Brandon Nobles

I am a Southern novelist, essayist, poet, pianist, guitarist, composer/musician, painter/artist, and playwright. I have published papers in philosophy, psychology, theology, mysticism, physics, and biology. You can visit my official website here: http://thenoblesfrequency.com.

I signed up here to make selected poems from a recently published book of collected my poetry. You can find it here: http://www.cafepress.com/bkndigitalis.208752173

The name of the volume is 'Attending Awake'

it is a 180 page collection of (55) poems written between age 5-23. The book is divided into sections: childhood verses (ages 5-12) teenage verses (13-19) and adult verses (20-23)

This is a low resolution image of the cover designed by my brother and primary designer, Kyle:

http://www.geocities.com/crimsonhatred/attendawake.jpg


Anyone interested in getting to know me or read more of my work, feel free to contact me on myspace at: http://www.myspace.com/hemo_botep

It is my opinion that the best poems have yet to be written. If you don't tell a story, blatantly state your feelings and associate them with metaphors, and talk about nothing but yourself and your opinions without ever telling any narrative story, you're not a poet. You're attempting to be poetic. This "I'm forsaken, woe is me, I'm decaying like a rose" type garbage gives American poetry a bad name. And most of the poetry on this site only gets so many reads and responses because it's not subtle, easily understandable and digestible trite that blatantly states expression instead of GASP expressing it. Read some good fucking poetry and look outside your limited worldview and tell a RELEVANT story or narrative for once. Nobody cares how depressed you are and how well you can make abstract personal observations rhyme if it's not relevant. Grow the fuck up and learn some subtlety, learn some relevance, and learn to WRITE REAL VERSE.

"To be a success, one must first be a mediocrity."
That is the truth. It seems as though subtlety is a dying art in poetry. No one tells STORIES with poems anymore. Instead it's easier to just state how you feel and make it rhyme than it is to express feeling through tonal value, imagery, and relevance. I try to write from the perspective of the 'we' ... instead of the I, instead of just structuring how I feel about a subject into rhyming couplets. If a poem openly states a feeling, it is KITSCH, and it lacks subtlety. There is a larger world outside of the feelings of the self ... and to write something truly great, it has to take perspective of the self and other selves into consideration. Express yourself. Don't explain yourself. You don't have to say love or pain or desperation to EXPRESS IT. Imagery, relevance, tonal / sonorous quality, lyricism, narrative, and perspective translate feeling into art. Feelings alone don't equal art. Caravaggio didn't write "LONELINESS" on his painting of the Madonna, asleep with her arms cradling a child not there. It has to be shown, expressed. Read the great poetry of the world and try to learn from it.

If you enjoy any of my work, let me know. It gives me a reason to keep working. I love talking with people interested in poetry. There aren't too many in my area. (Whitmire, South Carolina)
My favorite poets are W.B. Yeats, Keats, Omar Khayyam, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Milton, Pushkin, Goethe, Virgil, Schiller, Homer, and Dylan Thomas.
My favorite writers are Fyodor Dostoevsky, Douglas Adams, Franz Kafka, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Arthur C. Clarke, Ernest Hemingway, Victor Hugo, Burton, and Shakespeare.

My favorite poem is 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'
My favorite novel is 'The Brothers Karamazov'.