auscot22 Dec 2004

I can't speak for a car mechanic or a truck driver, but I see no reason for them not to be able to write poetry. It could be a way of escaping what,to some, seems a humdrum existence. I can tell you that I didn't start writing until after I took up sculpture some nine years ago. I believe the creativity of sculpting released in me a need to explore creativity in a different form, poetry. My very first poem was about my father who died at the age of 49 years with a miner's lung disease. It proved to me that poetry is very much about emotion. No matter what we do for a living there is a poem deep within, knowing how to release it is the problem for most people.