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Brian Keith Compton

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Poetic Stumblings Into Serendipity
Everything I've posted since joining August, 2006 that encompasses 20 years of poetry.
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Dear Readers:

I started writing lyrics in 1977 with the dream of starting my own band. That lasted for about six weeks since none of us could play an instrument and we all wanted to be lead vocalist.

Then girls came along and the words returned, only I had discovered poetry. And so it began. It has been a long journey since, with many mentors along the way who helped shape my work into what it is now. Going forward, their insight and inspiration leads me on.

Music still inspires my words. I've studied poets from Keats to Blake, Milton and Shakespeare to the present day. I met and tried to impress Maya Angelou in a college course where I studied writers like Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood. I tried to impress upon her a comparison I found between her lyrical style and John Keats. She must have thought me to be a nut job. But it was fun to know I had her ear, even if for a few fleeting moments. I repress part of the memory of that meeting because of the embarrassment I felt after realizing my idiotic gaffe of idolatry.

Well, here we go! An eclectic, disjointed collection of poetic ramblings from the lyrical to my attempts at form. Hope you like and feel inspired to comment.
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The Unknown  [E]   1.6 KB
I'm inspired by music again, finding healthy tears to resurrect the unknown within.

As Deep As I Could  [ASR]   1.0 KB
We take a chance on acceptance, fail and try to find answers.

AWARD WINNERS   [E]   16 Items
Some of my poems recognized here at Writing.Com.

The Poet's Last Pens   [E]   15 Items
The last poems I will likely write. Some are unfinished.

Natural   [E]   7 Items
Expressions of the poet's connection with nature and self.

Transcendence to Nirvana   [E]   6 Items
Poetry venturing to transcend my limitations as a writer in search of a utopian nirvana.

Insightful to Serendipity   [E]   6 Items
Poems that have come from reflection or the unexpected pleasures of life.

Writing In The Dark   [E]   5 Items
The Eyes Have It (former title of this folder of poetry where I struggle with vision loss)

Personal Favorites of the Poet   [E]   11 Items
A great source of pride are these works that I share with my friends before all others.

Snippets of Expression   [E]   8 Items
What I express in a limited number of words.