When you're a teenager, you spend a lot of time bemoaning life and wondering why everything is so hard for you to deal with... and why no one else seems to care about your troubles.
That's when a lot of writers start out; they drag out those emotions into the sunlight and put them into a journal or write poetry. It can be very cathartic and help an awful lot when you are struggling with something.
It's where I really started writing.
I wrote poetry as well. I've kept some of the better ones (and thrown away so many terrible ones) because they ended up in print in Poetry Collections.
I didn't stop there when I started writing short stories and novels though. My poetry changed; it became something that I did occasionally and not really all that seriously. I've toyed with the idea of putting it into a collection and publishing it myself, but I don't have enough yet.
So I'm going to collect it here and once I have enough, maybe I'll publish it.
Feel free to read it and comment if you like. Just remember that not all of it is intended seriously...
YOU ARE READING
The Book of Dreams
PoetryFrom my first efforts to get published as a teenager, to some of the things I have thought about during University... experiences of Death and loss, as well as drunken poetry rambles. Poetry helps me to think about things that are happening in life...
