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(nandhaland studio // andy eel // m.minds)





When God came
to me to
fight the devil,
he created You,
my angel
as his weapon
with smiling eyes burning,
innocence,
a fervor, heavenly
to make me give
my life for you,
with every breath
die for you
until he once
takes me away

To make me find You
my saviour,
God showed me dreams of Eden,
haunted me with snakes and
dying trees,
chased me with lightnings
until I was bleeding,
stroke empty crosses
on a hill in rain,
in crusades and inquisitions,
drowning in floods
he made me cry and feel shame,
he sentenced me for doubts and weakness
with his holy mercy of pain

When God came
to me to
fight the devil,
the devil fought back
but his weapon
was the same

My angel,
my passion,
my eternal obsession,
my pleasure,
my pain,
heaven and hell
unite
when I speak your name





The past:

The first version of this page ("wantenworld") started in 1999 and grew considerably in the following years, accompanied by the integrated network "poets-online",
one of the first international poetry networks on the net. With it came a Yahoo! poetry group, monthly newsletters and many hundred registered followers worldwide.
In 2005 I was forced to delete most art and poetry sections, after a law had been passed that widely excepted the internet from legal protection of free speech.
Part by part, both "wantenworld" and "wanten.de" disappeared completely until the end of 2010.
In these years I changed more and more into making music and built up my little "nandhaland" recording studio with a lot of enthusiasm and affection.
With a new legal position in early 2011, I returned with a new page, changing my url from "wanten" to "netnaw" (wanten read backwards).
My alter ego Andy Eel didn't return, nandhaland studio also closed down. Instead (and once more) I focused only on my writing.

- Lifetime member of the International Writers and Artists Association (IWA) since 1992

- First publication received the local Rhein-Sieg Up-and Coming Poet Award

- 4th prize (1999) and the 5th prize (2000) in the "Poetic Achievement Award" and published in both volumes of
  "Poetic Voices of America" 1999 and 2000

- Nominated both for the "North American Open Poetry Award" and the "Poet of the Year" in 2000

- Merit Medal in bronze and the International Award of Merit of the "International Society of Poets" 2000

- Over 300 publications worldwide (until 2004)

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