Biography
My name is Dan, I am a writer and musician and I live in the UK. I have been writing for several years and have written a number of original poetry books. Besides, a short collection of poems ranging from concrete poetry to verse and also Inertia, a poetry film piece which also exists in audio form (and can be downloaded at www.noisetrade.com/danielpaulgilbert) I have also worked on poetic interpretations of books from The Bible. I have published Solomon's Song Of Songs, The Book of Proverbs in Haiku and have just released the first of 5 books on the Psalms called Praying The Psalms as Poems. I am currently working on in The Psalms as well as a poetic interpretation of Ecclesiastes and continue to write my own poems and compose music.
Samples
5:52 am (bedroom) Television glows blue upon my skin. My head lies on the static of radio and the electric of the streetlights blaring through my window keeps me awake. The red digits of my alarm clock grow less vibrant as the grey sun stirs to the accompaniment of the jubilant birds with their repetitive song which hangs like these vacant walls, holding me. from Inertia: A Poetry Film Sequence and other Selected Poems - Available at Amazon and other online bookshops. ----------------- Prize wisdom highly, she will lift you in honour, She will crown your head. A heart filled with joy brings cheerfulness to a face. Grief crushes spirits. Wisdom builds a house. Insight and knowledge fill it with precious treasure. from The Book of Proverbs in Haiku - - Available at Amazon Kindle bookshop. ------------ A Tuesday Morning Like in a scene from a film, where the camera pulls back, we see a head resting in the mud, glassy grey eyes stare out as if searching beyond the trees. Grey hair crusted with muck. Soil specked lips, bluing and sluggish, parted from the final inhale exhale process which has failed like broken clockwork. Stopped heart like a rock. Skin, liver spotted and birth marked, cold and greying like silver birch bark, A brown overcoat covers arms splayed like branches, caught and underneath a vague sheet of russet leaves which have since fallen in the breeze. Insects crawling from beneath them climb to inspect the unfamiliar mound still to be discovered by a passerby. And in a house not far away a wife looks at her watch And she sits in front of the television, And aware that something isn’t quite right her stomach clenches up like a fist. from Besides - Available at Amazon and other online bookshops. -------------- Twenty Three YHWH is my shepherd, there is nothing I need. He lets me recline in his oasis of wildflowers, he shows me to relaxing waters. He revives my soul. He leads me in ways of truth because of his name. Even if I walk through the abyss of death's shadow, I will not fear evil, for you are beside me. Your club and your crook assure me. You arrange a meal for me before my foes and you bless me with oil. You fill my cup to overflowing. Your goodness and compassion will truly pursue me all of my life. I will live out long days in the house of YHWH. from Praying The Psalms as Poems - Available at Amazon and Kindle Store.
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