Wayne Paul Poetry

"In the absence of delusion there can be no creation."

Navigation

Personal Info

My influences are many and encompass all of the written arts. Included are those who are considered philosophers, dramatists, social or spiritual thinkers, critics, or essayists. I will try to do this with some semblence of chronological and historical order.

The writers of Antiquity and the Middle Ages who have influenced me: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Aristophanes, Homer, Hesiod, Horace, Sappho, Ovid, Lucan, Virgil, Plato, Aristotle, Aesop, Diogenes Laertes, Epicurus, Herodotus, Thucydides, Zeno, Plutarch, Livy, Seneca, St. Augustine, Lao-Tzu, Sun-Tzu, Avicenna, Li Po, Basho, Omar Khayyam, and al-Ghazali.

The writers of the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Romantic periods who have influenced me: Erasmus, More, Dante, Machiavelli, Malory, Ariosto, Spenser, Donne, Milton, Decartes, Dryden, Racine, Hafiz, Shakespeare, Herbert, Moliere, S. Johnson, la Fontaine, Ronsard, Pope, Goldsmith, Hobbes, Blake, Fuller, Austen, Scott, both Shelleys, both Brontes, Fichte, Cooper, Byron, Balzac, Coleridge, Keats, Dumas, Wordsworth, Hawthorne, Hegel, Carlyle, Voltaire, Stendhal, Locke, Goethe, Bentham, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Puskin, Poe, Kierkegaard, and Clausewitz.

(I'm aware of the historical overlap between some names of these two sections)

Writers of modern eras who have influenced me: Twain, Mill, Thoreau, Cabet, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Melville, Longfellow, Emerson, Bryant, Huxley, Sandburg, Apollinaire, Proust, Sinclair, Stoker, Tolstoy, Proudhon, Darwin, Dostoyevsky, Conrad, Wilde, Zola, Bakunin, Huysmans, Hugo, Nietzsche, Kipling, Kafka, Bulgakov, Dickens, Gilbran, Tennyson, Tagore, Joyce, de Touqueville, Marx, James, London, Pound, Russell, de Mauppassant, Chekhov, Shaw, Faulkner, Browning, Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Golding, Remarque, Frost, Kerouac, Bukowski, Tolkien, Valery, Ginsberg, Weil, Plath, Greene, Thompson, Hemmingway, Foucault, Solzhenyitsyn, Satre, Freud, Camus, and Jung.

A multitude of other individuals, including politicians, heads of state, military commanders, religious figures, scientists and explorers, reformers, outlaws and revolutionaries, musicians, painters, and journalists have influenced my writing and my worldviews but are too numerous to list here.

I was born a Gemini in Michigan in 1980. I've been writing poetry for more than a decade, and have been writing at a semi-professional level for about 3 years. I am fascinated with poetics of every theme, theory, species, and style. Metric and prose, terse and lengthy, the brooding and the absurd, the subtle and the explicit, all possess an artistic and expressive value to me. My work is an attempt at bringing these creative forces together to offer a bizarrely aesthetic experience for the reader, where thought and emotion intersect in the manifestion of the actualized subconscious.

In the paradise of the San Diego sun, where I've resided for nearly 5 years and have since been enthralled by the place, I am currently working on my second book of poetry and continuing my exploration of the written arts.

Blah

August 30, 2008

In 1945, there were only 6 nuclear weapons in the world, and all were in the United States. By 2007, there were 27,600 in 7 countries, although in 1990 there were over 59,200 weapons in the world.

Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 07:43PM by

Wayne Paul in Historical, Nations, Political, Economic |

Post a Comment

August 29, 2008

Of the 15 largest cities in the world, Buenos Aires (ranked # 9) contains 32.1% of Argentina's total population, compared to only 6.3% for 3rd ranked New York City.

Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 07:36PM by

Wayne Paul in Nations, Travel |

Post a Comment

August 28, 2008

The tallest active volcano in the world is located on the Argentine-Chilean border and is 22,109 feet tall.

Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 07:33PM by

Wayne Paul in Nations, Natural |

Post a Comment

August 27, 2008

The largest known meteorite is situated in Namibia and weighs an estimated 55 metric tons. The largest impact crater is found in Quebec in Canada and has an estimated diameter of 60 miles.

Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 01:57PM by

Wayne Paul in Science |

Post a Comment

August 26, 2008

The most lethal tornado, or series of tornadoes, in one day in modern American history killed an estimated 689 people in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925.

Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 01:09PM by

Wayne Paul in Historical, Natural |

Post a Comment

August 25, 2008

While Virginia is the birthplace of the most Presidents (8), most Vice Presidents (11) have come from New York.

Posted on Monday, August 25, 2008 at 06:35PM by

Wayne Paul in Historical, Political |

Post a Comment

August 24, 2008

There are only six nations (with low overall life expectancies) on earth where men outlive women: Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola in Africa, and Nepal in Asia.

Posted on Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 10:26PM by

Wayne Paul in Nations |

Post a Comment

August 23, 2008

The state of Texas has been governed by six different sovereign nations: Spain, France, Mexico, The Republic of Texas, The United States of America, and the Confederate States of America. This is were the idea for Six Flags Theme Parks comes from.

Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2008 at 07:53PM by

Wayne Paul in Historical |

Post a Comment

August 22, 2008

Some interesting names for animal collectives: a business of ferrets, an exaltation of larks, a rafter of turkeys, an unkindness of ravens, a down, husk, or trip of hares, a gang or obstinacy of buffalo, a dule or pitying of doves, a committee of vultures

Posted on Friday, August 22, 2008 at 02:26PM by

Wayne Paul in Language |

Post a Comment

August 21, 2008

The smallest county in the United States, in terms of land area, is Manhattan County in NYC at 23 square miles. The largest (excluding Alaska) is San Bernadino County in CA at 20,105 square miles, or larger than 9 states.

Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 12:17PM by

Wayne Paul in Geographical |

Post a Comment

August 20, 2008

As of 2006, 76% of "white" children (below age 18) came from homes where both parents were present, compared to 66% for Hispanic children and 35% for "black" children. The percentages for each group have decreased since the 1970 census.

Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 07:53AM by

Wayne Paul in Potpourri |

Post a Comment

August 19, 2008

Did you know: the only state that has no safety belt use laws is New Hampshire.

Posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 at 08:10AM by

Wayne Paul in Potpourri, Travel |

Post a Comment

August 18, 2008

As of Sept. 2007, 22 state governors are Republicans and 28 are Democrats. The state paying the highest governor's salary is California at $212,000 per year, although the current governor has declined to recieve this.

Posted on Monday, August 18, 2008 at 08:00AM by

Wayne Paul in Political |

Post a Comment

August 17, 2008

The nation with the lowest literacy rate in the world is Burkina Faso in Africa, which has a rate of only 23.7%.

Posted on Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 03:16PM by

Wayne Paul in Nations |

Post a Comment

August 16, 2008

From March 2004 to March 2005, a total of 30.6 million Americans had changed their place of residence. Those classified as "never married" were the most mobile group with nearly 12.9 million reported as movers.

Posted on Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 11:28AM by

Wayne Paul in Travel |

Post a Comment

August 15, 2008

The first roller coaster in America was opened in 1884 at Coney Island in New York.

Posted on Friday, August 15, 2008 at 05:29PM by

Wayne Paul in Potpourri |

Post a Comment

August 14, 2008

The first U.S. kindergarten opened in 1856 in Watertown, Wisconsin.

Posted on Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 04:15PM by

Wayne Paul in Historical |

Post a Comment

August 13, 2008

The largest eye in the animal kingdom is the giant squid's, which can be the size of a dinner plate.

Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 10:14AM by

Wayne Paul in Science |

Post a Comment

August 12, 2008

There are an estimated 25 million cloud-to-ground lightning bolts in the U.S. each year. An average of 62 people per year die from lightning, compared to 54 deaths caused by tornadoes and 49 caused by hurricanes.

Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 11:49AM by

Wayne Paul in Science |

Post a Comment

August 11, 2008

The 2008 Summer Olympic Games consist of 302 events in 28 different sports. Of the 302, 165 are men's events, 127 are women's, and 10 are mixed.

Posted on Monday, August 11, 2008 at 07:46AM by

Wayne Paul in Potpourri |

Post a Comment