I started writing poems in the year two thousand. I was on the way to work and I spotted a boy, about 12 years old, running to school. I wrote the poem as soon as I got to work. It was like switch being pressed. After that I carried on writing poems. I have written poems for writers' groups, for my own entertainment and whenever life got difficult. Poems express how I felt and feel much better than prose. My childhood memories are vivid and that is why I chose the title 'Take the Tiller'. Steering the boat back to the mooring made me feel like a grown-up not a child of four years old; the…mehr
I started writing poems in the year two thousand. I was on the way to work and I spotted a boy, about 12 years old, running to school. I wrote the poem as soon as I got to work. It was like switch being pressed. After that I carried on writing poems. I have written poems for writers' groups, for my own entertainment and whenever life got difficult. Poems express how I felt and feel much better than prose. My childhood memories are vivid and that is why I chose the title 'Take the Tiller'. Steering the boat back to the mooring made me feel like a grown-up not a child of four years old; the cover photograph was taken by my father on that day in August seventy-five years ago. What a memory. I hope my poems resonate with others and enable them to share my thoughts and feelings. Even better for them to write their own poems of course...
A lawyer and retired local government Chief Executive, Andrew Sparke has reinvented himself as a writer and indie publisher. He owns and manages APS Publications, a vehicle for fiction, poetry, food, travel, sport, erotica, music, photography, health and spirituality, which publishes other indie authors as well as his own work. News and more information is available online at andrew.sparke.com Two novels 'Abuse, Cocaine and Soft Furnishings' and 'Copper Trance & Motorways' are available. A third entitled 'Anger Limerence & Fault Lines' is in preparation.
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