My passion is poetry for many reasons. Inspiration is abounding in my little world -- I only have to look as far as throughh the window to derive a sense of fascination. People are the ultimate fascination. I studied psychology in the first year of University but remember being astonished with the things that I instinctively knew that others were only learning for the first time. I also derive a sense of calm, and an almost hypnotic state from writing poetry. I have called my collection of the good, bad and terrible (but all meaningful to me never-the-less) poetry, 'Once Every Other Night' because that explains my writing habits. On the one hand they occur with regularity but the regularity may be erratic in that I don't have specific nights or times on those nights that I write. My scrap-book is always close by in case my mind starts speaking poetry to me.

It is nice to have something in my life that I am particularly average at yet still thoroughly enjoy. Most of my pursuits in life have had a competitive edge to them and in the end winning can be quite a bitter realisation. Being average is much more enjoyable. I like attempting to learn from those who are so much more skilled than myself and one day, I will no doubt enjoy taking many short poetry writing courses and work-shops.

I hope you enjoy my poetry. I can't pick out too many of my favourites for you but most people really like She's Like a Sea-shell and The Scent of a Woman. I always need to add a disclaimer to my poetry! I write from the perspective of many -- males & females, young & old included -- and my poetry can not serve to reveal any thing about my life as I write predominantly about the experiences of others as revealed by their mind's eye. I might only catch a mere glimpse every so often, however it will be enough to set me off. There are a few poems about my experiences or of those close to me, included a poem that I wrote For Neil my incredibly wonderful boyfriend (whom I plan to marry one day when we're more financially sound) and a poem For Kerry my cousin and her baby yet to be born at the time. He's now 3 months old and you can see piccies of him @ www.angelfire.com/poetry/orpheus/. (He's very cute .... and I'm probably just a fraction  biased!)

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