Alan Waterhouse

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Born, England 1964 in a working class family. Grew up a loner with few friends but a superb imagination that filled many fantasy filled hours of play. As a child my father encouraged me to learn music as he played in many local brass bands and adult I learnt to play guitar. I have always loved to read literature enjoying all the classics at an early age. I started to write poetry after the second of my two children was born about 20 years ago. Finding a voice for my work was difficult as was building the confidence to let people read it. Some of it is introverted but I like to think others can relate to the sentiment and maybe realise that whilst were are individuals, we are not alone in the way we feel.)

The Best Poem Of Alan Waterhouse

Voyager

As the day changes to the next
I find a cloak of darkness before me
So rich and so deep it affords those who wear it
a shroud of anonymity
And those who do adorn it become as deep and dark
in heart as it was once itself.

Though I hide my mortality well
I encompass this sea of darkness
I ride its ebb and hide from the eyes of others
But voyagers in this mist of lightlessness
need not eyes that see but frozen souls that know
And though they know they know not me.

I seek not immortality in this seamless vein
But truth in the understanding of its being
seeking answers to questions others dare not ask
And as the cold winds of the night tear the righteous
fruit from the tree so it cools my own soul
and I yearn once again for the warmth of the sun.

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