A Short Introduction
introduceyourself·@sagagora·
0.000 HBDA Short Introduction
<html> <p>Hello Steemit! My name is Sagar Rao, and I am a senior at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. I'm new to steemit, but my I've been interested in it for a long time. My interests include blockchain, languages, futurism (especially in life sciences and biotech), science fiction and fantasy, and bioethics. I am on the board of the Exeter Ethics Forum club and team, and have competed in the New England Regional ethics bowl for 2 years, focusing on cases involving bioethics. I am also on the board of PEA's Daniel Webster Debate Society, the oldest continuously running high school club or society in America.</p> <p>I plan on mostly using steemit as a sounding board for my writing, so to start off I'll post a sonnet I wrote in the spring that I submitted as part of a four-part cycle that I'm pretty sure was the deciding factor in raising my English grade from an A- to an A, which is huge for me because I never get As in English.</p> <p> <strong>Pale Horse</strong></p> <p>Behold an ashen horse and he who rides,</p> <p>with prison for our perfect souls behind.</p> <p>The pallor of the beast the light provides.</p> <p>The darkness of the rider rides us blind.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Now look upon the horseman and his pet.</p> <p>His terrifying visage binds the sight.</p> <p>The mastiff’s jaws a jailer and his net</p> <p>that threaten lives with each and every bite.</p> <p><br></p> <p>To kill with sword and famine is he wrought</p> <p>and sent, from down below or from on high.</p> <p>But he who rides on pale horse have I fought.</p> <p>The one the Lamb named Death do I deny. </p> <p><br></p> <p>A fourth the Earth the horseman comes to claim,</p> <p>but never will his quarter hold my name. </p> </html>