I write poetry to purge thoughts so that the dogs in my head won't bark quite so loudly. "It's only falling in love because you …

28/M/New York    Existing inside of the shadow of a doubt.

New York, New York    Doctoral candidate at Columbia University

Sad things, serenade me.

Northern Calif., USA    I'll change the world. Nil mortalibus ardui est. Nothing is impossible for humankind.

"A good traveler has no fixed plan, and is not intent on arriving." - accredited to Lao Tsu, but Bilbo probably said it too

Berkeley, CA    "Words, like glass, darken whatever they do not help us to see" -Joseph Joubert

31/F/Virginia    I walked into the light, only to find it was darker than my nightmares. I found the golden city; it had been black all along.

What a hideous waste of everything beautiful.

I am a writer of all types from dark to humour though it is my childrens poetry that has been turned into interactive books on …