rsdavis' profile

Eons member since

Dec 24, 2006

Age, Gender

58, Male

Location

Byfield, MA

Relationship

Single. Interested in meeting women for a serious relationship and meeting people for friendship

Hometown

Byfield,Massachusetts

Places I've been

Acadia National Park
White Mountain National Forest
Walden Pond
San Francisco
Berkeley
New Orleans
Denver
New York City
Grand Canyon
Chicago
Orlando,FL
Vermont
Niagara Falls
Reno,NV
Oregon

More about me

I grew up in a large working class family and except for a few years in a nearby city I have always lived in the same small town in northeastern Massachusetts. After high school in nineteen sixty-eight I worked in factories, convenience stores, as a hotel desk clerk, and worked briefly for the Internal Revenue Service. None of those jobs ever brought me personal fulfillment because I have always felt drawn to creative work, especially poetry. Writing poems brings me such a feeling of fulfillment and satisfaction that I believe it's the work I was meant to do. My ideal life would be to be a successful poet and short story writer and live in a cabin in the mountains.

 

Favorite Movies

Il Postino Casablanca Dead Poets Society Cinema Paradiso Lost In Translation

Activities

Writing poetry and short stories. Listening to music at home and going to concerts. Reading reading reading! Taking long walks in the park or the mountains or by the ocean or going anywhere just to enjoy the beauty and peace of nature. Meditating on the meaning of life. Spending long hours in libraries or bookstores especially on rainy days. Enjoying a meal at a cafe or nice Italian restaurant.

Favorite Music

The Beatles The Rolling Stones Bob Dylan Van Morrison Paul Simon James Taylor Stevie Wonder Patti Smith Laura Nyro Joan Baez Bonnie Raitt Santana Miles Davis John Coltrane Thelonious Monk Wynton Marsalis Stan Getz Pat Metheny Diana Krall Nora Jones Sarah Vaughn Ella Fitzgerald Billie Holiday Shirley Horn Bill Evans Kenny Burrell Kenny Rankin Steely Dan Fleetwood Mac Grateful Dead Janis Joplin Joan Osborne Joni MitchellThe Allman Brothers Neil Young Johann Sebastian Bach Beethoven Mozart Chopin Schumann Vivaldi Handel Schubert

Favorite TV Shows

I don't watch much television. When I do it's usually something on PBS or sports or a Seinfeld rerun.

Favorite Books

Walden by Henry David Thoreau/ Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson/ Narrow Road To The Far North by Basho/ Collected Poems of Robert Frost/ Poetry of William Butler Yeats/ Poetry of John Keats/ Poetry of Emily Dickinson/ Poetry of William Wordsworth/ Poetry of Pablo Neruda/ Poetry of Rabindranath Tagore

Favorite Quotes

"Poetry is of little worth in the marketplace but of great value to the soul." rs davis/ "Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. John Lennon/ "The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates/ "To thine own self be true." William Shakespeare/ "Poetry is the most difficult most solitary and most life-enhancing thing that one can do." Stanley Kunitz/ "A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness." John Keats

Favorite People

Dalai Lama Martin Luther King Gandhi Bob Dylan Pete Seeger Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Emily Dickinson Robert Frost Mother Teresa Anyone who has dedicated their life to the cause of world peace, world hunger, social justice, human and animal rights, or the protection of the environment.

Favorite Places

White Mountains of New Hampshire Walden Pond Plum Island Massachusetts Vermont Maine Harvard Square Cambridge Mass Paris France Kyoto Japan Berkeley California

Favorite Animals

cats dogs birds

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