Last week someone told me that poetry was the most complicated form of writing. “That’s why I spent my first two years as a writer writing only poems,” he continued. Is he right? Depends. Poetry is as complicated or as easy as you want it to be. Good poetry though … that’s a different story. […]
I read a wonderful passage in the introduction to Trigger Warnings by Neil Gaiman. Here it is: “… many peculiar places can hold your mind and your soul tightly and will not let them go … like the Isle of Skye. There are people who discover Skye and will not leave, and even for […]
This is my latest poem. The idea for it came to me about a couple of weeks ago and it has been teasing me ever since. Today I was finally able to get it out and give it a form I was happy enough with. Here it is: I love you most when … […]
Yesterday, I read the poem I always knew by Rod McKuen. According to his website, it’s one of his few unpublished poems. I liked it. By the time I finished the second verse, I already had an idea for a poem of my own. Mine had a completely different message though! I always knew […]
I was reading a collection of love poems and I came across The Triple Fool by John Donne (1572 – 1631). I didn’t understand it all, but I liked the first three verses a lot. They gave me an idea for another “blurted poem” (the kind you write in a matter of minutes and don’t take […]
This is my third poem so far. The first one is posted on an ‘alternate universe’ site. The second one is somewhere on my hard drive, one click away from being forever erased. This third one is lucky enough to make it on my blog. Before I post it, I’d like to give you a […]
Ada Ireland is a pen name I came up with for myself. Unashamed Writing is a name I came up with for my blog.
The pen name is fake. The writing on this blog is real ... as close to real and truthful as I can get it to be. Read More