I wanted to replace the hideously outdated entry of 2006. It was driving me a little mad.

A note to say I am now (and have been for some time) using my dA account for my own personal archive; I'm not bothered, anymore, about my small amount of pageviews, comments, (and even fewer) critiques - I once was, and played the same game that many do on dA, of spending hours commenting or favouriting other works purely to get the return pageviews. That seems like vanity to a rather extreme and frankly, sad and pathetic scale. I know popularity on dA is not reflective of talent - a quick glance at the amount of glorified suicide notes that pass for poetry here with pages after pages of notes giving support rather than criticism will tell you that - and whether or not you believe I fit into that same category I've just described, of writers who spill out little more than autobiography and have no respect for form, structure and effect, and that I really think need to go to councilling rather than expose their emotional insides for public viewing, I am here, but I am no longer going to actively push myself on the dA community through techniques that I'd described and observed. I'd take the whole lot down gladly if it weren't for a few things: one is that it acts as a convienent access to my ever growing bulk of work; that I still like to view and favourite other people's work on occasion (because I genuinely like it and want to express critique or praise); and, I suppose, that I still in part cling to this childish idea that someone will read my poetry and like it, feel - if not uplifted - better for trading the seconds and minutes they spare reading. I still think, for whatever self reproaches I feel about my poetry, and downright revulsion I have for much of my early gallery (which I may in time remove - I feel it fits too well exactly the same sort of poetry I hate, and which I don't feel is poetry), that there is, in some of it at least, a small glimmer of quality. Some I am quite happy with. And if I can be happy with some of it, then there is hope that someone else might hold the same view.

If you have supported me then thank you; thank you for stopping here now.

Dreaming always