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It is difficult to put into words what my style is exactly. I suppose you could say I like to experiment.
Most of my writing expresses my feelings but I have dabbled in poetry for children and have used my own poetry while teaching children. They have enjoyed it and have enjoyed writing their own.

I tend to write ideas on scraps of paper, sometimes even bus tickets. I have a tendency to wake in the night and write down ideas so I have a notepad at the side of my bed. Sometimes I find it difficult to sleep so poetry helps.

I will admit that peotry was something I felt was beyond me until I read about Viggo Mortensen. Reading his poetry and his methods inspired me to 'have a go.' I have been writing ever since and my specialism at Uni is Literature which includes poetry. This has given me an opportunity to look at others work and I must say that I was impressed with that of MacNeice.
However I will also say that it is sometimes reading unknown poets work that really impresses me.
When I have more time I look forward to reading more poetry on this site. Having feedback on my own is also very encouraging. Though I would continue to write no matter what. Writing has helped me through so many hard times over recent years that in some ways I have come to depend on it.
Sometimes is is easier to express your feelings through writing than through the spoken word.

I have been through a lot of personal sadness over recent years and have had to start my life anew. I am now a single parent, though my children are mostly grown and perhaps may not need my support for that much longer I am still very sensitive and life is still a struggle. But then I know this is the same for many out there. Life is a battle and sometimes we win, sometimes we loose. I suppose we just have to make the most of each happy moment as if it were the last and look for love wherever we can.

I am so pleased to add here that I have now returned to the church of my childhood, after talking toa wonderful priest and having him hear my confession I am now attended church regularly again, I am home.
My church is still in my heart just as my love for my Father is. I do not look to the bible for all the answers although I was brought up on it. I am adult enough to realise that it is book, a wonderful one, but still a book that was put together many centuries after my dear Lord was crucified, pages chosen by people I will never know and then translated several time over the centuries so I know that I cannot take all that is within its pages literally but having said that I look to the underlying message within those pages, the massage of faith, hope and love.
This is what I believe that a remarkable man who I also
believe was God once lived among us and gave us a message to love each other, to treat each other as we would wish to be treated and to put our faith in Him.
I try to remember these words, I do not always succeed but then I am human, it is in our nature to fail but so long as I learn then a failure can be turned into something good.

I know He is there for me always, I cannot tell you how I know and to those who do not believe in him I bear no ill will for we must all choose our own path. For me this is one of His gifts to us the freedom of choice. I do not believe that all Christians are good and all non Christians are bad. The Good Samaritan is not a thing of the past.
I pray that one day we may all live together in peace, yet I also somehow know that this may be asking too much.

Well I have rambled on enough. God Bless you all.