I am not a published poet, but I am very sure that I am a poet. I have been writing poems all my life. I think it started during my childhood years when I was really attracted to the poems of John Keats and William Wordsworth. The poems I like normally have a sad note [...]

I have always thought of poetry as being a written art, beautiful and timeless, yet in a way quite static. Recently however, a friend introduced me to the art of slam poetry and I immediately felt a renewed sense of passion for the art. Slam poetry is basically an oral poetry competition. The competitors each [...]

I remember my days at school and the English literature classes. During those times I can hardly imagine a student ignoring this subject simply because school system was vesting so much of importance into carefully going through classic English poetry represented by poets that have fascinated and keep influencing the whole literature world - names [...]

There is a poet in everyone. Most of us just don’t know it yet! Writing poems doesn’t require as much skill as many would assume. Almost anyone can write a poem.
Now if you are going to write a poem in English then ensure you’re your skills are up to par. So if you need to [...]

That’s a good question. In a world where literature is king and communication is so important – no, make that vital – it’s difficult to imagine poetry not being around. But if that had been the case, I suppose it might have gone something like this…
To start with, there would have been no rhyming. [...]

The sign on the wall as we passed the supermarket said hybrid cars uk and that, right there, as I processed this information, is when the poem died in the seat behind me.
I felt like I wanted to cry: the mother who sat next to the boy had just taken his book of poems away [...]

I don’t really know why but sometimes it is so much easier for me to express what and how I fell in words. Maybe it is because you say something and you can actually see what you have just said. It also feels like your words are actually leaving a mark and not just disappearing [...]

I’ve had it up to here (imagine someone holding their hand way above their head, then climbing some stairs just to illustrate how up to here they have had it). With people moaning about poetry, I mean. Wherever I go and whatever I do, there is someone ready to attack poets. Well, if you’re someone [...]

Jimmie Mcd won’t speak to me that is a rhyme so this is a poem I can’t get it support london to make an ex husband answer his emails I want to tell him about robin, about the baby that came into the world, I want to call and tell him that Garnet Rogers is [...]

Poetry is life affirming, it elevates us above the usual drudgery of life. When we read a poem our mind takes flight, we can forget about money worries, work pressures or family commitments and share our minds with a great creative genius.
This is even truer when we write poetry! I like to immerse myself in [...]