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[COLOR="Yellow"]Well I thought about writing some poetry but I put on a song that came to my mind, well first, just the phrase "nothing to say," and then the song, "Nothing to Say" by Jethro Tull.. I listened to it at a decent volume and attentively took in the music and lyrics, and the opening verse struck me as quite profound as I listened. I'll let you figure it out if you feel like; in spirit with the song.. It's definitely a very interesting phenomenon.
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It's March already and I am gonna try and keep a record of all the books I have and will read this year. there are many books I have to read for school so I think it will be a good list, also gonna list how many pages they are.

I have so much reading to do this weekend it's crazy! I am reading Beowulf for school and started Ilium by dan simmons for another class and I am also reading short stories by icelandic authors based on the norse sagas. The boy is with his dad so I hope I ...

As some of you may already know because I have mentioned it a few times before, I belong to Deviant Art (known as DA for short) which is an online art gallery where members can display their work of any type. I display a lot of my poetry and photography there.

Within DA there are various different groups created by members which than other members can join and submit there art into and a lot of the groups revolve around a certain form of artwork, or particular subject, theme, etc.. ...

750BC Homer- The Iliad
750BC Hesiod- Theogony
700-500BC Homeric Hymns
680-645BC Archilochus- Be Bold
630-570BC Sappho- Hymn to Aphrodite
620-564BC Aesop- The Fox and the Grapes
582-485BC Anacreon- Love's Night Walk
525-456BC Aeschylus- Oresteia
522-443BC Pindar- Victory Odes
497-405BC Sophocles- Oedipus Rex
484-425BC Herodotus- Histories
480-406BC Euripides- Medea
460-395BC Thucydides- History of the Peloponnesian ...

1. The Bible (King James)- especially the book of Job, sorrow at it's most beautiful.

2.The Iliad and the Odyssey(Fitzgerlad and Fagles)- I'm always amazed at this guy. His work is so powerful after all these years. It's so light, and free, lyrical but powerful and aggressive, poetic and adventurous, all great poetic accomplishments unite in these works.

3.Plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides- Shakespeare of the ancient world, the greatest most concise writer of ...