Maranatha Montalban

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I started loving (then writing) poetry during my teenage years ever since I read some of Danielle Steel's short poems at the beginning of her novels. But the poem that brought this passion to a highly different level was Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Love's Philosophy"  ... after which my poetic life will never be the same again!

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I have since branched out to reading works of other classical poets, of whom my personal favorites are William Blake, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Emily Dickinson, among many others; to some contemporary poets such as Lang Leav, Melody Lee, Michael Faudet, and Tyler Knott Gregson.

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There's just something about poetry that touches you and speaks to you deeply and profoundly to your very soul ... and I hope my poems would resonate deep within your heart as well ... and find its way to mine.