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09/04/2024306 Rhyme
05/31/2024390 Lyric
05/15/2024331 Alliteration
05/14/2024433 Sonnet
02/15/2024371 Etheree
12/15/2023621 Lyric
10/13/2023242 Prose
09/12/2023373 Rhyme
05/19/2023631 Rhyme
03/06/2023980 Haiku
02/09/2023603 Sijo
09/23/2022475 Clerihew
03/08/2022447 Lyric
02/23/2022698 Pleiades
02/15/2022421 Narrative
01/30/2022422 Senryu
01/30/2022509 Lyric
12/25/2021418 Rhyme
12/23/2021455 Lyric
05/16/2021397 Free verse
04/19/2021490 Lyric
04/17/20211018 Ghazal
04/17/2021604 Villanelle
04/03/2021645 Alliteration
03/23/2021439 Tanka
03/19/2021778 Haiku
03/02/2021456 Haiku
02/24/2021429 Haiku
02/23/2021375 Haiku
02/21/2021757 Sonnet
02/20/2021458 Nonet
02/19/2021600 Sonnet
02/13/2021409 Free verse
02/13/2021948 Diamante
02/13/20211440 Diamante
02/02/2021573 Sonnet
01/30/20211292 Pantoum
12/20/2020767 Lyric
01/10/2020568 Lyric
08/20/2019762 Free verse
05/24/2019485 Lyric
02/24/20191711 Lyric
02/24/2019645 Haiku
02/22/20191778 Lyric
02/11/2019623 I do not know?
02/03/2019490 Senryu
02/03/2019555 Lyric
01/26/2019763 Lyric
01/23/2019873 Narrative
01/23/2019711 Enclosed Rhyme
01/15/20191537 Lyric
01/14/2019767 Bio
01/14/2019843 Rhyme
01/13/2019676 Rhyme
01/10/2019566 Fibonacci
01/08/2019814 Sonnet
12/31/2018864 Lyric
12/30/2018590 Monoku
12/21/20181139 Lyric
12/21/2018638 Monoku
12/19/2018734 Lyric
12/18/2018843 Lyric
12/16/20181284 Lyric
12/15/2018638 Lyric
09/28/2018527 Rhyme
06/29/2018529 Lyric
06/29/2018587 Lyric
06/03/20181279 Free verse
04/17/20181085 Verse
04/08/2018514 Lyric
09/06/2017904 Lyric
08/22/2017823 Haibun
06/29/2017900 Pantoum
06/20/20171109 Lyric
04/21/2017909 Lyric
10/28/2016937 Senryu
10/14/20162799 Lyric
09/08/2016843 Lyric
08/11/2016843 Lyric
07/22/20161281 Lyric
07/12/20161051 Lyric
07/08/20163173 Lyric
07/06/2016873 Lyric
06/28/20161020 Lyric
06/27/2016906 Lyric
06/22/2016796 Triolet
06/13/2016824 Lyric
06/11/20161133 Lyric
05/16/20161142 Lyric
05/08/2016941 Lyric
04/17/20162354 I do not know?
04/06/20161295 I do not know?
04/03/20161018 Couplet
03/30/20161470 I do not know?
03/21/20161131 Haiku
03/21/20161116 Lyric
01/25/20163922 Couplet
01/15/20161654 Quatrain
12/31/20151402 Shadorma
12/28/20151032 Senryu
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My Name is Mark Halliday (Staff Sergeant, US Army Retired). 
I grew up in Garden Grove, California.  I had piano lessons as a kid, and played flute in marching bands for 4 years. My first college attended was Santa Ana College, which was interrupted for two years while I served as a Mormon missionary in north-eastern France and southern Belgium.  While finishing my first AA in Liberal Arts, I played keyboard synthesizer with my friends in a band that focused on Beatles songs, surfer music, oldies, and pop songs from the 80s.  I started learning to play guitar around 1985.

Besides being involved in music, I also like to draw.  Often my pictures have the same theme as my lyrics or poetry.  I have a series of drawings of musical instruments in fantasy/science fiction settings, for example a picture of a bass guitar fighting off biplanes from on top of the Empire State Building (based on the original film King Kong), and others of primitive man surrounding a giant set of keyboards (similar to the opening of 2001 A Space Oddessey).

My favorite hobby is reading.  I especially like military-science-fiction writers such as David Weber, David Drake, John Ringo, and Eric Flint.  I'm also fond of books by Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Tom Clancy, Harold Coyle, Harry Turtledove, Frank Herbert, Ian Fleming, W.E.B. Griffin, Clive Cussler, Jack Higgins, Arthur C. Clark, Jim Butcher, George R. R. Martin, and writers for Star Wars novels such as Kevin Anderson.
 
I enlisted in the US Army (1987) near the end of the Cold War to be an Intelligence Analyst/Russian Linguist.  I later cross-trained into the Serbian and Croatian languages during the Bosnia and Kosovo conflicts, and spent time with UN Peacekeepers in Macedonia.  I also spent a year in Mosul, Iraq, helping train the Intelligence section of an Iraqi infantry battalion staff. I spent about a third of my service time in Germany, as well as Missouri, California, Texas, Massachusetts, Arizona, and Maryland.  I taught Russian, then Serb-Croatian, then French at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) in Monterey, California, where I finally retired in 2007. 

I met my wife Nelly while visiting Paris, France, during the bicentennial of Bastille Day in 1989 (see my quatern poem A Soldier's Foreign Woman).  We have two sons.  We are still together, and happily still best friends.

While still in the Army, I earned an AS in Ornamental Horticulture at Monterey Peninsula College (and have enough credits for another in Business Administration), and a BS from Excelsior College in Liberal Arts with an emphasis on European languages and culture.
I work full time as an Army civilian Supply Technician at the DLIFLC in Monterey, and for a few years on call as a commercial charter bus driver for a company in Marina CA (see my poem The Butterfly Flutters by).  I've been learning bass guitar the last few years and also using a keyboard workstation.  I'm slowly learning to record my songs on computers, too.

This is how I got into poetry.  I was 'in-like' with one of my French converts back in the 80s; she sent me a poem or two, so I reciprocated and started writing sonnets and songs (see my lyric Odessey), ever since about 1983.  Today my normal focus is on writing songs instead of poems, so in a sense many of my recent poems are ideas that I could not easily make into lyrics....not quite failures per se, but not successful towards my first priority.  As of this writing (January 2015), I am working on recording my songs Tropical Getaway, Something you Left Behind, Egyptian Dancer, Lady Luck Stomped Out, and the children's song Blow More Bubbles.

My dream is to create a band called the Retropolitan Underground, which plays new songs using older musical styles, probably heavily into old pop-jazz fusions.  We just bought an older quaint house in Salinas, California, near Hartnell College.  I want to apply some of my education and skills to upgrade the house, by 1) turning my garage into a home music studio, 2) organically growing vegetables and fruit trees everywhere around the house with enough sunlight, and 3) painting some murals inside.  So far I'm working on an image of a pergola covered with flowers in the master bedroom.

 


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