A milestone year for me...2008, ain't it great?
I remain a certain age - seven times ten and then the rest. That is supposed to make me wise. Fat chance! I look out on a world that has lost its innocence if it ever had it - naivety I think is a better word. But it is changed and changing.
Favourite poet: William Makepeace Thackeray
As my fingers mistype on a keyboard this means that I have no chance on a mobile phone! As has probably been said elsewhere, if we keep tapping away on phone keys we will all end up with little pointed fingers.
I try not to be too serious in my writings but I often fall into the trap and have a bit of a moan (grumpy old man). I write in rhyme and rhythm as well as freeverse. I can write formal/formulaic poetry but find it a touch restrictive and prefer freewheeling, playing with words and shapes - sometimes it works!
Sadly I have been unpublished these thirty years or more but it doesn't stop me from writing. I am still trying to acquire some skill at writing poetry which I have only been working at for a very few years.
Resident in England all my life I managed (with a little help from my wife) to produce five children all now flown the nest except for Sunday lunch and like that.
Disabled, I try not to take this out on my wife and, happily, she continues to be good to me.
To all those writers out there - especially the younger ones - don't stop doing it!
I remain a certain age - seven times ten and then the rest. That is supposed to make me wise. Fat chance! I look out on a world that has lost its innocence if it ever had it - naivety I think is a better word. But it is changed and changing.
Favourite poet: William Makepeace Thackeray
As my fingers mistype on a keyboard this means that I have no chance on a mobile phone! As has probably been said elsewhere, if we keep tapping away on phone keys we will all end up with little pointed fingers.
I try not to be too serious in my writings but I often fall into the trap and have a bit of a moan (grumpy old man). I write in rhyme and rhythm as well as freeverse. I can write formal/formulaic poetry but find it a touch restrictive and prefer freewheeling, playing with words and shapes - sometimes it works!
Sadly I have been unpublished these thirty years or more but it doesn't stop me from writing. I am still trying to acquire some skill at writing poetry which I have only been working at for a very few years.
Resident in England all my life I managed (with a little help from my wife) to produce five children all now flown the nest except for Sunday lunch and like that.
Disabled, I try not to take this out on my wife and, happily, she continues to be good to me.
To all those writers out there - especially the younger ones - don't stop doing it!
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- I'm a tigereye texture poet for 1393 comments.
- My mood is "Per Ardua ad Astra, Carborundum" Don't let the bastards grind you down! .
- I am a 74 year old man (United Kingdom)
- When I'm not writing, I'm struggling to sketch and paint. - update, May 2008, stopped struggling, just write instead!.
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- I am in the groups Lonely Swords, The Library, The Poetic Bandits, Todays Poem, Winklings Group One The Original Winklings, Wise Poets Society
- I have 1393 comments, 4 contests
My Poetry
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Our WTP is just a mile down the road. It sends us its fliesd and sometimes its smells. A Behrquain Swirl a form created by ArkBear
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Walk like an Egyptian1 / The King of Egypt was bored. He hadn't perpetrated a good poisoning for at least two days. As well as this, his queen, Ptymeup, had only recently kicked bondage into to
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1 / The gun was just lying there, inviting like. Just me and the gun. In the back room. I thought I should do something. The problem wa993 lines, 8 comments, January 30. In 600-2000 words, Fiction, First person, Horror(ish), Humor, Short story
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1 / Whenever I see a green sports car I have an overwhelming desire to smash its windscreen. It's all because of Molly Shipton who won the village beauty contest last year.2
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And Hyetal on June 17You're not published? You should be.
If you're not published, then I have no chance of being published myself. 
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Autumn-Rain on June 6odd ... you look published
you even look like a poet
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Autumn-Rain on June 5I worked as a clerk for a judge in my early 20's and he had that same saying on the wall in chambers."Per Ardua ad Astra, Carborundum" Don't let the bastards grind you down! . As I recall, that's the first time I saw it. He was called out of retirement to judge our overflow of cases. His wife was confined and every day, he would take her roses. Sometimes he came across as grumpy but mostly he was just weighed down with the cares of life...
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kareneisenlord : Stopping by to say "hi"! on May 17Hope all is well and I enjoyed visiting your page and reading your poetry. You always bring a smile to my face that feels rather "stoney" these days!
