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    The Gift of Poetry
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    The Gift of Poetry

    By Peter Matthews

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    About this ebook

    Poetry is within us all, whether we write four lines or four pages. The power that we get from words is distilled in us all, as it is with us in our daily lives.
    I wrote my first poem at the tender age of eight, and it was from here that I had a liking for writing, however, it would be a further eight years before I would take a pen to paper and begin writing again.
    Most of my poems have a purpose, as some were written when I was influenced by my teachings when attending Sunday School, where other’s hit me when I was at my lowest point in my life. I have seen happiness and sadness, fun and laughter, as well as tears and sorrow; and with each one of my emotions, I was lucky enough to be able to put pen to paper; and write down my thoughts.
    Some of my poems are rhyming, where others are written in a different aspect, but still within the elements of poetry. If we open our minds, it is amazing what we can achieve by writing those first few words.

    Anybody can write poetry, you just need a pen and paper
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateNov 10, 2019
    ISBN9780244534837
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    The Gift of Poetry
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    Peter Matthews

    Peter Matthews is a world-renowned expert on track and field athletics. He has been an athletics broadcaster on TV and radio for more than 35 years, working primarily for BBC Radio 1975-85, ITV 1985-97 and for the IAAF from 1991. He has covered nearly all the major meetings in Great Britain and worldwide over the past 40 years. He has been a leading public address announcer since 1968, and was Media Information Manager for Track and Field Athletics at the Olympic Games in Atlanta 1996 and worked at his seventh Olympics for the Sydney Organizing Committee in 2000.

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