Home and Away

Although I have penned the odd verse since I was a youngster I started writing regularly when I married. For the past forty-three years I have composed for my wife Marion a poem for our anniversary her birthday on the following day and for Valentine’s Day. She calls me a dreamy romantic and I probably am but I don’t apologies for it. The tradition has progressed so that I usually provide a piece for birthdays of my family occasionally for friends and also for special occasions. These have been my main inspiration. Two other stimuli act as my muse: a love of travel and a love of Nature. Professionally and on vacation I have travelled widely and on all modes of transport. I am not particularly knowledgeable about Nature but I love observing the cycle of the seasons and their effect on birds and small animals in the area where I live.