Middle Earth    "If all you can do is kill, then slay disaster before it strikes. . "

PH    Soul revival

22/F    Sometimes I'm the Great Pretender, sometimes I'm not pretending at all.

I am from a small town in Alabama. I use to keep a journal several years ago and quit writing altogether when I got too …

22/F/India    A person looking for answers without the perfect questions

Carthage, Tunisia    ‘For Bouazzi, Shelley’s rhetoric is “bound up with the human makeup” (11). This toughly elegant formulation articulates the book’s conviction that Shelley’s affirmation and disaffirmation …

20/F/Assam, India    If what I seek, waits for me in the shadow of darkness, I want no light, for If it someday wants to get in me, …

18/F    music is like my thing and i really dig poetry

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

21/F/Boise Idaho    "Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies." -Elie Wiesel

24/Non-binary    "Our life consists partly of madness, partly of wisdom. Whoever writes about it leaves more than half of it behind." - Michel de Montaigne

30/F/PNW    Consumed by all the darkness I've suppressed, I call them my little ghosts.

28/F    previous blogger: http://rawedout.blogspot.ca/ an unexamined life is not worth living | know thyself

23/F    share some of my work, if you like FOLLOW BACK love ya keep writing rock on Message lot of people who have seen my work …

Beirut, Lebanon    I live in the Soho of the Middle East; Beirut has been my lover, I learned to love her and be proud of her through …

51/F/Perth, Australia    I'm originally from NZ came to Australia in 1985

41/F/Texas    Just a person, who loves a good story, in any form.

A Colorado native....born in Durango, living now in Colorado Springs. Retired from Air Force. Interested in non duality relating to spirituality, religion, and modern life.

New Mexico    I go to a VSA building. VSA'S an international organization of artists with disabilities, I have experience in many forms of art.

East Texas    I am on a journey to find my voice and muse again. I let it slip away and I refuse to let it go once …

I am a historian, poet, soldier. Thank you for reading my poems. All poems and images (c)Michael J. Whelan. Visit https://michaeljwhelan.wordpress.com/