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I am Brandon Spalletta, and this is my online poetry. Come in...Walk with me =)

I also have a list of favorite poems, quotes, and lyrics. Check them out if you'd like!



I do not have an "AP Family", but in my time on this website, I have met a kindred soul, who I am proud to call my friend, and brother. He is well worth your time, trust me.
http://allpoetry.com/Lowell%20Poe



~~This was written for me, by a true friend~~

There is a maverick troubadour of language
that has come from the the coffee houses
in the west
to the highways and carnivals in the east.
He comes from the tin pan alley
of poetry
with the sun in his eyes.
I know this,
For I have heard and spoke
the reams of works
and I have pondered them
in the wild west
of cybertrails and by ways.
Look not at these works as a way
to kill time
or mild entertainment,
but a life in progress.
Such a time has come
for his kind,
when men tremble and fear,
and bow to falsehoods.
So take it in dear reader,
hear and feel this new kind of poet,
and know that his words
can move people
in new directions,
so they can discard the old ones
and reach their destination.

By: Lowell Poe


~~Gold Trophies~~
1) Philosophers and Poets - http://allpoetry.com/poem/3661546
2) Blue Eyes - http://allpoetry.com/poem/3588554

~~Silver Trophies~~
1) Accolades - http://allpoetry.com/poem/4488949

~~Bronze Trophies~~
1) Distant Times - http://allpoetry.com/poem/4077309
2) Ripples - http://allpoetry.com/poem/3642918
3) Philosophers and Poets - http://allpoetry.com/poem/3661546

~~Honorable Trophies~
1) Disenchanted (x2) - http://allpoetry.com/poem/3672228
2) This Strange Place, Part Two - http://allpoetry.com/poem/3930693
3) Limitless - http://allpoetry.com/poem/3866021
4) The Gates Of Hell (x2) - http://allpoetry.com/poem/3698844
5) Two Coins - http://allpoetry.com/poem/3866135
6) This Journey - http://allpoetry.com/poem/3588474
7) One - http://allpoetry.com/poem/3728434
8) Jungles - http://allpoetry.com/poem/4274277
9) Eternity - http://allpoetry.com/poem/4003999
10) Down The Street - http://allpoetry.com/poem/4742947
11) Echoes Of Eternity - http://allpoetry.com/poem/4787243




~~~~Favorite Poems~~~~
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The Old Men Admiring Themselves In The Water, by William Butler Yeats

I heard the old, old men say,
'Everything alters,
And one by one we drop away.'
They had hands like claws, and their knees
Were twisted like the old thorn-trees
By the waters.
I heard the old, old men say,
'All that's beautiful drifts away
Like the waters.'


Fire and Ice, by Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.


Epitaph On A Tyrant, by W.H. Auden

Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.


A Writer, by Philip Larkin

'Interesting, but futile,' said his diary,
Where day by day his movements were recorded
And nothing but his loves received inquiry;
He knew, of course, no actions were rewarded,
There were no prizes: though the eye could see
Wide beauty in a motion or a pause,
It need expect no lasting salary
Beyond the bowels' momentary applause.

He lived for years and never was surprised:
A member of his foolish, lying race
Explained away their vices: realised
It was a gift that he possessed alone:
To look the world in the face;
The face he did not see to be his own.


I Never Saw A Moor, by Emily Dickinson

I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet know I how the heather looks,
And what a Billow must be.

I never spoke with God,
Nor visited in heaven;
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the Checks were given.


~~~~Favorite Poets~~~~ (More when I find more)
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1) Walt Whitman
2) Robert Frost
3) Edgar Allen Poe
4) Alexander Pope
5) Ambrose Bierce
6) William Wordsworth
7) Ralph Waldo Emerson
8) Emily Dickinson
9) W.H. Auden


~~~~Favorite authors~~~~ (More when I find more)
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1) Ernest Hemingway
2) Ray Bradbury
3) Stephen King
4) R.A. Salvatore
5) Ed Greenwood
6) Elaine Cunningham
7) Paul Kemp





~~~~Favorite quotes~~~~
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"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
- Jesus of Nazareth


“Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.”
- St. Matthew


"I don't know what I may seem to the world, but as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
- Sir Isaac Newton


"For there is such a difference between the way men live and they way they ought to live, that anybody who abandons what is for what ought to be will learn something that will ruin rather than preserve him, because anyone who determines to act in all circumstances the part of a good man must come to ruin among so many who are not good.."
- Niccolo Machiavelli

"An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate."
- Chateaubriand


“I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.”
- Ludwig van Beethoven


"A poem is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
- Carl Sandburg


"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."
- Christopher Morley


"Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science."
- Sigmund Freud


"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"The difference between the right word and the nearly right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."
- Mark Twain


“In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Every artist was first an amateur."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me."
- Edgar Allen Poe


"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."
- Edgar Allen Poe


"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
- Robert Frost


"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."
- Robert Frost


"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
- Robert Frost


“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
- Robert Frost


"The Poet makes himself a seer by a long, vast and reasoned derangement of the senses - every form of love, of suffering, of madness."
- Arthur Rimbaud


"Poetry is more philosophical and of higher value than history; for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular."
- Aristotle


"Not all who wander are lost."
- J.R.R. Tolkien


“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”
- Ray Bradbury


“Don’t be afraid to be what you say and say what you are, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
- Dr. Suess


"This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us"
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
- George Bernard Shaw


“You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?”
- George Bernard Shaw


“Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibitory law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.”
- Abraham Lincoln


"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
- Abraham Lincoln


"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence."
- Benjamin Franklin


"Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."
- Thomas Jefferson


“Don’t be afraid to be what you say and say what you are, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
- C.S. Lewis


"An 'impersonal God'-- well and good.A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads -- better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap -- best of all. But God Himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps, approaching an infinite speed, the hunter, king, husband -- that is quite another matter. There comes a moment when the children who have been playing at burglars hush suddenly: was that a real footstep in the hall? There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('Man's search for God!') suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?"
- C.S. Lewis


“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
- Albert Einstein


“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”
- Albert Einstein


“The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.”
- Albert Einstein


"Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. Put your finger on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. THAT'S relativity."
- Albert Einstein


"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest."
- W.H. Auden


“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”
- A. A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)


"A whispering corpse is no stranger than the moon."
- Clint Willis


“When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.”
- John W. Gardner


"I just take this job very seriously. It's almost like, you play a kid's game for a king's ransom. And if you don't take it serious enough, eventually one day you're going to say, 'Oh, I could have done this, I could have done that. So I just say, 'I'm healthy right now, I'm going into my fourth year, and why not do the best that I can?' And that's whatever it is, whether it's eating right or training myself right, whether it's studying harder, whatever I can do to better myself."
- Sean Taylor RIP


"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls."
- George Carlin





~~~~Favorite Lyrics~~~~
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"Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turn my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools," said I, "you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls,”
And whispered in the sound of silence"
- The Sound Of Silence, by Simon and Garfunkel

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"Coming back, coming home the queen
of love enters the room
silence ensues... to the king what
have you done to my life
did you take me for a fool or for a wife?

And the king is in his court
counting all his diamonds
one by one they do fall

Says the queen our pride the prince
of spades is coming home
it'd be nice if you could spend some time alone
after all he's in line for the throne.

And the king is in his court
counting all his diamonds
one by one they do fall

So now just get up off you ass and
leave all your treasures behind,
your son is coming home with you to spend time.
Show him how a good king should be
and don't ever forget the day
when you turned back on him and me
still I stayed."
- Prince of Spades, by Dispatch

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"Opens door so i walk inside
Close my eyes
Find my place to hide
And i shake as I take it in
Let the show begin

Open my eyes
Just to have them close again
Well on my way
But on my way where I've been

It swallows me
As it takes me in it's fog
I twist away
As I give this world the nod

Open my eyes
Just to have them close once again
Don't want control
As it takes me down and down and down again

Is that the moon
Or just the light that lights this dead end street?
Is that you there?
Or just another demon that i meet?

The higher you are
The farther you fall
The longer the walk
The farther you crawl
My body, my temple
This temple it tilts
Step into the house that Jack built

Open door so I walk inside
Swallow me so the pain subsides
And I shake as I take the sin
Let the show begin

The higher you are
The farther you fall
The longer the walk
The farther you crawl
My body, my temple
This temple it tilts
Step into the house that Jack built

Open my eyes
It swallows me
Is that you there?
I twist away
Away
Away
Away"
- The House Jack Built, by Metallica

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"...and the road becomes my bride
I have stripped of all but pride
So in her I do confide
And she keeps me satisfied
Gives me all I need

...and with dust in throat I crave
Only knowledge will I save
To the game you stay a slave
Rover wanderer
Nomad vagabond
Call me what you will

But I'll take my time anywhere
Free to speak my mind anywhere
And I'll redefine anywhere
Anywhere I may roam
Where I lay my head is home

...and the earth becomes my throne
I adapt to the unknown
Under wandering stars I've grown
By myself but not alone
I ask no one

...and my ties are severed clean
The less I have the more I gain
Off the beaten path I reign
Rover wanderer
Nomad vagabond
Call me what you will

But I'll take my time anywhere
I'm free to speak my mind anywhere
And I'll never mind anywhere
Anywhere I may roam
Where I lay my head is home

Carved upon my stone
My body lie, But still I roam
Wherever I may roam."
- Wherever I May Roam, by Metallica

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"How could he know this new dawn's light
Would change his life forever?
Set sail to sea but pulled off course
By the light of golden treasure.

Was he the one causing pain
With his careless dreaming?
Been afraid,
Always afraid
Of the things he's feeling;
He could just be gone.

He would just sail on
He would just sail on

How can I be lost?
If I've got nowhere to go?
Searched the seas of gold
How come it's got so cold?
How can I be lost
In remembrance I relive
How can I blame you
When it's me I can't forgive?

These days drift on inside a fog
It's thick and suffocating.
This seeking life outside its hell,
Inside intoxicating.
He's run aground
Like his life;
Water's much too shallow.
Slipping fast
Down with the ship,
Fading in the shadows now
A castaway.

Blame,
All gone,
Away.

Blame gone away.

How can I be lost
If I've got nowhere to go?
Search for seas of gold
How come it's got so cold?
How can I be lost
In remembrance I relive
And how can I blame you
When it's me I can't forgive?

Forgive me
Forgive me not
Forgive me
Forgive me not
Forgive me
Forgive me not
Forgive me
Forgive me, why can't I forgive me?

Set sail to sea but pulled off course
By the light of golden treasure.
How could he know this new dawn's light
Would change his life forever?

How can I be lost
If I've got nowhere to go?
Search for seas of gold
How come it's got so cold?
How can I be lost
In remembrance I relive
So how can I blame you
When it's me I can't forgive?"
- Unforgiven III, by Metallica

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"Open your eyes, a chill passes you by
A premonition coming strong
Rich with desire, superstition in disguise
Draws me into where I belong.

Have you ever wondered why
In a dream you can touch a fallen sky
Or fly to the heavens that watch over you,
Telling me it's all voodoo, voodoo too?

Instill the body, so warm with every breath,
Dance to a vision so seductive.
Rain down upon me, it cleanses me with every drip,
A send you promised for the nourishment that I've been gifted

Have you ever wondered why
In a dream you can touch a fallen sky
Or fly to the heavens that watch over you,
Telling me it's all voodoo, voodoo too?"
- Voodoo Too, by Godsmack

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"Have you ever walked through a room
And it was more like the room passed around you
Like there was a leash around your neck that pulled you through?
Have you ever been at someplace
Recognizing everybody's face
Until you realized that there was no one there you knew?
Have you ever buried your face in your hands
Cause no one around you understands
Or has the slightest idea what it is that makes you be?
Have you ever felt like there was more
Like someone else was keeping score
And what could make you whole was simply out of reach?"
- Have You Ever, by The Offspring

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" Hold me back and hold me down
Hold me close then push me around
Beat me up, beat me down to the ground
I'm sure I deserved it
Left my world, left me alone
Locked inside head becomes my home
Inside a hole buried bag of bone
I'm sure you had your reasons
Out of your sight
Are you out of your mind?
In my absence your heart
Never grew fonder

You just leave me alone
Tell me, please tell me
It ain't so
I can't believe it so I walk the road
You just left me alone
Tell me, please tell me
It ain't so
Have to believe it so I walk alone
So I walk alone
By myself

Had my back then you turned around
Love by your fault but we're never proud
Ran away but I'm not aloud
So I suffered through it
Out of your sight
Are you out of your mind?
In my absence your heart
Never grew fonder

You just leave me alone
Tell me, please tell me
It ain't so
I can't believe it so I walk the road
You just left me alone
Tell me, please tell me
It ain't so
Have to believe it so I walk alone
So I walk alone

You're not my family
Just nothing left for me you see
It's just like Cinderella
Locked up and hid away
You have no idea
What you've created
Why don't you take a look
And see through a hole without a key
And see what I've been missing
Goddamn you for what has

You're not my family
Just nothing left for me you see
It's just like Cinderella
Locked up and hid away
You have no idea
What you've created
Why don't you take a look
And see through a hole without a key
And see what I've been missing
Goddamn you for what has been done
(No one left, for me)

You just leave me alone
Tell me, please tell me
It ain't so
I can't believe it so I walk the road
You just left me alone
Tell me, please tell me
It ain't so
Have to believe it so I walk alone
So I walk alone

It's just like Cinderella
Locked up and hid away
You have no idea"
- A Cinderalla Story, by Mudvayne

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"You walk on like a woman in suffering
Won't even bother now to tell me why
You come alone, letting all of us savor the moment
Leaving me broken another time
You come on like a bloodstained hurricane
Leave me alone, let me be this time
You carry on like a holy man pushing redemption
I don't want to mention, the reason I know

That I am stricken and can't let you go
When the heart is cold, there's no hope, and we know
That I am crippled by all that you've done
Into the abyss will I run

You don't know what your power has done to me
I want to know if I'll heal inside
I can't go on with a holocaust about to happen
Seeing you laughing another time
You'll never know how your face has haunted me
My very soul has to bleed this time
Another hole in the wall of my inner defenses
Leaving me breathless, the reason I know

That I am stricken and can't let you go
When the heart is cold, there's no hope, and we know
That I am crippled by all that you've done
Into the abyss will I run."
- Stricken, by Disturbed

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"I found you here, now please just stay for a while
I can move on with you around
I hand you my mortal life, but will it be forever?
I'd do anything for a smile, holding you 'til our time is done
We both know the day will come, but I don't want to leave you

Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost
It's empty and cold without you here, too many people to ache over
Newborn life replacing life, replacing all of us, changing this fable we live in
No longer needed here so where should we go?
Will you take a journey tonight, follow me past the walls of death?
But girl, what if there is no eternal life?"
- Seize The Day, by Avenged Sevenfold

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" I never thought they'd want me to go even faster,
never thought I took my foot off the gas,
everybody loves to be in on the pressure,
but I know they're all waiting for the crash"
- Tomorrow, by SR71

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"So here it goes,
This is my letter.
Hope you're alright,
It's been rough for me
Thinking all night,
About the places I'd be,
If I maybe just did a little bit more,
You might have let me
Become a man for sure
And if I might express once concern,
It seems an issue
All day in every turn.
Whats the next step,
The latest hole in my life?
Whats next for me to learn?"
- My Letter, by Flaw


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"If you take a life, do you know what you'll give
Odds are, you won't like what it is
When the storm arrives, would you be seen with me
By the merciless eyes I've deceived

I've seen angels fall from blinding heights
But you yourself are nothing so divine
Just next in line

Arm yourself because no-one else here will save you
The odds will betray you
And I will replace you
You can't deny the prize; it may never fulfill you
It longs to kill you
Are you willing to die

The coldest blood runs through my veins
You know my name

If you come inside, things will not be the same
When you return to my night
If you think you've won
You never saw me change
The game that we have been playing

I've seen diamonds cut through harder men
Than get on your cell-phone
If you must pretend
You may meet your end"
- You Know My Name, by Chris Cornell

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" Songs of pain and soothing lullabies
Songs of happiness and some that make us cry
One song we share
The cross we all bear
One that segregates
One that unifies

All we wonder
No one ever denies
If once given life we must die

So bow down with me
Where summer fades into fall
And leave your hatchets of hate
Bow down with me
And sing the saddest of all
The song we all serenade

The more we know
The less we understand
Life... eternity
The savagery of man
We want it all
Aimed at the fall
What is destiny with the masterplan

All we wonder
No one ever denies
If once given life we must die

So bow down with me
Where summer fades into fall
And leave your hatchets of hate
Bow down with me
And sing the saddest of all
The song we all serenade

Hold on now
Don't leave don't let it go
Dance away the waltz of life
Right or wrong
The seed we never sow
That's our loss
Our sacrifice

What does the winter bring
If not yet another spring"
- Serenade, by Kamelot
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