My new poetry book arrived – Poems and Peons

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The postman just arrived and delivered my new poetry book. It was in the cardboard envelop that Amazon specialise in and was delivered to me personally by special delivery on Prime.

As I eagerly unwrapped it my wife told me off for using Prime.

She is right. I do not like Amazon as a beast. It has displaced all those little interesting shops and the thrill of the hunt. Nowadays you can browse and click. There’s little pleasure in that. Pleasure is usurped by convenience.

I do not like Prime. They use special delivery and that is plain stupid. Instead of using the Post Office, with its centralised distribution, we have thousands of people, on low wages, driving and zig-zagging their way around the country to deliver tiny packages. Yesterday, on Sunday, I received a package of 12 pens. They cost £2.36p and were hand delivered. How can that be efficient?

But I wanted to hold my book in my hand. I unwrapped it and looked at the cover. I opened the pages and looked at my poems.

Those pages were white but now they weren’t. I had filled them with my ideas, thoughts and dreams. I had saturated those pages with my creativity. Everything inside was original and undiluted. The cover was my artwork. I had designed it.

While I was looking at the book with satisfaction my wife looked over my shoulder and commented negatively on the layout. She would have preferred the poems to be centred. I liked them justified.

She burst my bubble a bit. She thinks I write too much. That I should do less. That I do myself no favours by producing so many books.

She is right. She is always right.

But then, I was holding my book in my hands. It had soared out of the electricity in my head onto the pages and it set me alight.

Who cares if I am doing myself no favours. I am holding my new book.

Should you desire to see what this is all about then you can purchase my new book of poems on Amazon in the Opher Goodwin book section:

I’m excited. You might be too!

You might also like to browse through my other books. If you’re looking for something different and brilliant you will find just what you want here:

Have a look, check it out – and please leave a comment about what you think!

31 thoughts on “My new poetry book arrived – Poems and Peons”

  1. On order, keep going it is always exciting to read your work. I agree with your Wife on Prime, they sold it to me without permission, got rid of it quick.

  2. Don’t they say Women always are, I think I have depended on others too much and I need to be right more often! How do we avoid all these awful corporate companies?

      1. No, not all of them – feel sorry for the younger men they seem to have lost a lot of their male qualities if I can put it that way, younger women have turned them into what they want. I cringe when I hear the way some women talk to their men.

      2. I believe in equality. A good partnership uses strengths and covers weaknesses. That’s what works. If it isn’t based on respect it’s going nowhere!

  3. The trouble is Opher a lot of younger men are to scared to answer those women they live with back. A lot of the time women want it all their way, you can’t do that. Someone can fool you into thinking they respect you when the truth is they married for their own reasons not to share a life. Not everyone can find the RIGHT person, you may think you have and just waste years of your life convincing yourself you have. Maybe love is not meant to last, we search and not all find.

      1. That’s ok, I could put up with that, but it is very hard when your late husband would continually walk away from you – that really makes you feel good.

      1. How can you sort it when they won’t talk and would deny it. I don’t know what is more hurtful the fact he preferred someone else or the fact he preferred someone older than me – being 30 years younger on my part I should have known.

      2. I don’t know. Perhaps you should have left. But with the relationship with your mother that would have been hard.

  5. I did pack a case twice, but realized I had nowhere to go. I had two Children they I could not leave. I wanted out of my cage (didn’t realize that at the time) I married wouldn’t face I made a mistake, should have f….d off then, absolute nightmare then trapped forever with this house. First row he took me back to my parents told my father marriage was over and he could have me back, my father told him he had made his bed – lovely no one wanted me too stupid for my own good, so believe me you are so lucky so bloody lucky.

    1. I know – and a lot of people, young girls mainly, find themselves trapped in marriages where they are used as slaves.
      When you have kids it is extremely difficult – particularly with a set of parents like that. I’ve been very fortunate in all respects.

      1. Yes Opher you have been. Trouble is when you are in that situation and have no experience of life like me, you think it is all normal. It has taken nearly a lifetime for me to believe it was not normal.

      2. No. You’ve had it hard all the way through. It was far from normal. You deserve to have a great time now. Make the most of it. You have two great lads from the sound of it. Getting your planning sorted. The best is yet to come.

  6. I so hope so, I want to be “Anna” the real me the one I have kept locked up all my life and the one I now want to be free and find whatever I have been looking for. I owe you “big time” I really do.

    1. There’s nothing stopping you but yourself! Go fot it!
      SF is the first step.
      You owe me nothing. You deserve it all. It’s about time.

      2. I do owe you that I will never forget. I am too old for Ginny but I am sure it will be an eye opener and I will be longing to be her, do you think? It’s a 11 hour flight direct or 14 hours with one stop, David said the first I should take, I am keeping “ginny” for the flight, better make sure I have no man next to me?

      3. You’re not too old for Ginny. It’s a novel about religion and the establishment.
        Go for the straight flight. You can sleep, read and watch a film. It’s not hugely comfortable but it’s a means to an end.

  7. I might not be too old but will I understand it. You sure it is about religion and the establishment, I was looking forward to the “naughty bits”.

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