My Animal of Choice: Birds

Amongst my favourite animal species to photograph are Birds.   From my own pet a Galah Cockatoo a temperamental inquisitive Bird. To The Collared Dove a Bird I described as almost artificial in appearance, a stunning silky look on their coating.  Then there are what we call House Sparrows.  I managed to capture a family of … Continue reading My Animal of Choice: Birds

Poetry Straight from the Pen

Today I wanted to share a couple of poems that I composed just before posting here. As an experiment and to gauge how it is received and what folks think of them.   I long to take a silent stroll where beauty is all around consumed by desire no control To fulfil a dream where … Continue reading Poetry Straight from the Pen

Such a small milestone and Such a Large Encouragement

Hi I hope this little post finds you well.. I first started experimenting with this Blog a number of years ago, but without any drive to make it work. Rather more of a desire to write anything for the sake of writing and as a measure to release some mental health issues. Then a couple … Continue reading Such a small milestone and Such a Large Encouragement

Poetry of Faith

Over the years I have written a number of what people could call spiritual poetry, BUT I would rather term them as Poetry on Faith... The first such Poem written in Sonnet form I simply called Sonnet 1.  My inspiration as I stated before was  from John Donne 1572 -1631.  Many of his poetry was … Continue reading Poetry of Faith

After Church Poetry.

Hi I have a couple of poems to share here with all.. Both were written after a visit to church , before all this lockdown stuff..  First I have no name on it. But again it allows people to find their own opinion etc on the poem.     Watching the Sands of time flowing … Continue reading After Church Poetry.

Poetry During Lockdown

There are occasions that I experiment with poetry and poetic styles... Especially in an attempt to get across to any reader what state my mind was in, especially combining that with what I had in mind with such a poem.. One such example would be the following. Although I am not 100 % happy with … Continue reading Poetry During Lockdown

A couple of New Poems

Writing poetry is an enormous relief  to ease pressures of the day, but also there is a love for poetry and yet a sense of perfectionist within me to want pieces to be perfect to my eyes and taste.. Never the less below are two of my recent creations... I have a particular theme in … Continue reading A couple of New Poems

My Growth in Style

Back in the mid to late 1980's I started writing poetry as a means of getting a  lot of off my mind as it were. But the rebel in me refused to follow any means of style or any such known  poetic methods etc. My writings often resembled mere catchment of words  entwined with some … Continue reading My Growth in Style

Writing for the sake of writing

Hi, it has been a number of weeks since I made a post... But there could be a wide variety of excuses in which to choose from, Yet would any of them be of any good? I doubt it very much as who cares about any reasons? Or who even cares about any post at … Continue reading Writing for the sake of writing