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Jahleel Drigo
Member since December 4, 2009
Member for 16 years, 6 months
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Theophany
Awestruck was I to find
In this time of misery
Age of darkness
An emotional revelation.
A color so obscure
From a creature divine.
Jahleel Drigo’s timeline
- December 2024
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03 TueAnniversary
15 years of membership
- December 2019
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03 TueAnniversary
10 years of membership
- March 2017
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17 FriReceived a critique
on Neither Pessimistic nor Optimistic from @Esker
"the cheese of the earth not hard to look at the state of things..a world torn asunder for the sate of fast made wealth fracking the land...strip mining out west.... killing in the name of honor and religion....wars for…" -
14 TueReceived a critique
on Neither Pessimistic nor Optimistic from @swamp-witch
"I love short poetry. Even if this one is a vent, I'd say you're capturing an important feeling. I will ask, is "Heathen" a typo or play on words? Your last two lines are very powerful, and the last line has it's own sor…" - December 2014
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03 WedAnniversary
5 years of membership
- November 2014
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17 Mon
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16 Sun
- August 2014
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23 Sat
- February 2013
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12 Tue
- December 2010
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03 FriAnniversary
One year of membership
- January 2010
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18 MonFirst critique offered
on "Ashes in the Dust" (since unpublished) by @xena465
- December 2009
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04 FriFirst publication
From the Heart
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03 ThuJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 1 days later.
About Me
About me
Delight in poetry, music, history and philosophy .
Location: VIR
Favorite Poets
“Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet
act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here
he smoothes there
he makes this line lighter
this other purer
until a lovely face has grown upon his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive
straighten all that is crooked
bring light to all that is overcast
labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue
until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue
until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine... Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sunlike
and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.”
Plotinus
The Enneads
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