: About Me

Christmas 2007 I just started writing poetry...
completely out of the blue, no writers in my family or anything. I live in a beautiful part of England, surrounded by rolling hills and open countryside, so I do a lot of walking and, as I walk, ideas or sometimes lines themselves come to me & I just have the overwhelming urged to write - I've written a lot of poems and even a few lyrics for songs. I don't understand it at all but I'm thouroughly enjoying the whole experience. Writing has certainly taken over my life - t.v is now very clearly second best! I'm also lucky enough to have worked in the travel industry for more than 25yrs and therefore have seen a lot of the world - travel is another passion of mine!

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'Autumn Thoughts' The low morning sun blinds my view, but I treasure its warmth - clinging to diminishing salad days. Golden leaves fall in gentle showers to the earth - bountiful trees slowly baring their souls yet reasserting their strength, standing bolder against the amber sky. I cannot help but feel a sense of sadness in the air, of summer days drawing to an end, beauty fading. Come the Spring & nature will enjoy its fresh & vibrant re-birth but I'll have changed - fading in maturity, weakening in vitality. As I pass beneath your proud extended boughs, I contemplate whose foot...

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