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"Reading poetry is the finest form of excercising the writing muscle I know."
Poetry @Edwin Voskamp's - The Tyger
"Zen Poetry", by an unnamed Taoist priest
"Epitaph", Simonides of Ceos (c. 556-468 BC)
"Ulysses (excerpt)", Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1883)
"Xanadu", Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
"The Second Coming", William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
"The Tyger", William Blake (1757-1827)
"She Walks in Beauty", Lord Byron (1788-1824)
"The Raven", Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
"St. Crispen's Day Speech", Henry V, William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what the shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
"The Tyger", William Blake (1757-1827)
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I attended a bullwhip handling seminar given by Gery L. Deer in Ann Arbor, organised by a friend of mine who had seen Gery perform at a local Science Fiction convention. Since I have practiced diligently and acquired two more whips: it is boatloads of fun!
I have been running my new game settings, based on my serial campaign concept,
as well as have complete websites: ShadowWorld Mainline, ShadowWorld WWII and Grand Design.
I am working on a new current day ShadowWorld setting, with a new, entirely different cosmology.
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Underworld, though laying claim to prior use,
was renamed to ShadowWorld in the summer of 2002,
to avoid confusion with earlier published role playing games with same or similar names.
It was moved to its own website.
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