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An honest, humorous, bittersweet poet who aims to write lyrically for the ear but always from the heart"........ Aahhh! :))

 Kate Burnside
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Not a lot to say about me really... nothing illuminating, clever, witty or wry: My personality seems to come through in my writing anyway - whether in poems or reviews - so I guess all that just speaks for itself. I'm just your average mid-life, mid-crisis, middle-class Brit who is at last doing something about the interest in English that she wished she had pursued at the age of 18! I'm married to a corporate lawyer with two promising teenage children, neurotic golden retriever and extremely go-getting octogenarian mother who keeps me on my toes. Sustaining a life-threatening illness a number of years' ago has kept me off the payroll, only to find that life can be even fuller and richer if you actively engage in the care of the community around you... Career in Book Publishing before the onset of sickness and family commitments. Having said that, I am shamefully ill-read - even of the classic "Greats" - but, as my college tutor says, I AM passionately in love with language. I was introduced to Authors Den by fellow writer, Kenny Joe Baez - he's just so unique: do check him out! - and have to say that it's truly like being amongst a community of friends, in the little corner that I seem to have nestled into. I adore writing, but enjoy the reading and reviewing equally as much and have been extremely grateful that my always long-winded comments have been so graciously and courteously received! Without the support and encouragement to write that I have been given here, I would have come nowhere near having been accepted on the course I'm now pursuing - so, my grateful thanks to all! Mwah! xx My thanks, too, to all who inspire and who keep me fuelled and fired with enthusiasm through their own great work and writing. Creativity springs eternal and to the nourishment of all. Last but by no means least, I am going to go pretty much Transatlantic and say a BIG thankyou to God, without whom I would certainly be nothing and who underpins everything that I am and seek to be. He has been, and always will be, my Source, my Rock and my Roll!!

Accomplishments: From a standing-start of only just beginning to write about a year ago, feel immensely privileged to be now enrolled on one of Britain's most sought-after MA courses in Creative Writing... no, no bribes involved, honest!

     



Poetry

Rivermouth
 by Kate Burnside


Soft Lips, Hard Shoulder
 by Kate Burnside


Makin Sumthin Out'a Nuthin
 by Kate Burnside
This just dribbled out of my head whilst stirring the supper a couple of weeks' back... No, it wasn't curry, but it oozed masala-like as Eric Clapton's Running On Faith played on the radio... :)) xx <...


But then...
 by Kate Burnside


Living Stones
 by Kate Burnside
FINALLY! I moved house yesterday... Back Soon! :)) xx...


Eclipse
 by Kate Burnside
... I guess this is some kinda personal outpouring of feelings of being somewhat in poetic "decline" at the moment as I turn my time and attention to all things domestic: we are seeking to move house ...


Young Love
 by Kate Burnside


Body And Soul
 by Kate Burnside
Just found these two little notes in the margins of an old notebook from an exercise last summer.... :)) K xx...


My Little Fish
 by Kate Burnside
What do you call this... besides hyperbole... hyper-somethin, anyways!? And Ode? Not sure... but it came to me from just the single thought: "My Little Fish!" And inspired by the poem "You''re" by ...


Road Kill
 by Kate Burnside


The Listlessness Of Cows
 by Kate Burnside
Have just returned from a weekend course in the heartland and garden of Tudor England, by the banks of Shakespeare's Avon, in the Vale of Evesham. We focussed on colour, sound and tapping into memory...


Stop New Paragraph
 by Kate Burnside
Thank you for all your kind congratulations and good wishes - and mine right back to you, too, for those accolades already received and those still yet to come! Seize the day! :)) ... And no...


You Just Never Know...
 by Kate Burnside
Keep getting it out there, People! :)) You just never know which of your poems might be given further wings to fly! I am reposting here a tender little poem which I wrote in July 2006. It...


Achilles' Redemptive Angel (Haiku)
 by Kate Burnside


At Jerry's Point
 by Kate Burnside
I still have the luxury of a few left to post from my April poem-a-day challenge! Lucky me! :)) K xx...


Run, Butterfly, Run
 by Kate Burnside
My thoughts have been with you as you have reflected deeply and in many different ways on Memorial Day. My thanks for your tireless expressions of lament and empathy which have so touched my heart. ...


The Biggest Step
 by Kate Burnside


The Many Shades Of Dark
 by Kate Burnside
... There will probably follow a trickle of thoughts that were squeezed from my pen during April's Poem A Day National challenge. Thanks for reading - back to reviewing soon! :)) Kate xx...


Punta Paloma Sand Dune
 by Kate Burnside
Just feeling my way back into the saddle! :)) Thank you for all your birthday good wishes... wonderfully granted in full: it was hot! K xx...


She Flies His Kite
 by Kate Burnside
Just clearing me desk, me darlins, cos I is away for me 51st birthday in sunny Spain! :)) Will be back again in about ten days, but until then, be good, have fun and hasta la vista! Siempre, Kate xx...


Life Story
 by Kate Burnside


The Fastening
 by Kate Burnside
Dayumm... I'm feeling good! :)) Am almost up to my correct tally of poems for the Month Of Poetry challenge: 16 out of 17 days! Be glad you have been spared most of them, though! K xx...


Two Days' Later
 by Kate Burnside
My heart goes out to the families of the five British school-leavers tragically killed in a road accident in Ecuador this weekend. My own 18-yr old has returned safely from South Africa but is now in...


To Have And To Have Not
 by Kate Burnside
... I am trying to produce a poem a day for National Poetry Month here in America... But somehow I can't seem to knock 'em out like I used to! Harumph... :)) K xx...


The Trumpet Ears Of Horses
 by Kate Burnside

 
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