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slybard
Member since March 3, 2008
Member for 18 years, 3 months
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To Dawn
Dawn- slayer of pretense, usher of youth-
you, born anew as passing season,
wield those luminous swords, sharp and uncouth,
and absolve ignorance of reason.
Are you not the mother of sweet knowledge?
Dawn – light of tunnels, well of Saharas-
You, of divine hue, alive in Dark’s death
when all that’s fair is stripped of myrrhs
And Life’s Eden is, fast as youth, but heath.
Are you not the promise that Hope is nigh?
—Mini-anthology: Hepatica—
slybard’s timeline
- March 2023
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02 ThuAnniversary
15 years of membership
- March 2018
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02 FriAnniversary
10 years of membership
- March 2013
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02 SatAnniversary
5 years of membership
- March 2012
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25 Sun
- February 2012
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10 Fri
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06 MonReceived a critique
on Withered Camellia from @weirdelf
"This is fucking brilliant in every way. It evokes powerful emotions without sentiment, it is lucid and intelligent. It uses many poetic devices with an elegant and deft touch. And that rhyming scheme! I have never seen…" -
06 Mon
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05 Sun
- June 2010
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27 SunPosted a poem
Wolves and Lambs
"This is part of the radio- play I submitted for BBC African performance Playwriting competition 2010. Obviously, the judges didn't think a play about homosexuality was relevant in the African context." - March 2009
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02 MonAnniversary
One year of membership
- March 2008
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15 SatHighest posting month
March 2008 — 15 poems
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12 Wed
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05 WedFirst critique offered
on "I believe In You" by @poewriter58
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03 MonFirst publication
Blind serenade
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02 SunJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 1 days later.
About Me
About me
I love writing, computers and knowledge generally. I am thus a writer/poet, poet performer, computer programmer (web, mobile and desktop).
Most of all, I am open minded.
I ran a blog at http://www.versesofslybard.wordpress.com which has seen better days, and poems. :-)
Location: Kampala, Uganda, UGA
Favorite Poets
Jonathan Swift
Sarah Kay
William Shakespeare
Elizabeth Browning
Christina Rossetti
Grace Nichols
The Lantern Meet of Poets (the biggest and oldest society of poets in Uganda)
Recent Work
To Dawn
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Withered Camellia
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Wolves and Lambs
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Upon my bed
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Wild weed
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Parting of ways
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Dawn upon a country plain
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Dawn
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Gone
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11 lines about love
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