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Daniel D. Scenters is an American poet, spoken poet, (digital) graphic artist, and (digital) composer. All throughout his childhood, Daniel detested poetry with what seemed an undying passion. Despite his dislike for the art, he first heard The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe when he was around the age of sixteen or seventeen. Undoubtedly, Poe's work planted a seed deep within his soul. Which lead to the harvest revealed within him, when he heard his sister's poetry. However, it was actually a poem he read while on a gaming website that got him writing. Some girl posted up a simple, yet beautiful poem on the site's message forums---which lead to Daniel writing simple verses in response to beating his opponents at one of the games on the site.

It wasn't until February 16, 2002, that Daniel began writing seriously. He wrote on that day, his first poem No More Pain. Keeping his talent a secret----for fear of being thought as strange, Daniel continued to craft poem after poem----many a times producing several poems per-day. And around December of 2002, Daniel allowed others to read his work: the first poem being Lake of Fire II It was also around this time, with the help of his parents, that he gathered thirty of his poems and had them bound together at a local Office Depot. Two copies were made of the original Truth: Reflections of the Spirit---one which Daniel kept for his himself, and the other was sent to a Christian book publisher/distributer.

In the summer of 2003, Daniel self-published his next volume of poetry, entitled, Jaded Earth. This collection was a mixture of the old poems from Truth, and new poems he had written since his original volume. Daniel went on to self-publish nine more volumes of his poetry, after Jaded Earth----including a revised edition of Truth, in 2006. While still in the process of self-publishing, Daniel met and befriended a musician named Eli Murphy (singer of the band Unstaggered), through a Christian forum site. It was through this friendship (which is still alive today) that Daniel learned the basics of home recording. Experimenting with the use of WAV recording----using the generic Sound Recorder that comes standard on all PCs. And without any artistic reading skills, or knowledge of rhythm, Daniel recorded a three track CD, entitled, Poetry Demo, in 2005. The demo housed the poems: Storm Haiku, The Reckoning,and Thing That Grows.