About Land of Dreams

About My Poetry

I've been writing since I was about 9. I don't exactly like to call what I write 'poems' per say. To me that's not exactly what they are. It's more like I tap into something within or without and the words come streaming forth. Sometimes I see the words in my head, sometimes I hear them as songs or as poems. I'm not always able to get them all on paper. I've lost quite a few. Between my 3 poem notebooks, and those I have written down on scraps, the net, etc. I'm pretty safe in saying that I've written a few hundred poems. Some of them are gathered here.
Please note that some of the poems are rather vulgar, and that many of the things once said I no longer hold to be true but I keep them here anyway as a record of sorts. Please note that many of my poems express anger, hate, pain and thoughts of death.
I've had one poem published by http://www.poetry.com/ and was nominated as Poet of the Year for 2000 by the International Society of Poets. That poem is My Lost Paradise (Copyright ©2001 Melanie Snyder )
All poems copyright Melanie Snyder (Entaeyen) ©2001 - Present

About My Stories

I think I used to write a lot when I was little (5-10). I remember writing stories a lot back then. I always had the trouble of being able to start a story but not being able to finish it. Some of my past efforts never got any longer than a single paragraph. I guess I'll never be an author, but that's fine. I have here included some of my longer works that I may start writing from again one day. I'll add more as I write them and as I go through my old ones.

About Names

Yes, I know I have weird names, for practically everything. I never liked how the American English Language pronounciated words. They never looked or sounded right to me. So eventually I started making up my own words and names for people, creatures, etc. from my world - Tarzap. So here's an example of my pronounciations of names. I'm pretty sure it's pretty acurate.
Entaeyen - en-tã-yen
Deignian - dã-ne-yin
Vulahn - võõ-lôn

About Thoughts, Ideas and Theories

I was feeling quite angry the other morning and although I didn't get a chance then to write about it, I want to do so now. I haven't added any kind of writings to my site in a long time, and in fact I deleted the links to my diaries, so now I'm going to make up for that. Shortened version: this is a place for me to ramble when the need be, without saying anything I might regret later.

About the Dream Diary

A long time ago when I had my first website, Violent Mood Swings, I had a dream diary.
With all of the strange dreams I've been having over the past year, I decided to make another.
Hopefully my dreams might actually start to make some sense after compiling them together here.
Besides, I'm interested in seeing how my dreams change now that I'm getting off of Amitriptyline,
a drug used for depression and pain, that is supposed to effect the sleep cycle.

This site was created November 1, 2001

Special thanks to Mike Stewart for the avatar graphics.
Background and layout by Melanie Snyder.

All graphics within this site, unless otherwise noted, are by Entaeyen (Melanie Snyder) 2000-Present.

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I ask that you please leave them here.