I have decided that I am going to try to get on here and blog on a more regular basis – famous last words, I hear you cry! But I know I neglect it and my time here is sporadic and hard to follow, so I am going to try (with the best will in the world) to post on a weekly basis. Mondays will be #MusicMonday highlighting a particular band or song that I am currently into. Tuesdays will henceforth be called #TasterTuesday and give excerpts taken from The Dark Sanctuary books and any other works. And Wednesdays will be #WriterWednesday, giving shout outs to other writers who inspire me, whether they be my all-time faves or new finds and indie writers. I haven’t quite worked out what Thursdays and Fridays will be yet. Bear with me as I fear I am being slightly ambitious to think I’ll blog three days in a row anyway…but its always good to have ambition, right?
This weeks #WriterWednesday is a shout out for Dean J. Baker, a poet I found via wordpress.com and twitter. If you have gauged anything from my posts you will have realised that I have a soft spot for poetry, although I am not particularly skilled in writing it myself. At school I had the biggest writer’s crush on Ted Hughes and I always harbour a fondness for those writers who are able to harness words in a way that I never could.
Dean’s words capture great sensuality, romance, passion, anger, torment, soft sentiments about family and love. They always reel me in and I could literally hit that ‘like’ button over every single poem. Hell, screw that, I need an ‘ADORE’ button.
Below is a taster of what you should expect from Dean…..this is a poem he posted on 20th May:
HORATIO SAYS NOT ME
I’m not falling: that’s too silly
I’m not writing poems for you
I’m not staring at your picture
imagining how you move, hearing
Your voice, softly smooth -
what your scent must bring to mind
How you shine differently now
mornings, and southern nights
No, not me: I did not -
I won’t write this either, finally
Please, please go check out Dean’s work, you can find him hanging out at the following places:
http://deanjbaker.wordpress.com
@deanjbaker on Twitter
http://www.facebook.com/#!/DeanJBakerPoetAuthorComposer Dean’s FB page….I hope this link works as I copied and pasted it like the simpleton I am, but if it doesn’t I’m sure you people with more brain cells than me can find him on FB 
Anyway, you get the picture, go look him up and enjoy his wonderful words. Or I’ll set the hounds on you.
I think you ought to set the hounds loose.,;-)
Hahaha oh go on then. Seeing as it’s you, I’ll open the cages and release the beasts
you are funny, you too! or, and how many are you? how jolly!