I posted two excerpts from my book, its Alan's birthday and well.. - Susan Manley's Blog

(C) Susan Manley Lyrics 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 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 37+ year veteran of the computer games business, serial entrepreneur who now works in business development, consulting and doing my own "thang" and an autism mom. From October of 23 till April of 24 I battled Triple Negative Breast Cancer. I am 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... I am cancer free. Happy and working away on a bunch of new business objectives with many new friends.  

I  started in the games business as a computer graphic artist. I am a former professional puppeteer. I write passable poetry and recently started turning poems into songs. I am working to expand that skill. Several of my poems have been set to music with the help of AI. I work with Suno.com tools if you are curious. Its 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. Its effective ( but makes me seasick for a few days every time.

I have been spelunking around online since the early 80s. I have a lot of 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. Its not done yet. I took a break... I will hit the "book" again soon..   

Hit me up, I don't bite!