Wayne Paul Poetry

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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.

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Most Harmful Corporations

1. Wal Mart

2. McDonald's

3. Dow Jones Industrial

4. Starbucks

Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 08:45PM by

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Greatest Commanders of the Middle Ages

1. Genghis Khan

2. Charlemagne

3. Timur

4. Prince Edward III

5. Saladin I

6. William I, "The Conquerer"

7. Janos Hunyadi

8. Charles VII

9. Barbarossa

10. Alp Arslan

11. Count Raymond, of Toulouse

12. Rodrigo Diaz, "El Cid"

Posted on Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 12:42AM by

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Worst U.S. Presidents

1. George W. Bush

2. Ulysses S. Grant

3. James Buchanan

4. Richard M. Nixon

5. John Adams

6. Herbert C. Hoover

7. Gerald R. Ford

8. Benjamin Harrison

9. Franklin Pierce

10. Grover Cleveland

11. Chester A. Arthur

12. (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson

Posted on Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 07:30AM by

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Greatest U.S. Presidents

1. Abraham Lincoln

2. Franklin D. Roosevelt

3. Thomas Jefferson

4. James Monroe

5. Theodore Roosevelt

6. George Washington

7. Dwight D. Eisenhower

8. James Madison

9. Lyndon B. Johnson

10. Andrew Jackson

11. Ronald Reagan

12. John F. Kennedy

Posted on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 07:23AM by

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Greatest Painters of the Modern Western World

1. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

2. Titian (1488/9-1576)

3. Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)

4. Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)

5. Rembrandt (1606-1669)

6. Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

7. Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

8. Jan Van Goyen (1596-1656)

9. Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1319-1348)

10. Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)

11. Diego Rivera (1886-1957)

12. Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

Posted on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 03:57PM by

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