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And here's just a quick entry to flaunt some more of Jack Stevens's photography. This is a wintery one I thought appropriate. RIWC

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Seasonal salutations to everyone, even people who may not have even the slightest interest in poetry, but may have through some tremendous twist of fate somehow stumbled upon my blog. I hope you have all had a very merry holly jolly Christmas. Or Hanukkah. Kwanzaa. Or whatever it is you may celebrate during December! Anyway, it is past the magical day now, and I thought I'd introduce a very

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I'm sorry! It's been a long time since my last post, and I have no excuse other than that I have been working full-time for the first time in my life and am constantly tired. I know, I really am that pathetic. Anyway, I thought as a way to make up for my lengthy absence, I'd focus on an entirely different form of poetry. A form I am quite new to writing, but love reading. The Haiku is a

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I think for someone to write, be it as a pastime or as a profession, they must have two things: the ambition and the inspiration. I do not believe that one of these must precede the other, however; for if initially you have the ambition, then the inspiration will find you, and if you have the inspiration then the drive will certainly follow. The real trouble occurs after you've achieved these two

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Earlier on this year I went away to Hong Kong and Australia with my parents to meet my brother, who was then living in Australia. I have always enjoyed travelling, but was especially looking forward to seeing Hong Kong due to it's Chinese heritage (despite being more commonly thought of as a British colony). However, when I got to Hong Kong I was a little disappointed, it really was a bustling

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This is just a note to say that all photography featured on this website is courtesy of Jack Stevens, a very talented photographer. Anyone who wishes to see more of his work should contact me via my e-mail address and I shall let him know you are interested.RIWC

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I thought that being my first week I'd just add two short poems to this blog. My intention is to add one or two poems a week, however, this is rather more enjoyable than I previously anticipated, and seeing as it is my first week I am allowing myself one exception. These two poems are both very short, but that does not mean they are lacking in content. The first is rather self-explanatory, and

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This web blog is primarily to be used for posting the poetry I write, however, I may use this site for thoughts, ideas, articles, and even possibly for writing that does not involve poetic devices or techniques.I thought that for my first entry it would be appropriate to post 2 poems, so that any person that happens to stumble across this little site would get a feel for the sort of poetry that I

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