CongoNetherland’s Profile

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  • Age: 56
  • Location: Vista
  • Gender: Male
  • Country: US
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Biography

I am a teacher now, but have done many professional jobs. I write often for myself. What I post here is a part of those writings. I don't like to criticize, but I also feel that we all need it. Sometimes our favorite stuff will get nothing but stones from others. Sometimes those stones make positive dents, sometimes you should just throw them away for what they are: stones. It doesn't matter that much. Self expression is the highest calling - even if it is only understood by yourself. We are all a universe and priceless. But sometimes we can be more clear to others; and help them in the process. I wish you all the best. Personally, I like to have a good sense of humor about everything - though it is not always possible. (For my job I have to practice "mean" looks; luckily I don't actually have to feel it . . .)

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Charlie23 profile comment

02-17-2010

Thank you, CongoNetherland, for taking the time to read and comment on my most recent poem! I enjoy your work, find you very creative, with a great deal of intelligence behind all your poems!

jademelissa74 profile comment

06-24-2009

Я люблю картину. Я люблю серьезное лицо. Спасибо за то, что разделять вашу работу с нами! Я надеюсь, что Вы наслаждаетесь посещением!

CongoNetherland

01/27/2010

I didn't even see this comment until just now! I'll have to get someone to translate it because I know hardly and Russian yet . . .

CongoNetherland

03/03/2010

Спасибо! Мне очень приятно это слышать! и я приятно удивлен, что Вы говорите на русском.

When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) Thirty-fifth President of the USA

CongoNetherland’s Poems (16)

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Anna's Song 6
ECH 2
Russian Composers 1
Song of a Spiritual Agnostic 12
If You 8
Once 1
Paging You 2
I Have a Ficus 3
The Last Gasp of Ra 3
Soft Regret (Anna's Song 1
Conversations with Myself 6
Nebulous v. Cumulous 1
In Toto 4
Birds 2
A Poem A Day 4
A Prayer in Several Formats 5