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Martin Bailey

Updated: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:49 pm

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Biography

I'm 41 and when I grow up I'd like to be a writer. I'll have a bash at any kind of writing from poetry to short stories, scripts in radio or screen. Its all pen and paper or pixels on a monitor. As long as I have something to say I'll throw it down and try to make sense of it. To me the main thing is enjoying what I'm doing, anything after that is a bonus...

Samples

You’re Beautiful You’re beautiful. Not fake like a painted clown, ready to perform to an audience of adoring men, who appear mesmerised like sailors, doomed by the hypnotic dance of a mermaid. Not unapproachable because you believe that beauty is power. That kind of power is ugly. You’re beautiful like Gina Lollobrigida cartwheeling through the air and reaching for the trapeze as I hold my breath, Audrey Hepburn singing Moon River beneath my bedroom window, or Judy Garland discovering intelligence, courage and compassion whilst trying to find her way home. You are a drop of dew, falling from a blade of grass on the first day of spring, the deafening silence created by a campfire flame, the simplicity of staring at the sea and not wanting anything to disturb that moment. You don’t even know you’re beautiful. That’s what makes it so.

All poems are copyright of the originating author. Permission must be obtained before using or performing others' poems.

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Martin Bailey

Mon 4th Mar 2013 10:18

Its a bike rack haha. I think it was in Settle on a camping trip.

Kenneth Eaton-Dykes

Mon 4th Mar 2013 10:10

Thanks Martin.

Is that a bike rack or a zimmer frame supporting you. It looks a nice place where ever you are

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