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Solaceye: Pls am just back since barely three weeks, I once sought for designing work. Any hope to be involved again?

i am presently without a designer, n cuddlemi says i can get in touch with you so we could work together. if u are down, here is my email addy: jolomir@gmail.com. looking forward to working with u on.

jadelord: having problems creating a second post..... and au soon can i get a designer.... pls respond ASAP!!!
thanx a bunch

Miracle does happen still
got me second past created already

still need words on me designer

Designer: Lightheart

Why I chose this topic
I didn’t pick this topic, it chose me. It was a topic I could actually relate too, it somewhat defines me.

Unique experience derived from working with a designer
It was an exciting experience all the way especially the number of times we disagreed before finally picking this design. A lot of work went into it on my side now I can’t begin to image how much work he must have put in to get something that we could work with… THIS! It also gives me this unique pleasure that poetry and pictures could actually go side by side (been toying with this idea for a long time now with a photographer). It’s so amazing

Constraints involved in working in a team
First, getting a designer was almost nightmarish. Then having a to wait on LightHeart to come up with a design was quite a wait and when they started to come in and at first they did not fully interpret the poem adequately, I knew I was going to get on my designer’s nerves, but it turned out right because he was patient all the way and like a sponge, absorbed ideas we both could come up with. Not having to see who I was working it made it a lot difficult to accomplish… but we did, somewhat.

The poem.
My Alter Ego is a very simple poem that brings to the fore the complexity of the human personality and the perceived societal view, acceptable or unacceptable, of who one is. Most times we tend to want to conform to what society thinks of us that our true self is hidden. Sometimes we are thought to be good but our true devious nature will have to remain hidden as such and vice versa. But what if our true self is laid out bare…?
So this poem is just about me and the society’s view of who I am. Overtime I have been told I am a nice person, but I try to explain that I have a not to nice side, which they find hard to believe, well not until they actually see it. So it is more or less a borderline split personality phenomenon, but not to the extreme, as I am aware of the other me.
This is a 4-lined 5-stanza poem, written in the most simplest of literary styles
The most prominent literary tools employed here is rhymes. It possesses a rich rhyming scheme that is easy to follow and at the same time holds on spell bound till the end, i.e.: An-gel, so well; offer, proffer (stanza 1), be, me; good, do (stanza 2), good, goo; be, me (stanza 3), red, dead; head, read(stanza4), Angel, well; jewel, Angel (stanza 5).
Stanza 1 opens with me trying to describe who I am not, despite the visible outlook portrayed to people around me, probably because of a helpful and charming personality I may possess.
Stanza 2 continues with what people do not know about me, a totally different personality from what they see and know “Repressed by what is believed to be good”
In Stanza 3 I concede to societal perception of me being an Angel, but will have the option to decide the type of ‘…ANGEL that will be me’, agreeing that though I am not a good person, I am certainly not evil.
Stanza 4 just describes the kind of angel that I am, certainly not one society will want to accept “…as it will leave you so dead”
Stanza 5 presents the real me to the world, the one they will most often not see, because it is ”repressed by what is believed to be good”, My Alter Ego and my best friend. Should they then come to see it, then they should see that I am a Devilish Angel.
The design:
The design by Lightheart is in all way a very simplistic design, just as the poem itself is simple. The little devil is a depiction of the deviousness of My Alter Ego, it’s not so good and not evil nature. We chose a little devil because it extemporizes the very essence of the poem itself. Surely, the little imp looks adorable but the deviousness cannot go unnoticed.
The cute little horns (…to adorn my head), the fork (…to go with the fancy tales you have read), a tail (…so long it will leave you so dead) and the colour red (…cloaked in the colour of red) are all depicted in the poem in stanza 4, thus making it the perfect design.
It, being the cover picture of a book, denotes like every other book; that it should be read to be understood and appreciated. As such, to know me better, one has to come to terms with my alter ego, by taking the time to study me.

Terminologies
Goo: A slimy, yet harmless substance.
Mien: An attitude portrayed by a person.
Cloaked: To be covered or dressed

The Message
Despite society's pressure to comform to certain ways, we just have to come to terms with who we really are, just so we do not lose our real personality.

having problems creating a second post..... and au soon can i get a designer.... pls respond ASAP!!!
thanx a bunch

can we submit more than one poem in d first stage?

#40
CRAVING!!!

Craving!!!
A heart's desire
Fitted with wings
To soar with passion re-fired

Craving!!!
Of wanton lusting
Greed pitted against reason
And conscience lost to treachery

Craving!!!
A soul's longing
For love and peace, yet bidding
For all of the eartn's belonging

Craving!!!
An endless wanting
Ceaselessly consuming
Till everything is nothing

Craving!!!
A careless demanding
Roots forever sucking
Till death overtakes living

Craving!!!
Truly a heart's desire
With wanton wanting
Till the grave to retire

I think i can do this, i just hope no one will be restraned in a house for d period of time of d competition.... gt a major project in d works.