Elliott Rodgers

I’ve written poetry since I was about fourteen, a lot of the time to express feelings, some good and bad. Looking back 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 something resembling a stable home life, a more regular childhood 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 on the page.

My favourite poems are: Stolen Kiss, Twisted Soul, When, Goodbye Forever and Your Choice.

I wrote the poen 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 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 returned to. When I did first return to one of the places down by the river five years after the poem was written the memories and emotions were frighteningly intense. There were a couple of moments I turned round and expected to see her stood beside me smiling that sweet, sweet smile of hers.

A while after writing Goodbye Forever I discovered that Keith Urban described it w-a-a-y better than I ever could in his completely amazing song You’ll Think Of Me (YouTube Music Video).

A while back after careful thought I decided that I wasn’t going to share a lot of detail on what inspired the poems since some most of the people they were written about aren’t in my life anymore. People close to me will be able to work out who most of the poems where written about, some of the titles/contents do make it obvious who they were about (My Baby, My Sister, Miles Don’t Matter).

My poems tell their own individual story about something that happened in my life. Sometimes something breathtakingly sweet, sometimes bittersweet, sometimes sadness and heartbreak. Please ask before you use ANY of my poems, there will be a small fee for commercial use. The poem My Sister is NOT to be used elsewhere. The poem In Memory of Morgan requires an honour donation to a dog shelter or similar if you use it.

Can’t find a poem?

I’ve retired a few poems a while ago… How Can You Tell Me?; I Need Someone; In The Still Of The Night; Jenny; That Feeling Again; and Who Is It? They may come back later.

List of Poems

• Another Friday Night
• Backward Clock
• Cyber Children
• Goodbye Forever
• I Remember
• If
• In Memory of US Police Dog Morgan
• Lightning
• Miles Don’t Matter
• My Baby
• My Sister
• Stolen Kiss
• Sunlight
• Tonight
• Twisted Soul
• When
• Wish I Knew
• Your Choice