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Poet Introduction
Each time it is written, with each tap of a key. More words and more phrases to know the real me. But what yarns am I spinning, what tales do I tell? What's real, what's a facade, I'm not sure I know...but read along with me and just enjoy the show.
Favorite Poets/Writers
Brett Easton Ellis, Donna Tartt, Edna St. Vincent MillayAbout Me
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SPARKLE AND DESTROY
I haven't been writing long. It all started when I almost spontaneously wrote my five-part poem "You, I & She", which tells my story of meth-addiction. It flew onto the page so organically, I just felt it spill onto the page.
I think I have developed a certain technique which I have tried to develop away from but I find it difficult - it seems so natural to me to write in rhyming couplets. Many may think it's cheesy or tacky or juvenile but there is a theory behind it. I tend to write very harrowing or twisted content and I think it could come across as disturbing if I was to write in a formal style but because I write in this jovial rhyming couplet style, like "The Nightmare before Christmas", it allows the content to have less of a shocking or off-putting effect. It's like the backhanded compliment: it has one good meaning then a sharp undertone. The juxtaposition of writing about meth-addiction like Dr. Seuss is humourous to me.
My content tends to be on things like addiction, poisons, fantasy, abstract reinterpretations, twists, death, suicide, daemons, self-destruction and self-destruction.
Send me a message, drop me a line.
Take part in one of my competitions...I usually am running at least one.
TTFN and remember to SPARKLE and DESTROY,
TOM XOXO
Who murdered the meth addict?
You'll meet them in the mirror.
I haven't been writing long. It all started when I almost spontaneously wrote my five-part poem "You, I & She", which tells my story of meth-addiction. It flew onto the page so organically, I just felt it spill onto the page.
I think I have developed a certain technique which I have tried to develop away from but I find it difficult - it seems so natural to me to write in rhyming couplets. Many may think it's cheesy or tacky or juvenile but there is a theory behind it. I tend to write very harrowing or twisted content and I think it could come across as disturbing if I was to write in a formal style but because I write in this jovial rhyming couplet style, like "The Nightmare before Christmas", it allows the content to have less of a shocking or off-putting effect. It's like the backhanded compliment: it has one good meaning then a sharp undertone. The juxtaposition of writing about meth-addiction like Dr. Seuss is humourous to me.
My content tends to be on things like addiction, poisons, fantasy, abstract reinterpretations, twists, death, suicide, daemons, self-destruction and self-destruction.
Send me a message, drop me a line.
Take part in one of my competitions...I usually am running at least one.
TTFN and remember to SPARKLE and DESTROY,
TOM XOXO
Who murdered the meth addict?
You'll meet them in the mirror.
afriendoftina (Hendy)
Twisted Dreamer