Themes explored in my poetry
I hope you spot these themes. There must be more?
- My disdain for the trappings and intricacies of corporate life: a disdain that's held me back at times
- Death, which hasn't held me back yet, though it has touched me through others whom I loved
- Being in transit, a constant unsettling mood that has characterised my psyche since I remember having one!
- Fragmentation of the experience of life into little scenes, ideas, threadless but connected
- Religion, which trapped me early and won't let go, but I know "there are more things, Horatio"
- Old age - its depredations, its joys, how to beat it or die trying
- Fear, fears, women, this puzzling world, relationships, self knowledge, self ignorance, confusion, blinding clarity, hope, despair, the Hell that is [some] other people
- Words and their rhythms, their intrinsic music
- The ignorance and ineptitude all around us.