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PERCEPTIONS: By the Two Headed Poet
INTRODUCTION
I started to write poems 20 years ago. I don’t know why I chose to.
The first poem, So Beautiful A Smile, was inspired by a newsreader who had an amazing smile. The next was by a woman with a distant look that seemed to say she should have done better with her life. The third was about who am I and what was life about. And then I stopped writing.
Sometime in 2020 I mentioned to my partner that I was considering writing more poetry. She turned and looked at me as if I had just grown a second head. I put my thought of writing to one side.
In September 2021, by chance I saw a video clip of Roger Waters singing his first live performance of ‘Wait for her, Oceans apart, A part of me died’. It was written like poetry, and it was sung with emotion. I wrote A Friend I See while I listened to it a few more times. In the next four and a half months or so I wrote the rest of the poems.
Most of my poems came from a single thought, and quite a few were written with no real control of the next verse and the poems direction, which surprised me at times. A number of them appeared in my head from seemingly nowhere. For some others, two or three verses appeared, and I completed them. Most were written in about 10 to 20 minutes, with a little editing done when completed. The longest was a poem called hidden, which I wrote in about 3 hours. Generally as I am writing out a verse, the next verse has already appeared in my head, most of the time.
I have met, lived with, and worked with many wonderful, amazing, intelligent, and interesting people over the years, and listened to their stories, and felt their pain. These poems are merely my thoughts and perspectives in relation to different situations and circumstances that I have heard about and come across.
Hopefully some of the poems might provide you with a new perspective in how you look at your life and the people you share it with.
Everyone is different. Sometimes we need to accept that fact.
I thank the few who read some of my poems, and deemed them amazing, which gave me the confidence to publish. Thank you also to my two editors for their suggestions, though a couple of times I put their recommendations to one side and left the poems as I wrote them.
I would suggest a reading age of 15 + in relation to some of the subject matters that I have written about.
My motto in You are the person you choose to be.
Stephen Shepherd - The Two Headed Poet
I started to write poems 20 years ago. I don’t know why I chose to.
The first poem, So Beautiful A Smile, was inspired by a newsreader who had an amazing smile. The next was by a woman with a distant look that seemed to say she should have done better with her life. The third was about who am I and what was life about. And then I stopped writing.
Sometime in 2020 I mentioned to my partner that I was considering writing more poetry. She turned and looked at me as if I had just grown a second head. I put my thought of writing to one side.
In September 2021, by chance I saw a video clip of Roger Waters singing his first live performance of ‘Wait for her, Oceans apart, A part of me died’. It was written like poetry, and it was sung with emotion. I wrote A Friend I See while I listened to it a few more times. In the next four and a half months or so I wrote the rest of the poems.
Most of my poems came from a single thought, and quite a few were written with no real control of the next verse and the poems direction, which surprised me at times. A number of them appeared in my head from seemingly nowhere. For some others, two or three verses appeared, and I completed them. Most were written in about 10 to 20 minutes, with a little editing done when completed. The longest was a poem called hidden, which I wrote in about 3 hours. Generally as I am writing out a verse, the next verse has already appeared in my head, most of the time.
I have met, lived with, and worked with many wonderful, amazing, intelligent, and interesting people over the years, and listened to their stories, and felt their pain. These poems are merely my thoughts and perspectives in relation to different situations and circumstances that I have heard about and come across.
Hopefully some of the poems might provide you with a new perspective in how you look at your life and the people you share it with.
Everyone is different. Sometimes we need to accept that fact.
I thank the few who read some of my poems, and deemed them amazing, which gave me the confidence to publish. Thank you also to my two editors for their suggestions, though a couple of times I put their recommendations to one side and left the poems as I wrote them.
I would suggest a reading age of 15 + in relation to some of the subject matters that I have written about.
My motto in You are the person you choose to be.
Stephen Shepherd - The Two Headed Poet
129 pages, Paperback
Published May 2, 2023
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