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About Me Member Wannabe Novelist Michael Harrell21/Male/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 5 Years
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Church MusicA broken ground,  split along fault lines--  our faults--  pushes into the sky,  and along those striations  I spy  into the hidden meaning  of ledger lines  and lead sheets:  sketch little notes  on the wall  to me,  and I will scrawl out  words to you,  divine all the meaning  of the divine  and though my feet  leave not the ground,  I walk about in the sky,  and from so high above  like crop circles  I will make out  the notes to sing,  to you in the shadows.   
Hail, O, Gladdening Light!  For it is where   Church Music
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On College DormsI left for the quiet,  a room where I was not hemmed in,  but the world was shut out.   
Instead I found a tomb,  a testament to masons and carpenters,  who raised the two-by-four walls  and hung the limestone drywall  which vibrated in perfect resonance  with the voices of oh so many.   
This building is hulking,  so Sovietly efficient in storing people,  stacking us one on top  of the other  like skeletons in Roman catacombs -  we are so long dead  that our modern morbid priests  have forgotten the prayers  and instead cast us  in this lot, & On College Dorms
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Magic Hour
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CanopyThrough an opening in the canopy  the sunset caught your skin,  and in the warm light of the evening  I caught my breath to take you in:  the sure grace of your cheek  led to the soft point of your chin.   
I was twenty, you were eighteen,  and we were too wide-eyed to know  that what passed between us, so mystified,  was how love begins to grow.   
Now I wander through the dark night  and wait for break of day  for in the morning, in the sunlight,  you still take my breath away.   
But in the evening, in the soft light,  in the glow of silver moon, &nbs Canopy
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  • Current Residence: Washington, USA
  • Interests: Life, the Universe, and Everything (this is not a Douglass Adams reference)
  • Favourite movie: Star Wars / Good Will Hunting / The Adventures of Robin Hood / His Girl Friday
  • Favourite band or musician: Vertical Horizon / Sixpence None the Richer / Anberlin / Mae / Yoshida Brothers
  • Favourite genre of music: Pop Rock / Modern Classical / Acoustic
  • Favourite artist: Lin Onus
  • Favourite poet or writer: G. K. Chesterton / Robert Browning / Neil Gaiman / Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Operating System: Vista Home Premium
  • MP3 player of choice: Zune 8GB (not that I own one)
  • Favourite game: Star Wars: KotOR / Chrono Trigger
  • Personal Quote: my mottos: Sarcasm in service to the Lord! / Fortune cookie sophistry for the masses!
  • Tools of the Trade: a ridiculously cheap journal mated to a ridiculously expensive pen or pencil

A poetry project

Mon Nov 16, 2009, 12:59 AM
  • Mood: Hungry
  • Listening to: The Long Fall back to Earth by Jars of Clay
  • Reading: Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce
  • Eating: Nabisco(R) Oreo(R) Double Stuf(TM) Cookies
  • Drinking: Hot Chocolate
I own over 400 music albums, from old vinyls to some cassettes to CD's and a few (very few) all-digital albums. I was looking at them today and realized that it was a huge vat of poetry. And I'm not talking about the song lyrics. I'm talking about the titles.

What does Boys for Pele evoke? Pele is the Hawaiian goddess of fire and volcanoes, and the title (a Tori Amos album) is about worship and/or sacrifice--to a strong, fiery female figure.

Or what about Black and Blue (Backstreet Boys). Obviously it could be a bruise, but what else: the blue, the cool of jazz; the black, the dark of night?

What about Pet Sounds (Beach Boys)? There and Back Again (Vertical Horizon)? Cities (Anberlin)? Heck, how 'bout something really, really, simple: Christmas?

I wrote one poem--"Singularity"--influenced by Mae's album of the same name. I am going through my CD collection one by one and doing the same. "Boys for Pele" is finished...next up, perhaps "Another 700 Miles" (3 Doors Down)?

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~y0urstalker Sep 17, 2009, 2:47:18 AM
you are an excellent poet especially when I'm in full control of my mental faculties.

you are

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~y0urstalker Sep 17, 2009, 2:45:43 AM
I was looking in your gallery, to find one that felt like what I wanted to say.

I found some five

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~MysticLotus Aug 18, 2009, 2:22:14 AM
[link]

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"Life is a Banquet and most sons of bitches are starving to death!"
-Mame

"Love is me gently leading you back to yourself."
- Anon.
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~y0urstalker Jul 6, 2009, 8:02:14 AM
I didn't like all of the pancakes but I loved this one immensely.

[link]

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~KarmaGhost Jul 6, 2009, 1:06:17 PM
David Crowder's version is better. But everything David Crowder does is better.

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"Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly." —G.K. Chesterton
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~y0urstalker Apr 12, 2009, 4:30:04 AM
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oh you would love this one

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~KarmaGhost Apr 13, 2009, 9:27:22 AM
I did love it. Thanks.

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"Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly." —G.K. Chesterton
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~Rovi-Jesher Jan 15, 2009, 6:43:09 AM
Haha! Artist formerly known as God! Im sory for this super super late reply but thank You so much for your wonderful comment on my work!! :-)

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Do What You Love.
Love What You Do.
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~KarmaGhost Jan 17, 2009, 5:25:57 PM
It deserved that much and more. I clicked through your gallery and you have a very modern take on iconographic art styles. Are they intended as icons, or am I just reading into things from a faith background?

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"Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly." —G.K. Chesterton
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~y0urstalker Dec 13, 2008, 10:11:12 PM
what's a twi'lek?

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