Site Update
After talking to a number of people, and after experiencing my own “cringe” associated with this early work, I’ve decided to mix in a more recent piece with each week’s postings.
Though this early writing is a genuine reflection of where I was at during the 1980’s, its not much of a reflection of what I write today. As a result, I ask that readers grimace and ‘bare with me’ as I get this early material online. I hope that the anthologies which follow “Growing Up” are more to people’s liking.
I’ve also realised that some pieces are primarily thoughts – diary entries on scraps of paper which don’t have any poetic form at all. I’ve decided that instead of trying to incorporate these pieces as poetry, I’ll upload the material to the prose section instead i.e. ensuring that the work is still documented and available, but not being passed off as poetry.
All pieces from this week’s selection are still part of the “Growing Up” anthology – the splice of “Growing Up” and more recent work will begin in a few weeks time week.
The interesting thing about this week’s work is that it includes poems with various forms of rhyme. Rhyme was a technique that I dabbled in before developing my own style. Rhyming schemes haven’t been used in the bulk of my writing, as I felt they set up to many restraints for what I wanted to say and how I wanted to say it.
Again I’ve run out of time in regards to the audio versions – I will endeavor to get back to making recordings as soon as possible.
The poems for this week include:
– A Thought Of Peace.
– A Father’s Stand…
– The Loss Of Love?
Cheers – Vasilios Theodorakis – October 2007