In Westport New Zealand A Poet Is Born Poem by Terence George Craddock

who would have thought
in Westport New Zealand
a poet would be born

who would have thought
in rural isolated backwater

a then bustling now dying
coal town Westport New Zealand

a poet would be born

to write poems in diverse places
to write poems in Westport New Zealand
to write poems in Istanbul Turkey
to write poems in Jakarta Indonesia
an archipelago on the island of Java

wrote a few poems in Westport New Zealand
wrote a few poems in Blenheim New Zealand
wrote a few poems in Istanbul Turkey
wrote a few poems in Christchurch New Zealand

over life race growing living working
wrote thousands of poems in Jakarta Indonesia
wrote thousands of poems in Westport New Zealand

posted thousands of poems in Jakarta Indonesia
posted thousands of poems in Westport New Zealand

in the beginning

the odd poem
in primary school
in high school
class written

in early twenties

quietly hidden unknown unnamed
without adding a name to poems written
handwriting typing out poem transitions

handwritten typed poems
form a collection First Writings
first poems slowly grow in first awakenings

a decade later first published
under name Terence George Craddock
'Lemmings Into The Sea'

decades later posted
under three name title
Terence George Craddock

published poems of diverse nature
'Eagles Soar On High Thermals'
'Ghost Eagles Still Flies Ghost Skies'

added appendage
(Spectral Images and Images Of Light)
added appendage
(Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)

off and on over time over decades
writing continues the poetry continues
a hungry hunger to write continues

who would have thought
in Westport New Zealand
a poet would be born


Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
Copyright © Terence George Craddock