Poetry
I’ve written poetry since I was about fourteen, a lot of the time to express feelings, some good and bad. Looking back over twenty years after I wrote some of my poems I understand it was a release, a way of dealing with emotions I was struggling with. I wonder now if maybe I would have dealt with them better if I’d had a stable home life and a supportive family.
Poems will often float around in my head, words and phrases slowly forming before being completed (eg: Stolen Kiss), others I wrote as fast as the words could hit the page (eg: When). Sometimes a single phrase or thought will act as a seed and produce a poem other times I just write words and phrases as they come into my head and they form poems, almost coming to life.
My favourite poems are: Stolen Kiss, Twisted Soul, When, Goodbye Forever and Your Choice. The first two I think come as close to describing love as I’m going to get. I wrote When aged nineteen, whereas Stolen Kiss was written in my early thirties and both still seem as intense and relevant as the day I wrote them. Goodbye Forever describes the bittersweet memories and the way that seeing some special places can bring those memories flooding back again, some of those special places I have never had the confidence to return to five years on. A while after writing Goodbye Forever I discovered that Keith Urban described it w-a-a-y better than I ever could in his song You’ll Think Of Me. Your Choice, I feel sums up that bitter anger at having your heart broken, dreams cast aside and discovering the person you loved betrayed you.
Every poem on this page tells it’s own individual story about something that happened in my life, sometimes breathtakingly sweet, sometimes bittersweet, sometimes sadness and heartbreak. Please ask before you use ANY of my poems, there may be a small fee for commercial use. The poem My Sister is NOT to be used elsewhere.
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I’ve retired a few poems when the new site was launched (How Can You Tell Me?, I Need Someone, In The Still Of The Night, That Feeling Again and Who Is It?). They may come back later.
I'm a 37 year old web developer, photographer and sometimes poet. I'm also an Emergency Medical Technician and First Aid trainer with