(C) Susan Manley Lyrics and poetry... All Rights Reserved
The sword or the pen comes from the lake
when you are in your zen, on that you can depend.
Served up from the depths, unfathomable at best.
But the place where inspiration is born
Bow, I am just Artimus, a bard no less
I watch, learn, and chronicle the world. And I go where I am told to affect those and mold. My intuition instructs as my intellect constructs , and you witness poetry in motion as it rattles out complete and mysterious....
A 38+ year veteran of the computer games business, serial entrepreneur who now works in business development, consulting and doing my own "thang".An autism mom with an adult son now living on his own with assistance. From October of 23 till April of 24 I battled Triple Negative Breast Cancer. I am now cancer free, I kicked cancers backside! I removed all of the sad photos of me... Sorry! but my poetry has chemotherapy, death of my fiancé, hospitalization for a blood infection, two surgeries during the publishing here.. . I keep my boat upright and keep paddling on , upright and articulate.. How? lots of therapy. I have survived worse. You would have to read my upcoming book to know... Happy and working away on a bunch of new business objectives with many new friends. And happy to report, a wonderful new man in my life who inspires me, and loves me and makes me feel very loved.
Years ago I started in the computer games business as a computer graphic artist. I am a former professional puppeteer and can make all of those silly voices and even sing in them. I write passable poetry and over the last few years started turning poems into songs. I am working to expand that skill. Many of my poems have been set to music with the help of AI. I work with Suno.com tools if you are curious. It's been a blast. I am publishing on all streaming platforms as "Artimus The Poet". And you can find my full roster of even the duds at Suno.com under the same name.
It may surprise you but publishing poetry in an open forum is a bit like dancing naked for me. I am not used to displaying emotional content to many. I have CPTSD There are hints as to why in what I write and I will leave it at that. I am in EMDR therapy to combat that. EMDR is effective ( but makes me seasick for a few days every time we run it).
I have been spelunking around online since the early 80s. I have many hobbies including organic gardening, genetics, virology, natural horsemanship, photography. At one time I owned a city farm and had 3 horses and chickens. I have kept a snake, lizards, turtles. And now I am learning the music publishing business ( heaven help them eh?!)
I founded a breed of cat called "The American Ringtail" You can read a lot about them on the internet ( though some of the writing has wandered from the truth... A modern day myth being woven. ). Now a day I bought a seaside home in Northern California as a fixer upper ( its 100 years old) and I work away on projects more personal to me. I am writing that book about my life. It's not done yet. I took a break...but I will get back to it soon..
Hit me up, I don't bite!