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When an occasion demands words, as they do, it's all too easy to blabber on and never actually say what we mean to say. Words then become hidden, like a raindrop from a cloudburst disappears into a puddle, emotions diluted by a tumultuous outburst. Being a bit of a blabbermouth myself, I decided to apply a little restraint and employ the economy of word when writing this collection. Saying all you need and making the point with four short lines has...
3) Sea of Pools
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We can only really know about love and life in hindsight. Looking back on this linier poetic experiment called the Sea trilogy, I've learnt a lot about what is important about the bigger experiment. Through poetry I have been able to look deeper into my own, and others, prejudices and fears, loves and obsessions, and I can honestly say I have been unburdened by this release of words, and in many ways, I'm very much healed. For me, nothing beats the...
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I have spoken before about poetry having a life of its own, and I feel I should elaborate on this statement. I can wake with the remnants of subconscious words, and I have taken to recording them before I rise. The day fades that dreamlike message until I get the opportunity to return to that recording and write. I cannot count how many thoughts, therefore poems, have been lost before I adopted this practice. I would recommend that all writers who...
5) Sea of Rain
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Poems come to me unexpectedly, as does the weather to each day. Sometimes its fine and sunny and then its dark and stormy; often its something caught between these two extremes. Just like the weather, I have no real control over the form each poem decides to take, and its quite a buzz being in the moment when a thought spills onto the page. Poetry most definitely has a life of its own, and at best, all I can do is guide it around the page and hope...
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