Showing posts with label life phases. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life phases. Show all posts

Tuesday, 28 February 2017

From 'Dude Swheatie of Kwug' back to 'Alan the Poet Therapeutic' with a blog

I have been many things in my life and now I believe it would be a great idea for me to return to my poetry and my songwriting aspirations, but via the Google blogosphere.

Since September 2013 I have been the main blog controller for Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group (KUWG), with intermittent postings.(1) There I have acquired the nom de plume 'Dude Swheatie of Kwug' on account of
  1. the KUWG nickname, 
  2. the fact that I wear a posh hat, and 
  3. a spoof on my surname 'Wheatley'. 
Now though, as I am preparing to move out of the KUWG heartland of the London boroughs of Brent and Camden, my attachment to that blog is diminishing and a past identity as 'Alan the Poet Therapeutic' is re-emerging following a warm reception of my poems at a recent London Federation of Green Parties social near London Bridge Station on Thursday 23 February. In my 64th year of this life, I believe it's time for me to enter into a fresh phase of life as an autonomous person and — dare I say — mouthpiece for the 'Collective Unconscious' rather than as a profile raiser for the kind of collective entity that is the Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group.

So I'll 'kick off' this new blog with a poem I wrote in the early 1990's, Communal Womb.

Communal Womb

There are times when I feel cut off —
Separated from the world —
Outside. Starved of Love.
Like an abandoned child.


In such times I write my poetry,
Reaching in to seek the Womb in me.


And there are times when I know
That I'm enough —
With a fertile, abundant world around
My glowing, life-giving, fireball of Love.
I blend my vision with the here and now.


In such times I share my poetry,
To celebrate the union of the Womb and me.


And in such times I share my poetry,
Reaching through
To seed the Communal Womb.


By Alan the Poet Therapeutic
© 1990 by Alan Wheatley
 Link reference
  1.  http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/