, Luna. Without you, and my other supporters, I'd really have no reason to write; it is this joy, this joy I bring out in other, appreciative, people, that keeps me writing. I've long since since ceased writing poems for my own happiness, instead writing poems for the community of poetry enthusiasts at large. The fact that my work is appreciated, albeit by a small, collected group of faithful followers, is what keeps me going. Thanks for your comment, your appreciation, and your time. It is valuable beyond measure to me.

All of my works that I'm currently pursuing mainstream publication for are available on my site. The Make Believe Ballroom and Songs of Galilee will be published nationally this year, so they will be my first nationally distributed works. Kind of makes me nervous... but my books are in my store at my website http://thenoblesfrequency.com/blog/?page_id=2

The Sea of Galilee, where Jesus walked on water, has been a recurring theme in a number of my works. I dream about it quite a bit, and it always crops up in my verses. The first GOOD novel I wrote was entitled Songs of Galilee, and you see how much of myself I put in my poems--Songs of Galilee is probably the most honest portrait one man can paint of himself. So it reminds me of that child from the novel, Roger, who roams the shore all day, waiting for his father to come home. It's always suck with me, the yearning, the disappointment, the false hope, but also the beauty of the sea, amidst such heartache, regardless of our happy smiles or saddened faces, it will be the same old sea, just a sea to look at me. Most of the time Galilee serves as a mirror device within my own poems when I'm referencing an actual event. My narrative poetry is always non-fiction, and Galilee is the bridge between fiction and non-fiction.

http://www.mibba.com/journals/read/133642/

In case your enjoyment of my writing goes outside the confines of my poems / stories / novels.

Remember me? If so, I wanted to let you know I finally got a site online that hosts all of my poetry and other literary pursuits, and I've written probably 20+ poems since last we talked, and if it's of any interest, check it out at www.thenoblesfrequency.com/blog

xD i didn't intend that to sound snide or anything. i bet most people don't even realize what Luna means lol

your username is kinda redundant

hey thanks for the poem comment, I appreciate the spelling correction too. :D

plus that glowing green flower is AW-SUM

u hav the same exact layout as i used to have