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Take The Tiller

Take The Tiller

Sparke, Andrew
Peckett, Nigel

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1835307973
ISBN13: 9781835307977
Publisher: APS Publications
Published: Oct 18 2025
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

I started writing poems in the year two thousand. I was on the way to work and I spotted a boy, about 12 years old, running to school. I wrote the poem as soon as I got to work. It was like switch being pressed. After that I carried on writing poems. I have written poems for writers' groups, for my own entertainment and whenever life got difficult. Poems express how I felt and feel much better than prose. My childhood memories are vivid and that is why I chose the title 'Take the Tiller'. Steering the boat back to the mooring made me feel like a grown-up not a child of four years old; the cover photograph was taken by my father on that day in August seventy-five years ago. What a memory.

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