My name is Thaxton A. Lewis.
I am married and have three children.
I come from a mixed race background and my wife and I are not the same race.
I love to paint, engrave, draw, write both articles and fiction, and draw and write comic books.
I am interested in literature, comic books,art, politics, religion, sports, music and many other things.
I play guitar and keyboard, and have plans to travel.
I attended Rutgers University, Livingston college, and I have a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology.

My passion is ...

creation

I know too much about ...

music/books

My parents always told me ...

To be myself.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a movie star.

My favorite memory ...

The birth of my first child.

Why I write ...

I love writing.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I am reading John Twelve Hawks the Traveler. I am watching Dexter. I am listening to Amy Winehouse.

My first job ...

Paper delivery boy.

My best moment ...

Still on the way.

My inspiration ...

my life, art, my wife, my kids, my family. Many things.

Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Does the best poetry come from the heart or from the mind?

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The mind is entangled in a futile pursuit to logically rearrange reality into something it can observe, control, and catalogue.

Poetry frees the mind of its entanglements, because it emanates from the heart, and I am not being literal in the sense of the physical heart, but in the sense as how the word is generally used, as the part of your being that comes from a state without thought but plenty of emotional content.

Very often we find ourselves feeling a poem. Why do we feel a poem, or the words of a poem, why not think them, or think of them?

Even when we find ourselves thinking...

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