There are two things that initiated my foray into writing. One...the most important one...was Jennifer.
The other was when I discovered the Shakespearean sonnet below which spoke to me on an emotional level. It is from whence
I derived my online name.
When... in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And
trouble deaf Heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself, and curse my fate
Wishing me like to one more rich
in hope
Featur'd like him... like him with friends possess'd
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope
With
what I most enjoy contented least:
Yet... in these thoughts myself almost despising
Haply I think on thee
and then
my state like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love
remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state
With kings'
