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Gender
Female
Birthday
January 29 1974
Location
Peachtree City, GA
About Me
I was born in Oakland, California and am half-Chinese on my mother's side, and a mix of German, Irish, English, and Cherokee Indian. Waves from My Oddest Sea is a collection of my poetry, self-published w/a POD publisher in 2004, & have a few poems were featureed in the Ezines Poetic Diversity (2004) and Contemporary Rhyme (2007).
Type of Writer
Poetry, mostly, although I just started a blog recently.
Writing Style
Rhyming poetry is my favorite! But I also utilize alliteration, symbolism, imagery, & internal rhyme a great deal.
Interests
I am a professional, state licensed massage therapist and I enjoy my work. I also love reading & writing poetry, dancing, cooking, traveling to new places (or daydreaming of traveling to new places). I'm all about having fun and enjoying life!
Website / Homepage
My Blog
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Favorite Genres
I will read just about anything(--a good book is a good book!--)but love the Classics
Favorite Books
Jane Eyre, The Red Tent, Vanity Fair, Brave New World, Phantom of the Opera, East of Eden, Count of Monte Cristo, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Phantom (by Susan Kay), countless others.
Favorite Authors
Amy Tan, Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare, George R. R. Martin, & Susan Kay. (While I have many favorite books, the above mentioned authors consistently wow me, & therefore I feel safe to say they are my favorites.)
Favorite Poets
Dorothy Parker, Edgar Allan Poe, Sara Teasdale, Yeats, Keats, Byron, Roethke, Tennyson, Frost, Billy Collins, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Blake...
Favorite Quote
"They reckon ill who leave me out; when me they fly I am the wings."~Emerson "I can resist everything but temptation."~Wilde "You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think."~Parker
Favorite Music
Loreena McKennitt, Enya, Melissa Etheridge, Leonard Cohen, Peter Gabriel, Concrete Blonde, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Eva Cassidy, Sade, Prince, David Garrett, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Garbage,
Favorite Movies
The Secret, Fried Green Tomatoes, Restoration, Dangerous Liaisons, Mansfield Park, Aliens, Boondock Saints, Chocolat, Amelie, the Anne of Green Gables Trilogy, (the original) Star Wars saga, The Red Violin, Falling Down, the Others...
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    Rated: E · Fantasy · #1710938
    based off of "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Andersen
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    Rated: E · Other · #1668018
    a poem about feeling inadequate for love
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    Rated: E · Other · #1668015
    A funny poem involving Scherazade, the famous storyteller of 1001 Arabian Nights.
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    Rated: E · Other · #1668010
    The phrase "No man is an island" made me write "No island is a man". Yay for dyslexia!
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    Rated: E · Other · #1668007
    one of those poems I wrote when I was feeling particularly odd...
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