Name: Neil Renwick
D.O.B: 1967
Occupation: HGV Driver
Inspirations
From my early teens I used to write about my feelings, some would call it poetry others just a collection of random thoughts, with the onset of my mid to late teens and my twenties I put the writing away for many years due to demands for time from my employment in the armed forces, not totally though still wrote on and off but never showed anyone let alone kept the work. It was about 2 years ago I discovered we-love-poems.net, I read through a few poems one struck me, called My Written Emotions by Ashley Mundy, and I sat back in awe, from that day I started to keep my poetry and posted a few to start with on this site, using the forum pages to gain confidence in my work by asking what people thought of them and how I could do better, I had little faith in anything let alone poetry at the time as my personal life was in tatters, yet through all the reading and writing of poetry has helped me to regain the person that I once was.
Influences over my Poetry
The main driving force over my poetry is my feelings and personal circumstances, I have always made no bones over that, my poetry is deeply personal and near always reflects my thoughts or my life in some way, some times cryptically other times more directly,
The break up of my second marriage and the surrounding turmoil and the separation from my children had huge impact on both me and my work.
The main thing about poetry for me is it has to rhyme no matter what the subject is, yet each to there own on that one.
Final thoughts on Poetry
Poetry can make you smile, laugh or cry, it can give you wisdom, it can change your mood for better or for worse, it can touch you in places you never knew you could be touched by words, it can express the deepest feeling of joy and sorrow, it can show people that they are not alone, above all it can change lives, poetry changed mine
Things people can do to help
Write poetry to aid the cause, give what they can, and above all try and help someone in need.
Read my poems