Poetry Through My Ages

By Brent Jared Dearham

Poetry through my ages is an account of my journey and development as a person and a writer, through the poems Ive written. This anthology records my poetry from the age of fifteen, being the age I first took an interest in writing poetry. The poems contained in this book feature in chronological order capturing in tone and subject matter my lifes progression.

The progression of a poet is a never ending journey, a journey that I am still undertaking and is evident in my evolving style of poetry. To me the grammatical accuracy of my work is irrelevant. I wrote each of these poems because at the time something or someone triggered a thought strong enough that I needed to write it down. I hope my poems will have the same effect on the readers of this memoir.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Dec 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499034226

Brent Jared Dearham

My name is Brent Jared Dearham. I was born in a little town in South Africa. At age eleven my family made the decision to leave South Africa and move to New Zealand. Auckland is where I grew up around friends and family. Always active, I played First 15 rugby and swam at the National Championships several times. Being dyslexic made academic work a bit more challenging, but I have a good family who supported and encouraged me through my High School years. At about age 15, when we started studying Shakespeare and poetry at school, I found I had a passion for and enjoyed writing poetry. At first my poetry was based on movies I had seen. Later I started to mix in experiences and emotions I had felt. Coming from a religious family I have also written about spiritual topics and Christmas. My poetry was written at first just for myself as a challenge but as I started to do more personal writing I began to be more selective with my words and would often use words that could mean several things or hide thoughts under the main story. As I became older I found I had many experiences to write about, like travel to different countries, sporting endeavors such as swimming, rugby, rock climbing and cheerleading, adrenalin- based activities such as bungy jumping and sky diving and academic pursuits such as gaining several university qualifications. Poetry is just a hobby and I continue to write when I have the time to do so, but I became concerned that the collection of poems would get lost after losing one I wrote for my grandmother in her passing (Rewritten as “Ship Of Life”). At this time I decided to publish my work to have a copy of it forever in time. This book contains about half of the poems I’ve written and I will continue to put them onto the computer until I can publish my next book.

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Contents

Deserted

Life

Creatures In The Dark

End Of Love

Love Is A Rose

Peace In Motion

Values

Puppet Show

History In The Making

Life’s Journey

Step Into The Light

Chances

Peace

Statues

Perspectives

Dreams

The Fairy Tale Kiss

Peace Is Nature

Good Morning

Mother I Love You

Sweet Seventeen

Beautiful Day

Christmas

Only A Man

A Day

Friends Can Be True

Mike

Stolen Light

Confusion

Shooting Stars

How Wonderful This Time

Clouds And Sun

Hey! I Can’t See

The Dance

A Night Out

Contacts

What Is Love?

A Small Gift

Love To Live And Live To Love

Jenny’s Birthday Wishes

Time For Christmas

Happy Days

Ship Of Life

Time

Sky High

Close To The Edge.

Love Sublime

You’ve Got It (Tricky)

Hiding What Matters

The Way For Me

Fate

Inviting New Dawn

Red Day

Letting Go

The Long Wait

A Moment In A Gaze.

The Moon And Sun

American Rose

Your Memories At Heart

Am I This Friend?

Poetry through my ages is an account of my journey and development as a person and a writer, through the poems I’ve written. This anthology records my poetry from the age of fifteen, being the age I first took an interest in writing poetry. The poems contained in this book feature in chronological order capturing in tone and subject matter my life’s progression.

The progression of a poet is a never ending journey, a journey that I am still undertaking and is evident in my evolving style of poetry. To me the grammatical accuracy of my work is irrelevant. I wrote each of these poems because at the time something or someone triggered a thought strong enough that I needed to write it down. I hope my poems will have the same effect on