: About Me

My name is David Dale, a Yorkshire man by birth and a traveller by nature. I have lived in the Virgin Islands; Galverston,Texas; Monchengladbach, Germany; Deccimomanu, Sardinia; Taipei and Tai-zhong Taiwan; Kyoto and wakayama ,Japan; Shijiazhuang and Beijing,China; Hong-Kong and York England. I speak Mandarin and some Japanese. A proud parient of six children. I am now on my second novel, the first being re-scripted for a movie, the second is about a couple in China after the June 4th incident 1989. I also write radio plays, comedy, dramatic monologues, short stories and long plots. I love China and it's people very much. My favourite Chinese food has to be Ma-Po-Do-Fu. Try it, it's great.

My passion is ...

China

I know too much about ...

life, four wives, six children.

My parents always told me ...

No need to study, work hard!

My childhood ambition ...

To be an Artist. ( I illustrate Books now):-)

My favorite memory ...

days spent in Shijiazhuang.

Why I write ...

I have seen too much to die with out telling some one, I was there.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I like people.

My first job ...

Engineer

My best moment ...

Seeing my younge son dance the wiggly worm. ( He's 4 yrs old)

My inspiration ...

Fond memories of her.

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Change

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BITTER LOVE Gloomily sitting by my drink I see, A once true love that used to be, There she sits, so feminine so sweet, Her knees so close, her dainty feet, So sensuous, so poised she sits, Her shoulders bare, her shapely hips, A glance comes up, to me she sees, Then glancing down rejecting me, Across the bar, her lover new, Swaggers proud, so grand a view, Sitting down beside what once was mine, Their drinks he gently places down, A blood red drink, not blood but wine, And how I wish she still was mine, Such pretty smiles from she I see, So gracious, so kind and so genteel, Then comes a t...

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