PoFacedPoetry

“PoFacedPoetry" by me, Billy Reynard-Bowness was born suddenly and powerfully on the tenth anniversary of my son’s tragic death, by drowning, when he was just nineteen years old. I wanted to express how my feelings had at once changed yet stayed the same in the ten years since he had passed. As is the way with grief, there were so many conflicting emotions, things I wanted to say but couldn’t speak. Moreover, having no real faith to speak of, I needed to think about how I believed we could ever meet again, and, if so, in what form? Having always been deeply interested in the lyricism of language, I decide to write, to put my feelings into a poem, which became “Chemically Eternal”! Yes, it was cathartic, but, much more than that, it seemed rekindle a flame, an urge to write. Poem after poem needing to be born. Words dancing around and swimming through my conscious and unconscious and I am LOVING it! Born in Lincolnshire but growing up and educated in Huddersfield, I consider myself a Yorkshireman at heart. I am 47 years old, a Pisces, former Legal Executive and sometime bit part actor, and live in the wilds of deepest North Yorkshire with my husband, three dogs and countless chickens. In any spare time, and when my ankylosing spondylitis allows, I enjoy walking in the Yorkshire Dales, travelling, gardening and boating.