I am a middle-aged businessman who took to the arts as part of my midlife crisis. During the crisis I did a BA (Humanities) and fell in love with poetry and decided to have a go at writing it myself. I often write poetry while waiting to see clients. Poetry has opened my eyes to a completely different world from that of science and business!
Coffee
The new ambrosia
Dark pungent brew
Surrounded by the urban glitterati
I muse
Spot the type
The flat white, insipid and weak
The long black express to go
The cappucino fluffy blonde
And me
Surrounded by the maelstrom
Of life
The Submission
Tonight afeared
I sent my first offering
To the gods of poetry
A burnt offering
Conveyed in bits and bytes
But real to me
And now the wait begins
For my first rejection
It weighs me down
or not?
Away to bed
perchance to sleep
as rejection wends its way
electronically
to my inbox
