Frank E Gibbard
England

E-mail Address: frank.gibbard@fsmail.net
Please include the word 'POETRY' in the subject line of any email you send.

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Why write poetry, Poet?

It is enjoyable to do and fixes some ideas and passions of the moment that can be returned to in future as a sort of reservoir of thought, ideology and emotions. Like every writer I am sure one seeks the approval of others too and any praise is good for the ego.

How did you get started writing poetry?

As a task at grammar school that turned from a chore to a pleasure and my first publication in the yearly mag. only encouraged my scribbling, as did the English teacher editor.

Who were your influences?

Well I don't know about the influence of the greats I have admired, but their inspiration has encouraged my modest efforts. The usual suspects list: Shakespeare, Blake, Donne, Yeats, Wilde, for a kick-off and personal faves Dylan, Spike Milligan and lastly but not least Spike Milligan (great serious stuff for one so comic).

Examples of Poetry

A LEXICON OF CREATURES   An Apple, a Day   Anne Frank's Diary   Apres The Fox   Ars Longa Vita Brevis   Back To The Past   BUTCHER OF WHITECHAPEL   Debt Owed to Africa   Dr Barnardo   Dream World   ICON   In Fields They Lay   Innocence and Experience   Is it ignoble to chase the fox?   Jazz Revival   Jazz Revival In New Orleans   Kew Bridge   L.A. LIMERICK   Legal Alien   Lighthouse   Lost Innocence   Love of a Life   Malapresident   No Feedback On A Poem

Ode to Better Days   ONE DAY OUT WEST   Our Lives are Different   P is for Porcupine   Piracy on the High Road   Plea   Plea for the Noble Fox   Poetic Comings and Goings   Poetic Heaven   Recruitment Ad.   Reflection on the Taj Mahal   REMEMBER REMEMBER   Respect to McGonagall   Rocketing Achievement   Snowman's Land   Tale of a Store Santa   The Journey   The Open Gate   The Penlee Lifeboat Tragedy   THEY MUST BE BLIND   Through a Suburban Eye Darkly   Times Recollected   What Arthur Miller Knew   With a little help from the Bard

Examples of Songs A Trader's Carol   New Anthem for Britain   Rhapsody not Rap