Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

Hello everyone! I am a newbie here. :)

Hi Everybody!!! Thanks for your warm welcome!! I'm really glad to be a member of this group!!! I'm new in this site and in this kind of forums !!!
This is a rather complicated week for me since we are getting started with our students (classes will begin tomorrow) and I 'm attending different courses.... in short, I'll be quite busy, yet, I didn't want to miss the chance to introduce myself to this nice group. :)

I'm a teacher at Arrayanes (Myrtle School,preparing students for the Lit IGCSE exams and an educator at a T.T, College in Escobar, both )in the Province of Buenos,Aires Argentina. Virtual hug.

Hi guys, I'm new here, from Venezuela, and I've decided I haven't read enough books in my life, so I joined this fine community. Good to now be a part of it.

Welcome:)

Hi guys. I wrote enough earlier...not feeling the inspiration. blah blah blah heres one:


I have these ugly qualities. I bury them in the soil and give them sustenance to flourish. I have these beautiful qualities, and I hide them too, because I don't have faith in them. I question their essence because of the shroud that hangs over my neck: the mariner's albatross. Like night and day, I go about my life in a constant state of disharmony, not manic depressive, but with a bipolar and ambivalent idea of self that I only project onto others. It might be stable to accept the luke warm grayness in this black and white world, but I want to embrace the moments of light, and allow them to be magnified by the juxtaposition of darkness. Until that day comes I'll continue to be consumed by both, powerless because of a refusal to embrace nothing but one.


and...

This Chain

Man goes to work,
Puts his clothes on in fear.
He wanders through the day,
And comes home weary of tomorrow.
We sell ourselves so small,
Look into the eyes of a child—
They are infinite.
The world is theirs.
Shoot him down enough,
He becomes a man.

Man is fear
Fear is man
Meet the man without fear
You’ve not met a man.

Some are consumed by the small fears
These people are obviously afraid.
Others need a more trained eye.
They aren’t so easy.
Their fear is masked with success—
Money.
The hypocrisy of religion
Goodness with a side of denial and compartmentalization.
The Shadow always lurks.

Don’t lie!
You’re so afraid.
That’s you running from your fear.
Your protective mechanisms are the very thing you fight,
And I’ve seen sterner stuff.

Look at me,
Rationalizing, analyzing, objectifying,
In the end,
Simply intellectualizing,
The fire that consumes me—
Fear.

Created by man it burns the world over,
Perpetually.
It’s a permanent blemish on our hearts,
The hill won’t break the wheel,
No man is removed.

It has many shades, colors, sizes; is highly individualized and shrouded.
We are contained by cloaked boxes
Some bigger and clunkier than others
But NONE escape the sure weight.

Words to live by: “Just let go of the child inside
He will only be denied
Let in the prince and the plow
Be rid once and for all of the dangerous child” ,

But then be weary of the weeds that seep through the walls
Of the castle.
The king and his subjects master the fire:
The delusion of control.

It cannot be tamed.
The wolf and the lion are all around us
And you can’t let go of the child inside
He sees, hears, and knows.
He waits for our paradigms to atrophy.
We wait to be broken, to awaken to that before,
The interlude is madness, with clowns and balloons.

The bright sun finally breaks our shadow.
But it is too bright for us to see.
Beauty to Men’s minds is incalculable.
Truth to man is love to Bundy—
Blinding at best.
Like the ceiling effect of a drug.
For, Be ye as little children,
Then see the kingdom.


thanks tim

Well, I'm new here. I go to high school in Oklahoma. Usually I'm a pretty happy, upbeat person, but my girlfriend of 10 months just dumped me, so don't expect much of that from me for a while. I figure looking around here might distract me from my current situation.

Welcome Kesagake (and all others I may have missed during my recent sojourn to the western wastes). Just talking to me drives most people to distraction, so I'd say you've got nothing to fear where the ex is concerned. Welcome to the site and happy forgetting! :)

Hello.
I'm looking forward to getting to know people on here, and plan to be quite an avid user.
I hope everyone is doing okay, and I hope to hear from you soon.

Welcome !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

Hi; I just joined today. I'm a high school student that's recently gotten interested in reading what's considered the classic, and necessary, reads. I plan on starting with novellas to help ease me in, and then go on from there to the bigger books. I checked out Animal Farm a few days ago from the school library, and just finished it a few hours ago; I ended up really liking it. I can't wait to start another story!

I hope I can find some great discussion here.

Welcome to the site, Daft. With a name like that, you should fit right in. There are always a lot of conversations going on here, both of the easy going and intense variety, so don't be shy about throwing yourself right in. Welcome again and please enjoy yourself. :)

Hello all. It's Steven Smith, a resident from new york, USA. I am a new member in this here and want to say hi to all of you.

Hi Steven. Welcome to the site. :)

Hello all,

Peter here. Thought I would give an introduction. I'm always to be found with a book in my hand. I mostly love ones that transport you into other worlds like Lord of the Rings, His Dark Materials, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Vanishing Act and The Night Circus.

I am from London, England and am also really into Dicken's. I've read all of his novels and enjoy Bleak House best.

I've been writing novels and short stories for a few years now and am just starting to get into the process of publishing them.

Little about me, i'm a civil engineer specialised in flood risk. My hobbies mainly revolve around a list i'm completing with my best friend. Doing this, i've run a marathon, cycled coast to coast across the UK, performed stand-up and learnt French.

I look forward to speaking to you guys and girls.

Peter

Well, I¡¯m a man or boy¡ªcall me what you choose, sweet peruser¡ªsteeped in literature from childhood; I devour literature as I do the tastiest food imaginable in the world. It was my avarice for reading, I remember, that took me by the hand and brought me in contact with Jewish literature. Before I encountered sacred Jewish fragments, I had perused the Bible much often from Genesis to Revelation. Then my greed for reading, I admit it, broadened so as to include novels¡ªand how I love novels! Well, it was my affection for novels, in its turn, that brought me to this site; I am happy to remain.

I am a high school leaver on my way to a well celebrated university! Why, Oxford of course! I'm fighting in a strenuous duel ever there was and will be in the days of our progeny; I am forearmed beforehand. But against whom am I combating? Against Satan¡ªour common enemy! I know the students in Oxford are mere mortals, children of the most high whose prayers have been heeded. And I see no good reason why, being a man of deep faith and apt to vanish the ancient mountains, I should not get there. The force with me is formidably ¡®The Holy Spirit¡¯!

My hobbies? I seriously love reading and watching movies; and I like going for long walks on foot¡ªbut with a book under my arm.

My name is:

Abraham A. Sylvester.