Poetic Shutterbug

there are not many people out there who will understand the reality of difference the oneness of being alone and the loneliness of isolation the dream desires wish the kiss of the world laid upon my lips placed with the ease of the sun rising so effortless such a flow like waves of nothing more and to see something more than myself every time i look in the mirror the eyes staring back have lived millennia having held every drop of Life in flows of tears of blood to drink upon my name my words my uplifting soul with no expectations of receiving such a beautiful gift my selflessness for you the love i offer up like a sacrificial idiot dumb to the nature of the Beast having spared my soul for the eyes of another and yet through time through my death and birth each life i have ever lived is filled with daily omens reminders of JUST who i am and what i am and will never be another like identical to this difference that is Me. by Leonardo Minjarez

Born in Portland, Maine on February 27, 1807, Longfellow was and still is one of the best loved poets of all time. Henry was an active boy, sometimes quick tempered but always sensitive, impressionable and creative. He loved song and dance but did not enjoy excitement. He began school at 3 and by the time he was 8 he studied halfway through Latin grammar. His Father’s extensive library of Shakespeare, Milton, Pope and Dryden, just to name a few, lent to his early curiosity of poetry and writing. At the early age of 13 he penned and had his first poem published by the Portland Gazette titled “The Battle of Lovell’s Pond.” The poem was highly criticized at that time for being unsymmetrical and and unoriginal. However Longfellow was not discouraged. By age 15 he passed the exams for Bowdoin College and studied with well known writers to include Hawthorne. Although his Father wanted Henry to study law he spent a year at Cambridge college in study of general literature. His extensi...