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gregwa8
Member since May 1, 2018
Member for 8 years, 1 month
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Birthday Poem
40 swans
with outstretched wings
all feather and muscle
40 ashtrays
full of the soot
of waste's sadness
40 mountains
the same distance
up as down
40 shoelaces
snaked through
my walking shoes
40 blackbirds
with eyes unblinking
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as the night
40 fingers
plucking guitar strings
of gold
40 coats
shielding against
the bitter cold
40 alphabets
for all the language
inside
my forty year old self
gregwa8’s timeline
- May 2023
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01 MonAnniversary
5 years of membership
- November 2021
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17 WedReceived a critique
on Scratch-Off Spring from @IRiz
"hey, it has been ages since last time i visit it is a pleasure to see you are still writing i think you might want to add a bit more of a drama in the poem, add how you feel about it the poem is purely descriptive and t…" - October 2020
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30 FriReceived a critique
on Every Emotion from @Edna Sweetlove
"... a pity no one bothered comment earlier. If someone had done so, the author might have stayed a member. ." - January 2020
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30 ThuReceived a critique
on Forever And A Day from @Miranda Ortiz
"I'm so totally a nature lover, and this is beautiful reminder that Earth is ever changing....as are our lives and impacts here!! Your title is what sucked me in and made me read this. It made me wonder what this was goi…" -
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- May 2019
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01 WedAnniversary
One year of membership
- October 2018
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01 MonPosting milestone
100 poems posted
- June 2018
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24 Sun
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04 Mon
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04 MonFirst contest commendation
Military Memories...
with the poem "Arcadian Ground (military memories contest)".
- May 2018
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15 TueHighest posting month
May 2018 — 25 poems
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02 WedFirst critique offered
on "Glory Hills Church" by @trekker
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01 TueFirst publication
Water's Artifacts
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01 TueJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 1 days later.
About Me
About me
I've been a songwriter for twenty years and just started getting more serious about poetry. I love all the classic poets: Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Walt Whitman, and the like. As well as contemporary poets, like Billy Collins, Mary Oliver, and Seamus Heaney. I'm trying to write often, and love the metaphysical, the quirky, the perfect playful metaphor that's yet to be put down in verse. I want to get better, so I am looking for feedback, as well as encouragement. https://twitter.com/gregwalkerpoet
Location: Maryland, USA
Recent Work
Birthday Poem
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Scratch-Off Spring
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Scratch-Off Spring
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Nature's Pinball Machine
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The Captain of Our Hopes
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Purple Heart
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There Isn't A War On Pink
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Prisms
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Contest Wins
| Winning Submission | Contest | Contest Date |
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| Arcadian Ground (military memories contest) | Military Memories... | – |
Workshops
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| Primal Poetry | (syllabus) | Plunge Pool | Started 2019-06-17 | Concluded |
| Cellar Door | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2019-03-27 | Concluded |