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Simon Peter Esaku
The readers will like “Lonely Thoughts: Poems about Life” because the poems are easy to read, interesting, entertaining, educational and relevant. I wrote these poems with the reader in mind.
Many ...view moreThe readers will like “Lonely Thoughts: Poems about Life” because the poems are easy to read, interesting, entertaining, educational and relevant. I wrote these poems with the reader in mind.
Many readers think poems are difficult to read and understand. Therefore I made these poems simple and easy to understand without diluting poetry. I open the book with the poem, “Fear not Poems” and later include “The Poet” and “The Bandwagon” to make the reader like poetry.
He will find the style of the poems interesting and entertaining- the usage of words, the ideas and the various ingredients of poetry- repetition, rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, imagery, transposition etcetera. He will like the mix of long and short poems, and the different lengths and formats of stanzas.
He will identify with the varied themes- life, death, love, marriage, separation, revenge, grief, poverty, politics, spiritual, nature's beauty, stories, imaginations and visions. He will learn about poetry, the human mind, and about life elsewhere.
I spend a lot of time reading and thinking about poems. I see poems everywhere- in hymns, Proverbs and Psalms, at home, in the office, in the village, in the sky, in the food ….
I write poems with passion and inspiration which started when I was 18 years old. At the time I was doing my Advanced Level (Senior 5 and 6) in Boroboro Secondary School (1975-1976). I studied Literature which included poetry. In my first year at Makerere University in Kampala in 1977, I continued with Literature in English and started writing poems and have been reading and writing poems since.
Even as a journalist since 1981, my travels within Uganda, the U.K, Germany, Thailand, South Africa, Kenya and in the Democratic Republic of Congo have also provided exposure and inspiration for poems. I have drawn from both the literary skills and the journalism skills of writing news stories, features and books to write these poems.view less