“I’ve found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it
and then to rip the living shit out of it.” ― Don Roff
"Gordon Connolly has lurked around poetry for years but it was only recently he has begun to publish his own poems. His first collection of free verse couplets entitled 'Snippets' was released in limited numbers to friends followed by 'I am only as good as other people say I am', 'Blue Ghost Afternoons' and 'Nepotism for Orphans'. He has just finishing his fourth collection of poetry 'The Temple of the Four Winds'.". |
"Writers (like many artists) often become obsessed, for a time, with a recurring theme or motif. Over a two year period I found myself entranced by the notion of Blue Ghost Afternoons; a languid time when the sun has relinquished control over the morning light but not yet marshalled the early evening light into an orchestra of shadows; a portal between the times.". |
some of my poetry...
Blue ghost afternoons, ride my hummingbird, side saddle, through canyons of Casablanca lilies. Tomorrow, caught; not in the Act, but by my sweet hummingbirds guilty face as the guards check her cage for demons.
Once upon a time, in the wild woods of my child hood
alcoholic catholics gorged on my fear & grew more powerful. I held rosary beads, aloft, not as an icon or even as a Patronus, but as a garrotte. |
Sunrise on the lunar
surface; the majesty gnaws at the heart, the soul becomes, Itself, a dying empire. Dark soon, none of it will matter. Ash falls/terrified of knocks on doors/we hid/ but from what/ no one knows. All our friends are gone/ the pot needs emptying/ I am scaffolding/ holding up your rewards/granting nepotism for orphans.
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"I have dozens and dozens of notebooks filled with ideas for novels and screenplays. The hard part is deciding which projects to devote time and energy to. There are always some poems that simply don't materialise in the way that I wished and so I shelve them, for now.".
"Always be a poet, even in prose." - Charles Baudelaire
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