I'm an accidental poet, when Covid 19 arrived. i was in Australia and went through the draconian lockdown. You would be arrested if you left home. I was bored so I wtote a screen play, followed by a non fiction book then for some strange reason i began writing poetry..
My poetry influence is song lyrics, I know nothing of treaditional poetry. My subjects are usually short stories, usually events I have witnessed or experienced.
I rarely write about emotions or specific relationships..
I entered the second poem I wrote "The Night in Question", in an international poetry contest as a joke and was shocked to be a finalist. a finalist. So i continied writing. Ifter writing 50 poems I had nothing left to say so I stopped, and started doing dry brush water color paintings. I didn't know what to do with the poems . I edited them, deleted 10 and decided to publish an anthology on www.amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com. The title of my anthology is "The Night in Question", unfortunatelt there is many books with that title. The avitar I use is London F,. Buss, the book cover is a stylized painting of a woman I completed in 2006. After that I discovered poetrysoup.com and uploaded a few poems, as of now I have 18 poems on poetrysoup.com.. My anthology "The Night in Question contains 43 poems, it is on large paperback format 8.5 inches by 10 inches.. If you wish to do a review I will send uou a free copy. I also wrote a 311 page non-fiction book about the F.B.I's war against a white, christian Australian man, who had been on a heart transplant list. They lables him an Al Queada S.A.S assassin on 911, because he knew who was attacking America when they didn't have a clue. This bizarre story really happened, it is called "Stolen Silence ny London F. Buss", and is available from Barnes & Noble and www.amazon.com... Available as an e:book from Kindle, in paperback and hard cover.
Any questions or comments are welcome, contact reidcarewjohn@gmail.com or akiehara@gmail.com...