54 year old psychiatric nurse and itinerant poet looking
forward to retirement to the Ayrshire coast and full-time poetising. Married to my Susie for
33 years…two kids, Liam and Cassie.
Having been doing this for a few years now, and beginning to understand where the writing is going, I’ve worked out that my main concerns are
Trying to find a genuine dialect voice to speak of all things childhood
Trying to learn from the old Imagist blueprint
Trying to find an honest way to address the passions
Trying to paint my words plainly so others can literally see their colours
Trying to learn the difference between painting and sculpting a poem
I hope those who read will find something to touch/identify with/remember, be it a poem or a couple of fortuitously placed words.
I know the feeling Brian of “fortuitously placed words” – I’m sure you’ve read your own words back afterwards and thought to yourself “did I write that?”
There have been periods of whole pages of poems written that months later I have no recollection, and that’s in the full flow of sobriety!
nice to meet you Brain, I started writing short stories and poems, (jingle’s rhymes …whatever) and try to insert a tad of Shakespearean dialect anywhere I can…methinks I too am learning, slowly but surely.. I try my best to sculpture my poems into a pleasing shape… In that way, I feel it adds instant impact.. xPenx