"Learn to write by doing it.
Read widely and wisely.
Increase your word power.
Find your own individual voice
through practicing constantly.
Go through the world with your
eyes and ears open and learn to
express that experience in words."
PD James (1920-2014)
I took a little trip
To the Isle of Write
There to find
My muse
My light...
I went to a wise man
On a Himalayan hill
For to find
A poem to quill...
I went right
I went left
But the write
Was still bereft...
I went here
I went there
Couldn't find help
Anywhere...
So I sat down
Pen in hand
And thought about
Those foreign lands.
To describe them
I painted with ink
It was hard
But made me think...
Hardly did a day go by
When in frustration
I did not cry...
But at last
The words took flight
I told tales
Of sadness. Fright...
The pen took on
A life of its own
The lines like scalpels
To the bone...
No more struggle
No more strain
I had the write stuff
In my brain...
Now the page
And pen don't thwart...
... the poetry is in my heart!
I consider PD James to be
one of the greatest writers
of her genre. She wrote
Mystery novels. Her character
Commander Adam Dalgliesh
was also a poet. A few of her
books have "his" poems in them.
She could have been a great poet.
Sadly she died November 27, 2014.
She was 94.
The Isle of Wight is on the
coast of England