Peace Pirate Poetry Feature #1
On this blog page is where I’ll store all of the Peace Pirate Poetry monthly features. It won’t be an extensive blog post and it won’t include anything else on the newsletter other than the responses the featured artists submitted.
This month, we’re featuring @poetrywitch2020 for her poem that included every single prompt for the month in a single piece. I hope you enjoy the opportunity to learn more about her!
What got you interested in writing poetry?
It is quite a funny story to how my poetry days started, I was in high school around the age of 14 and we had a new maths teacher, he was half man , half giraffe being really tall at 6ft 4”, I used to hide at the back of the class in hope not to be asked to go out to the front to work out sums on the board, but nine times out of ten he always picked on me!, he really used to get on my nerves, so much I went home and wrote a poem about him lol… it went along the lines of:
I really hate my maths teacher, he really is a pain
He picks on me every time, he’s driving me insane.
He’s tall thin and lanky his hands are spotted in ink
He’s driving me up the bloody wall, he’s driving me to drink.
His name is Mr Davies he drives a black Capri
I’d love to put some arsenic in one of his cups of tea.
I’ve never met a ruder man in all of my life
And all I’d say if he was wed is good look to his wife.
And there you have it right there my first every piece of poetry lol
Did the teacher ever get to read it you may ask? Yes it got into the hands of an older student who tried to get me in to trouble by handing it the teacher, luckily for me, the teacher found it quite amusing, He apologised, I apologised and all ended well.
I studied Macbeth for my English Literature exam at school and was fortunate to see a live production of it at the Shakespeare theatre in Stratford Upon Avon, it was from the play that sparked an interest into magic and poetry, I just loved all the dark elements the play portrayed.
However as I got older and embarked on life’s journey of family, work and relationships i.e. :- all the roles we take on in our lives, poetry then became my own personal survival kit, my emotions being allowed to spill out on to paper.
I’ve never been a person who will get up and say I’m going to write a poem today about a certain subject, although if someone
gives me a challenge to do so it is easy for me to do that, but the way I write it just manifests from within, sometimes I literally feel it wanting to escape out of me, as though it says time to sit in front of the screen now because something wants
to come out.
This leads me on to how I came to create the poem you are highlighting in this month’s
newsletter.
As for am I currently working on anything ? :-
Are you currently working on anything you’d like to tell us about?
I have a friend over in Ireland who is trying to put some of my poetry to art work of their choice, something they offered to do so that is work in progress that I will look forward to be finished in the future.
I am also trying to finish a romantic novel I’ve had on the anvil for past four years, work and life just sort of got in the way , but
I’m really focusing on getting that finished next year and I also wish to follow your foot steps Pat in trying to publish a poetry book of my own works, as like you I’ve written hundreds of poems in my lifetime and it would just be nice to create a book/ books to put out there into the world and like you have some of the profits go to a good cause.
How did you come up with this beautiful poem?
You asked for people to write poems from a long list of subject words your provided, but I decided to incorporate every single word as the start of every new line, a challenge to myself which I enjoyed doing.
