User:Greg013Smi

Greetings Wikipedia users. Hello! I am Gregory Lynn Smith and I live in Oklahoma. I am a veteran of the US Army, and I am a 1972 graduate of Putnam City High School. I was awarded a Bachelor's degree in Applied Liberal Arts from Central State University in 1985, and also attended Graduate classes after the name changed to the University of Central Oklahoma in the 1990's. I have certificates from the Defense Language Institute for Russian and Intermediate Russian, and studied at the University of Maryland in Europe during the 1970's. I am a real person and I do have credentials as both a well known poet, and a long term poet, that lives in the United States of America. I have written poetry since I was a child, which means about 50 years or so. My published poetry is listed in several Poetry data bases, but clearly has not been as widely spread as I would like. It has been well received by professionals and I attended the ITC 2007 Poetry Convention in Orlando Florida, where poetry was read aloud and where many poems were included in Internationally recognized organizations, including the United Nations and also the US government's Peace Corp projects. My name is confused often, because it is a notable name, the same as a famous actor from Canada, also called Gregory Smith. My middle name does offer some variation, yet due to many other talents, often gets confused with others, by serious publishing houses and editors. However, I still have several authentic letters from such editors, who are themselves authors, that say my poetry is not only good, but excellent in specific instances. These authors, were themselves, Pulitzer Prize winning authors. The best known poems are those that were published by the International Library of Poetry, Owings Mills, MD 21117, Howard Ely, Editor. I have over 12 poems in a variety of anthologies, Best Poems and Poets of 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, and several other published poems under another publisher, Eber & Wein Publishing, John T Eber, Sr. Managing Editor. Those dates include the 2010, 2011, and 2012 editions of Best Poets of ... under Volumes 1 or 2. My work has been locally published in the Bethany Tribune, (Feb 12, 2009) and has been virtually published by Facebook.com and several of the Poetry.com and Poets.com websites. If you need further references, you can look further under archived poems for Gregor13, which was a pen name that exclusively was used by me, during my AOL days, in several websites online from 1992-2002.

This year,2014, I created a coined work,"Quietry",that was listed and removed from Wikipedia by users. It is the reason for this page, since well-meaning protectors of data, under the guise of defending data bases, destroyed the entries, but I am correcting them and getting them reproduced. If you'd like to contact me, I am on Linked-in.com and on Facebook.com/Gregory L. Smith and a dozen other websites. In my opinion, Wikipedia actually is one of the reasons we have books, because if one can edit any electronic data base, you risk the unfair removal of good work, and I must protest that people do this often, without just cause. I think the Poem from my 2005 Anthology entry says it better than I can... Sample poem....from, Best Poems and Poets of 2005, Ely "Diamond in the Rough"                  by Gregory L. Smith  Jan 2006 Hidden in obscurity, the diamond in the rough remains, with glimmers of color and brilliant rays, it lies still, in quiet calm, entombed. Yet, once discovered, it can never return, to the place, that it once held. Uncovered, it changes with the slice of a jeweler, and its true radiance is finally dispelled. For how could it hide, as it did for so long? Once faceted, there is no going back. ...As a change in the tide, it would have to be, to alter its brilliance again, to black. Still, if stones could have feelings, would it wish for new calm? If it returned to the Earth, would it choose to so remain? Who knows & who even wonders at the thoughts of stones, diamonds or men?

Among many accomplishments, I was a member of the International Training and Communications clubs of America, and as a member was awarded their Level 1 Achievement award for public speaking. I often contribute to Scientific studies and work with solar energy professionals. I currently offer weather opinion for the University of Oklahoma. Internationally, I am known to have a fair vocabulary for Russian and some German, and have friends all over Europe. I was an analyst on foreign affairs in the military and continue to write about them via journals and publications, often commenting in Foreign Affairs magazine and online via the Renewable Energy World online community. I am a musician, accomplished on guitar and several other string instruments. I also have worked as a DJ for a Christian music group that held dances on weekends, and have been the MC for Christian Radio's, Indian Worship Break. I am an experienced landscaper, Botanist, writer and artist, with photographs over a wide scope of subjects. My historic past is well known, as the great grandson of famous settlers in Oklahoma and an ancestry of distinct primary American settlers, being directly related to William Brewster, Sr. and William Bradford Sr. of the Mayflower. My future goals are to do some desktop publishing and to better understand modern media processes and problems. End of entry...