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June 2007 .

I AM NOW RESIDING IN BANGKOK, THAILAND AND HOPE TO BE MARRIED TO MY FIANCE TOY, WITHIN THE NOT SO DISTANT FUTURE AND TO SUIT THAI AND AUSTRALIAN CULTURE AND CUSTOMS. I HAVE ALSO ADOPTED 5 DAUGHTERS AND LIVE IN A LARGE HOUSE IN BANGKOK WHERE I CAN PERSUE MY WRITING, PAINTING, JEWELLERY AND OTHER HOBBIES WHILE TRYING TO FINISH OFF A BOOK AND PUBLISH SOME POETRY BOOKS AS WELL. MY LATEST POEMS ARE ABOUT TOY, WHICH IS HER THAI KNICKNAME.
I UNFORTUNATELY HAVE TELSTRA/BIGPOND INTERNET WHICH IS PROBABLY THE MOST ARROGANT AND SELF OPINIONATED ORGANISATION ON EARTH AND WHO BELIEVE THEY DO NO WRONG AND THAT THEY ARE RUNNING THE PERFECT ORGANISATION, BUT WHICH IN FACT IS DISMALLY LETHARGIC AND FULL OF PROBLEMS AND WHERE SERVICE IS A MYTH. IF EVER THEY GET THEIR SYSTEM WORKING I WILL BE MORE ACTIVE BUT NOT BEING A CITIZEN OF THIS COUNTRY, I HAVE TO MAKE DO WITH WHAT I HAVE AT PRESENT.

MY BEST WISHES TO EVERYONE AND KEEP THE PEN DIPPED AND WRITING.

I AM MERELY THE HAND THAT TRANSLATES MY FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS FROM MY HEART AND MIND.


I prefer and specialise in writing rhymed free verse without strict constraints of meter and strive to write "Picture Poems" telling a story that form a movie (moving picture) in the reader's mind, so that the feelings, emotions and atmosphere are experienced as close as possible as the way as I did or intend, enabling me to share with many others. Because I have to spread my available time thinly, I have decided only to participate in the areas above so that I have the time to sincerely comment, in the areas in which I am experienced. There are many more qualified poets on this site who can offer excellent help if it is genuinely sought.

I don't like Dark Poetry, Cutting, Violence, or sordid and explicit sex  etc. and wont comment because I am not qualified to, for I don't understand the necessity to write such stuff. It can be done without being cruel, crude and sordid. I love life and have a happy and sensitive nature so I prefer to remain in the sunshine, and refuse to waste time in darkness. However I will help when requested to do whatever I can to those who want to escape from the darkness of despair and depression and have helped several people cope with this terrible affliction. Writing about it does not remove or cure it in my opinion but tends to glorify it and hence my resistance to commenting on it.

I am a retired engineer, raised four wonderful sons and have 10 grand children and spent 50 years designing and marketing transport equipment and truck bodies etc. and now am enjoying my retirement hobbies of making fine jewellery, painting, writing poetry, fishing and have just purchased a metal lathe to build small engineering projects such a miniature steam engines etc., and many other things as the fancy takes me.
My ambition is to become a Master Pastellist with the Australian Pastell Society, and publish my own book of Illustrated Poetry and Art. I paint under the name of Leonard Thompson.
I Love kids, am a romantic at heart and fall in love much too often, for I am always spellbound by the opposite sex, for all women are beautiful in some Special way.


I am of the Starsign SCORPIO
I am in the Chinese Horoscope a DRAGON
My Numerology Number is 22
I am a ROMANTIC by nature and choice.

I despise cheats and people who are dishonest and believe in the saying "What goes around, comes around"

Here are my favourite sayings that I have dreamed up over the years.:-

Accept your wins humbly and learn by your failings as you travel on the journey through life. Deal with them immediately and keep only the good, learn from the bad then discard them, for they are too heavy to carry together and will cause you to fall by the wayside, without achieving your full potential.

A smile costs nothing but can buy so much.

Black and white are easily seen but it takes wisdom to see the greys in between.

Falling in love is easy but falling out of love is much harder.

A broken heart bleeds pure blood and honest pain,
A broken ego bleeds resentment and comments profane.

Money often speaks louder than conscience or fair play.

Wisdom comes with learning from the mistakes made in the journey through life, so if we are honest within then we become wise.

Bury all the bad, remember only the good, learn by the mistakes.

Laugh with me but never at me.

There is always someone smarter or less smarter and better off than us, so we should appreciate what we are and be thankful for what we have .. That is what is wrong with the world, too many want more than they have. It is called greed.

Nothing happens unless you cause it to.

Walk in the sunshine where God can watch over you for He cannot see you when you visit the dark side for He made the light but not the dark.

There’s no greater gift of affection than the tears of goodbye.

Sometimes it is wiser to read the spaces instead of the words.

Pride (honesty)makes a head carry high, but deception lies in a heap (shit) on the ground.

Much can be said by saying nothing.

I am no further than your fingertips.

Write from the heart,

right from the start.

POETRY DEFINITIONS.

The poet should paint the picture, not the reader.

A collection of words that impart a painting and feelings while being read is called a poem, but if only words are read requiring interpretation, then it remains a collection of words.

Poetry, form of imaginative literary expression that makes its effect by the sound and imagery of its language. Poetry (the word is often used synonymously with the term verse) is essentially rhythmic and usually metrical, and it frequently has a stanzaic structure.
It is in these characteristics that the difference between poetry and other kinds of imaginative writing can be discerned.

Free Verse, rhymed or unrhymed poetry composed without attention to rules of metre.



My AP Daughter Shahrzad has a growing family, who are all very nice people and worth knowing as both people AND Poets, she has adopted me as her AP father which is a wonderful compliment. She is a good poet in her own right. I have removed all of her family for space reasons and they can be found listed on her site. I have substituted the words below by an author unkown to me, but they are wonderful guides for people to observe in the journey through life.

Shahrzad Maftooh
My lovely mom: Catz allpoetry.com/poets/catz
My lovely dad: bazza allpoetry.com/poets/Bazza
My lovely sister: Iohagh allpoetry.com/poets/Iohagh

CHILDREN BECOME WHAT THEY LIVE.

If a child lives with criticism,
He learns how to condemn.

If a child lives with hostility,
He learns how to fight.

If a child lives with ridicule,
He learns to be shy.

If a child lives with shame,
He learns to feel guilty.

If a child lives with tolerance,
He learns to be patient.

If a child lives with encouragement,
He learns confidence.

If a child lives with praise,
He learns to appreciate.

If a child lives with fairness,
He learns justice.

If a child lives with security,
He learns to have faith.

If a child lives with approval,
He learns to like himself.

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship,
He learns to find Love in the World

And my own observation :

How cruel this world has become when children visit earth for such a brief time before being sent back to Heaven, because we don't share our food and water with them.

We want much and have fat bellies, yet many children wish for the simplest things like some food and clean water, and they are refused. Why is this so?.

Think not of what you don't have for it is more than most children can ever imagine.

If you think you have it tough and life is hard, then remember that there are children who dream of a full tummy and a drink of clean water for without it they will perish. Will foregoing your dreams kill you ?

The greatest pain endured on this earth is for a parent to watch their children die little by little every day for the want of food and clean water. You think YOU have it tough ???

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