Post by thoth on Oct 27, 2008 2:46:46 GMT -8
I see an old friend here already. Hi Alan :-*
My name is Walter Schwim, I live in South Africa and my friends call me Wally.
I am primarily a rhymer and love the sonnet forms most. The study of poetic structure and its effects on the reader are a pet subject of mine.
I have not explored free-form poetry very much which is the reason I am here. I wish to become fluent in this genre and therefore seek some help and guidance in this regard.
Although I am defiantly no scholar or academic, in return I am able offer competent critique in most matters of R&M and general poetry.
I hope that soon you shall all be my friends,
Hugs, Wally
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Here follows a short bio for the nosey who are not yet board;
Born and raised in the Matopos hills near Bulawayo (Then Rhodesia) I grew up as a county child exploring the granite wilderness from an early age. Times were good in the sixties and I believe I had an almost idyllic upbringing in the colonial and post colonial days, hunting and fishing to my hearts content -
and a mother who read me Lewis Carol and Kipling.
Then came the bush war in which I was heavily involved as a combat tracker, a stressful time for everyone. In 1979, I emigrated to South Africa with my wife and baby daughter. Today I still live near Johannesburg in Gauteng province.
An electronics engineer by profession, my first love is still the bushveld, and its flora and fauna. I have a deep love for this land, the deserts and mountains, rivers and forests offer the widest variation of habitat in the world. For me, heaven is taking a camera and a tent to travel the back roads to nowhere, exploring unusual forgotten places and meeting wonderful people, animals and plants.
I wrote my first poem in 2002 after a trip to the Namib desert and since then slowly but steadily found my niche style – telling the ancient stories of Africa although I do not restrict myself to any subject.
Apart from a single guest poem in my daughters first book "Elephant Footprints", I am as yet unpublished.
My name is Walter Schwim, I live in South Africa and my friends call me Wally.
I am primarily a rhymer and love the sonnet forms most. The study of poetic structure and its effects on the reader are a pet subject of mine.
I have not explored free-form poetry very much which is the reason I am here. I wish to become fluent in this genre and therefore seek some help and guidance in this regard.
Although I am defiantly no scholar or academic, in return I am able offer competent critique in most matters of R&M and general poetry.
I hope that soon you shall all be my friends,
Hugs, Wally
-------------------------------------------------------------
Here follows a short bio for the nosey who are not yet board;
Born and raised in the Matopos hills near Bulawayo (Then Rhodesia) I grew up as a county child exploring the granite wilderness from an early age. Times were good in the sixties and I believe I had an almost idyllic upbringing in the colonial and post colonial days, hunting and fishing to my hearts content -
and a mother who read me Lewis Carol and Kipling.
Then came the bush war in which I was heavily involved as a combat tracker, a stressful time for everyone. In 1979, I emigrated to South Africa with my wife and baby daughter. Today I still live near Johannesburg in Gauteng province.
An electronics engineer by profession, my first love is still the bushveld, and its flora and fauna. I have a deep love for this land, the deserts and mountains, rivers and forests offer the widest variation of habitat in the world. For me, heaven is taking a camera and a tent to travel the back roads to nowhere, exploring unusual forgotten places and meeting wonderful people, animals and plants.
I wrote my first poem in 2002 after a trip to the Namib desert and since then slowly but steadily found my niche style – telling the ancient stories of Africa although I do not restrict myself to any subject.
Apart from a single guest poem in my daughters first book "Elephant Footprints", I am as yet unpublished.
