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Easy-going, Diligent, Creative, and Spiritual
Brother of Stephen, Mildred, and Jeanette 
Lover of Nature, Women, and Poetry
Who feels Pain, Love, and Empathy
Who fears The Unknown, Snakes, and Heights
I would like to see The Eiffel Tower, El Castillo, and The Great Wall of China
Resident of Moravia Park Drive, Maryland
Ibeh

For the most part, I'm a romantic poet, but I also venture into satire, humor, nature, spirituality, existentialism, etc. I don't shy away from the sad and dark themes as well. I started writing poetry in November 2006. However, after losing my poetry notebook with about 135 poems in early 2009, I lost my passion for poetry completely. I was jobless for almost a year due to the recession of 2014, during that time period, I reignited my passion for poetry to stave off boredom. I discovered Poetrysoup and started posting my poems in 2016. The first poem I posted, "Wings of A Butterfly." My poems "Sing To Me, Nightingale", "Unfulfilled Dream" and "A Waxing Crescent" appeared in the first issue of Poesis Online Journal. My biography and poem "Musings of An Aging Man"  features in the "My Poet Friends" section of Emile Pinet's poetry book, "A Match In The Dark." My poems "Say You Will," "Winds of Night," and "Echo Chasing" appeared in the "PS: It's Poetry" Anthology." My poems "Apogee of Grief", "To Be Loved" and "Sweet on You" appeared in the "PS: It's Still Poetry, Volume 2" Anthology." My poems "Ambling Through The Meadow" and "Depression" appeared in the "Reflections on the Important Things" anthology.

I'm currently working as a Lot Associate at The Home Depot.

I'm a Navy Veteran.

I'm Nigerian-American born in Lima, Ohio in October 28th, 1976.

I grew up mostly in Baltimore, Maryland.

I'm married to a wonderful woman(and Registered Nurse!), Helen.

I have a baby daughter named Isabelle.

Graduated from Lake Clifton Campus(formerly Lake Clifton Eastern High School), Baltimore, Maryland in 1995.
Graduated from Essex Community College in 2003 and Brightwood College(formerly TESST College of Technology) in 2005.
Certifications: Electronics Technology, Telecommunications, Fiber-Optics/Copper Network Cabling.

 

 


Very important update for "Pick A Title, Vol 5. - Verse!

Blog Posted:6/8/2019 7:05:00 AM
 
 
Greetings, my fellow poets!:-)
 
Please go back and check your spellings, guys.  I suggest copying and pasting your submitted poems into a Spell Checker. I'm not as lax about misspellings as I used to be. I'd hate to rank a great poem low simply because of a misspelled word!
 
Most importantly, you pick a title from the 5 titles I've provided and the title you pick IS your poem title as well. If you come up with your own, its automatic N/A. I can't stress that enough!
 
That's all, ladies and gentlemen:-) Best of luck to you all!
 
Best regards,
Edward


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Date: 6/8/2019 9:52:00 AM
Hmm, I saw they had different kinds of English given: American, Canadian, British, etc. I am good to go by at least two of them that I saw!
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Date: 6/8/2019 9:48:00 AM
Some words have different spellings according to British or American English rules. Is the spell checker British or American? Just curious. I should go there and type in the word grey intead of gray. I have never found Soup checkers for syllables to be very reliable, but if it's a spell checker of Soup's, I should try it just to see what happens!
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Date: 6/8/2019 11:14:00 AM
Yes, and I'm mindful of that, Andrea:-) For instance, the British spelling for the word "honor" is "honour," the word "neighbor" is spelled as "neighbour," etc. I consider British & Canadian spellings correct.
Date: 6/8/2019 8:51:00 AM
Edward, thanks for the reminder, I will check my poem ~
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Simulacrum Sapphic stanzaimagination,
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Dragon's Tooth Sapphic stanzadeath,evil,fantasy,
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Monsters of the Sea Sijomythology,
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