About Me
I'm a poet first, the rest is second. I moved around alot when I was young so I've had the opportunity to see what life is like for so many other people. I feel blessed, but at the same time, cursed. My life is reflected in my work. The good, and the worst times. I let my poetry seep into the beat, dabble with my own techniques. Starving artists gotta eat. I wrap my hands around the ideas that seem concrete, but they would only appear in my sleep. Points connect with certain people we meet. Don't you see! The truth is finally clear to me! Open the box, but first you must read the inscription on the lock......................(to be continued)Everything I write is open for interpretation. I encourage criticism.
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Johnny Appleseed was a man with a wonderful dream of seeing apple trees blossoming everywhere, bearing fruit so nobody was hungry.Born John Chapman on the 26th of September 1774, in Leominster, Massachusetts, spending his life devoted to planting apple seeds in the American wilderness. With the time he spent, Johnny Appleseed planted literally thousands of seeds creating orchards ( in effect he actually created nurseries of apple trees) in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. The actual number of acres is shown as 1,200 ( which in his will was left to his sister).Johnny Appleseed walked bare foot, even in the snowy winters, planting apple seeds as he went. Due to his wanting to help others, if he heard of a horse that was to be put down Johnny would first buy the horse and some acres of grass onto which he turned the horse, if the horse recovered Johnny Appleseed gave the horse to someone in need.He received free apple seeds from cider mills, that realised, as Johnny Appleseed planted more seeds, the cider mills would receive more work from the future apple trees, The seeds were used for the planting of his nurseries which he left in the charge of his neighbour, allowing Johnny Appleseed to continue with his wanderings,(returning each year to tend the nurseries) and helping others. In travelling he obviously needed to cook, so he would carry with him a pot, which the tales suggest he wore on his head, presumably he also carried seeds, so the head would be a good place to carry it, On his various travels, he would also carry his bible for he was a very religious man, and when stopping at homesteads he would read stories from the bible.A law was passed that new homesteads had to plant 50 trees on the land, and to this end Johnny Appleseed gave seeds or sold young trees, he instructed his neighbour that when people required trees that he would accept coin, alternatively take corn meal or used clothes in barter. This indeed was a further way of spreading the apple seeds. Whilst journeying Johnny Appleseed decided he would make a fire at the end of a hollow log, but discovered that a bear and her cubs were sleeping inside, so Johnny built his fire at the other end of the log and slept in the snow. Such was Johnny Applseed's attitude to the animals.that it is said that Johnny played with bears, that birds perched on his shoulder and that wild animals fed from his hand.Such was the soul of Johnny Appleseed that he loved his fellow man, be they indians, settlers or animals. There are many tales of Johnny Appleseed which include, that a rattle snake tried to bite him while he was asleep, but the fangs could not penetrate his feet due to them being as hard as leather, that he melted snow with his feet, his pet was a wolf that he released from a trap, and many more.Upon his death in Indiana, in March 1845 Johnny Appleseed had spent around 50 years in planting/selling apple seeds and trees. When news of his death reached Washington D C. tribute was paid to him by members of congress. Today we think of him as a man with a heart of gold, with a pioneering spirit, starting America on the path to being one of the largest apple growers in the world.I go by the name J. Appleseed when I write because I believe that positive seeds of thought should always be planted to give people more of an understanding of the world around them. I'm far from perfect, but my intentions are always good. So with that said, enjoy what I have written and take from it what you will. I'm just planting seeds.
