It has been a long while since I touched poetry. There was that very thrilling creative online gaming job that I gave my all too, then there was my baby’s first year. As a creative person, I feel the need to constantly create, and writing has always been a part of my life.
Since reading Sylvia Plath’s latest biography (or rather Her Husband), I have been inspired to get back into gear and my first task is to organise all the poems I have written and published from 2000 into a single document, perhaps they can all fit a collected print edition finally.
There are a good 200+ poems published since I began writing some 7 years ago so this task of collecting them again (I lost 2 years worth of poetry from 2002-4 when my computer crashed without a backup) from copy and pasting the ones online and then the more tedious task of typing out the ones in print magazines.
I miss my old poetry friends and I realise to them, I must have fallen off the radar and could be dead for all they know. So if any of you are reading this, I am thinking of you and promise this time I will start writing and submitting again once I get the compilation thing complete. (There are even 2 publish-worthy poems in my notebook now and I am taking down notes for a few global warming poems waiting to be penned.)
It is heartwarming to Google myself and still find kind words on my poetry even after a 3-year hiatus. That is encouragement enough to continue my work.
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