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Writers and Poets, Musicians and
Lyricists, all have a single shared interest; which is to reach
their audience. Anyone who will listen to their words, their
music is as much a poet or musician themselves as if they were
the ones who composed the very piece they are listening to. The
desire to enjoy any form of art, is the reason that art and
artists exist, and it is our hope to inspire the listener, the
reader, to also create their own "music" for their lives. We are
all in the band together and we are all in the audience
together. People need people in their lives to have a meaningful
existence. The words we speak to each other, the thoughts we
convey are the waters in which we swim, we must try to keep them
enjoyable. My goal is to be the Best Canadian Poet that I can be
! I want to write the best Canadian Poetry, that I can write. As a Poet, I see Everything happens for a reason, every moment and every action, has its beginning tied to an outcome. Our thoughts and feelings are linked to those we are closest too, and theirs to ours. If we can step back and simply watch our lives moving for a few minutes, we would see the general path in which we wish to travel. I am thankful to be able to have the perspective I have, to also be able to see some of the paths others may wish to travel. We are after all merely pilgrims on a great journey. Though we don't often feel how important others may be to us in our lives, the fact that they are in our lives speaks volumes about who we are and how we got to where we are, and where we are going. I consider myself fortunate to have been able to keep an innocent quality from my youth. It is way too easy for us, as adults to suspect everything and everyone around us. To assume others are more than they appear, detracts from the human condition, and most of my really favourite topics involve working with the life stories of others. If I put "my own spin" on their lives, it becomes something other than the thing it was meant to become. People fascinate me, I am constantly watching others as their lives unfold some small story before me, and I often feel privileged to have witnessed it. I feel its important as writers to maintain a childlike quality of ourselves so that we can appreciate each story for its own merit. I enjoy being able to view life through the eyes I have, to see each day as a new opportunity to explore and uncover how "I feel about things". It is a 'worthy journey' if you can draw a beautiful map for those who may follow in your foot steps, but it is still their journey. It is my hope that you will step with me for a while onto my path and enjoy the things I have experienced through my writing. Grab a coffee and join me in my thoughts. "A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he exhausts within himself all poisons, and preserves their quintessences. Unspeakable torment, where he will need the greatest faith, a superhuman strength, where he becomes all men: the great invalid, the great criminal, the great accursed—and the Supreme Scientist! For he attains the unknown! Because he has cultivated his soul, already rich, more than anyone! He attains the unknown, and, if demented, he finally loses the understanding of his visions, he will at least have seen them! So what if he is destroyed in his ecstatic flight through things unheard of, unnameable: other horrible workers will come; they will begin at the horizons where the first one has fallen! " ~Arthur Rimbaud |