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I am the poetry editor for EditRed poetry anthology
The first poem I read was when I was 7 in a poetry anthology given to me for Christmas in 1977, it was ā??Rainā?? by Shel Silverstein and it went like this~
I opened my eyes
And looked up at the rain
And it dripped into my head
And flowed into my brain
And all that I hear as I lie in my bed
Is the slishity slosh of the rain in my head.
I step very softly
I walk very slow
I canā??t do a handstand
I might overflow
So pardon the wild crazy thing I just said.
Iā??m just not the same since thereā??s rain in my head.
It injected such a quick fix of joy into me that I knew it was an experience I wanted to have again. Itā??s a fix that Iā??ve continued to search for and satiate throughout my life. Poetry has become an essential part of my life and my passion and friendship with it has continued to grow over the years. Both reading it and writing it has been my best friend and counsellor and helped me to survive the tough times life often throws at us. It has also helped me to learn what love is really about and that it is possible to express it through the beauty of poetry. I began writing my own poetry after reading Shel Silversteinā??s and started to win local and national poetry competitions. I have continued to write and now incorporate my poetry and writings with my own visual art as digital images projected onto screens. I have also created performance poetry and video art/poetry , hoping to create poetry in a form that people can relate to and that will reach a wide as possible audience.When I was 12 years old I read my first Sylvia Plath poem and the effect it had on me was profound. She managed to truly capture the bittersweet nature of life and the extremes from which she wrote were surprising, intoxicating and exhilarating. It made me realise the intensely vivid effect that poetry can have on a person and that it didnā??t always have to be about empathy but could sometimes be about providing a post mortem of events at the scene of a word explosive car crash. Her poetry was real and I felt that through her poetry , I too had evolved.
Jewels's Genres: Poetry (and artist)
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