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About Me

I'm forty six, married to Liz with a beautiful daughter named India. I have a BA Honours in Creative Writing and Theatre Studies and a Masters and Diploma in Social Work. I have also trained (and continuing to train) as a life coach. I currently work in the voluntary sector as an advocate advocating on behalf of older people for a well known charity. I have a strong interest in loss and grief work and working with older people and this impacts greatly on my work. I also have an interest in Buddhism, philosophy and Asian culture.Seccho (982 -1052 China) once said â€œWhat life can compare with this? Sitting quietly by the window, I watch leaves fall and the flowers bloom as the season come and the seasons go.â€ And like Seccho, until the wind blows in a different direction, this is what I do in my spare time. I sit by windows, in cafÃ©s, the office, the bedroom, on buses and trains and write poetryMy poetry consists of words built and created by experiences as they are happening, images and observations, which are then cut to their bare flesh to create small three lined poems. These then become, hopefully, like tiny multicoloured blossom leaves falling from a still, yet focused, mind to be gathered and pressed for keepsakes in the imagination of their readers.These tiny, three lined brushstroke poems, I have come see as an art form on their own. The poems are based on nature, desire, love, age, loss, grief, meditation and beauty. The poems are in their very nature simple and yet, because they are so concentrated and written with so few words, eventually lead to a brushstroke of words full of meaning and imagery leaving, hopefully, their reader wanting more.I am a founder member and part of Red Square Collective (an art group based in the East Midlands). A very small quantity of some of my artwork and photography can be found on profile in pics and some of my poetry can be found throughout my blogs. To view more of the work and the artists i work with visit www.redsquarecollective.co.ukIn the future - well lets just see what that brings.

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My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

Dalai Lama, India's friends in twenty years time, Jim, Hannah L, Charlotte, Faye, Laura and Elliott, to name just a few, to see what they have done with their lives and made of themselves. Jan Saudek and anyone interested in talking about Art, Life and Poetry.In another life it would be Siddhattha Gotama, Ghandi and anyone else who has now gone but put others before themselves whilst they have been alive. Cursor from Crazyprofile.com .

Music:

Damien Rice, Anthony and the Johnsons, Jack Johnson, James morrison, Killers, Kasabian, Indian Meditation and Chillout Music, Pendulum to name just a few

Television:

Spooks, Torchwood, Hustle, South Bank show, Newsnight, Question Time, Coast, Little Britain, Big brother, The Office, Any of the new comedy series coming on to TV at the moment.

Books:

Any Poetry, Art or Photography book I can find.

Heroes:

Anyone who takes their time to sit and think about someone else for five minutes rather than themselves. All the volounteers around the country and the people who raise funds to ensure charity organisations keep going. If it wasn't for their time to help others the country would be on its knees. ALL the friends I've made on my space to date. Anyone prepared to stand up for a cause they believe in (in a non violent manner)....

My Blog

Panic Attacks

So there I am lying in bed, it's one o'clock in the morning, I'm sleeping like a baby and then it's Bam Wam thank you Mam, I'm suddenly woken with pins and needles all down my left arm. I hold my arm ...
Posted by daddy ray on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:35:00 PST

Karen Whispers

Karen whispers in my ear If things things were different and I were a man and you the woman I'd I'd bend you and take you I swear as if there were no tomorrow and I wouldn't let you up for air ...
Posted by daddy ray on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:24:00 PST

When In Rome

When In Rome On this cold lonely night to the 'sisters' i will take myself to cavort in the playground of the damned banquet on the pleasures of the flesh become drunk on their wine and when da...
Posted by daddy ray on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:51:00 PST

New Poem "Waking Up" posted 14th October

Waking Up drums intone in rhythm sing out loud to toe and ankle bells and dance upon the winds of change I drink chai from small glass cups on open streets amongst the v...
Posted by daddy ray on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:08:00 PST

Living In Crystal Town

Living In Crystal Town Once again tonight for that one final time the death of her parents and a lack of means brings Mari fifteen up a back street wall, the rear seat of a passing ca...
Posted by daddy ray on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 01:53:00 PST

15 new short poems and poem called 10 to 6

As I walk a Heron dives on a turning wind amongst leaves falling as if flaming red and gold butterflies We hit the Blackbird at thirty miles an hour her feathers flying disowning her body as ...
Posted by daddy ray on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:08:00 PST

Ten things Id like to achieve in my lifetime not in any particular order of priority

I was tagged by Mr e So here goes Ten things I'd like to achieve in my lifetime not in any particular order of priority 1) achieve the status of professional artist and poet 2) be free o...
Posted by daddy ray on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:22:00 PST

23 new three lined individual poems and a new poem called ten to six

The hay now gathered whilst doors close and curtains are pulled a single swan circles alone on the lake. In a doorway she sleeps alongside her dog A new notebook with unsoiled pages a b...
Posted by daddy ray on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:34:00 PST

21st July 15 new three lined poems

Crushed wild garlic underfoot and on the horizon a sea under mountains painted in an outstretched sky. Snails mating taking their time. Monday 8.30 raining everyone...
Posted by daddy ray on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:27:00 PST

13th july - 47 new three lined poems

I watch the beggar sharing his bread with the pigeons and no one goes hungry. Glastonbury memories stuck, hard to my wellies just as the mud from our first visit. Birds silenced the a...
Posted by daddy ray on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:56:00 PST