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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

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.

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TeamPoetrysoup, please add my invented form(Yalto) to this site.

Blog Posted:7/26/2019 12:40:00 PM

I sponsored the "Human Nature" poetry contest using the form. There's currently no poetry form beginning with the letter "Y" on this site, I think it's time to change that.

Yalto (pronounced YAWL-Toh)

Each line has a specific number of syllables

Line 01: 3 syllables
Line 02: 4 syllables
Line 03: 2 syllables
Line 04: 4 syllables
Line 05: 5 syllables
Line 06: 3 syllables
Line 07: 2 syllables
Line 08: 3 syllables
Line 09: 2 syllables
Line 10: 3 syllables
Line 11: 3 syllables
Line 12: 5 syllables
Line 13: 6 syllables
Line 14: 1 syllable
Line 15: 5 syllables

Some of the poems I've written in my invented form

Life Lessons (most recent)
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/life_lessons_1168761

Gun Violence
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/gun_violence_1142656

Consumed
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/consumed_1119332

Life Is Life
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/life_is_life_1065292

Unfulfilled Dream
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/unfulfilled_dream_1035968
(my first and fav poem with the form)

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Constance
La France

Date: 7/28/2019 7:50:00 AM

Edward, it's a great form but sadly I think Brian is correct !

Brian
Strand

Date: 7/27/2019 4:13:00 AM

contd.. (based on my experience with the footle and many others I have promoted over the last decade)Better exposure of your form can be obtained elsewhere on the net,including the creation of your own blogspot.com links......PS has many pluses...but promotion of a form is not one (imho)of them......just saying..

Edward Ibeh
Date: 7/27/2019 7:37:00 AM

Thank you so much for your informative, eye-opening perspective, Brian:-) I really appreciate it!

Brian
Strand

Date: 7/27/2019 4:05:00 AM

(contd)In any event Edward many of TPS 'types of poem' descriptions are incomplete and exclude vital elements often with poor examples.Take the tetractys, this is the late Ray Stebbings definition thereof"The tetractys poetic form was devised by the late Ray Stebbing as a grammatical 20 syllable verse of 5 lines.Syllable sequence 1,2,3,4 & 10.Each line to stand on its own.The challenge is to express a complete thought,profound or comic,witty or wise within the 20 syllables.The tetractys can be doubled or inverted. " Now check out TPS description and example.(tbc)

Brian
Strand

Date: 7/27/2019 3:59:00 AM

Unlikely to happen Edward,last time I tried to get one listed(not of my own invention) TPS criteria is circular, requiring proof of existing extensive prior use on the internet.If this had been the case in 2009,my footle(now a global poetry form )would not have been listed.Happily it did because of folk who took it up inhouse here.(tbc)

My Past Blog Posts


My "Pick-A-Tile, Vol. 41" poetry contest is finalized Date Posted: 3/19/2024 2:42:00 AM
Misspelling alert: Please check your poem title, "Soul's Cry". Date Posted: 3/17/2024 2:35:00 PM
" Pick-A-Title, Vol.40 Poetry Contest " is finalized. Date Posted: 12/16/2023 3:25:00 AM
"This or That, Vol. 21" poetry contest is finalized! Date Posted: 11/9/2023 2:28:00 PM
My "Pick-A-Title, Vol.39" poetry contest is judged. Date Posted: 10/15/2023 11:20:00 AM
Pick-A-Title, Vol. 38. Contest is judged. Just one word... WOW! Date Posted: 9/3/2023 4:42:00 PM
Just became a Dad to a baby girl... Date Posted: 6/15/2023 5:34:00 PM
Before joining my new contest... Date Posted: 6/13/2023 7:55:00 PM
Congratulations Pick-A-Title, Vol 36 - Poetry Contest winners! Date Posted: 5/20/2023 7:34:00 AM
My "Pick-A-Title, Vol 34" poetry contest is judged! Date Posted: 1/30/2023 7:03:00 AM
Check your poems submitted for "Pick-A-Title, Vol 34" contest: 24-hour Deadline! Date Posted: 1/29/2023 5:00:00 AM
My 'This or That, Vol 15' poetry contest is finalized! Date Posted: 1/18/2023 5:21:00 AM
Pleasantly surprised reading the winning Yalto poems Date Posted: 12/19/2022 5:57:00 PM
My 'Pick-A-Title, Vol 33' is finalized! Date Posted: 12/15/2022 4:15:00 AM
Congrats to "This or That, Vol.14" poetry contest winners! Date Posted: 11/12/2022 6:27:00 AM
Congrats to "Pick-A-Title, Vol 32" winners! Date Posted: 10/17/2022 4:27:00 PM
Apologies for contest judging delay! Date Posted: 10/11/2022 8:05:00 AM
"This or That, Vol.13" Poetry contest is judged. Date Posted: 9/4/2022 9:40:00 AM
Congrats to "This or That, Vol.12" poetry contest winners! Date Posted: 7/3/2022 8:14:00 AM
My first poetry book is out! Date Posted: 6/15/2022 2:04:00 PM
Added an audio to my poem, "A Glimpse of A Promising Day" Date Posted: 6/8/2022 5:28:00 AM
I had to step away. Date Posted: 5/29/2022 2:19:00 PM
Very important "Pick-A-Title, Vol. 30 Poetry Contest" alert! Date Posted: 4/23/2022 8:22:00 PM
Congrats to "This or That, Vol.11" winners! Date Posted: 4/23/2022 7:08:00 AM
"Pick-A-Title, Vol 29 Poetry Contest" is judged. Date Posted: 3/27/2022 9:32:00 AM

My Recent Poems

Date Posted	PoemTitle	Form	Categories
4/27/2024	Life Acrostic - POTD	Acrostic	analogy,encouraging,inspi
4/22/2024	Zen	Acrostic	imagery,insect,peace,soun
4/22/2024	After The Flood	Kimo	encouraging,poetry,
4/21/2024	That Was Then, This Is Now	Narrative	betrayal,break up,change,
4/19/2024	Confidence	Verse	allegory,confidence,freed
4/18/2024	Breathless Anticipation	Free verse	allusion,analogy,anxiety,
4/18/2024	Yet	Haibun	confusion,people,perspect
4/16/2024	I Saw God, But Now What	Free verse	encouraging,freedom,god,p
4/11/2024	Weep No More	Verse	baby,cry,cute love,encour
4/8/2024	Reverse Graffiti	Other	art,creation,poetry,write
4/7/2024	Bait	Free verse	analogy,encouraging,humor
4/1/2024	Veiled	Verse	courage,endurance,soldier
4/1/2024	Bus Search	Verse	humor,poetry,
4/1/2024	Twilight	Cinqku	imagery,insect,night,sky,
3/27/2024	Bereft	Rispetto	dark,death,grief,loneline
3/23/2024	I Wish I Had	Free verse	desire,introspection,pers
3/23/2024	Utterly	Free verse	freedom,imagery,love,nigh
3/23/2024	Goodnight Kisses	Verse	baby,kiss,mother,night,
3/9/2024	A World Without War	Diminished Hexaverse	desire,imagination,peace,
3/5/2024	Surreal	Sijo	celebrity,imagery,people,
2/21/2024	A Spring Etheree	Etheree	imagery,nature,seasons,sp
2/20/2024	I Am	Free verse	analogy,me,metaphor,
2/19/2024	Rambling	Rictameter	abuse,addiction,drink,enc
2/12/2024	An Uphill Climb	Other	encouraging,endurance,ins
2/12/2024	Close, But No Cigar	Verse	allegory,courage,enduranc
2/12/2024	Redamancy	Sedoka	confidence,deep,love,
2/8/2024	Quest	Didactic	journey,mental health,pea
1/30/2024	Discombobulation	Free verse	confusion,irony,metaphor,
1/29/2024	Imagination	Imagism	imagery,imagination,
1/23/2024	Prowling For Prey	Blitz	animal,fun,word play,
1/17/2024	Within Kissing Distance	Fibonacci	passion,poetry,
1/17/2024	Perpetual	Free verse	how i feel,passion,poetry
1/17/2024	Keen Awareness	Sijo	perspective,poets,
1/17/2024	Gloaming Wonder	Imagism	beauty,bird,imagery,natur
1/14/2024	Impending Doom	Dramatic Monologue	farewell,perspective,
1/8/2024	Two Voices	Didactic	perspective,truth,wisdom,
1/4/2024	Live In My Heart, Rent-Free	Monchielle Stanza	analogy,encouraging,love,
1/4/2024	Odyssey	Verse	destiny,journey,lost love
12/17/2023	You're Enough	Monoku	perspective,truth,wisdom,
12/17/2023	Put Yourself First	Nonet	care,encouraging,
12/6/2023	Fatalist	Monoku	dark,poetry,
12/6/2023	Christmas Memories	Dodoitsu	christmas,fun,memory,
11/26/2023	To Be In Pink of Health	Footle	encouraging,health,
11/23/2023	Divorce	Acrostic	break up,conflict,divorce
11/22/2023	Nightmare	Tanka	child,death,horror,loss,p
11/14/2023	Save Your Breath	Monoku	encouraging,meaningful,wi
11/13/2023	Supply and Demand	Diamante	creation,poetry,words,
11/13/2023	Magical	Acrostic	imagery,night,romantic lo
11/12/2023	Old Age	Tetractys	age,perspective,truth,
11/12/2023	Dead-End Street	Alliteration	analogy,conflict,perspect
11/12/2023	November's Fury	Ninette	imagery,november,seasons,
11/12/2023	Titans - TB	Than-Bauk	boxing day ,conflict,peop
11/8/2023	Body Ails Yet Spirit Soars	Haibun	age,inspirational,uplifti
11/8/2023	Languish	Sapphic stanza	cancer,death,dog,freedom,
10/30/2023	Knock	Dodoitsu	analogy,metaphor,perspect
10/29/2023	Featherless Angels	Free verse	analogy,appreciation,peop
10/29/2023	Autumn Reverie	Monoku	autumn,imagery,peace,soun
10/22/2023	Siren	Verse	passion,poetry,sensual,
10/22/2023	The Unsupervised Stop Sign	Personification	encouraging,poetry,write,
10/22/2023	Journal	Verse	age,husband,imagery,memor
10/19/2023	All of Life's Roadblocks	Dodoitsu	encouraging,inspirational
10/19/2023	Musings On Faith	Free verse	faith,how i feel,perspect
10/16/2023	Ambivalent	Monoku	emotions,feelings,today,
10/16/2023	An Absolute Certainty	Monoku	inspiration,meaningful,tr
10/16/2023	A Wink From Afar	Free verse	appreciation,imagery,long
10/14/2023	A Sealed Fate	Cinquain	dark,fate,
10/14/2023	I Wish You Were Here	Free verse	beach,beauty,desire,image
10/14/2023	Love's Seed	Verse	allegory,care,growth,love
10/14/2023	Simone Biles	Clerihew	appreciation,celebrity,sp
10/14/2023	Awakened Muse	Imagism	imagery,inspiration,morni
10/14/2023	Smoke and Mirrors	Diamante	creation,poetry,words,
10/14/2023	Ivory	Pleiades	appreciation,color,
10/12/2023	Get Out of Your Own Way	Verse	confidence,encouraging,in
10/12/2023	Distorted Mirror	Imagism	bird,imagery,
10/12/2023	Jocund	Monoku	baby,day,happiness,imager
10/8/2023	Stinky Shoe	Senryu	encouraging,humor,imagery
10/8/2023	Halcyon	Sapphic stanza	imagery,longing,memory,no
10/4/2023	Ripe For the Picking	Imagism	fun,imagery,spring,
10/2/2023	It Happened On a Misty Morning	Verse	imagery,morning,proposal,
10/1/2023	Charles Bronson	Clerihew	celebrity,people,tribute,
9/29/2023	Graceful	Rictameter	appreciation,art,dance,im
9/23/2023	Floating	Free verse	appreciation,cute love,fe
9/22/2023	What Was I Thinking	Monoku	poetry,write,
9/16/2023	World War 3	Verse	anxiety,men,perspective,t
9/15/2023	Dolce Far Niente	Narrative	dedication,freedom,happy,
9/14/2023	Ocean	Other	passion,
9/14/2023	Expedition	Acrostic	desire,imagery,journey,pl
9/8/2023	Decayed	Dodoitsu	break up,relationship,sad
9/4/2023	To My Dearest Children - Potd	Didactic	encouraging,meaningful,wi
9/2/2023	No One To Come Home To	Verse	divorce,fate,freedom,home
9/2/2023	In My Comfort Zone	Verse	allegory,allusion,deep,im
9/1/2023	Gila Monster	Personification	animal,
8/31/2023	Inexplicable	Free verse	appreciation,for her,pass
8/30/2023	Colorful	Free verse	color,imagery,nature,
8/26/2023	If Ever	Verse	encouraging,inspirational
8/26/2023	Out My Window	Free verse	adventure,appreciation,be
8/23/2023	Beautiful	Verse	beautiful,love,romantic,
8/21/2023	Abandoned	Dodoitsu	allusion,dog,imagery,sad,
8/17/2023	Inviting Twilight - Tableau	Verse	beauty,encouraging,imager
8/17/2023	Yen	Free verse	muse,poetry,writing,

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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,
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 House of Light	Rhyme	beauty,nature,
Child	Diminished Hexaverse	child,
Ineffable	Free verse	allusion,appreciation,bea
The Sounds of a Rose	Free verse	flower,rose,
The Red Leaf	Free verse	death,emotions,grief,hear
Unbearable This Longing	Dramatic Verse	death,how i feel,
Roses Roses Roses Potd	Free verse	red,rose,
Some Are Not Meant For This World	Free verse	abuse,allusion,death,dest
Your Cloud	Rhyme	love,simple,sky,wind,
Polka Dots and All	Sonnet	10th grade,beautiful,beau
Inside a Cubicle	Terza Rima	work,
U G L Y	Personification	anti bullying,beautiful,b
In My Beautiful Dream	Verse	dream,
My Winter	Free verse	inspirational,lost love,
Blink Out	Verse	10th grade,11th grade,all
civil twilight -	Free verse	appreciation,beauty,memor
Oneness	Verse	america,destiny,imagery,i
Shooting Stars	Verse	10th grade,beautiful,imag
Tutankhamun	Verse	adventure,appreciation,hi
Syllabus	Verse	kiss,love,sensual,
A Muse Abused	Verse	dance,freedom,muse,
Sometimes Love Just Isn'T Enough	Free verse	lost love,
Transcending Hope	Verse	hope,
To the One I Long For	Free verse	longing,love,
No Longer Two	Verse	10th grade,emotions,feeli
Daybreak	Verse	bird,joy,life,morning,
Spirit Dance of Butterflies	Rhyme	grief,happiness,
Fragility of Fate	Free verse	death,love,love hurts,
Fear of the Unknown	Narrative	fear,feelings,
If Only You Knew	Rhyme	dream,emotions,love,
Frown Around	Rhyme	anxiety,confidence,courag
A Feral Frozen	Free verse	animal,appreciation,beaut
Fingertip Tracings Upon My Skin	Free verse	sensual,
Would You Still Love Me	Free verse	analogy,love,relationship
The Clown	Rhyme	angst,character,conflict,
Down the Primrose Path	Lyric	dark,fear,garden,imagery,
To the Dandelion In the Concrete	Personification	character,endurance,flowe
Trees Sobbing	Verse	emotions,nature,rain,
Eye Love, You	Free verse	appreciation,beauty,muse,
The Last Good Days of Innocence	Free verse	innocence,lost,sorrow,
Soliloquy of Abandoned Lighthouse	Rhyme	hope,light,loneliness,oce
Thats When I Fall Down Upon My Knees, Song Version	Lyric	depression,feelings,god,h
The Woman They Know	Free verse	analogy,courage,hope,wome
White Privilege	Rhyme	racism,
Time	Verse	10th grade,11th grade,9th
Suicide of Speech	Free verse	angst,conflict,silence,
At Cusp of Dawn	Rhyme	moon,sun,
Crushed	Free verse	daughter,death,family,mem
Anodyne	Free verse	heartbreak,
Trance	Free verse	meaningful,
Summer Camping	Free verse	good night,inspiration,mo
Be To Become	Etheree	spiritual,
Memories In the Sand	Dramatic Monologue	memory,missing you,passio
Carousel of Dreams	Free verse	analogy,courage,dream,hop
Simulacrum	Sapphic stanza	imagination,
Monsters of the Sea	Sijo	mythology,
Rebirth of the Third Angel	Free verse	angel,beauty,butterfly,de
Grandeur of Nature	Rhyme	imagery,nature,
Dragon's Tooth	Sapphic stanza	death,evil,fantasy,
Goodnight Kisses	Verse	10th grade,11th grade,age
King Oedipus: Foreshadowing	Rhyme	dark,fate,life,light,
Ambrosia	Free verse	appreciation,kiss,love,pa
fragile -	Free verse	cute,life,metaphor,wisdom
Promise	Rhyme	america,appreciation,conf
Ambedo	Free verse	analogy,childhood,growth,
Queen Rose and Her Many Sisters	Imagism	flower,
Someone Who Used To Be You	Blank verse	dream,lost love,love,
God Bless the Usa	Dramatic Monologue	addiction,satire,usa,
Catharsis	Verse	deep,emotions,endurance,f
In Soft Tongues	Free verse	angst,
A Poem For My Algebra Teacher	Free verse	6th grade,abuse,betrayal,
A Stranger Came From Nowhere	Dramatic Monologue	allusion,god,religious,
The Reap	Free verse	death,
I Lay Bare My Wounded Heart	Free verse	emotions,endurance,lost l
Lift Somebody's Dawn	Lyric	encouraging,inspiration,m
I Keep Coming Back	Free verse	depression,
Susurrus of October	Acrostic	october,song,
Open Up	Free verse	faith,hope,love,
Frogspawn	Haiku	nature,
Wise Words To Ponder	Monoku	wisdom,
Forlorn Hope	Verse	lost love,moving on,
Forlorn Hope	Free verse	hope,
Its a Part of Me	Prose Poetry	emotions,introspection,li
Falsehood	Monoku	allusion,analogy,
Chimera	Blank verse	fairy,fantasy,
Carpentry	Free verse	endurance,
Healing Power of the Drum	Free verse	inspirational,native amer
The Two Drivers In My Life	Free verse	birthday,childhood,parent
Giving Godly Grace	Acrostic	giving,god,
A Nightingale Sings of Dawn's Glory	Verse	break up,hope,love hurts,
Of Infinity	Personification	perspective,
Silhouette	Lyric	allegory,women,

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