As a child I wrote poetry.

As I got older, I got too “cool” for such things.

At the age of 40 I finally grew up and realised that what is important is what I think, and what I want.

So we pulled the plug on self consciousness and self doubt and let the creativity flood out.

I should probably say here that everything I write is fictional. I have received messages of support and condolences from readers after reading some of my work and quite frankly it's made me feel incredibly guilty. But I don't want to start censoring my poetry because then it becomes something else. So please remember, I am not at death's door, nor am I suicidal, and my heart is not shattered beyond repair.

I don't know where my poetry come's from. It can start with an idea for a poem, or just a single line and grow from there. Whilst it is fictional I do draw on my own emotions and experiences in order to verbalise what I'm trying to get across but those emotions could be something I felt years ago. I also use my experiences to consider what it would have been like to be on the other side of them so sometimes when I write a poem its about how the other person would have maybe felt. They are also, more often than not, just a starting point from which I explore greater magnitudes or more severe forms of that particular emotion.