The Peter Snell Of Poetry Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

kiwi Peter Snell of poetry
who will be kiwi legend
first Peter Snell of poetry?

who will run hard distance?
who will run training marathons
to sprint for hard won gold?

Terence George Craddock
will a poetic dream envision
to write a poetry marathon?

went poem had a dream distance
to write poetry to write a thousand
poems in a year to write 3000

poems
in three years
writing

kiwi unprecedented
starting January 16th 2010
on January 16th 2013

finishing
to have completed
3000 poems

an average of 1000
a year new poems
for total three years

running
impossible
insane

BS Chris said
to prolific out write
classical poets

with no support
no income sponsors
writing dreams

it is done
important completed
finished

early
unnoticed
unread

no source
passion love
burnt filled

decision to self write
write passion realities
life slices split images

who is passion born
decades delayed New Zealand
Peter Snell of poetry?

who is the New Zealand Peter Snell of poetry?

exultation Olympic gold won
focused driven mind absolute
time dimensions synchronicity

Olympic Gold 1960 Rome 800 metres
Olympic Gold 1964 Tokyo 800 metres
Olympic Gold 1964 Tokyo 1500 metres

Commonwealth Gold 1962 Perth 880 yards
Commonwealth Gold 1962 Perth 1 mile
Sir Peter George Snell, KNZM, MBE rocks


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