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About David P. Eckert

David P. Eckert: 52, Male
Long Island, NY, United States

Bio: 51 year old Long Islander writing for 35 years or so, lots of poetry, but also write stories, autobiograhpical pieces, working on a novel. Married with a pair of teenagers, and work 60 hour weeks. Yes I am insane, sort of, and not enough time to write.
P.S. This also means I am a New Yorker

Genres: Poetry: free verse, sometimes political, occasionally rhyme, occasionally rap
Stories: mostly autobiographical
Novel: working on one very, very, very slowly - a cross between Evanovich, Hiaasen and an espionage novel.

Main Website:: www.writerscafe.org/writers/davidpage1/

Other Websites: www.myspace.com/davidpage1

Publishing Credits: In process, (as an uncredited editor) and perhaps as poet

Awards: Some awards/contest winners/features from other sites

Influences: Family, psychology, social justice and the world around me filtered through the lens of growing up a Jewish American male. In terms of writers, Carl Sandburg, Sylvia Plath, Linda Pastan, primarily, have greatly influenced how I think about poetry and to some extent how I write it.

Favourite Books: Linda Pastan: AM:PM
James Lee Burke: Jolie Blon's Bounce
Janet Evanovich: any Stephanie Plum story
Stephen King: The Green Mile
Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
Kafka: The Trial

Writer, Prizefighter, Or Caffeine Inspired All Nighter?: Writer #1, Caffeine #1A, All-Nighters are accidental, caffeine inspired, but not so welcome.

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Paul, I think I have some pieces I'd like to submit, most likely poetry, but perhaps something else. However, I am unclear as to the differences in tone between the various options for submitting ... Read More »

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I agree totally with what you are saying. At another site, many writers simply did not want any criticism, not even constructive, and really the reviews tended to degenerate into fluff, especially ... Read More »

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Which technical stuff? The presence or absence of punctuation? or discussions about the same? And I certainly am not interested in reviews that stick to emotional. I don't mind them as I do like to... Read More »

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For Future Rainy Days

You can’t touch me push me

punch me sing me a lullaby.

Don’t even try to please me.

Don’t ever fathom me.…

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Posted by David P. Eckert on February 17th, 2009 at 12:24am — 2 Comments (Add)

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Dark lake flows, wind at its back,

running for it’s natural life

like a man caught up in the currents

moving forward cause he can’t look back.

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Posted by David P. Eckert on February 16th, 2009 at 4:21pm — No Comments (Add)

A Peek at Heaven

In the last instant before the doorway opens
bathing its entry in heaven's white light,
before those first steps into the tunnel,
is there a warning of worlds colliding?

When he nearly died at forty-eight,
his heart stopped and paddled three times
as the EMTs fought to keep him on this side,
he remarked at seeing no white light.

I can't ask him how it went the last time
when he closed the door behind him,
but he'd told us of my un…

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Posted by David P. Eckert on February 7th, 2009 at 11:32pm — No Comments (Add)

Snow Wavers

Snow wavers its way to earth,
worrying at the trees and grass,
twigs, walks and roads it blankets
as if it hesitates,
afraid to hide some small truth
to be lost in the slush and melt.
There is beauty in the white quilt
with its subtle blues and yellows
under the sun's rays,
a respite from imperfection
of our stumbled lives,
our carelessness under cover
or even gone beneath the weather.
We need this white wet
powder of youth
to rest our…

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Posted by David P. Eckert on February 3rd, 2009 at 9:50pm — No Comments (Add)

Intersection Airway intersection between species leaves the big bird gliding water landing S…

Intersection

Airway intersection

between species

leaves the big bird

gliding

water landing

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At 5:35pm on August 12th, 2009, Nicole Hellene said…: Hey, I'm flipping through your stuff and you're pretty amazing. I'm just going to be honest I really don't like most poetry, but yours blew me away. I'll add you as a friend just as soon as I figure out how ;)

At 9:08pm on September 6th, 2008, Lynn said…: Hello, David. I'm from LI as well! Born in Northport.

Thoughtful comments on the poem earlier, I don't think we mention the treatment of Native Americans very often and I don't think that part of history is told accurately in many schools.

At 4:43pm on July 24th, 2008, Lionel Braud said…: i got the rotating gadget from writerscafe gidget screen. I know I am responding to this comment that was like months ago, but I've had some twists and turns in my life in the meantime, but im back now.