Interviewed for Spillwords Author of the Month

I have been interviewed by Spillwords as part of their Author of the Month feature. This is a great honour, and I am grateful to all who have showed their support, and especially those who voted for me. Do have a good look around the site, as this is truly a place where words matter, and where writers are encouraged to develop their creativity.

To celebrate this achievement, I’d like to share a poem below, which I think is self-explanatory. Please note that the Featured Image is most certainly not me, but was chosen to fit the image of the poem.

Composure

Composure is a state of mind
so I’ve often been told
and who should know better than I:
so often discomposed
and indisposed
to behave just as I am told
I should?

Composure is the holy grail
of gracefulness,
decorum and deceit:
the one true goal
of womanhood
so some would teach young ladies
to believe.

Composure of this kind
is poison to the creativity
and freedom of the mind:
abandon deportment and elocution,
leave your shoes behind,
run wild, compose yourself
a different way.

Composure I renounce,
and in its place choose
composition
of a new form of self-love;
a way of life, writing the lines
which reach your heart, untamed
and un-break mine.

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