Why?
Here I am, part way through a full time finance PhD having circled back to this long held ambition.
In the interests of maintaining my right brain and with it, some semblance of creativity, in a moment of perceived inspiration (possibly madness), I committed myself to creating a poetry blog with the ambitious objective of composing 100 poems per year.
My passion for poetry began in early primary school when I was fortunate to be selected for young writers camps. Lamentably, it was lost in high school as sport and conformity took precedence, and stayed subdued as I embarked on an analytical career across management consulting and investment banking/finance.
Curiously, with the passage of time I have become more philosophical and poetry has again beckoned as the medium to express these persistent themes that percolate within both my conscious and subconscious mind.
Enough with the preamble left brain, and over to you rightside. My siren calls…
By way of background, apart from (very) amateur poetry, I am passionate for (natural) bodybuilding, haute horology, motorcycles and all things marine.
The PhD Poet
When…
Determining the optimal time to write poetry has proved illusory and largely indeterminate; perhaps unsurprising given the highly subjective nature of same.
Retrospectively observing the process has lead me to loosely conclude that scheduled writing blocks confers no benefit over the more manic approach of clustered writing when inspiration strikes. As I simply prefer the romanticism imbued in the latter, rather than the mechanism of the former, I, at least for now, subscribe to that method.
Update… As inspiration could be fickle, and life hectic, I have transitioned to a deliberate regime of writing between sets ‘pumping iron’. And for now at least, it appears to be bearing fruit, however, naturally you dear reader are the judge…
