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The Ocean of Light overcomes the ocean of darkness.*

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Psalms, Yawps, and Howls is a writing website of Daniel Eugene Wilcox, a poet and fiction writer. Daniel's wandering lines have appeared in many magazines in the United States and overseas. Before that he hiked through the University of Nebraska, Cal State  University, Long Beach (Creative Writing), Montana, Pennsylvania, Europe, Palestine/Israel and other places of wonder. 

He casts his lines out upon the turbulent waters and far shores of this troubled world. Yes, troubled, so very shaken, a dirge from history past to the dangerous future...


Find the measure, the full measure, of true romance and love in "The Beekeeper's Moon" at The Greensilk Journal, May 9th, 2012.   http://www.thegsj.com/poetry_3_spring_2012.html  

Discover the faith, hope, and love on  "The Journey Rime of Faith" at Rubber Lemon UK.


Take a walk on the philosophical side at Front Porch Review with "Lapping Ideas," an unusual poem previously published in The Centrifugal Eye.

For those unemployed or who care for the many without or who have lost their homes to the economy, at Enhance Magazine is a poem from one of Daniel's own times of lack and unemployment and anxiety: "Out of the Carcass"
http://enhancemag.onimpression.com/post/20573933047/enhance-no-7 

And then there's war such as the story of  "Joan of Arc" at The Camel Saloon.

On the lighter side, check out "Human Imitation" at Bigger Stones.

Travel over to hotmetalpress.net to experience "Cape May Light," "The Mystery of Modern Life," "Ventura Beach," "Markers," and "Missouri's 'Job'."

Visit down Babylon way again, a psalmed reworking of the old religious desire for revenge after suffering evil (Psalm 137:9). "Remix: Babbling On, Again, River" at Eunoia Review, October 15, 2011. 


Three dog night, besides being, a rock group from the late 60's:-), is a reference to native Australians who allegedly used to try and keep warm on cold nights by sleeping with a dog or more...Experience "One Dog Night" at Unlikely Stories. While there, check out the allusionary poem of the future called "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" and "Mean 'Wile'," a poem of Darfur and modern civilization.


Daniel has two books of published poems: Dark Energy was published by Diminuendo Press in 2009.  His second book, Psalms, Yawps, and Howls, is a large collection of previously poems that appeared in various magazines over the last three years. 
 Both volumes of poetry are available from Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com, local bookstores, coffee shops, etc.  

Travel to the  post apocalyptic world, in the war/love speculative story, "The Last Act, " published by Midwest Literary Magazine.
Like science fiction? Check out Daniel's website:  http://lastthings.weebly.com/ 

Faced with problems and troubles, try a Chinese man's answer in "But for the Cesspool..." published at Liturgical Credo. And read about the truth of this "Present Moment."

No matter what the situation, what the trouble, we humans manage to find a "just" reason to violate (as one MCC sign says--"Just was is just destruction, just suffering, just agony, just bloodshed, just killing, just murder, just carnage, just death...just war?"). Experience the lament against total war, "The Wind Blew Away the Young," at Mad Swirl.com. Weep for the innocent in "Caught in the Act in Iraq." Or be shocked into action by his Christmas poem, "To Whom It Does Not Concern," on the website, protestpoems.org and a reflection on time and history in "Of Things Past and Present" at Static Movement. 
 
Daniel's wild lines have fallen to print in many magazines including The New Verse News, Decades Review, Quill and Parchment, Front Porch Review, Counterexample Poetics, The Copperfield Review, Rubber Lemon, amphibi.us, Poetry Super Highway, Three Line Poetry, The Clockwise Cat, Liturgical Credo, Willows Wept Review, vox poetica, Structo Magazine #4, Four and Twenty, Gloom Cupboard, Clutching at Straws, The Centrifugal Eye, Wild Violet Literary Magazine, The Greensilk Journal, Lyrical Passion Poetry, A Handful of Stones, Haiku Journal, Right Hand Pointing, The Bicycle Review, Leaf Garden, The Recusant, Calliope Nerve, Static Movement, Unfettered Verse,  outwardlink.net, protestpoems.org, Word Riot, Moria Poetry, MediaVirus Magazine, Lunarosity, Hanging Moss Journal, The New Verse News, ocean diamond, The Writer's Eye, Mad Swirl, Abandoned Towers, Writer's Ink, The Scruffy Dog Review, Oak Bend Review, Crossing Rivers Into Twilight, Tipton Poetry Journal, The Cherry Blossom Review, Word Catalyst, The Houston Literary Review, Lucid Rhythms, Identity Theory, Halfway Down the Stairs, Frame Lines, Full of Crow, The Externalist, The Driftwood Review, Western Friend Magazine, Flutter Poetry Journal, Frostwriting, Words-Myth, Ink Sweat & Tears, Erbacce Print Journal, Sentinel Poetry Online, The November 3rd Club, the poetry warrior, The Shine Journal, Mississippi Crow Magazine, The Cerebral Catalyst, Anthrozine, Ink, Sweat, & Tears, Stylus Poetry Journal, Idlewheel Literary Friction, The Indite Circle, The Rogue Poetry Journal, The WriteSideUp, La Fenetre International Literary Magazine,The Other Side Magazine, Gambit, etc.


His newest website is selahriver: 
http://selahriver.weebly.com/ 

He has completed a speculative/alternate history novel, The Feeling of the Earth. A  suspense thriller called An Eye for a Beheading is in pause mode, waiting for him to return.

Daniel resides on the coast of California with his mystery-loving wife and a hyper-cat named Fizzy. Besides writing, he reads a lot, shoots photography, and finds time to swim. He's an old backpacker and misses those wondrous trips. In the past he hiked up the tallest peak in Arizona, to the top of Mount Whitney in the Sierra Nevadas, and down into the bottom of the Grand Canyon on many of its South Rim trails; but now he hikes into his computer room each day in the fall of his years:-). Well, it's not quite that bad; Daniel has hiked with his wife on Kauai, up Oregon way, and in Olympia National Park in Washington State; and he walks with his wife walks around on the Central Coast.

*Reference of the Site Logo:

I saw, also, that there was an ocean of darkness and death; but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness. In that also, I saw the infinite love of God, and I had great openings...      George Fox


Check out Daniel's personal blog of musings on Ultimate Reality, ethics, religion and social history, literature, media, and art:

http://infiniteoceanoflightandlove.blogspot.com/

Experience a few of his other poems and stories at Lightwaveseeker:
http://lightwaveseeker.weebly.com/

Daniel Eugene Wilcox

lightwaveseeker@gmail.com


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