Marco A. Valencia

I am an Artist/ pastry Chef. Spanish is my native language. English suits me well. Since I was five anyway. I write in both. I am like a ghost between two worlds niether of which I truly call my own. Poetry is my air and I am a gray whale, each breath is fuel to seek the deepest depths of thought and feeling - yada yada yada.

Really though - I started writing when I was sixteen. I wanted to emulate those amazing poets I was being exposed to. The first poem that knocked me on my a*s was Tennyson's

The Eagle

He clasps the crag with crook�d hands;

Close to the sun in lonely lands,

Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;

He watches from his mountain walls,

And like a thunderbolt he falls.

that was it - I wanted to write like this. So to that end here I am...