Leaping off a Precipice

Would You Care For A Joyful Surprise? These Surprises Are Packaged In Four Themes And Each Theme Has A Selection Of Haiku Longer Poems And A Play. The Themes Are Life & Death Far Out Red Roses And Time & Place. Who Is The Writer? Is There A Photo? No. Can You Find Out More On Social Media? Probably Not. All You Need To Know Is That: Sometimes I Am A Teenager And Sometimes An Octogenarian At A Funeral Who Thinks Hecould Well Be Next In That Coffin. Sometimes I Am Young Foolish And Crazy About My New Love And Sometimes I Am Glad I Have Had The Same Partner For Thirty Plus Years. Sometimes I Am A Responsible Professional Earning A Living And Sometimes A Dreamer. Sometimes I Am Comfortably Stuck In Australian Suburbia And Sometimes Coping With Life In A Foreign Country. That Experience Has Been Essential To My Writing.. I Am A Haphazard Writer. When Something “Falls From The Sky’ I Let It Bounce Around In My Head Until It Takes Shape: Perhaps As A Three Line Haiku Perhaps As A Longer Poem Or Even A Play. Then I Grab A Pen And Paper And Write It Down Rapidly. So Rapidly That My Hand Struggles To Keep Pace With My Head. Spontaneity And Originality Are Linked. For Me Creative Writing Is A Series Of Joyful Surprises. Sometimes They Are More A Revelation Than A Surprise. I Would Like To Share These Surprises With You.