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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

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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What are your most popular poems outside of Poetrysoup?

Blog Posted:7/5/2020 6:47:00 PM

Friends of mine sometimes visit my work here, and a few have shared my poems on FB or Instagram over the years. One has even framed and hung up a poem I've written on her wall!

A few of my poems that found their way out of the confines of PS:

Addiction:

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/addiction_1147984

A friend who kicked an addiction to painkillers asked me for permission to frame my poem and hang it on her wall.

Doggone it, I'm a Pitbull!:

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/doggone_it_im_a_pit_bull_1057696?

This poem is a hit with a friend who owns a Weimeraner

A Love So True:

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/a_love_so_true_891095?

I recited this one at a wedding reception two years ago.

Unfulfilled Dream:

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/unfulfilled_dream_1035968

Out of all my Yalto poems, this is clearly the most popular with people.

A Crow:

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/a_crow_833951

One of my poems that grew in popularity because people find it funny. It was shared on Instagram by a friend of mine who loves Crows, if you can believe it, lol!

Our World Changing, Not For The Better:

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/our_world_changing_not_for_the_better_1091435

My most viewed poem, probably because of the POTD recognition; shared on FB by PS poetess, Carole Duet.

What about you? Thanks.

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John
Watt

Date: 7/10/2020 6:08:00 PM

Edward, great blog, such a wonderful idea! A big congrats for all the outside interest your poetry has generated. Several of my posted poems were originally songs that have been sung in public at weddings, funerals, and concerts. My bride and I sang a song at our wedding that we co-wrote. The one song that has garnered the most interest is King of Glory, which my church has been singing for over 20 years. Occasionally a visitor will approach me and ask permission to take a copy back to their church. I posted it here on 6/29/2020.

Pigeon
Tart

Date: 7/6/2020 3:13:00 PM

An old poem of mine titled "Mankind" was made into a song and recorded by a thrash metal band called "Uncooperatives", apparently it received a lot of play on some American university radio stations. I am not a metal fan, however I did meet a metal fan at a dinner party who not only followed the band but loved that (my) song.

Pigeon Tart
Date: 7/7/2020 8:40:00 AM

I am not so tech savvy nor do I believe the song exists on the web- not that you could make out the lyrics anyway, it is a very "heavy" song. I posted it 3/14/2017.

Edward Ibeh
Date: 7/7/2020 6:13:00 AM

Yes, please provide a direct link when you get a chance! Thanks, Maureen:-)

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 7/7/2020 1:41:00 AM

Cool. You should put the link for us!!

Daniel
Turner

Date: 7/6/2020 6:39:00 AM

El Dorado by Edgar Allen Poehttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48634/eldorado-56d22a0920778

Brian
Strand

Date: 7/6/2020 3:30:00 AM

Edward ,mine would appear to be my Footle form(according to google) ,rather than a poem.Here is one of my original conceptions thereof which crystallises the essence .BONNIE&CLYDE.. too snide/both died

Brian Strand
Date: 7/7/2020 1:49:00 AM

Andrea,you may remember your & other soupers unique variations featured in my footle promotional teaching blog https://footle-ichthys.blogspot.com

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 7/7/2020 1:40:00 AM

that's so cool, Brian.

Edward Ibeh
Date: 7/6/2020 11:53:00 AM

I've checked out your Footle form. Really cool, Brian! It's a form I'll definitely try!

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 7/5/2020 9:34:00 PM

Congrats on your much success with the poems you listed, Edward.

Edward Ibeh
Date: 7/6/2020 11:50:00 AM

Thanks so much, Andrea:-)

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 7/5/2020 9:32:00 PM

What a nice idea for a blog. I caN think of two poems of mine that people somehow found and asked for permission to use. One was a Halloween poem. I think called Come With Us Halloweening. Many years ago a man asked if he could publish it in some newsletter he sent out to people. Another poem was a little haiku (Destination 7th Heaven) something like that. A guy had it engraved on something (I think posters with his own photograpy of hot air balloons) that he put up for sale along with other photo artwork of his. I was promised a comission but never saw anything. Maybe his photo of hot air balloons with my haiku under it never sold. My poem Cinder Girl has had videos, etc done of it. A Tale of Fire and Ice had a very short video done of it, and Honeymoon Serenade was made into a song. All this for having my poems at Soup!! That is why I enjoy it here. One never knows who will find something of ours and wish to share it with others.

John Watt
Date: 7/10/2020 6:00:00 PM

For fans of Andrea's poetry, I would recommend a viewing of the movie "Six Days of Sistine". It's on Amazon. Like Jan said, almost the entire dialog is Andrea's poetry.

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 7/7/2020 1:40:00 AM

Thanks, Edward.

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 7/7/2020 1:39:00 AM

yeah, but I think only my friend John Watts has seen it! It's not like it will ever hit the theaters!

JAN ALLISON
Date: 7/6/2020 6:18:00 PM

Hmmm Andrea you failed to mention the film that was made using your poems -Six Days of Sistine!!!:-) hugs Jan xx

Edward Ibeh
Date: 7/6/2020 11:49:00 AM

Wow, Andrea, you've had really amazing success, for sure! That's HUGE that your poem was made into a song! I have to revisit your "Cinder Girl" poem, it's your masterpiece!

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My Recent Poems

Date Posted	PoemTitle	Form	Categories
8/14/2020	Guilty Pleasure	Senryu	chocolate,perspective,
8/14/2020	Midnight Charmer - ziket	Free verse	muse,nature,night,star,
8/11/2020	Callused Hands	Senryu	pride,work,
8/10/2020	In Doggie Heaven	Free verse	appreciation,dog,memory,
8/9/2020	My Heart	Rictameter	confusion,heart,truth,
8/8/2020	Say You Will	Verse	love,romantic,
8/8/2020	Heat	Verse	passion,
8/7/2020	Hypochondriac	Dodoitsu	anxiety,encouraging,humor
8/7/2020	I, Speed Camera	Personification	perspective,truth,
8/6/2020	Confined	Rhyme	analogy,dark,places,priso
8/6/2020	Fools And Kings	Diamante	art,creation,truth,
8/6/2020	Hush	Senryu	child,imagery,mother,song
8/6/2020	Joe Schmo Throws a Covid-19 Party	Verse	confusion,mystery,
8/6/2020	At First Glance	Verse	appreciation,beauty,image
8/4/2020	Craziest Time At A Friend's House	Lyric	crazy,dream,humor,places,
8/4/2020	Manna From Heaven	Haiku	nature,rain,
8/2/2020	Memories of Childhood	Lyric	appreciation,childhood,im
7/29/2020	Muse of Mine	Rhyme	inspiration,muse,poetry,w
7/26/2020	Alone With My Thoughts	Haibun	analogy,confusion,humor,s
7/26/2020	Mojo	Acrostic	feelings,passion,perspect
7/26/2020	Beware	Haibun	people,perspective,wisdom
7/26/2020	A Deep Freeze	Verse	best friend,betrayal,chan
7/26/2020	Take Me By The Hand	Diminished Hexaverse	encouraging,for her,peace
7/26/2020	In Tropical Paradise	Haiku	beauty,imagery,nature,pla
7/25/2020	Dying	Free verse	death,family,farewell,gri
7/25/2020	No Means No	Haibun	12th grade,meaningful,per
7/24/2020	A Goodbye Wink	Verse	goodbye,imagery,joy,love,
7/24/2020	Since She's Been Gone	Free verse	longing,
7/19/2020	campers	Haiku	fire,imagery,nature,night
7/19/2020	Her Fingertips	Acrostic	feelings,imagery,passion,
7/19/2020	Ersatz Man	Free verse	people,perspective,pride,
7/19/2020	Woebegone	Verse	boy,dog,emotions,grief,lo
7/18/2020	Bottlenose Dolphin	Haiku	animal,appreciation,natur
7/18/2020	Dawn Meets Dusk	Diamante	day,imagery,night,
7/17/2020	A Poem To End All Contest Poems	Free verse	perspective,poetry,write,
7/16/2020	Delirium	Verse	desire,passion,
7/16/2020	I Wish You Would	Fibonacci	bird,desire,mystery,sad,s
7/16/2020	The Age of Social Distancing	Couplet	anger,anxiety,people,pers
7/16/2020	Abandoned Decrepit House	Verse	house,imagery,old,
7/15/2020	Smoldering Fervor	Couplet	feelings,passion,
7/11/2020	Meadow of Gold	Haiku	autumn,day,imagery,nature
7/9/2020	Hemp Agrimony	Haiku	butterfly,flower,imagery,
7/9/2020	A Matter of When	Free verse	deep,life,perspective,
7/9/2020	Umbrella Cockatoo	Verse	animal,bird,imagery,natur
7/7/2020	Magpie	Haiku	beautiful,bird,imagery,pe
7/6/2020	My Faith	Haibun	faith,spiritual,
7/6/2020	Separation Anxiety	Senryu	anxiety,dog,home,solitude
7/5/2020	Reinvigoration	Verse	allegory,freedom,happines
7/5/2020	Angels And Demons	Diamante	art,creation,poetry,
7/5/2020	To The One That Got Away	Free verse	appreciation,memory,persp
7/5/2020	Secrets And Lies	Diamante	art,creation,mystery,word
7/5/2020	Always	Didactic	encouraging,inspirational
7/5/2020	Epiphany	Verse	adventure,allegory,faith,
7/4/2020	Bright Star	Personification	dark,imagery,light,magic,
7/3/2020	Catch-22	Diminished Hexaverse	angst,break up,conflict,c
7/3/2020	Easy Choice	Lyric	encouraging,love,lust,per
7/2/2020	Be Superman, or Wonder Woman	Didactic	care,encouraging,truth,wi
7/1/2020	I Remember Where I Was	Haibun	dark,memory,pain,sad,
7/1/2020	Time	Free verse	appreciation,memory,persp
7/1/2020	A Conflagration	Verse	analogy,desire,metaphor,p
6/29/2020	I've Got Nyctophilia	Blitz	appreciation,beauty,image
6/27/2020	Cacoethes	Senryu	deep,desire,longing,passi
6/27/2020	Maze	Free verse	allegory,hope,journey,lif
6/27/2020	Eccedentesiast	Senryu	emotions,pain,sad,smile,
6/26/2020	Blows From An Axe	Free verse	analogy,boy,break up,girl
6/26/2020	Allure, Yours	Free verse	desire,passion,senses,sen
6/24/2020	Hollyhocks	Haiku	flower,imagery,nature,win
6/23/2020	This I Know	Blitz	fun,silly,word play,write
6/23/2020	We're All Equal	Lyric	how i feel,perspective,wi
6/23/2020	Show Me	Rictameter	deep,heart,love,romantic,
6/23/2020	A Strong Black Coffee	Senryu	analogy,senses,symbolism,
6/23/2020	A Seraph	Verse	appreciation,baby,birth,c
6/22/2020	Summer Leisure - Haiku	Haiku	bird,imagery,nature,sky,s
6/21/2020	In Honor of Keith Bickerstaffe	Ode	tribute,
6/21/2020	Music Of The Night	Verse	dance,love,music,night,ro
6/21/2020	Finger On The Pulse	Free verse	confusion,feelings,love,r
6/21/2020	Enthusiasm	Diminished Hexaverse	family,happiness,home,sol
6/21/2020	Thanks	Acrostic	appreciation,earth,god,hu
6/21/2020	A Boon Companion	Kwansaba	inspiration,muse,
6/21/2020	Don Rickles	Clerihew	celebrity,humor,people,tr
6/20/2020	Stormy Weather	Monoku	analogy,storm,weather,
6/20/2020	Athazagoraphobia	Lyric	analogy,love,metaphor,
6/20/2020	In The Stillness of Noontide	Free verse	appreciation,imagery,intr
6/19/2020	Juneteenth	Acrostic	appreciation,celebration,
6/18/2020	Indian Giver	Alliteration	perspective,
6/16/2020	Crushed	Free verse	dark,death,grief,husband,
6/16/2020	A Most Beautiful Goodbye	Free verse	cute love,emotions,goodby
6/15/2020	A Stiletto Heel	Shape	art,creation,
6/15/2020	Salad Days	Senryu	memory,time,youth,
6/15/2020	Frank Sinatra	Clerihew	appreciation,art,celebrit
6/15/2020	Stardust Of Wonder	Free verse	bird,imagery,night,romanc
6/14/2020	Abandon	Carpe Diem	fantasy,freedom,longing,p
6/14/2020	Dreams Are Plants	Verse	analogy,dream,inspiration
6/13/2020	Sparks Flew	Rictameter	boy,first love,girl,passi
6/13/2020	Oasis	Verse	devotion,poetry,write,
6/13/2020	A Downward Spiral	Verse	abuse,addiction,drink,fat
6/12/2020	Punch-Drunk Heart	Verse	confusion,heart,love,
6/12/2020	Whisper Softly	Free verse	deep,desire,romantic,
6/11/2020	Find Me Then	Verse	poetry,write,
6/10/2020	Dare I Say	Verse	deep,love,passion,romanti

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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,
White Privilege	Rhyme	racism,
Soliloquy	Rhyme	hope,light,loneliness,oce
Crushed	Free verse	daughter,death,family,mem
Thats when I fall down upon my knees, song version	Lyric	depression,feelings,god,h
Time	Verse	10th grade,11th grade,9th
TREES SOBBING	Verse	emotions,nature,rain,
At Cusp of Dawn	Rhyme	moon,sun,
Summer Camping	Free verse	good night,inspiration,mo
Simulacrum	Sapphic stanza	imagination,
Dragon's Tooth	Sapphic stanza	death,evil,fantasy,
ANODYNE	Free verse	heartbreak,
Anodyne	Free verse	analogy,courage,dream,hop
Monsters of the Sea	Sijo	mythology,

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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
Constance La France	Canada	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
Freddie Robinson Jr.	United States	Read
Lewis Raynes	Australia	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 McIntosh	United States	Read
Jenish Somadas	Saudi Arabia	Read
Aditi Mishra	India	Read
Jenna Logan	United States	Read
Robert Lindley	United States	Read
Brenda Chiri	United States	Read