Poetry
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The Performance Mind
Hope you’re enjoying my crazy little poems- I write them as an attempt to iron out the anxieties and thoughts in my head and hope they may provide a different perspective for other artists/ musicians. I’m aware how many people suffer from performance anxiety or stage fright and how often the remedies we are given…
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The Artists
Yet another poem to help the days flow by and keep myself motivated on arty things! The artists learnt to love before they could draw. The drawing came easy, loving was the chore Judged, destroyed, rejected, criticised It would seem the love had gone from inside The artists learnt to listen before they could…
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Why poetry is the music in words and my obsession with half rhyme
Am I embarrassing you? I’m in Paris with you. I don’t know why the sounds of half rhyme excite me so much. My favourite poems appear to be those that follow no set pattern and adopt a more imperfect tone and rhyme scheme. Perhaps it’s the predictability of perfect rhyme that loses my attention- I…
Hattie Butterworth 