13 Oct 09 update:
Vote for my stamps!! (Only if you like them better than the others - i dont want to cheat LOL but i dont think enough people have voted for it to be fair..)

Its a comp for the club stamp for
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Sorry I havent been around faving or commenting or updating... I went home for my brother's wedding..



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Hi, some of you may know me as =obsidiantears83 or ~obsidianstamps etc. I decided I need to delete my blog with all my poems and creative writing, but i want to keep them somewhere... I wont be updating it frequently, but yeay, I will be sharing... I have no pretences or illusions of the quality of my poems. Its about self expression, not being the next William Blake or Shelley. Its mostly free verse or haiku. I have always gotten the most attention for my photography and stamps, so I wanted to separate my musings to their own section. I had a blog that I was using for my poetry, but I decided I have way too many blogs (15+) and I need to downsize. I wont be updating this account frequently, a lot of what I jot down is personal or unfinished... But whenever I have something I am comfortable sharing I will be logging in LOL I have no pretenses of illusions over the quality of my poems. I write for self expression, not to be the next Dickinson or Keats. I will mostly be sharing free verse (open) and haiku, but i will be putting up some short stories when I have had a chance to review them.... I like the simplicity of haiku, i find it both facinating, liberating and challenging to use just three lines to encapsulate a concept. I know I dont always stick to the 5/7/5 which is traditional for haiku, but sometimes something is more effective when you break the rules. I think that is also why I write free verse - Its a running monologue, rather than couching flowery concepts in metre, alliteration, rhyming couplets etc. Yes, I can write using those, but I choose not to. I prefer free verse, and asside from some favourites, I tend to like modern poetry for this reason.

Some favourite poets are William Blake, Shakespeare, Henry Kendall, Edgar Allan Poe, TS Eliot, John Keats, Banjo Patterson etc. I also love Beowulf, William Langland, Geoffery Chaucer and a lot of nameless Anglosaxon (Old English) poets. My favourite poems are probably Dream of the Rood (anon), Beowulf (read Roy M. Liuzza's translation, not Heaney!), Last of His Tribe (Henry Kendall), The Wasteland (TS Eliot) and a number of haiku I have stumbled across over the years. If you have any books of poetry you can reccomend I would love to hear about them. I mostly read collections of bush ballads growing up, explored haiku and open poetry as a teen, and studied some of the classics, and anglosaxon poetry at university. Which means I havent really had much chance to explore LOL



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