All my poems since 2010 are on poemsforlifebypaul.blogspot.com.
I wrote 365 poems between October 2010 and 2011.
I have now written over 1,000 poems.
Inspirations - all poets with a feeling for nature and 'insignificant' things that are actually significant.
Motivations - to express emotions, make people laugh or otherwise connect with the writing emotionally.
Heroes - Stan Laurel, Humphrey Bogart, Agatha Christie, Sir Terry Wogan, Paul Kossoff, P.G. Wodehouse, Monty Don, Arthur Lowe, Aretha Franklin, Alf Wight, Gladys Knight.
When the evening breeze
Ruffled the leaves in the half-light
I felt the greatness in the air,
Just standing there;
...
The time back then cannot be found,
Did I ever really live in those days?
The images in my mind are bound
By a somnolent, ghostly haze;
...
Time has grown over these plots
Of broken down plinths
And ragged headstones
With their faded engraving
...
The day is nearly done
Unblemished by the works of human hand
With gentle push, the sun slips ever lower
Beneath horizons, below hilltops, behind houses,
...