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Edward
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

I'm currently working as a Lot Associate at The Home Depot
I'm a Navy veteran 
Born in Lima, Ohio in October 28th, 1976
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 

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

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All who participated in Pick-A-Title, Vol.17 -Yalto-...THANK YOU!

Blog Posted:5/20/2020 1:19:00 PM

Whether you placed or not, thank you for making this contest the most fun and challenging one I've ever done. This is by far my favorite contest, ever. I had to place just 16 entries, which wasn't easy at all. I'm pleasantly surprised that so many poets actually excel at writing a Yalto. I encourage you all to write more of it. I'm so impressed with the quality of poems I'm doing yet another Yalto contest! I'll be placing as many as 25 entries this time around! Heartiest congratulations to the winners!

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nette
onclaud

Date: 5/22/2020 12:36:00 PM

a BIG thank you for including me on your list, edward...i had a temporary crossed-eye moment with the syl count but enjoyed the whole experience!...huggs

John
Watt

Date: 5/21/2020 12:45:00 AM

Edward, thank you for your blog message and for sponsoring the fun contest. You have created a delightful form to write in, and your title options were very evocative of poetic thoughts. I'm happy to read all the other writers and see how what directions they took. Congrats to all the winners and I'm looking forward to the next one...

Eve
Roper

Date: 5/20/2020 10:28:00 PM

Thank you so very much for my wonderful placement, Edward, I am honored. Congratulations to all the winners. Hugs Eve

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 5/20/2020 3:58:00 PM

Thank you so much for that, Edward. I found it to be a truly inspiring contest with the theme of Evenfall. Can't wait to see what people did with the other two themes! Congrats to winners.

Connie
Marcum Wong

Date: 5/20/2020 3:52:00 PM

Edward, I love your Yalto form! I didn’t have time to enter your contest but I am very impressed with the winning entries. I read each one! Your subjects to choose from were so inspiring they brought out the best in your poets. I can imagine choosing placements was very difficult. Bravo on a wonderful contest! xxoo

JAN
ALLISON

Date: 5/20/2020 1:55:00 PM

I am absolutely delighted with my top spot Edward, thanks for the inspiration with your own examples which encouraged me to go out of my comfort zone with my lay out, my congrats to the winners:-) hugs Jan xx

My Past Blog Posts


PLEASE read this before you enter my Yalto contest. It's very important! Date Posted: 5/23/2020 11:13:00 AM
All who participated in Pick-A-Title, Vol.17 -Yalto-...THANK YOU! Date Posted: 5/20/2020 1:19:00 PM
Pick-A-Title, Vol 17, Yalto contest update: Check bottom of your poems Date Posted: 5/8/2020 8:48:00 PM
My "Pick A Title, Vol 16 -Free Verse 2 - Poetry Contest" is judged! Date Posted: 5/3/2020 12:15:00 PM
Damn you, Writer's Block. Date Posted: 4/20/2020 9:03:00 AM
Pick A Title, Vol 15 - Sedoka Poetry Contest Judged Date Posted: 4/11/2020 8:15:00 PM
An Inspirational Poem To Share... Date Posted: 3/28/2020 12:24:00 PM
My premiere "Pick-A-Title, Vol. 14 -Tristich- Poetry Contest is finalized! Date Posted: 3/13/2020 4:17:00 PM
My "Pick A Title, Vol 13 - Lyric" has been finalized! Date Posted: 2/11/2020 6:47:00 AM
Guys, check your poems for "Pick A Title, Vol 13. - Lyric"! Date Posted: 2/6/2020 6:08:00 PM
My "Pick A Title, Vol 12 - Diminished Hexaverse - Poetry Contest" is finalized! Date Posted: 1/11/2020 6:33:00 AM
I just finalized my "Pick A Title, Vol. 11 -Kimo- poetry contest! Date Posted: 12/8/2019 6:54:00 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, dear soupers! Date Posted: 11/28/2019 4:36:00 PM
My "Pick A Title, Vol 10 -Blank Verse - Poetry Contest" is finalized! Date Posted: 11/5/2019 7:30:00 PM
Congrats to "Pick A Title, Vol 9 - Enclosed Rhyme" winners! Date Posted: 10/3/2019 7:17:00 PM
Ok, something has to be done about this. Date Posted: 9/15/2019 8:32:00 AM
Attention all published soupers: TIA! Date Posted: 9/14/2019 8:57:00 AM
My "Pick A Title, Vol 8. - Acrostic - Poetry Contest" is judged! Date Posted: 9/7/2019 11:39:00 AM
My "Choose Your Own Title" Poetry Contest is finalized! Date Posted: 8/20/2019 5:25:00 PM
Very important update for "Choose Your Own Title" Poetry Contest! Date Posted: 8/9/2019 5:54:00 AM
TeamPoetrysoup, please add my invented form(Yalto) to this site. Date Posted: 7/26/2019 12:40:00 PM
My "Pick A Title, Vol 6 - Personification" Poetry Contest is finalized! Date Posted: 7/20/2019 10:22:00 AM
Back from vacation! Date Posted: 7/18/2019 5:44:00 PM
Attention all " "Pick A Title, Vol 6 - Personification" entrants!(Very important) Date Posted: 6/30/2019 4:59:00 PM
Pick A Title, Vol. 5 - Verse Poetry Contest Judged Date Posted: 6/25/2019 2:18:00 PM

My Recent Poems

Date Posted	PoemTitle	Form	Categories
5/26/2020	I Dreamt Of The Sea	Sapphic stanza	beauty,dream,imagery,peac
5/26/2020	Indestructible	Kimo	relationship,strength,
5/25/2020	Sublime Alchemy	Acrostic	art,beauty,environment,im
5/25/2020	Adele	Clerihew	analogy,appreciation,cele
5/23/2020	Baby, I Love You So	I do not know?	art,creation,love,words,
5/23/2020	A Fond Rememberance	Sijo	appreciation,imagery,memo
5/23/2020	Stay Away	Haiku	animal,imagery,nature,
5/21/2020	Bewitched	Haiku	bird,morning,nature,song,
5/21/2020	The Shaman	Verse	imagery,places,poetry,wri
5/19/2020	In Smithereens	Etheree	analogy,boy,crush,girl,he
5/18/2020	Waxing Nostalgic	Monoku	friendship,memory,relatio
5/17/2020	Cold Sweat	Acrostic	desire,longing,love,passi
5/17/2020	Laughing Kookaburra	Jueju	bird,nature,perspective,s
5/17/2020	Teardrop	Rictameter	appreciation,emotions,foo
5/16/2020	Within You	Verse	inspirational,poetry,stre
5/15/2020	Scarecrow	Personification	analogy,anger,humor,persp
5/14/2020	Wonder Of Nightfall	Free verse	analogy,beauty,insect,met
5/14/2020	Woken Up From Sleep	Senryu	baby,cry,family,humor,hus
5/13/2020	Pinky Promise	Verse	encouraging,love,poetry,
5/12/2020	Smooth Like Velvet	Verse	deep,poetry,senses,sensua
5/12/2020	A Weapon	Etheree	analogy,encouraging,persp
5/12/2020	Droplets Of Wisdom	Didactic	perspective,truth,
5/10/2020	Enchantment	Haiku	happiness,moon,music,nigh
5/10/2020	A Warm Invitation	Diminished Hexaverse	analogy,care,encouraging,
5/9/2020	Washed Ashore	Dizain	beach,environment,imagery
5/8/2020	Don't Go	Verse	devotion,love,sun,symboli
5/7/2020	Swimming Upstream	Haiku	animal,fish,imagery,natur
5/7/2020	It Comes In Waves	Senryu	grief,perspective,truth,
5/7/2020	The Silence Of Thoughts	Dodoitsu	analogy,imagery,nature,pe
5/7/2020	Thank you, Front-Liners	Ode	appreciation,care,encoura
5/6/2020	Reach Out	Free verse	care,encouraging,perspect
5/5/2020	Sensation Of Touch	Sapphic stanza	passion,senses,sensual,
5/5/2020	Death To You, Corona	Dramatic Verse	anger,poetry,write,
5/4/2020	Daffodils In The Wind	Haiku	flower,imagery,nature,win
5/3/2020	Gobsmacked	Cinquain	cancer,emotions,sad,woman
5/3/2020	Depression	Personification	dark,depression,mental il
5/3/2020	When You Smile	Verse	appreciation,encouraging,
5/3/2020	Road Rage	Didactic	analogy,anger,angst,encou
5/1/2020	The Beauty That Is Spring	Rhyme	appreciation,beauty,natur
4/30/2020	In Your Arms	Verse	dance,love,moon,night,rom
4/30/2020	Light Versus Dark	Verse	analogy,dark,light,perspe
4/29/2020	Waterfalls Haiku	Haiku	beauty,imagery,nature,
4/28/2020	Red And Blue	Verse	love,passion,perspective,
4/28/2020	The Two Selves Of Man	Free verse	identity,image,people,per
4/28/2020	Adamantine	Sapphic stanza	endurance,faith,strength,
4/26/2020	Musings On Spirituality	Prose Poetry	perspective,spiritual,
4/26/2020	You Can Count On Me	Jueju	care,encouraging,friendsh
4/26/2020	Dawn's Joyful Noise	Haiku	appreciation,bird,morning
4/25/2020	Sailing On Hope's Boat	Jueju	allusion,endurance,hope,l
4/25/2020	In Zen Mode	Couplet	deep,peace,senses,spiritu
4/24/2020	All I Ask	Verse	heart,love,perspective,pr
4/24/2020	Wild Is	Verse	analogy,deep,encouraging,
4/24/2020	Riptide	Cinquain	feelings,love,passion,
4/24/2020	Comfort	Monoku	care,emotions,pain,perspe
4/23/2020	Solace	Cinqku	cute,peace,poetry,romanti
4/22/2020	I, Poet	Cinqku	art,me,poetry,
4/22/2020	April Showers	Cinqku	rain,seasons,spring,
4/19/2020	Playing Possum	Imagism	adventure,animal,horror,i
4/19/2020	10 Poems That Define Me	List	identity,image,me,poems,
4/18/2020	Petunias	Haiku	beauty,color,flower,image
4/18/2020	The Last Acorn	Personification	analogy,angst,humor,poetr
4/12/2020	Bio Modified - Deep Thinker	Bio	humor,me,perspective,poet
4/10/2020	The Tip Of The Spear	Dizain	death,imagery,military,so
4/8/2020	Eavesdropping	Senryu	child,conflict,husband,im
4/8/2020	Rapture	Rictameter	happiness,love,romantic,
4/7/2020	In Big Sky Country	Free verse	appreciation,environment,
4/7/2020	Psychopath	Senryu	dark,evil,perspective,tru
4/7/2020	Two Can Play That Game	Dramatic Verse	encouraging,peace,repetit
4/5/2020	Vision Of Paradise	Imagism	appreciation,beauty,image
4/5/2020	Indefatigable	Couplet	appreciation,motivation,p
4/5/2020	Delve Deeper	Verse	deep,heart,meaningful,wis
4/5/2020	Under The Mask Of A Clown	Couplet	imagery,imagination,myste
4/4/2020	Sheltered In Place	Verse	dark,fear,horror,humor,lo
4/4/2020	I Am Fire	Nonet	allegory,love,passion,per
4/4/2020	Guilty Look From A Dog	Senryu	animal,cute,dog,imagery,
4/4/2020	A Cold Indifference	Fibonacci	confusion,perspective,tru
4/3/2020	Be	Verse	encouraging,inspirational
4/1/2020	What Matters Most To Me	Free verse	family,home,love,perspect
4/1/2020	A Foreboding	Sedoka	bird,dark,imagery,night,p
4/1/2020	April Fool's Joke	Senryu	april,day,perspective,poe
3/29/2020	Where Mustangs Run Wild And Free	Rictameter	beauty,horse,imagery,plac
3/29/2020	Snoop Dogg	Clerihew	art,celebrity,people,trib
3/29/2020	Longing	Rictameter	desire,longing,loss,peace
3/29/2020	At The Seaside	Imagism	beach,imagery,nature,sea,
3/27/2020	Child of Divorce	Senryu	child,divorce,marriage,re
3/24/2020	Gut Punch	Alliteration	betrayal,friendship,love,
3/23/2020	The Anchor	Verse	appreciation,spiritual,st
3/23/2020	Well, That Was Awkward	Light Verse	humor,imagery,spoken word
3/22/2020	Maternal Wisdom	Verse	encouraging,mother,wisdom
3/22/2020	A Time To Rejoice	Monoku	celebration,father daught
3/22/2020	Through Tomorrow's Beaming Hopeful Eyes	Nonet	allegory,day,hope,inspira
3/22/2020	Heartbeats	Dodoitsu	cute love,heart,passion,s
3/21/2020	Remember to Breathe	Free verse	encouraging,inspirational
3/21/2020	Incomplete	Free verse	children,family,father,gr
3/20/2020	Senescence	Fibonacci	age,grandfather,imagery,o
3/20/2020	A Turkey In November	Alexandrine	bird,holiday,humor,novemb
3/18/2020	Sot	Light Verse	drink,funny,humor,imagery
3/18/2020	A Snowless Winter	Haiku	nature,nice,seasons,winte
3/18/2020	Contagion, The Movie, Plays Out In Real Life	Prose Poetry	dark,encouraging,faith,fe
3/17/2020	You Can Ask Anybody	Free verse	deep,love,romantic,

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Fav Poems

PoemTitle	Form	Categories
Changing Sky	Pantoum	nature,sky,
Truth To Truth	Free verse	conflict,devotion,heartbr
Whiteness	Acrostic	tribute,
Ransomed	Free verse	faith,jesus,
Then I Wake	Rhyme	absence,love,miss you,mis
Listen To Life	Free verse	life,philosophy,truth,wis
Tell the Night to Hold Me	Lyric	forgiveness,heartbreak,he
To Read You	Free verse	appreciation,metaphor,pas
I wander the desert alone	Free verse	imagery,metaphor,nature,o
The Red Leaf	Free verse	death,emotions,grief,hear
Your Cloud	Rhyme	love,simple,sky,wind,
Ineffable	Free verse	allusion,appreciation,bea
The House of Light	Rhyme	beauty,nature,
The Sounds Of A Rose	Free verse	flower,rose,
Roses Roses Roses POTD	Free verse	red,rose,
Child	Diminished Hexaverse	child,
Polka Dots And All	Sonnet	10th grade,beautiful,beau
Some Are Not Meant For This World	Free verse	abuse,allusion,death,dest
UNBEARABLE THIS LONGING	Dramatic Verse	death,how i feel,
Inside a Cubicle	Terza Rima	work,
In My Beautiful Dream	Verse	dream,
My Winter	Free verse	inspirational,lost love,
My Darling Boy	Quatrain	analogy,boy,childhood,inn
U G L Y	Personification	anti bullying,beautiful,b
Civil Twilight	Free verse	appreciation,beauty,memor
SYLLABUS	Verse	kiss,love,sensual,
Shooting Stars	Verse	10th grade,beautiful,imag
Blink Out	Verse	10th grade,11th grade,all
ONENESS	Verse	america,destiny,imagery,i
Transcending Hope	Verse	hope,
Tutankhamun	Verse	adventure,appreciation,hi
Sometimes love just isn't enough	Free verse	lost love,
No Longer Two	Verse	10th grade,emotions,feeli
DAYBREAK	Verse	bird,joy,life,morning,
Fragility of Fate	Free verse	death,love,love hurts,
a muse abused	Verse	dance,freedom,muse,
To the One I Long For	Free verse	longing,love,
Spirit dance of butterflies	Rhyme	grief,happiness,
Fear Of The Unknown	Narrative	fear,feelings,
Frown around	Rhyme	anxiety,confidence,courag
Fingertip Tracings Upon My Skin	Free verse	sensual,
If Only You Knew	Rhyme	dream,emotions,love,
A Feral Frozen	Free verse	animal,appreciation,beaut
Would You Still Love Me	Free verse	analogy,love,relationship
The Clown	Rhyme	angst,character,conflict,
To the Dandelion in the Concrete	Personification	character,endurance,flowe
Eye Love, You	Free verse	appreciation,beauty,muse,
The Last Good Days of Innocence	Free verse	innocence,lost,sorrow,
Suicide of Speech	Free verse	angst,conflict,silence,
Memories In the Sand	Dramatic Monologue	memory,missing you,passio
Down The Primrose Path	Lyric	dark,fear,garden,imagery,

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Poet	Country
Richard Lamoureux	Canada	Read
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Sandra Haight	United States	Read
Silent One	United Kingdom	Read
John Anderson	Australia	Read
Andrea Dietrich	United States	Read
Kim Rodrigues	United States	Read
Eve Roper	United States	Read
Lu Loo	United States	Read
Subimal Sinha-Roy	India	Read
Line Gauthier	Canada	Read
nette onclaud	Philippines	Read
Dear Heart	Canada	Read
Frederic Parker	United States	Read
Maurice Yvonne	Canada	Read
Kevin Shaw	United Kingdom	Read
Susan Gentry	United States	Read
Tania Kitchin	United States	Read
Vijay Pandit	United States	Read
Mark Toney	United States	Read
Heidi Sands	United States	Read
Brandy Nicole	United States	Read
Susan Ashley	United States	Read
Anoucheka Gangabissoon	Mauritius	Read
Winged Warrior	Canada	Read
Connie Marcum Wong	United States	Read
Gregory R Barden	United States	Read
Emile Pinet	Canada	Read
Chantelle Anne Cooke	United States	Read
Teddy Kimathi	Kenya	Read
Sandra Adams	United States	Read
Victor Buhagiar	Malta	Read
Freddie Robinson Jr.	United States	Read
Lewis Raynes	Australia	Read
Brenda Chiri	United States	Read
Panagiota Romios	United States	Read
Sam Kauffman	United States	Read
William Kekaula	United States	Read
M. L. Kiser	United States	Read
Lady Labyrinth	Australia	Read
GIDEON IDUDJE	Nigeria	Read
Regina Riddle	United States	Read
Jenish Somadas	Saudi Arabia	Read

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