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Emma-Jane Stradling

Updated: Mon, 10 May 2021 10:40 am

emma.stradling@gmail.com

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Biography

I write a lot and most of it I don't edit very well. I studied English at University but have forgotten most of the poetic forms, so apologies for that. However, I enjoy writing so much that I often don't worry too much about it being perfect (which is in direct opposition to the rest of my life). I'd like to start writing some Performance Poems but at the moment I'm going to stick to whatever the muse brings me.

Samples

Berberis That mourning I went to the woods, misrepresented by madness. Life chastened, clouds crept on whilst I cried up on my cross. I picked obscure rose petals and placed them in abandoned jam jars. I trampled on my spirit, a quiet cost. I found an inner peace, like a pardon. A new diadem excavated encircled my loss. I danced on wet grass with God, crown festooned. I grasped but my hand met with a shrub called Berberis. It taunted me with it's pretty yellow flowers. Unkempt wasteland dominated, the boss. The devil kept up his damage, thorns tore at my mind. I found a wood anemone, growing in the moss. A delicate flower in a hostile wilderness. It showed me the beauty of the Holy Ghost. I sat down amongst the trees, at the natural altar of peace.

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Wed 22nd Apr 2020 16:28

Hi, Emma Jane,

I have much to catch up with. You have much to share.

Big Sal

Sun 23rd Sep 2018 18:07

How have I not seen your profile yet? Great sample!?

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Fri 5th Dec 2014 17:25

Emma-Jane, now that you are back, please stay with us,

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Ged Thompson

Fri 29th Nov 2013 01:24

Just read my first piece of yours

Very Good

Well done X

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Glyn Pope

Thu 3rd May 2012 17:53

I've got to read out loud for the first time in September. I'm rehearing what I've going to say already. I'm terrified.

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Sun 16th Oct 2011 12:11

Hi Emma, welcome to WOL. Winston

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Greg Freeman

Tue 11th Oct 2011 13:02

Welcome to Write Out Loud, Emma!

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Peter Asher

Tue 11th Oct 2011 12:15

Hi Emma

I like the image your poem draws. Particulaly the culmination in the final verse. It put me in mind of one of my favourite books, 'Siddartha' by Hermann Hesse.

Like you I have never read any of my poems in public. I look forward to reading more of your work.

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